Carbon Zero/Trivia

## Cultural references

* *Carbon Zero* was the only Capital film to be released in the 20th century.

## Cameos

* Scrat from The Lego Movie made cameo apperance as Nick's squirrel friend.
* In the scene where Peri meets Nicky for the first time, the newspaper Nicky is reading has a *BJ and Wally* comic strip on it. Although *BJ and Wally* was released two years after *Computeropolis*, development of *BJ and Wally* was well underway.
* One of the computer games Peri played during his childhood has a icon of Louis DeMinsky from Universal Animation's next film *M.I.S.S.I.O.N.*.

## Trivia

* This is Paramount Pictures' first fully cartoon animated film.
* This is John Debney and Heitor Pereira's second collaboration following 2001's *Spy Kids*.
* William Shatner and David Hyde Pierce previously co-starred in the 2001 Warner Bros. film *Osmosis Jones*.
* Kelsey Grammer and Jodi Benson previously co-starred in the 1999 Pixar film *Toy Story 2*.
* Kelsey Grammer and Jennifer Tilly previously co-starred in the 1999 Fox Animation Studios direct-to-video animated film *Bartok the Magnificent*.
* Some of the ideas in the sequels were intended to be in this film but were scrapped and used later.
* While critics did give the film positive reviews, the audience loved the film even more.
* The film was a huge blockbuster success, making $687 million on its $80 million budget.
* Was the fourth highest-grossing film of 2000, as well as the second highest-grossing animated film of that year behind *Project Zero*.
* Is the highest-rated *Computeropolis* film with a 89% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 91 on Meatcritic.
* Often considered to be the best *Computeropolis* film.
* The film's massive success helped launch Universal Animation into a successful (computer) animation studio.
* Many love this film for its concept and its well-written and likable characters.
* The film's success helped many fans grant a fanbase.
	+ The filmmakers originally planned to have some Paramount characters and non-Universal (outside) characters from every other popular cartoon and video game series (including *The Simpsons*, *Mickey Mouse*, *Looney Tunes*, *Super Mario*, *Sesame Street*, *The Muppets*, *Sonic the Hedgehog*, *Peanuts*, *CatDog*, *The Wild Thornberrys*, *Rocko's Modern Life*, *SpongeBob SquarePants*, *Rugrats*, *The Fairly OddParents*, etc.) to appear in this film (a la *Who Framed Roger Rabbit*) since they're usually on the internet sometimes, but the idea was scrapped due to copyright issues and because the filmmakers thought it was not a very good idea to throw overused copyrighted characters in an original animated film.
		- Ironically, that idea was later used 14 years later in the fourth film, *Computeropolis: The Deep Web*.
* The film took 5 years in development.
* The film was originally going to be much longer, but it was shortened due to script issues.
* Nickelodeon promoted the film with commercials for the *SpongeBob SquarePants* in 2004, and the *Computeropolis* video game was the prize. The sweepstakes was at Nick.com, but later expired on July 5, 2004.
* Jesse McCartney's first animated film.
* The film was originally going to be released in November of 2003, but was pushed back to July 2004.
	+ This might be possibly because *The Cat in the Hat*, another family film from Universal Studios, took its place.
	+ Another possible reason is every Universal Animation film was to be released on a summer schedule (until 2008 with the release of *Swapped*).
* Shia LaBeouf was considered for the role of Peri Dazz.
* Jesse McCartney finished recording his role as Peri for the film on December 9, 2003 when he was a teenager, being just 16 years old. This means that Peri's voice is a little bit high-pitched in this film.
* The idea for *Computeropolis* was originally intended to be used for either a video game or an animated television series, but it ended up being a CGI animated film instead.
* Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, Jodi Benson and Jennifer Tilly each did voice work at Pixar.
* This is Jennifer Tilly's second 2004 animated film, following *Home on the Range*.