The Worms (film)

The Worms (also known as The Worms: Band of Fools) is the 2005 Canadian-American stop-motion animated comedy action-adventure film produced and directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler and co-produced by Mandeville Films, and released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on August 12, 2005. It tells the story of a team of worms against teams of worms that are controlled by the evil snakes. The aim is to use various weapons to kill the worms on the other teams and snakes have the last surviving worm, but one clumsy worm plans to stop the war.
==Plot==
==Cast==
*Ewan McGregor as Mopi, the protagonist of the film.
*Hugh Jackman as Bruce
*John Hurt as Mercury
*Jodi Benson as Elsa
*Jim Broadbent as Sergeant Monty
*Hugh Laurie as Wing Commander Gutsy
*Tim Curry as Coronel Boggy B, the main antagonist of the film.
*Billy Crystal and Jim Cummings as Randall and Grundelingk
*Wallace Shawn as Freddie, Mopi's old and wise father.
*Michael Gambon, David Odgen Stiers and Whoopi Goldberg as Boggis, Bunce and Piella
==Production==
==Release==
==Music==
==Reception==
==Trivia==
*The Worms is Disney's first stop-motion animated movie and was included in the Walt Disney Animated Classics line in the UK as 45th film in the series, being replaced with Dinosaur.
*The beginning of the film features the live-action footage of the human students and the teacher turns into anthromorphic worms.
*Included in the city part of the film are Toys R Us, a poster of A Bug's Life, Radio Disney, and ABC.
==Home media==
The film was released on DVD on December 13, 2005. The bonus features consists of bloopers, two games, behind-the-scenes and "This is War" music video.
Category:Movies
Category:2005 films
Category:Walt Disney Pictures films
Category:Films about insects
Category:American animated films
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Category:Films set in fictional populated places