Amphibia: The Moss Ruins

Amphibia: The Moss Ruins (also called "the Amphibia movie") is a 2024 adventure action fantasy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, produced by Dana Terrence with Matt Braly serving as executive producer and written by Mike Werb. It serves as a film sequel to Amphibia starring Brenda Song reprising her role as Anne Boonchuy, a 23-year-old Thai-American women who returns to Amphibia after a mind-controlling axolotl named Wallin (played by Jake Gyllenhhaal) planning to combine Earth and Amphibia together and rule over it. Bill Farmer, Keith David, Troy Baker, and On Braly reprise their roles as well while the live-action versions of Sprig, Polly, Wally, and Ivy are played by Josh Gad, Kate Micucci (who played Terri in the original Amphibia series), David Tennant, and Pokimane. Thomas Middleditch, Seth Rogen, Trey Parker, Carl Weathers, and Joan Jett also joined the cast. 
Development started in 2023 when Disney and Matt Braly were in talks of an Amphibia film exclusive to Disney+. Matt Braly agreed for an Amphibia film with help from Dana Terrence. Henry Jackson, who worked with Disney on the Wreck-It-Ralph films, the Captain America films and Big Hero 6 was hired to compose the music for the Amphibia film. Disney posted a first look of the Amphibia film on their Disney+ Twitter account, which received tons of backlash from many Amphibia fans, causing the film to shift into theaters. Matt Braly planned a live-action version of the film in order to surprise the fans with "a little pinch of spice". Filming began at Chiang Mai, Hollywood, Columbus, and Bangkok on August 2023 and ended in March 2024. Platinum Dunes, Stage 6 Films and GMM Tai Hub reached out to participate in producing the film while 20th Century Fox wanted to distribute the film in the United States. Disney occasionally agreed and decided to distribute the film in other countries. Davika Hoorne was casted by Sony as Anne Boonchuy but was replaced by the character's original voice actress, Brenda Song. Braly wanted the film to be PG but multiple attempts to keep it PG failed and it was given a PG-13 rating instead by the Motion Picture Association for "strong violence, thematic elements, language, blood, and sexual references". This almost caused Braly to cancel the film, but it was still planned for a theatrical release. Disney announced the film title is "Amphibia: The Moss Ruins".
Amphibia: The Moss Ruins premiered at Century The Movie Plaza at Bangkok, Thailand and was released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on July, 14, 2024. The film generally received positive reviews from critics who praised the CGI effects, humor, screenplay, and Song, Farmer, David, Baker and On Braly's performance but criticized the casting, plot, and runtime. The movie grossed $1 billion over $50 million, making it the highest-grossing Walt Disney motion picture and the highest-grossing animated film, surpassing The Lion King (released in 2019). This film was dedicated to Carl Weathers, who died in February, 1, 2024. It was nominated an award from the British Academy Film Awards for Best Performance for Brenda Song, losing to Friday Night Funkin' (Movie).
===Plot===
While King Andrias was gardening oh his land, he encounters a random ship from nearby controlled by an axolotl named Wallin. It hypnotizes the nature from the forest and throws his shovel at the ship, causing a replacement arm and leg to fall out. King Andrias repairs himself and hears about Wallin's plan from far away. He goes to Wartwood Swamp to alert everyone about the disaster, and plans to travel to Earth.
Anne Boonchuy prepares for a vacation to Taiwan for Marcy's birthday and Sasha grabs her trusty swords. Confused, Anne
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===Cast===
Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy, a 23-year-old Thai-American woman who returns to Amphibia to stop Wallin and is both Sasha and Marcy's friend. Song reprises her role from the series.
Jessica Rothe (actress) and Anna Akana (voice) as Sasha Waybright, a 23-year-old German-American woman who is Anne and Marcy's friend. 
Awkwafina (actress) and Haley Tju (voice) as Marcy Wu, a 23-year-old Taiwanese-American woman who is Anne and Sasha's best friend. Awkwafina plays the characters without delivering any lines and instead has lip-sync what Tju (reprising her role as voice only) says.
Josh Gad as Sprig, a 21-year-old frog who is Anne's best friend.
Kate Micucci as Polly, a 16-year-old frog who is Sprig's younger sister. Kate Micucci played Terri in the Amphibia series.
Bill Farmer as Hop Pop, a 78-year-old frog who is the grandfather of Sprig and Polly. Farmer reprises his role as Hop Pop.
Keith David as King Andrias, a cyborg newt who has regain his limbs. David reprises his role as King Andrias.
Seth Rogen as Zane Toppings, an agent from Earth sent to assist Andrias.
Trey Parker as Benjamin Ian Kevin Ethan, a axolotl biker with tons of talents who assists his brother Wallin.
Carl Weathens as the Governor of California, one of the major protagonists.
Thomas Middleditch as Mr. Klism, an agent sent to defeat Wallin.
Joan Jett as Zally Taylor, a famous singer.
===Music===
Face to Face, Blink-182, and James Corden were planned to write a song but Corden left the project and blink-182 performed to extended a rock remix of "Welcome to Amphibia" with the original composer, Cecila Gray. Face to Face released their single for the film, "Destiny Sits on the Lilypad". The score was composed by Henry Jackman.
The songs not included in the soundtrack but were in it were:
*"War Pigs" (by Black Sabbath)
*"No Big Deal" (by Brenda Song, Anna Akana, and Haley Tju)
*"Baby One More Time" (by Britney Spears)
*"Kura Kura" (by Ado)
*"Nuthin' But A 'G' Thing" (by Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg)
*"Animals" (by Maroon 5)
*"Heavydirtysoul" (by twenty one pilots)
*"Drake's Soup" (by Allen Retalot)
*"You Oughta Know" (by Alanis Morissette)
*"Island in the Sun" (by Weezer)
Trailer music:
*"I Was Made For Lovin' You" (by KISS) [teaser trailer]
*"Famous Last Words" (by MCR) [official trailer]
*"Do I Wanna Know" (by Arctic Monkeys) [final trailer]
===Reception===
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 69% of 146 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Despite the lazy runtime, lifeless plot, and out-of-nowhere casting, the film still stands up for itself, manifesting great humor, an outstanding screenplay, benevolent CGI effects and performances fueled with effort." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.
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