The Rodfellows Movie

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***The Rodfellows Movie*** is a 2020 American animated film directed by Dan P. Lyons and Darren A. Nichols. The film is based upon the original animated series franchise of the same name, which was created by Dan P. Lyons. The film is a crossover between The Rodfellows and Alexander Mortensen's The Data Crew. This film is notable for being the first film released from Harmonic's animation division Harmonic Animation Group (labeled here as Fredbear Animation Studios).

The film was released on November 26, 2020 and has received mixed reviews at first but later turned to very negative reviews from critics for its writing, characters, animation, and vocal performances.

It is the only film to be directed by Dan P. Lyons and the final film to be directed by Darren A. Nichols from using Phantom's Fredbear Studios banner.

## Synopsis

*The Rodfellows Movie* follows the TRF (including TDC) with their lives turning upside down by the arrival of the two antagonists, the evil chipmunk duo named Zander and Zayden. They perpetrate changing how the parts of TRF's house perform, more or less having them not realize that it was caught in the footage, causing a downhill experience of TRF's morning routines. It's up to the main TRF to subdue their experience and have their things go back to the way it should be.

## Plot

The film starts with Kody wandering around the forest, enjoying the breezy wind surrounding him. He then makes a halt describing the residence is where he is discovering, then describing the quality of it. He then continues walking. Finto is watching TV, which appears he is watching hockey. Kody then comes in, sitting beside Finto. There were rarely many activities, but as of the time Kody sat down with Finto, there hasn't been much. So then he showed Kody the discussion comments made by Widenar and Tater, and Kody was amused from the glance. During that time of the Finto and Kody scene, the sound of cooking is coming from the kitchen, and it was done by HB as she cooks up something for Kody to eat. Being told "you'll see, and you'll like it", his hunger began to build up. Kody then walks back to Finto, reminding him if he checked, as it was something for Kody in actuality. HB was trying to say to herself in preparation to have Kody eat what's made for him, but the microwave beeps and she opens it, which shows the chicken nuggets on top of the plate before she sets it on the table. She continues saying something, which then the oven makes a buzzing sound, getting HB a little ticked off when trying to speak. She then takes the French fries out of the oven and slides them out from the tray to the plate surfaced on the kitchen counter. Then she sets the plate in the kitchen. Kody looks at what's on the table, and his hunger builds up faster, causing him to jog in the kitchen. But then he makes a halt in the wonder of eating in the living room rather than the kitchen. HB then is okay with Kody doing that, but she haves him make sure to put his used-up plate in the kitchen sink after eating. Alice then walks into the house for a meeting, expecting some activities from the gang. Then HB didn't realize Kody ate up all the food in two shakes of a lamb's tail. Finto then imagines HB being a butler, and Kody talks to Finto about who Bernard is. According to Aubrey's (that's Kody's friends) messaging, Bernard is one of those butlers that serves her the right food and drinks fitting her appetite. Kody then starts walking outside for quote-unquote "adequate seclusion" thinking it's better. The rest of the gang wishes him good luck. During Kody's walking, he is messaging Aubrey what food Bernard serves her. After the walk, Kody then stops at his hammock, getting minorly tired which is ideal for a rest. He then gets on his hammock, sets his phone in a spot where it's safe and he won't lose it, and then starts dozing...while it's windy. Widenar hums and wanders around. Then he halts and sees Kody dozing. He was eager enough to go see him once more, but then he realized Kody was taking a minor rest. He agrees to let him be for a few hours and continues walking around. Kody then forgets to remind Aubrey that he is taking a doze. He proceeds, then turns his phone off and sets it back to the right spot. Then he continues dozing. Widenar then keeps wandering around until he saw Sylvester raking the leaves. Kody already woke up after he heard Sylvester. Kody approaches Sylvester and meets him. He thought he would help out with Sylvester raking the leaves, but unfortunately, he doesn't have a rake. So then he heads back to his hammock snoozing again. Widenar wanders more until he noticed that Alice is planting the seeds for trees to grow in the future. He then goes up at Alice asking what she is doing, and she answers what she's doing right now. Widenar then asks the point of planting the seeds, and it was something Alice wanted to do to grow more trees. Widenar then wanders more. Kody rests in a different position, taking care of his phone. Finto then continues watching TV, patting his finger on the couch. HB then approaches Finto, and by her point of view, she asks if Finto is waiting for something, but it's just "pretend patience" he's doing. Finto and HB then talk about channels, places, etc. Kody then opens his eyes after his rest, yawning. And when he looks at his phone, his heart raised making him think someone stole his phone, but it was just where he left it. He then gets out of his hammock and starts walking. As he continues, he then describes safety and the solution to being lost. He then enjoys the breeze as he continues walking, then something made Kody halt, which was Widenar hugging him. Widenar then discusses with Kody how he was doing, exercising, seeing Alice planting seeds, etc. Kody then walks more, and he sees HB walking by and meeting him again. Kody and HB talk about animals and how humans would go crazy if there were talking animals in real life. Kody then says there are ones who live in the forest thinking they can be anything they want. HB then talks about how mature she's been, leading him to say that Widenar is growing too. HB then walks away from Kody saying toodle-oo. Kody then heads back to the Jungle Forest house, ready to rest more, since he's getting the feel of resting in another place. Finto welcomes Kody back, then they talk about food, and channels once more. Then they witness their progress in keeping the group going. Jimmy walks in, and almost all of the group greets him. He then plans a hangout with them. Alice then heads to the Jungle Forest house knocking on the door and opening it, making the gang greet her. Widenar then knocks on the door, and the gang meets him as well. He then leaps to his seat beside Kody, causing HB to believe how excited Widenar is of Kody. Widenar then witnesses the arrival of his new pillow, which is making him hope it'll feel the same as Kody's fur. Widenar is going outside for a walk, enjoying the breeze of it. Widenar then wonders if there are new members here in the forest until he saw a chipmunk named Zander.

The song *Turn Down For What* plays in the background as the camera pans from Zander's feet to his face. Widenar then thought Zander was a nice guy, but when Zander said "I'm not even a member of your so-called group", he was nearly mistaken. Then when Zayden came around, Widenar asks him if he's Zander's sidekick, then Zayden called Widenar a "Twitty pup", which briefly made Widenar think they are villains. A few insults later by the chipmunks, they wind up chasing Widenar, causing him to panic. Widenar then slams the door, having Finto asks what is Widenar's fear. Widenar then says to Finto that it was the chipmunks that were about to attack him, no joke. Kody and Jimmy had a bad feeling about this. The chipmunks burst the door open, grabbing Finto's attention on who burst it. Alice then believes it's rude to burst into someone's property. Zayden then calls Finto a "Reader Rabbit wannabe", which sounded quite disgraceful, also making fun of Finto's appearance. Zander then winds up calling Finto, "Finty", which annoys him more and more with each and every name call. Finto then plans to call the cops on the chipmunks if they don't back off with the tomfoolery. Widenar then fills his mouth with acid in front of the chipmunks and then they scream and immediately scramble out of the house and shut the door. That supposedly would solve the problem. Kody then thinks Zander and Zayden are "criminals". After Widenar saw their true colors, he was completely mistaken. Later then, it was time to go to bed, considering the night is approaching more or less momentarily. The gang then head to the bedroom and tuck themselves up in covers. A few hours later, Zander and Zayden quietly sneak into the house, in preparation to change how things go in the house, setting up booby traps and pranks. Then HB turns on the radio which surprisingly is the same music as The Rodfellows Sleeping Video. She then starts dreaming as things start to get to the point where she is laying on a cloud. She sees what's involved in her dream before her eyes go back closed, then reaching her arms out for a small piece of cloud to land on her hands. Then several objects fly around across the night sky, representing her favorite interests and hobbies. Then we came back to the real world as HB continues sleeping peacefully. The sun starts to rise as the morning begins, then the gang's routines began as Kody starts brushing his teeth and putting on his tie. HB then starts showering, and she didn't realize that the water was replaced with sewage. Kody then heard HB say "sewage", Widenar realized it too. The puppies go into their playroom hoping to catch the perpetrators. Jimmy then gets on his computer to watch the captured footage. The login screen appears, then the close-up picture of Bigfoot from The Sims 2: Bon Voyage appears on the screen, accompanied by growling sounds, causing Jimmy to jump in shock. He then notices the screen changes back to the login, making him wonder that the criminals messed around with the system configuration utilities. It was realized that a child or teen sim was the cause of booby traps taking place. Jimmy then pulls up a camera application on his computer. Widenar and Jimmy gasp in shock seeing what the chipmunks did in the house. Finto walks in asking what was the cause of all this downhill. Widenar then tells Finto to look and he sees a view of the chipmunks' actions. He jumps in shock after the view and gets angry about their actions. Widenar then asks Finto to bring the rest of the gang here as it's urgent, and Finto did, leading the gang to where Finto and Widenar are at. Then they look at the CCTV footage on Jimmy's computer, showing the outside, showing Zander, replacing the water pipes from the shower, and then reconnecting it with the sewage pipes. HB and Alice get ticked off about it too, as well as Kody. Finto then says he will have the chipmunks' tails cut off and mounted over our fireplace. Then we see more footage: showing Zander taking a wad of toilet paper and shoving it into the toilet drain, then showing Zayden unscrewing the sink, making it spray when someone turns the handles when someone goes to wash their hands. Then it shows Zander and Zayden in the living room taking out whoopee cushions and placing them under the red sofa. Then they put Legos on the tiled floor in the kitchen. And finally, we see Zander holding the fridge door open as Zayden puts glue on it before Zander closes it. Finto then starts a plan, confronting the chipmunks who did the things caught on camera. The gang then go in their car and drive down to where the chipmunks are located. Later they prepare to give them a surprise. Zander and Zayden are playing Fortnite on the sofa, then suddenly their door burst open by the gang, which makes them jump scared. The Rodfellows in all look angry as the VID theme in the shot plays in the background. Kody shrugs his shoulders with his hands being fists, and HB is tapping her right foot. They all confront Zander and Zayden for their actions. Then they run to their room and the gang attempt to stop them. Finto then continues to warn the rodent villains, putting his fingers on both of their chins. "SHUSH THE SHEESH, SHUSH THE SHEESH!" the gang goes, until the villains make them fall for the thing that they know what to do.

The gang walks out of Zander and Zayden's house, still predicting that the things in the house should be working normally. Widenar then comes up with an idea, planning a payback against Zander and Zayden, giving them Barney errors on their console. Finto thinks the idea Widenar came up with would serve the villains right, will for sure teach them a valuable lesson. Then the gang goes for this "memory" talk, Jimmy says it brings him back so many memories when he glances at old times, even HB remembers that one video where she and Ronald squared-off in an epic battle, which came off pretty crazy. Kody then looks at the picture HB described, and it showing her shoving Ronald's head in the sink. HB also describes more about Ronald, he was acting like Gordon Ramsay. With that out of the way, the plan of giving ZZ an error might come off good, interrupting their Fortnite session with the error. Even though Finto is not interested in that game, this could be possible. Alice then asks if the former members of The Rodfellows had any ideas, which Finto wasn't sure about. Then Finto was wondering if they could team up to interrupt ZZ's gaming session with the active gang. Then, Finto starts calling Samantha, informing her that the chipmunks snuck into their house like robbers, setting up pranks and booby traps. If Alexander hears about the situation, he will not like it, neither would the rest of the Data Crew. Samantha then asks what the other former members of The Rodfellows could do, leading Finto to answer: they all need to help us. The house is needed to be reverted to the way it is in a jiffy. In addition to that, they are going to prank the two chipmunks with the Ronald error, causing Samantha to be excited and agree to team up with the gang to set them up. Samantha will be coming, so will the rest of the formers of TRF. Five minutes later, the doorbell rings, getting Finto to open the door, revealing the former members of The Rodfellows. Finto is glad to see them again, because he wants their help, getting the house fixed up. The gang has also set up the Ronald error, and Samantha has the disc in her purse. She unzips it and reveals the CD of the error. Finto is predicting the set up more when being lent the disc of the plan. After that, everything should be going back to normal. Shortly, according to HB. Kody wonders how the plan is going to work, then Finto guides him. He will insert the disc into his laptop, and the menu will give him options on who to send the error to. The surprising thing is there is an option showing ZZ's gaming console. Kody is then witnessing the error Zander and Zayden will fall for. When the screen comes back on with the error, the rodent villains will be scared, will pay the ultimate price. At ZZ's house meanwhile, they are sitting on the couch playing Fortnite. Kody then sneaks up at the window glaring at them. Finto then prepares with his laptop, what he is waiting for, to give them the error. The screen goes blue in ZZ's TV screen, making them think it was the BSOD. Then all of the sudden, the Ronald Error appears on the screen, with a picture of Ronald from Nature Cat inside it. Finto and the gang then witnessed it, but they are still watching. Then a voice took place saying... "Ronald was pranked by Hal. He came into Ronald’s room and put stink bombs in there. This is an important message, more important than your Fortnite game. Do not turn off your gaming console or I will get mad at you! I repeat, do not turn off your gaming console or I will get mad at you!" The rodent villains are vanishing their worries, then Finto plans to turn off their gaming console, and it happened, causing ZZ to have more fear. Kody then begins to snicker. Then when their screen came back on, Ronald yelled... "YOU BOTH DID NOT LISTEN TO ME ABOUT TURNING OFF YOUR GAMING CONSOLE! TIME TO DESTROY YOUR HOUSE!!" Ronald's girlfriend Miley appears, and they (Ronald & Miley) start to trash the living room, then being startled by a loud voice. "RONALD!" shouted Nature Cat. "MILEY!" shouted Mike the dog. Nature Cat takes action against Ronald, grounding him. Ronald and Miley go back into the screen, with Ronald crying all the way. Then the plan has worked, so Finto gives each and every member of the active TRF a high five. They are about to head back to their home before the rodents come back into the living room. Zander and Zayden are really going to be forced to clean up their mess. They would suffer during the attempt of cleaning the flaws up. Now The Rodfellows have to fix up their house, what's preventing them from opening the refrigerator, taking showers normally. If the job turns out to be a failure, they should start calling the experts of house fixing. Finto then asks Kody if his wife is the expert of cleaning, and it's a belief of Kody. Kristine knows how to do the stuff with correction, leading Finto to gather Kristine around to fix the house. Finto then starts to call Kristine with permission from Kody. HB then calls Tater to fix the house too, considering Tater is an expert like Kristine is.

Seven minutes later, Finto hears the sound of the doorbell ring, approaching the door, who rang the doorbell. Finto then opens the door revealing the experts. Alice then asks them if they could do the fixing as promised, and they accepted. Hopefully, the criminals are not doing what's caught in the footage again. Then the montage of cleaning goes through the process, then Kristine saw the pipes replaced from water to sewage. Then Kristine and Tater start repairing the water pipes, replacing the sewage with proper water for showering. Finto has his hopes that they managed to fix the door to the point where it opens again. Finto opens the refrigerator again and it worked this time. Kody knows what to say to his wife and Tater after they did the job repairing the flaws of the house. After all, the gang's very proud of the stuff being repaired...in relief. Finto compliments Kristine and Tater's job in fixing the house. Kody then asks Tater if he has any prank ideas, which he got was egging ZZ's house. Then Kristine has other ideas which are doorbell ditching and flaming bags. Widenar thought it was some great ideas she came up with. Jimmy says if giving ZZ a Ronald error was crazy enough, the ideas Kristine came up with are even more. Alice is anxious to do the doorbell ditching to ZZ. At the tonight setting, we take a view at ZZ's house. The gang quietly sneak to the door of their house. Kody peeks at the window, seeing that they're asleep. They have to be very quiet once they come in, the coast is clear. As they come in, they begin to quietly, and firmly set up pranks around the house of ZZ's. Once they complete, they witness ZZ experiencing the pranks out of the blue. Kody will be thrilled when this all happens. Once the gang head back to their house, they will look behind their windows, seeing what they are doing. Meanwhile, inside their house, Zander and Zayden are sleeping in their beds, without noticing The Rodfellows snuck in. Then they start sneaking around the house quietly. No noises. Just slight silence. Once they finish sneaking around, they leave their house with light steps. Then the next morning, Zander and Zayden start to wake up. Zander begins to log on to his computer to check his emails. When he enters his session, the same Bigfoot face from "The Sims 2: Bon Voyage" appears on screen with low growling sounds, which lead Zander to a big shock. Kody notices and jogs to the window. HB luckily saw it coming, so did Finto, which lead him to a sense of humor. He then takes another look at the window, watching what Zander and Zayden are doing in the current. Zander starts to get angry, he realizes it was The Rodfellows who set up the prank on his computer. Finto gets taken by a slight shock hearing from Zander, the gang has to go before ZZ see them. Then they flew back to their house to avoid getting caught. Alice hopes they don't barge in again. Then Widenar is about to be ready for school, at 8:30. HB was satisfied after the job the gang did on ZZ. Then we take a view of the schoolhouse. Widenar walks inside and he sits between Elijah and Juan. Lily starts to take attendance. The kids raise their hands as they say "here"...when Seaborn says "present". The class starts to read "The Horned Toad Prince", at the 116-page mark. Zander and Zayden in the hallways walk towards the fire alarm. Widenar decides to read the story first, and then he begins reading. At the point when Widenar already started reading the book, he was interrupted by the sound of the fire alarm going off. The kids line up, and they begin heading outside in single file. Widenar wonders what happened, which turns out to be a false alarm. Zander laughs when he sees the JF kids run. The kids angrily glare at Zander and Zayden. The firefighter clears his throat. ZZ turns around to see the firefighters and Lando the principal, looking at them. The firefighter is holding a pair of sunglasses, guessing that it was for ZZ, found underneath the fire alarm. Zander and Zayden look at them with an ashamed look. Then in Lando's office, Lando is reading a paper in front of them. He reads the letter with Zander's voice in the background, and says "the end". Lando is proud of the seriousness of the offense, but he was baffled. Then Zander and Zayden involve in community service from Erica. Erica makes them understand that bottles and cans go in the blue bins, and everything else goes in the green bins. The firefighter detects a spot missing, so Erica asked who is going to pick the stuff up, then the truck drove away. Zander was asking how Erica knew about the guys, which she answered, she and Delanie used to be volunteer firefighters. Erica informs ZZ about being close to frames is very scary stuff (and highly dangerous at some point). Then she turned around and saw cans taken out instead of being put in the bins, which lead to ZZ laughing nervously. Widenar is shaking scared after the fire alarm and tries to find out what he can do to solve this. Then suddenly, he gets lost for solutions and is still scared. A few hours later after school, Widenar goes to the house, heading back to where Jimmy is, already finished his schoolwork and he is playing Planet Coaster. Widenar tells Jimmy about the fire alarm taking place, and Jimmy tells Widenar about how the school was canceled for the next two weeks. Joan, Jimmy's 3rd-hour teacher, comes in with Jimmy with his classmates during the start of the 3rd period. She got the results of yesterday's Chapter 6 vocabulary quiz. Then a sudden smoke smell travels through the room, leading Joan sniffing it. The other classmates express that they smell smoke. The students then form a line before the bell begins ringing. Outside came the fire department with the Dalmation firefighters using the hoses to douse the flames. HB was needing help, so the firefighters' crew are looking after her. Jimmy was feeling the need to see her, but he gets held back by the firefighters. HB then comes out coughing from the smoke. Jimmy is surprised to see that she survived and he immediately goes over to her and hugs her.

To the present, Widenar was talking about the fire alarm that somebody pulled at his school. Following this, Finto gets a call from Finniette saying that something terrible has occurred and is being shown on the news. They turn the TV on to JFNN, to see the barn located in West Jungle Forest burned down, which was caused by Ronald the Purple Cat, according to Alice's husband, Mr. M, who was being interviewed by GlideFan. Then Finto planned to team up with another group for preventing ZZ from causing more trouble, which is The Data Crew. Kody wasn't too sure because Grayson and he always get into fights, but staying away from him is the key to having a better life according to HB. Finto came up with a good idea that to get away from ZZ is to take a trip to Kangaville, which made Widenar think Bunty lives in. Then Finto loads up the gang's stuff into the trunk of their red TRF car, he closes it and the whole gang gets in, then they begin to head down to Kangaville. Along the way, they stop by to pick up the three former members. Finto informs them that they are heading down to Kangaville, which would be a great pleasure for them to join the gang to visit. The three former members get in which luckily fits everyone in the car. As they stopped by the intersection, they notice a brown car with the ZZ on it. And it seems as if the two rodents aren't in, making the gang believe that the car is being driven by itself. They look in the window to see Zander and Zayden at a Disco party, throwing a bunch of flowers up in the air and dancing along with the others. Then ZZ chats with the two other girls. Soon, the gang drove around to the edge of the intersection where their car was parked, which ZZ stood near. Finto tends to see how nervous the chipmunks are. Then Zander and Zayden immediately get into their car, started up the ignition, and begin driving off. "Let's get them!" said Kody, which caused Finto to keep catching up with ZZ, chasing them. Zander and Zayden drive very fast that it startled a cop. Finto asks to be lent a paintball gun, and Kody does it to him. Zander looks through the mirror to see The Rodfellows car going after them. Finto shoots several paintballs at them, with one hitting the windshield. Kody then pushes a button causing the car to build more speed. The car then speeds up than its usual speed. Juli and Almir are hammering a coffin with the "Ronald Gets Grounded" logo on it. Zander and Zander's car keeps up driving as TRF's car is still after them. Finto continues to shoot more paintballs until the car hits a pothole in the road, causing Finto to lose his aim and the paintball hits the window of a building. Brandon is bathing, and he instantly sits up hearing the sound of the splatter. He shouted "YOU NINCOMPOOPS!" after he opened the window. ZZ continuously drives, then Choc walks to the left, and he turns his head to a car. Zander honks the car thrice, and Choc gets hit by it. Zander tries to get him off the car by turning on the windshield wipers function, and they maintain getting him off the car. He then falls off and lands in the trash can. Then they suddenly see what encounters to be Jinto's house coming up ahead. The chipmunks end up crashing into his house, however only sustaining minor bruises. The Rodfellows' car turns to the left as they kept going down to Kangaville. Jinto's house inside shook. Jinto looks out the window, seeing ZZ's car outside as they stumble out with little bruises. Then ZZ's meeting with Jinto takes place. Zayden suggests if Jinto could help out with their plan, and Jinto accepted it - even with the help of Olivia. Jinto is calling with her about the plan to destroy The Rodfellows and The Data Crew, and she agreed to it. Then Jinto hangs up on her. Jinto is really excited about the plan he's helping ZZ out with. Next scene, the car drives down the road where a sign saying "Welcome to Kangaville" surrounds them, which means TRF has made it just in time. They are prepared to see some roos around - then they begin discovering around Kangaville, until less than a minute Bunty approaches them which made Widenar all giddy for her. The Rodfellows meet and greet her with Widenar being all excited at her, jumping up and down in excitement, leaping to hugging her. It was good for Bunty to be seeing TRF again. Finto talks to Bunty about these two chipmunks that have been pranking them for the past day, or two, which lead Bunty to a confusion. Finto explains further to Bunty about ZZ, and Widenar tells her that they pulled a fire alarm at his school, which lead her to a huge shock. Finto gives Bunty some suggestions, which she will smash the pranksters, using her round belly. She turns out to be the heroine of TRF, saving their lives, making things go back to normal. The TRF put their hand in. Samantha starts calling Alexander on her phone, a few seconds later he picks it up. She talks to Alexander about Zander and Zayden, them causing damage to TRF's house and more trouble. She was telling him everything that took place in Widenar's school. So then Samantha hangs up on Alexander after the talk. Ruthie asks Samantha what her husband said, and he said he's gonna tell The Data Crew about those two chipmunks. Then all of the members of TRF, including the formers, begin driving down TDC's place. Suddenly, they are alerted by what appears to be no other than Sargon. Samantha's facepalms in anger hearing this. Meanwhile, at ZZ's house, Zander and Zayden with Jinto and Olivia are sitting on the couch, waiting for Sargon to arrive. Sargon knocks on their door, and opens it, walking inside their house. Sargon gets introduced to Zander and Zayden, meeting Jinto and Olivia, shaking hands with ZZ. Then Sargon helps out with Olivia and the other criminals' plan. Zayden, Zander, Jinto, and Olivia head on down towards ZZ's car. Just as Sargon was about to cross, he noticed a delivery truck coming down, saying "Arctic Blast Delivery Service". Inside, we see Swifty from Arctic Dogs driving it, along with Jade sitting next to him. Swifty's yell startled Sargon. He began to run comically. The five got into ZZ's car and begin driving down. Back with The Rodfellows, their car drives up to the place where The Data Crew is located. The Rodfellows along with the former members go inside their place, where we see the main members of The Data Crew. A few seconds later, Grayson and Kody start this up again, this fighting. Alexander then asks if the TRF has proof that the chipmunks put up all those pranks and booby traps, which Finto proves them right. He takes out the SD card containing the footage from his pocket. Paul will then put this into his computer, leading them in to watch the footage all at once. Paul leads the TRF where he is going. Paul and TRF begin watching the footage to see what has happened that night. The footage as the research begins showing Zander and Zayden sneaking into TRF's house at night. They at first are seen in Jimmy and Widenar's playroom, putting up a scary computer prank on Jimmy's computer. Next, they are outside replacing the water pipes from the shower and reconnecting it with the sewage pipes. Third, Zander is seen taking a wad of toilet paper and shoving it into the toilet drain. Fourth, Zayden is shown unscrewing the sink in the bathroom, making it spray when someone turns the handles when someone goes to wash their hands. Fifth, Zander and Zayden are shown in the living room taking out whoopee cushions from their pockets and placing them under the red sofa. Sixth, Zander and Zayden are seen in the kitchen putting Widenar’s Legos on the tiled floor of the room. Seventh, Zander is seen holding the fridge door wide open as Zayden puts some glue on it before Zander closes it. The footage finishes with the two sneaking out of the Jungle Forest House and running off.

Paul could not believe what he has seen in the footage. Alexander agrees with him. HB knows ZZ is going to do the same thing, leading her to ask what we have to do. Then an unexpected voice came from Zander, leading Finto by a startle. Finto and the others head on out to see who was there, and they all gasped in the immediate shack as it was ZZ, along with the criminals Jinto, Sargon, Macario, and Olivia. Their brown car was parked outside. HB folds her arms with an angry expression. Zander came up with a plan along with Zayden to take over the whole place, including the Jungle Forest, with the help from the criminals behind them. Widenar and Macario then face each other in a scene. All of The Rodfellows and The Data Crew watch in shock as Zander, Zayden, Jinto, Olivia, Macario, and Sargon go back into the brown car. Zander pushes a button, and soon robotic legs suddenly appear from the bottom of their car. Soon, the former Data Crew leader Takahashi sounded the alarm as Juli warned everyone. Then, ALL of the custom Rodfellows begin running in panic as Zander and Zayden begin wreaking havoc in their car as they control the legs under it. Ginger Rose sees it from the window. Nycollas then comes out holding a missile launcher and shoots it directly at the car. All of a sudden, ZZ's car appears from the smoke. The robotic leg then kicks Nycollas into the sky as he yells. Nycollas keeps yelling as he is heading for what appears to be the TDC General Hospital. Inside, we see Aoi in a hospital bed and he hears Nycollas' yell. He then flies into the room, and the building starts to fly off. Meanwhile, we see April and May running away from ZZ, along with Nature Josh. Takahashi then appears in a battle tank. He then fires another missile at the brown car. Elsewhere, Cooper's stack of cards falls to the ground, causing him to holler. Back over with TRF and TDC, they watch as ZZ approaches them. Alexander demands ZZ to stop this all at once. Just as they are about to go after them, they notice the former members of The Data Crew Jay, Jackson, and Al up in the helicopter holding a crate of what appears to be "Snickers". Al and Jay drop the crate into the trunk, causing the robotic legs to vanish and their car to go back to normal. ZZ with the criminals get out of the car and approach TRF/TDC. Finto takes out a megaphone calling Pip Pip and the others. Pip Pip arrives with Danny, Almir, Juli, Thunderbind, Brian, Tanner, Glide, and Alejandra, all at their appropriate forms. They all begin confronting Zander and Zayden. Brian, Glide, and Alejandra begin to handcuff the chipmunks, putting them on their wrists. They do the same with Jinto, Macario, and Olivia as Danny suggested. Pip Pip hopes that Zander and Zayden have been taught a "strong and strict" lesson, not to mess with The Rodfellows or The Data Crew. Tanner said to them "You really have been getting into a lot of trouble such as vandalism, bullying, killing or beating people up, and many other criminal charges such as robbery and many others". Danny agreed with Tanner & Pip, along with Glide. Juli, Almir, Brian, and Glide then load Zander, Zayden, Jinto, Macario, and Olivia into the Police car. ZZ fold their arms in a huff, and the criminals begin to suffer in anger. Tanner says to Zander, Zayden, Jinto, Macario, and Olivia, "Well, tell that to the judge, meanies. You're all under arrest and you have the right to remain silent", and he closed a police car door. Then Alexander is about to start his ultimate powers, an ultimate mega punishment. Danny stands way far back. Alexander covers his mouth with a mask with Japanese writing. Then he makes a fist with his left hand.He then adjusts his necklace to the right proportion. He then glares and his wings spread out. Alexander speaks in Japanese in preparation for Sargon's ultimate consequence. A bright flash occurs as his powers begin. He fires two blades at Sargon and they get stuck to both his arms. Danny then squints his eyes and covers them, clenching his teeth. TRF and TDC watch as Sargon explodes way up high in the sky. Then everyone starts to cheer and clap their hands. Alexander has once, and for all, got rid of Sargon. Alice and HB blush. Widenar and Jimmy are grinning. Finto and Kody are chuckling. Everyone else is cheering like a crowd. Kody is so happy that Sargon has finally got rid of it. Then Mr. M (Alice's husband) arrives over with a reward inside his briefcase. Kristine and Tater greet him. Mr. M is amazed that they got rid of those meddling chipmunk pranksters, once and for all. Thus, Bunty is rewarding them, which Finto would do the honors of opening it up. Finto opens the briefcase, and inside it contained $500,000. Finto gasped in amazement seeing the reward. They have struck it rich. Winano is very proud of his son. Mr. M has planned for tonight, there will be a special ceremony and they will be seen walking up to get their awards. Tonight was the day of the ceremony. Widenar is beyond belief excited about it, and Kody can't stop smiling after the defeat of Sargon. Mr. M walks up to the podium. Mr. M then begins his announcement. Everyone cheers and applauses for them. All of the TRF members walk up. When Mr. M says their name, Mr. M puts on them an award lanyard, and everyone cheers for them. The same goes for the rest of the TRF members. The same also applies to TDC. Now this concludes the special ceremony. Mr. M gives the great special to all the TRF/TDC members except Olivia, on the fantastic and outstanding job on the defeat of chipmunks Zander and Zayden Zabel. TRF/TDC then head out. Kody has a proposal that they all should party, which Finto thinks is a good idea. Before that, Finto has suggested a group picture, with the inclusion of Danny in there. Danny approaches TRF/TDC from Finto's call. Finto wants to have Danny be involved in the group picture. Pip Pip will be the cameraman taking the picture. Pip Pip arrives with the tall camera, along with Thunderbind, Almir, Juli, and Brian. Everyone looks at the front of the camera, and Danny gets in the middle. They all smile as Pip Pip tells them to before he presses the snapshot button. The group picture turns out perfect. Now Finto and the others begin to party. We go through a montage of many of the Rodfellows characters, along with the Data Crew, partying along in celebration for the defeat of Zander and Zayden Zabel. In the final moments of the film, we see Finto, Kody, Widenar, Jimmy, Alice, and HB, along with Samantha, Finniette, and Ruthie stand together and let out a big high-five before continuing to party.

In a post-credits scene, in the Jungle Forest Penitentiary, one week later, inside Zander, Zayden, Jinto, Olivia, and Macario dressed in orange prison outfits being taken to their cell. They have given up to exhaustion, so they all lay down and decide to nap.

## Production

### Development

Development on the film began in November 2015 when it was originally going to be distributed by DLE Films and Duncan/Baxter Entertainment at Powerhouse of Entertainment (POE), but the plan faded months later. Dan P. Lyons then restarted production in March 2017 when he wrote the first draft, but lost track of how it would go.

In August 2019, Pip Pip began working on a script for the film in Google Docs. Dan P. Lyons and Alexander Mortensen came on board to work on the script in September. The script was officially completed on October 3, 2019. Animation on the film began on October 13, 2019, and wrapped up on September 26, 2020.

In October 2019, Fredbear Studios came on as distributor and acquired DLE Corporation, along with Pip Pip Enterprises, Inc. Sometime in February 2020, it was confirmed that Fredbear Animation Studios would be producing the film as it's first film after their revival on January 31.

In August 2020, it was announced that Lamont Meeks (the film's producer) was eventually fired from the project due to pedophilic controversy surrounding him, in which he became notorious for previously having made two offensive and lewd logos out of an underaged character known as Sagwa the Chinese-Siamese Cat, who is in fact, six years old. His voice roles weren't recast, but his work was uncredited.

On September 26, 2020, Part 10D was released to the TRFM YouTube channel, marking the end of production.

On September 29, 2020, Calvin Woods-Mitchell, who was the original voice for Kody, was fired from the cast for rude behavior and disrespect, as well as severely hurting other people's feelings, most notably Darren A. Nichols and Amanda Andrea Rose. Two days later, he released an apology via Google Docs.

Most of the animation for the movie will be done in Adobe Animate CC 2019, with visual effects being done in Adobe After Effects. Rigging for the characters were done in Macromedia Flash 8. Animation for the film began on October 13, 2019 and wrapped up on September 26, 2020. In February 2020 it was confirmed that Fredbear Animation Studios would be producing the animation for the film after their January 31 revival.

Legoland1085 tried to help improve the animation of the movie and animatics, such as giving the characters blinking symbols, motion, and to blurring specific characters. Unfortunately, most of it is left in the cutting room floor.

## Release

*The Rodfellows Movie* was originally released on Harmonic Entertainment's YouTube channel on November 25, 2020. However, the film was taken down to fix some post-production errors and then re-uploaded the next day. Test screenings for the film were held on select Discord servers in mid-October 2020.

### Critical reception, controversy, and impact

*The Rodfellows Movie* has received intense negative reviews from critics for its writing, characters, animation, and vocal performances.

Brony T. Pony of BTP Enterprises gave an extremely negative review to the film, calling it "vile, disgusting, evil, demonic, putrid, and just plain terrible".

Nakiebra "Keebie" Palmer (Mr. 64) found this film "very nonsensical" as the majority of the film didn't include sound effects, or even music to denote the tone of each character. He also did not want a sequel for this film.

Shortly after the film's release, drama circulated around the employees of Harmonic Entertainment and the fans who watched the movie. Many people who previously worked with Harmonic, especially its own employees and fans, cited *The Rodfellows Movie* as "the film that is responsible for Harmonic's shutdown."

Numerous people whom have enjoyed the film at its release have since changed their opinion. An example is former Harmonic executive and current owner of January Horizon Entertainment, DactonLeeumRFH, who enjoyed the film at its release, but his opinion turned sour when he started realizing what went on and how bad it was. He is officially making his new opinion public after his fall out with LMNB. He does plan a review for the movie in the future. However, he is uncertain as to when he plans on doing so due to his music career keeping him occupied.

Jacob Harvey (known for the Marbles series and voiced Nature Cat) hated his voice cameo as well as the flim, following the controversy,

ComputerWizKid, known as NicholsMedia, also reviewed the film and criticised it on its flaws and the way it was rushed to be finished. his review is linked here: The Rodfellows Movie | Show Reviews

## External links

* IMDB Page
* Production Server on Discord
* YouTube Channel