The Intergalactic Idiots (2008 film)

The Intergalactic Idiots is a 2008 American animated science fiction superhero comedy film produced and distributed by Gryphon Animation. It was directed by Sheldon Higgins, from a screenplay by Naomi Gordon and Harry Norton, based on a story conceived by Higgins, and stars the voices of Rob Paulsen, Tara Strong, Sigourney Weaver, Richard Kind, Robin Williams, Nika Futterman, Billy Crystal, Bruce Campbell, and "Weird Al" Yankovic. The film centers around Comet Weaver, a sidekick who aspires to become a superhero. After joining a fellow superhero, Sabrina Starcrasher, they start their journey to form their own superhero team and to stop the evil plans of Emperor Oddball.
The film premiered at the Mann Village Theater in Los Angeles, California on April 18, 2008, and would be released in the United States six days later on April 25, with the Kuckoo Kat short, "A True Hollyweird Story". The film received generally positive reviews and grossed $463.8 million against a $60 million budget. Although the film would not spawn a sequel, it did spawn a TV series that premiered in 2011.
== Plot ==
In the highly advanced future of 2075, the crime-riddled planet of Ajax is protected by famed superhero Stryker, who is idolized in the town of Bagnolia by a young Slinkian by the name of Comet Weaver, who eagerly promises his parents that he wants to become a superhero like him.
Years later in 2088, Comet, now 18 years old, works as a pizza delivery boy after losing his parents. He later finds out that Stryker is holding auditions for someone lucky enough to be his new sidekick. Knowing that this is his chance to finally become a superhero like he wanted to, he quits his day job and goes to the audition. While making a fool of himself against the dummy at the audition, Stryker considers him to be the "best" out of all the others who auditioned and hires Comet as his new sidekick, giving him the persona of "Cosmic Comet".
While ecstatic at first, Comet finds out about Stryker's true colors, as it's revealed he's an egotistical jerk and Comet ends up playing the role of an "errand boy", as instead of fighting crime, he ends up doing chores. One day, when a giant monster appears in Bagnolia, Stryker and Comet go to fight it. Although Stryker gets caught by the monster, Comet is able to defeat the monster. Stryker takes all the credit for the defeat, and after being insulted by him, Comet quits being his sidekick and leaves. During his walk back home, he gets attacked by a street gang known as The Goons, but he gets saved by a unknown masked superhero, who reveals herself as Sabrina Starcrasher, who then beams him up to her ship.
Confused by what just happened, she explains to him that after seeing him successfully defeat the monster earlier, she wants him to join her into forming a superhero team. Comet, wanting to get away from Stryker, decides to join her, but tells her that they can't become a team without other members, so Comet and Sabrina set off to find them. Using their locator, they land in the abandoned town of Teplon to find their next member, where Comet gets attacked by a Ba'bulan. However, the alien gets captured by the only person that lives in the town, Elaine Ridley, a bounty hunter/alien killer. They ask her if she would like to join their team, but she declines, saying that she prefers to be alone on her quests, as she once lost a team she was once a part of from a group of killer aliens. However, she gets captured by Xeon, the Queen of the Ba'bulans, and struggles to stop her, so Comet and Sabrina help kill the creature and save Elaine. Impressed by their skills, she decides to join the slowly-growing team.
Continuing their quest, Comet recommends they should get a scientist for the team, so they stop at the city of Volzell, where they find an cat/dog fusion being chased by an animal catcher. The group decide to save the animal and it introduces itself as Chauncey (the cat body) and Melvin (the dog body). Chauncey introduces himself as a scientist, while Melvin works as his assistant, which he hates being. They try to start the ship, but it breaks down after it starts and crashes back in the city. Desperate for a mechanic, they bump into Cecilia, a teenage cyclops and her friend Jethro (JET-A113), the both of them being chased by a hot dog vendor for stealing. However, Cecilia hypnotizes him to trick him into thinking they didn't steal any hot dogs. After they go away, Cecilia and Jethro sees that they need help, and decides to help fix their ship. Impressed, the team decide to let them join as the team mechanics. However, unbeknownst to the heroes, the evil yet silly Emperor Oddball has plans to destroy every city in Ajax, and replace it with his own dangerous theme park, Oddballworld.
The newly-formed team try to fight off rampaging monsters multiple times, but they constantly lose and usually end up having Stryker win each battle they have. Stryker ends up taunting them to the point where Comet ends up cracking and tries to attack Stryker. However, Stryker starts to act like the victim and everyone in town starts to reject Comet and the others. Comet ends up running away back to his house and ends up hiding away from everyone. Sabrina goes to his house to comfort him, but he doesn't care, saying that he failed his parents. Sabrina tells him however, that she also lost her parents when she was young, but even after that, she has always been optimistic and that nothing ever let her down. Comet calms down after that, and decides to return to the team. 
However, at that exact moment, Emperor Oddball appears into the town and announcing his evil plans for the planet of Ajax, shocking everyone, including the team. Stryker tries to stop him. but Emperor Oddball easily stops him with a mallet. The team end up being the ones that have to stop him, with Sabrina, Elaine, Chauncey/Melvin, Cecilia, and Jethro to defeat Oddball's henchmen, while Comet goes off to his ship to fight Oddball. Comet manages to comedically get through Oddball's arsenal of booby traps and makes it to his control room. After a comical fight and a musical duet, Comet accidentally pushes the self-destruct button and the ship explodes, but Comet parachutes down with Oddball captured. After he lands, Oddball gets arrested and sent to jail. However, Stryker tries to take all the credit, but Comet plays an audio recording he took of Stryker when he was his sidekick, where he made fun of his fans. Stryker tries to deny it, but the crowd turns on him and attack him. Comet and his gang now become the new heroes of both Ajax and the entire galaxy, and he decides to call his team "The Intergalactic Idiots".
In a post-credits scene, it is shown that Stryker has been demoted from being a superhero to being a street sweeper.
== Cast ==
* Rob Paulsen as Comet Weaver
* Tara Strong as Sabrina Starcrasher
* Sigourney Weaver as Elaine Ridley
* Richard Kind and Robin Williams as Chauncey and Melvin
* Nika Futterman as Cecilia Cyclops
* Billy Crystal as Jethro (JET-A113)
* Bruce Campbell as Stryker
* "Weird Al" Yankovic as Emperor Oddball
* Brian Doyle-Murray as Grayson Goon
* Chris Elliott as Gideon Goon
* Nicole Sullivan as Genevieve Goon
* Laurie Metcalf as Amy Weaver
* Adam West as Kermit Weaver
* Jeff Bergman as Griffin Glorbnorb
* Candi Milo as Felicia Furrball
* Wayne Knight as Paul LeBlob
* Mila Kunis as Riley Roddenberry
== Production ==
=== Development ===