Big Friends

Big Friends is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller and Colin Brady, The film is made by Victor Hugo Pictures Animation and distributed by Victor Hugo Pictures. The film revolves around Jennifer, a happy-go-lucky puffball meets an outsider named Emeti, who traveled from another dimension and is desperate to get back home, and now Jennifer has to get him back home with her league's support before his parents would find out he disappeared.
Big Friends premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2005, and was released domestically on January 28, 2005, to critical and commercial success, praising the visuals, music and performances but a few songs and portions of screenplay were criticized, grossing $224.5 million worldwide against its budget of $40 million.
==Plot==
In the world of Ziphinerg, Jennifer, a happy-go-lucky puffball experiences a short-lived financial crisis due to being run by a grouchy scientist, Rugloom, who has been not eating for a week, gaining back the balance of the universe, meanwhile at night, Jennifer forms the group to go scavenger hunting, but once in a while, they found Emeti, who falls out of the sky and seems out, but has been well understood by the community after they automatically see into who he is, and needing to find his way home, now the team, called "Big Friends" plot a journey to get him back home.
At the other universe, his parents were at a vegetable festival to see …
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==Voice cast==
* TBA as Jennifer
* Ryan Reynolds as Emeti, an outsider who is not only supported by Jennifer but also her community.
* Leiv Schreiber as Rugloom, a selfless but grouchy 56-year-old scientist.
* Jim Carrey as Mr. McAloo
* Sophia Bush as Elli
* Chris Pine as Harobu
* James Earl Jones as King Farrell
* Rob Schnieder as Hefty, the biggest member of the group.
* Amy Poehler as TBA
* John Mulaney as Scrufff, the smartest member of the group.
* Maddie Blaustein as Squeezy
* Bruce Willis as TBA
* James Hong as Ugo
* Chris Sanders as Nervy
=== Additional voices ===
*Bob Bergen
*Jack Angel
*Phil LaMarr
*Dee Bradley Baker
*Jeff Bennett
*Frank Welker
*Grey DeLisle
*Sirena Irwin
*Tara Strong
*Rodger Bumpass
*Peter Sohn
*Adam West
*Jim Cummings
*Kevin Schon
*Eric Bauza
==Production==
The film started production in circa 2002, with director and 3D animator Colin Brady convincing the idea with character designs, concept and design already set, along with Beth-McCarthy Miller, with the latter announcing it would be about a film were one joins other's league after getting to know each other and unlike in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the secondary character would rather be understood well along with his personality.
They originally insisted on animating the movie in traditional 2D animation, but due to the increasing popularity of CGI, they instead utilised Autodesk Maya, especially involving employees from DNA Productions and Naughty Dog, making it the first Victor Hugo Pictures Animation film to be produced in-house.
Animation progressed from November 21, 2003 prior to July 25, 2004.
==Release==
===Theatrical===
Big Friends was selected to be a part of the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2005, and was later released on January 28, 2005, domestically, and later opened in international markets the month after.
===Home media===
Big Friends was released on VHS and DVD on May 17, 2005 and later on Blu-ray on January 15, 2008.
==Reception==
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Category:Victor Hugo Pictures films
Category:Victor Hugo Pictures animated features