Goin Down to Cartoonville

Goin' Down to Cartoonville is a 2000 American adult animated black comedy musical film directed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Alberto Canetto, Jake Mercado and Lucas M Soares. The film is produced by TBA, animated by Alternative, Cuppa Coffee, Ubisoft Digital Graphics, and TMS Entertainment, and distributed by Paramount Pictures in North America and Warner Bros. Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures in international territories.
The film is primarily centered on themes of censorship and bad parenting; it also serves as a parody and satire of the animated films of the Disney Renaissance and musicals such as Les Misérables. The film also heavily lampoons the Motion Picture Association of America; Parker and Stone battled the MPAA throughout the production process and the film received an TV-14-DLSV rating just two weeks prior to its release. A writing team consisting of Parker, Stone, and Alberto Canetto was assembled. They conceived numerous plot ideas, with Parker and Stone's being the one developed into a film. The film features twelve original songs by Parker and Marc Shaiman, with additional lyrics by Stone.
Goin' Down to Cartoonville was released theatrically in the United States on October 10, 2000. The film received critical acclaim from critics, with praise for its writing, soundtrack, humour, and themes. Produced on a $40 million budget, it went on to gross $215 million worldwide, making it a box office hit and one of the highest-grossing R-rated animated film of all time, as well as the highest-grossing stop motion animated film of all time, bypassing Chicken Run, which was also produced by Aardman. The song "Blame Canada" earned Parker and Shaiman a nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards.
The film served as the pilot to the series Alberto Canetto's Sonic X, which premiered on August 2, 2001 on Nick@Nite, The Bloo Detour, Ubisoft Sleepover, Disney's Sleepover, and LX Over The Moon. The first episode "A Extreme Kickoff" continued from where the movie had left off.
==Synopsis ==
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==Plot==
Ten years ago, two people named Trey Parker and Matt Stone have an idea for TBA.
Ten years later, Sonic, Knuckles, Tails and Amy, go to a theatre to see Asses of Fire, which stars the boys' favorite Canadian comedy duo Timon and Pumbaa. However, the boys are refused entry due to the film strictly being R-rated, so they pay a homeless man to accompany them.
The next morning, Acme is discovered dead at his factory, and evidence points to Sonic being responsible. While investigating, Chris meets Stuart Synder Cartoonville's intimidating superior court judge. He has created a substance dubbed "dip" that is capable of killing the otherwise invulnerable toons. Chris later runs into Sonic's toon co-star, Baby Herman, who believes Roger is innocent and that Acme's missing will, which will give the toons ownership of Toontown, may be the key to his murder. In his office, Eddie finds Roger, who begs him to help exonerate him. Eddie reluctantly hides Roger in a local bar, where his ex-girlfriend Dolores works. Jessica approaches Eddie and says that Maroon forced her to pose for the photographs so he could blackmail Acme.
Immediately after the movie, the boys begin swearing everywhere they go. The other children are impressed and all see the movie as well - except for Jenny Wakeman, the girl Tails likes, who spends her time with brilliant exchange student Gregory. The children swear profusely in school the next day, which infuriates their teacher Mr. Garrison and leads to their mothers finding out. The children are forbidden from seeing the movie again, but after attending a class with school counselor TBA that "cures them", they sneak out and see it again anyway. Afterwards, Sonic bets Knuckles $100 that he can't set his fart on fire like Pumbaa in the film - his attempt goes too far and he sets himself on fire and a dump truck pours salt all over him. Knuckles is rushed to the hospital where TBA and the doctors try their best to bring him back to life, but they accidentally replace his heart with a baked potato, which explodes, killing him. Upon learning that their sons saw the movie again, their mothers ground Kyle and Stan for two weeks, and Sonic three weeks, for seeing the movie again. Knuckles is sent to Hell for various naughty deeds (skipping church, profanity, throwing rocks at a bird, staring at boobs all day etc.). He is tormented by Satan and his new partner, the recently deceased Donald Trump. Edchina learns that Trump and Satan are lovers that have a dysfunctional relationship, and Trump dominates and demeans Satan.
Back on Earth, Sonic’s mother, Frankie, leads the parents of Cartoonville in a campaign against Timon and Pumbaa, as well as the whole nation of Canada. Timon and Pumbaa are then arrested on the Conan O'Brien Show as war criminals, prompting Conan O'Brien to commit suicide by jumping out a window. When the United States refuse to release the duo, Canada retaliates by bombing the residence of the Baldwin brothers. Frankie and Mr. Herrimen announce that the United States will go to war with Canada and have Timon and Pumbaa executed at a USO show. After she overhears Sonic degrading her in a song, Frankie has Dr. TBA implant him with a V-Chip, a device that administers an electric shock every time he swears. In Hell, Knuckles hears Satan declare that the war is a sign of the Apocalypse and that when the blood of two innocent Canadians touches American soil, he will invade Earth. Kenny attempts to persuade Satan to abandon Saddam, but to no avail. A ghostly Knuckles visits Sonic to warn him. Unable to reason with their mothers, the three boys form La Résistance, partly so that Tails can win over Jenny as well as free Timon and Pumbaa takes charge of the group and develops a rescue plan. He tells Marsh to recruit a God-hating French-accented boy expert on covert operations named "The Mole."
La Résistance infiltrate the USO show using the Mole's expertise, but Knuckles's ghost scares Sonic again and he forgets to deactivate the alarm. The Mole is discovered and killed by guard dogs, so the remaining boys attempt to warn their mothers about the prophecy and an attack by Satan and Trump. They are laughed off, and Timon and Pumbaa's electric chairs are activated. The Canadian Army attacks the show and a battle ensues between the two armies. In the chaos, the boys are able to free Timon and Pumbaa - in the process, Sonic is electrocuted briefly and his V-chip begins to malfunction. The mothers, seeing the destruction their movement has incited, decide to give up and look for their children, leaving only Sheila clinging to the cause.
After receiving a confidence-boosting vision from "The Clitoris", Stan leads the kids to Terrance and Phillip, who have been cornered by the United States Army. La Résistance forms a human shield while Kyle tries to persuade the soldiers and stands up to his mother against the killing. The soldiers begin to back down, but Sheila refuses and shoots Terrance and Phillip anyway, which results in Satan, his minions, and Saddam emerging from a fiery portal and slaughtering at will, invincible to retaliation, with Satan personally telling Sheila just how badly she screwed up. Because of all this, Sheila finally begins to regret everything, claiming that she was only trying to make the world a better place for children. Saddam successfully cows Satan once again and makes everyone bow to him as the lord of the Earth. However, when he insults Sonic, Sonic swears and a bolt of energy shoots through his pointing finger and kills a minion. Realizing his newly acquired power, and with Amy’s encouragement, Sonic starts using profanity to power himself up and shoot electrical bolts at Saddam. Saddam continues to demean Satan and boss him around throughout this, which finally causes Satan to snap and throw him back into Hell, where he is impaled and killed on a stalagmite.
Satan then thanks Knuckles for supporting him and grants him one wish; Knuckles asks for everything to return to how it was before the war, even though it means he will have to go back to Hell. He takes off his hood, revealing his face, and says goodbye to his friends. Everything returns to normal in Cartoonville. Sheila apologizes to Kyle for not listening to him, Jenny dumps Mr. Harrimen and goes back to Tails and instead of returning to Hell, Knuckles ascends to Heaven due to his act of sacrifice.
==Cast ==
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==Production ==
===Development ===
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===Writing ===
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===Animation ===
The film was originally going to use computer-animation, but the production team then decided to go with the route of using stop-motion animation, CGI animation and hand-drawn, consisting of cut-out animation and claymation. Because Trey Parker and Matt Stone wanted to use stop-motion animation, CGI animation and hand-drawn for the film, they began searching for studios that could provide the animation for the film. They eventually came across Cuppa Coffee Animation from Canada and Aardman Animations from the UK, Ubisoft Digital Graphics and TMS Entertainment who kindly accepted the offer. The entirety of the film's animation took 4 years to complete.
== Cultural references and easter eggs ==
In the movie, there are several different easter eggs, as well as cultural references to other media, such as television shows, movies, and video games, also a tribute to Walt Disney (the founder of Disney) as well as the late Stephen Hillenburg (who was the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (along with Matt Groening and an animator/co-ceo of Games Animation Inc in 1990's-2010's) there cameo appearance of characters and easter eggs from many classic Dcartoons, UbiToons, Paramount animated shorts, and films.
=== List of cultural references ===
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=== List of easter eggs ===
* There are multiple promotions in the film that appear as easter eggs, which are either camouflaged or hidden within other things.
* The arcade in the film is full of homages to Ubisoft Animation, Walt Disney Animation and Paramount properties. There's the TBA (from TBA), TBA (from TBA) and TBA on the arcade machines. There are racing games for TBA and posters for the TBA (from TBA ").
* TBA, TBA, TBA and TBA from TBA can be seen as plushies in the prize area of TBA.
* TBA at the TBA (2D-animated) at the movie.
* Striperella is seen as an easter egg who is seen as TBA, which confirms the Striperella show for Disney's Sleepover.
=== List of cameos ===
* Tom Kenny as Spongebob Squarepants (GameToons) - TBA (seen in TBA)
* Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star (GamesToons) - TBA (seen in TBA)
* Jimmy Newtron (GamesToons) - TBA (seen in TBA)
* Mickey Mouse (BlooJ's FHFIF) - TBA (seen in Dave Cartoon's Funeral)
* TBA
==Release ==
Goin' Down to Cartoonville was released in 2000 and was met with critical acclaim from the critics.
==Reception ==
===Critical response ===
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===Box office ===
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===Accolades ===
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==Soundtrack ==
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==Video Game ==
A tie-in video game, titled Goin' Down to Cartoonville has been announced to accompany the film's theatrical release. It will be developed by Traveller's Tales and Eurocom and published by Ubisoft. and Paramount Interactive on PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast.
==Trivia ==
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