Rock Boov

Rock Boov is a 2016 computer-animated comedy film produced by Warner Animation Group, Village Roadshow Pictures, RatPac Entertainment and Silver Pictures and released by Warner Bros. Pictures.
== Plot ==
Oh (Jim Parsons) is a Boov who is expected to be the next guard of the village of Snow Mountain, succeeding his father Lem (Justin Long) after the latter has driven out a pack of gangster grey wolves led by the villainous Lord Shen (Gary Oldman) years ago, but is sure they will return. Lem has some of the local dog dressed up as Mastiffs to give the illusion the village is being guarded by multiple Mastiffs to keep the wolves at bay, but Oh has trouble perfecting his father's signature move the Iron Paw which projects a powerful blast that as Lem states can only happen if Oh "finds the fire." Lem has also forbade music in the village since Oh got distracted from his duties when he was adult.
After a disastrous training session, Oh accidentally causes a nearby flying plane to drop a package. Among the items that fell out, Oh becomes interested in a red radio and listens to some of the music on the stations, with his favorite being rock music and idolizes British rock legend Soren and Mumble. Oh steals a traditional dramyin from a den of locked up instruments, adds additional strings to make it a conventional Western guitar, and begins neglecting his guard duties in favor of playing music, which puts him at odds with Lem, especially since Oh told him that he has decided to be a musician.
After Lem and some of the guard dog accidentally cause Oh to unleash a false alarm on the village while dressed as wolves escalating into some fireworks being set off, the village elder Fleetwood Dog (Will Arnett) convinces Lem to let Oh follow his dream and gives him a bus ticket to give to Oh that will take him to a nearby city. Lem gives Oh the ticket, but makes him promise to give up music if his trip doesn't work out and the villagers say goodbye to him after he leaves with his guitar. At the bus station, Oh is discovered by two of Lord Shen's henchman, the short and comical Boss Wolf (Danny McBride) and the tall and silent Alpha (Bob Peterson). Boss Wolf informs Lord Shen of Oh's departure and Lord Shen orders them to kidnap Oh, reasoning that Oh is his chance to take over Snow Mountain.
When Oh makes to the city, he heads to Rock and Roll Park since it's where Mumble Soren began his career. He attempts to join a band consisting of the down-to-earth unicorn Starlight Glimmer (Kelly Sheridan) and an eccentric panda drummer and rat named Po (Jack Black) and Remy (Patton Oswalt), who are the only members and therefore don't have an audience. However, Oh is humiliated after losing a guitar contest to an owl guitarist named Metal Beak (Joel Edgerton), who is amused with Oh. Metal Beak, discovering his idolization for Soren and Mumble, manipulates Oh into convincing Soren (Jim Sturgess) and Mumble (Elijah Wood) to give him some guitar lessons at his mansion, though he knows a little secret about Soren's security set-up. At Soren's mansion, he is revealed to be a barn owl who wears black sunglasses all the time and has a serious case of songwriter's block, as he has three days to unleash a new song or his career will go down. His only companion is his robot butler Ozzie.
When Oh tries to meet Soren and Mumble, the latter is put off by Oh's fanboy attitude and tries to evade him. Eventually, Oh and Soren & Mumble get lost in a back alley and Oh decides to play music at Rock and Roll Park to get money for Soren and Mumble to get back to his mansion. However, Wolf Boss and Alpha mistakenly kidnap Soren and Mumble after they see Oh at the park just when Oh tries to convince a disbelieving Starlight Glimmer and Po & Remy that he is with Soren and Mumble. After Wolf Boss and Alpha realize their mistake, Lord Shen angrily sends them off to find Oh again and they drop Soren and Mumble off at his home. After Soren and Mumble thinks that his career is over since he has less than a day to write a new song, he hears Oh playing on his guitar and decides to use Oh to create a new song. He invites Oh into his home with the facade of a "guitar lesson" and together they create a new song called "Glorious".
Oh later realizes that he was used after hearing Soren and Mumble take full credit for the song via a radio and he becomes depressed. Soon afterward, Oh finally gets captured by Lord Shen's henchmen and he accidentally reveals the fake Mastiff guards when Lord Shen interrogates him for information. Lord Shen and his gang head off to Snow Mountain while Oh is put into a boxing match at Lord Shen's Fight Club, but Oh cleverly has his opponent break the cage surrounding them so he can escape.
Meanwhile, Oh and Starlight Glimmer's argument, Soren and Mumble, after being guilt-tripped by Ozzie for exploiting Oh for his own self-serving goals (Ozzie only needed to be recharged), uses his old tour bus to find Oh and give him his old acoustic guitar with his autograph as a sign of gratitude. At Rock and Roll Park, Soren and Mumble, along with Starlight Glimmer and Po & Remy, discover that Oh's been captured when they see his guitar covered in tranquilizer darts shot by Lord Shen's henchmen. Soren and Mumble, with a change of heart, forgoes sending in his new song to rescue Oh. After meeting with Oh outside of Lord Shen's hideout, they take him to Snow Mountain to stop Lord Shen.
Lord Shen and his gang overpower Lem and the whole village and attempt to devour them, but Oh appears and after a climatic chase, Oh subdues the wolves by "finding the fire" by playing Soren and Mumble's guitar and making the wolves, the villagers, and his friends levitate. Lem banishes Lord Shen with his Iron Paw and accepts Oh's ambition to play rock music.
At the city, Oh and his friends (including Starlight Glimmer, Soren, Mumble, Remy and Po backed by the Dog and the Metal Beak) sing and play "Glorious" to the Snow Mountain Villagers and a redeemed Lord Shen, Wolf Boss and Alpha at Lord Shen's old Fight Palace.
== Cast ==
* Jim Parsons as Oh, a Boov who is eternally optimistic and wants nothing more than to play rock music. Conflicted between his sense of duty at home and pursuing his dream in the city, Oh is determined to be in a rock band and make his dad proud.
* Jim Sturgess as Soren, a Barn Owl.
* Elijah Wood as Mumble, a penguin who is a rock legend suffering from a serious case of songwriter’s block. With enormous pressure from his record label to release a new hit single, he hides away in his grandiose mansion with Ozzie, his robot butler as his only companion.
* Justin Long as Lem, Oh's father, an alien who takes his duties as the village guard extremely seriously and despises music. Although he may be too militaristic or overly suspicious of outside threat, he’s motivated by his love for the villagers and his son.
* Gary Oldman as Lord Shen, the CEO of Lord Shen Industries, male white peacock of a sinister gang, and club owner of the Fight Palace.
* Danny McBride as Wolf Boss, the smallest henchman with the biggest ego in the wolf pack. He tries to take on jobs bigger than himself just to impress his boss Lord Shen, but they almost always result in epic failure due to the lack of unity between him and his absentminded partner, Alpha.
* Bob Peterson as Alpha, the Doberman Pinscher leader.
* Kelly Sheridan as Starlight Glimmer, a unicorn who has been playing her bass guitar at Rock n’ Roll Park for years, knowing that persistence and hardwork will get her somewhere, Oh's love interest.
* Jack Black as Po, the most mellow panda around that can wail on a drum set like no other. Although he is often forgetful or mentally checked-out, he can get along with just about anybody.
* Patton Oswalt as Remy, a rat.
* Joel Edgerton as Metal Beak, a owl who is egotistic and finds pleasure in humiliating any opposition he has. Like the best schoolyard basketball players, his great talent on the electric guitar is overshadowed by his inability to play well with others.
* Will Arnett as Fleetwood Dog, a cool and wise elder with many stories to tell. Having left the city life long ago, he has found peace living in Snow Mountain among the happy band of dog, Oh, and his old friend Lem.
* Liza Richardson as Radio DJ
* Ash Brannon as Carl, Floyd, Vector
* Will Finn as Russell, Sparks, Ian
Category:2016 films
Category:Warner Bros. films
Category:Warner Bros.
Category:Warner Bros. Animation animated films
Category:Warner Bros. Pictures
Category:Village Roadshow Pictures
Category:Village Roadshow Pictures films
Category:Village Roadshow Pictures animated films
Category:Silver Pictures
Category:Films directed by Ash Brannon
Category:Films produced by Brad Lewis
Category:Film scores by Hans Zimmer
Category:Film scores by John Powell
Category:PG-rated films