The Lord Of The Rings

## **OVERVIEW**

The Lord Of The Rings is the 14th film of Warner Bros. Films. The Film tells the story about Butch, who is tasked to destroy the One Ring to the Mount Doom, with the help of his friends before Ingrith kill them all.

## **THE PLOT**

The Film Begins with Long ago, in the early years of the Second Age, the great Elven-smiths forged Rings of Power — Nine for mortal Men, Seven for the Dwarf-lords, and three for the tall Elf-kings. Then, the Dark Lord Sauron learned the craft of ring making and made the Master Ring — The One Ring to rule them all. With the One Ring, Middle-earth was his and he could not be overcome. As the last alliance of Men and Elves fell beneath his power, the ring fell into the hands of Prince Isildur of the mighty kings from across the sea. He did not destroy the ring, and because of this, the spirit of Sauron lived on and began to take shape and grow again.

Years later, Butch and the gang decide to leave the circus to celebrate Butch's birthday by breaking into Fort Knox in order to treat him to a discontinued snack called "Cheezy Dibbles" in the vending machine of their break room. Despite this, Butch begins to feel out of place with the team, as he is constantly described as being the "secretary/mascot".

Suddenly, they are abducted by the machine and sent to Paris, France by Queen Ingrith, a renowned geneticist who reveals she is actually an wolf named Dakota, who has grown resentful of penguins after their cuteness had her shunned from every zoo and aquarium across the globe, all of which started with the foursome getting her moved out of the Central Park Zoo. Scrappy-Doo steal Ingrith's collection of snowglobes along with a canister of a green substance called the Medusa Serum before the eight escape and are chased through the canals and streets of Paris by Ingrith's henchmen.

When cornered, they are rescued by a group of animals from an Arctic elite undercover inter-species task force agency called "The North Wind": Cera's Dad, Iago, Surly and Dory. Their mission is to help animals who can't help themselves and have been fighting Queen Ingrith to protect the animal population.

At their hideout, their communication systems are hacked by Queen Ingrith, who reveals that she has an enormous supply of the Medusa Serum and that she intends to capture the animals out of every zoo she was kicked out of. Viewing the animals as a hindrance to their mission, Cera's Dad tranquilizes the group and sends them to their most remote base (which happens to be on Madagascar) but the animals awaken mid-flight and crash land in the Sahara Desert before making their way to Shanghai, China, where, upon discovering Ingrith's next target in Shanghai using Ingrith's snowglobe collection, the gang ship themselves to the same current location and make their way to the zoo.

Meechee disguises Butch as a mermaid-tailed animal to distract Ingrith from his real target, but Butch is captured along with the Shanghai animals after the North Wind arrives to put a stop to Ingrith's plan. The gang steal the North Wind's $19 million high-tech plane to give chase, but inadvertently self-destruct the machine. They manage to track Butch to an island base, using a tracking device planted on him when Cera's Dad darted them before planting them in a flight to Madagascar.

Meanwhile on the island, Ingrith demonstrates her plan to use the medusa serum to genetically mutate the animals of the world into hideous monsters as an effort to make humans disgusted by them as revenge. Sid and Cera's Dad argue on the best means to rescue the captives and stop Ingrith, finally settling on Cera's Dad's plan of a frontal assault with Sid agreeing to act as a diversion out of guilt for letting Butch get captured.

The North Wind manages to corner Ingrith in her lair only to be captured by Ingrith's henchmen along with the animals. Ingrith demonstrates her mutation ray at full power on Butch, apparently disintegrating him with the beam, but unbeknownst to them he escapes at the last minute by using a paper clip he stole earlier and still had the one ring. Butch rescues the North Wind members, who want to regroup due to lack of equipment, but Butch, not wanting to leave anyone behind goes to stop Ingrith.

As Ingrith's submarine docks at Mount Doom with the promise of returning the animals he found to the zoo, he turns the ray on the rest of the animals, mutating them all into hideous monsters. The city erupts into chaos as the brainwashed, mutated animals run amok on the terrified human crowd. Getting his friends back to their senses, Butch decides to connect himself into the ray to return them to normal. They manage to turn all the animals back to normal in one huge blast. When Sid, Mike, Meechee, Mushu, Bia, Tweety and Scrappy-Doo restore to normal, Butch sacrificed himself to save everyone from Ingrith's arrow.

Emerging victorious, Ingrith tells the seven that they will pay for being a traitor to her kind and triumphantly informs everyone that Butch is dead and they will no longer have to live in fear. In the Spirit Realm, Butch meet God for the first time. Butch points out to God that while he knew he almost destroy the One Ring and he appreciates having them, he did not think it fair for anyone to put him and his friends in the position they were in. God agrees with this and decides to send Butch back to the Mortal Realm with A nagzul.

Suddenly, Butch returned to the Motral Realm with a nagzul, to everyone's joy and Ingrith's horror. While a nagzul beating up Ingrith, Butch throws the One Ring into a magma, causing Sauron falling. Defeated and humiliated, Ingrith continues to proclaim they cannot live with the magical creatures, but is cut off when Cera's Dad assassinate her. Everyone show their gratitude and newfound respect for Butch. Finally seeing one another as equals, Cera's Dad promises to grant the gang anything they want. In addition to Bia getting a kiss from Iago, the eight are given their own hoverboards and they then fly off above the clouds back to the Rome.

Later, the gang returns home to Rome, to everyone. Butch says to himself, "Well, I'm back" as the film ends.

## **CHARACTERS**

* Butch Cat
* Tweety Bird
* Scrappy-Doo
* Mushu
* Bia
* Mike Wazouski
* Sid
* Meechee
* Cera's Dad
* Iago
* Surly Squirrel
* Dory
* Queen Ingrith
* Queen Ingrith's Henchmen
* God
* Sauron *(cameo in prologue)*

## **VOICE TALENT**

* Joey D'Auria as Butch
* Eric Bauza as Tweety
* Scott Innes as Scrappy-Doo
* Eddie Murphy as Mushu
* Selena Gomez as Bia
* Billy Crystal as Mike Wazouski
* John Leguizamo as Sid
* Zendaya as Meechee
* Michelle Pfeiffer as Queen Ingrith
* Billy Connolly as Cera's Dad
* Gilbert Gottfried as Iago
* Will Arnett as Surly Squirrel
* Ellen DeGeneres as Dory
* James Earl Jones as God
* Cate Blanchett as Narrator

## **OPENING CREDITS**

Based On Characters Created by:

J. R. R. Tolkien

Executive Producer:

Sam Register

Produced by:

Barrie M. Osborne

Associate Producer:

George Scribner

Music by:

Lorne Balfe

Score Composed by:

Geoff Zanelli

Casting And Voice Direction by:

Peter Jackson

Edited by:

John Gilbert

Story by:

Fran Walsh

Written by:

John Edwards

Directed by:

Darrell Van Citters

## **SONGS**

01. **May It Be**

Performed by: Joey D'Auria, Eric Bauza, Scott Innes, Eddie Murphy, Selena Gomez, Billy Crystal, John Leguizamo, Zendaya.

02. **Wonderful Life**

Performed by: Joey D'Auria, Eric Bauza, Scott Innes, Eddie Murphy, Selena Gomez, Billy Crystal, John Leguizamo, Zendaya.

03. **Batty Bat**

Performed by: Billy Connolly, Gilbert Gottfried, Will Arnett, Ellen DeGeneres.

04. **As It Seems**

Performed by: Joey D'Auria, Eric Bauza, Scott Innes, Eddie Murphy, Selena Gomez, Billy Crystal, John Leguizamo, Zendaya.

05. **Best Of Friends**

Performed by: Joey D'Auria, Eric Bauza, Scott Innes, Eddie Murphy, Selena Gomez, Billy Crystal, John Leguizamo, Zendaya.

07. **Celebrate**

Performed by: Joey D'Auria, Eric Bauza, Scott Innes, Eddie Murphy, Selena Gomez, Billy Crystal, John Leguizamo, Zendaya, Billy Connolly, Gilbert Gottfried, Will Arnett, Ellen DeGeneres.

## **TRIVIA**

* This film was based on *Penguins of Madagascar.*
* This was the fourteenth film of Warner Bros. Pictures.
* Butch Cat is the fourteenth main protagonist of Warner Bros. Pictures.
* Queen Ingrith is the fourteenth main antagonist of Warner Bros. Pictures.