Leo

Leo is an upcoming American animated musical comedy film directed by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel and David Wachtenheim (in Marianetti and Wachtenheim's feature directorial debuts), written by Smigel, Adam Sandler, and Paul Sado, and produced by Sandler. The second animated feature from Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions, it stars him in the titular voice role, alongside Bill Burr and Cecily Strong.
== Plot ==
Longtime class pets Leo the tuatara and Squirtle the turtle live in the fifth-grade classroom at Fort Myers Elementary School. During a parent-teacher conference, the pregnant fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Salinas, announces her maternity leave; Leo overhears one of the parents say that tuataras live to be 75 years old and despairs when he realizes he is 74 and has not accomplished his dreams. The next day, the strict substitute Ms. Malkin arrives and is quickly loathed by the students.
Leo is taken home for the weekend by Summer, an overly talkative girl who cannot stop talking. While trying to make his escape, Leo accidentally reveals to Summer that he can talk, and suggests to her that she ask more questions to improve her conversations with classmates. As a result, Summer becomes more popular. Later, Leo gave advice to a boy name Eli who is being overprotective by his parents and his drone, Jayda, a rich girl who has to be perfect, and Mia, a shy huggable girl whose parent's are diforced. Each of the students eventually take Leo home and confide in him; he provides wisdom and support which improves each of the student's lives. However, Leo requests that each student keep his talking ability a secret from the others.
Jealous of the attention Leo is getting, Squirtle decides to expose him. Feeling betrayed, the class disregards Leo. Ms. Malkin takes Leo home when she discovers he talks and has been helping her students. Leo learns that she never accomplished her dream of being a real teacher and attempts to give her advice.
The next day, the students win the history fair with their historical reenactments; their prize is a field trip to Magic Land Park. Wanting to take all the credit, Ms. Malkin abandons Leo at The Everglades. When the students decide to apologize to Leo, they discover he is missing; Ms. Malkin lies by telling the class that Leo left them.
As the students travel to Magic Land, a guilt-ridden Squirtle uses one of the students drones to catch up with them and reveals that Ms. Malkin lied. He informed the kids that Leo did it all of this for them because he'll turn 75 soon and complained angrily that Ms. Malkin doesn't care. The kids and Squirtle angrily comfort the selfish, lying teacher until Ms. Malkin finally confessed that she did lie because she drove him away. The students and Ms. Malkin hijack the bus so they can find Leo. Meanwhile, Leo learns from wild tuataras that he can live to be over 100 years old, reinvigorating him. Leo is threatened by a congregation of alligators, but is rescued by the students.
On the final day of the school year, Salinas came back with her newborn baby and the kids are graduated from school. Leo tells the class to look out for one another as they enter middle school. Ms. Malkin is given a full-time job as a teacher and is promptly assigned to the kindergarteners, with Leo and Squirtle as the class pets.
Category:2023 films
Category:Animated films
Category:Musical films
Category:Comedy films
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