Danny and the Brothers: The Cool

***Danny and the Brothers: The Cool*** is a 2009 CGI/live-action film, directed by Raja Gosnell and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, with RatPac Entertainment and Dan Jr. Productions. The film is a follow-up to *Danny and the Brothers* (2007).

The film stars Kirby Heyborne, Jack Black, and Bob Odenkirk, with the voices of Patton Oswalt and Anthony Miller (as The Brothers), Elaina Keyes, Maya Rudolph, and Rachel DeLuca (as The Buttercup Sisters). It was originally scheduled to have premiered on March 19, 2010, but was moved to a Christmas 2009 release instead and later to a December 23, 2009 release in the United States.

## Full Plot

During Danny, Marlon, and Corey's "Save the Music" benefit concert, Jeff tells Danny to take it easy and that the concert "*is not all about you*", but Danny has a difficult time listening. He then jumps on top of a scaffolding and causes an Danny billboard to fall. He warns Jeff to look out, but it sends Jeff flying across the stage, yelling "*DANNY!*", into some electric devices.

After the accident, he is rushed to the hospital. He survives and must stay for a few days to recover. The nurse gives him a sedative that will make him fall asleep in a minute, so he tells his boys that he's leaving his Aunt Tucker in charge of The Brothers until he returns. Also, he tells Danny, Marlon, Corey that he's made arrangements for them to go to school. When Jeff goes to sleep, a woman comes to escort the brothers home, but Danny doesn't want to leave Jeff, so he runs amok. He messes with the hospital bed, causing Jeff to go up and down, Corey to crash into a trash can, and Marlon to fall in the sink, but a doctor injects sedative into Danny's butt and he sings "Daydream Believer" until he is fast asleep. The doctor tells the woman that, for her sake, Danny is asleep for the entire flight. Marlon suggests he inject Danny again just in case.

The Brothers land at the airport, where they meet up with Aunt Tucker, who introduces her grandson Richard, a former high school dropout. He is playing on a Game Boy, paying no attention to them. Richard then accidentally knocks Tucker's wheelchair down some stairs while getting the boys' luggage, and an airport luggage trolley crashes into her. She is also sent to the hospital, so Richard is left in charge.

Back at the house, they have fun eating Goldfish crackers (Danny also sings a slightly different version of "Take On Me") and spinning in a kitchen applChadce, singing "What Is Love (Like A Record)," but they end up in a hooked pan holder. Jeff calls them and Danny and Marlon answer, but when Corey joins them, he causes a pan to fall and Jeff wants to what is going on. Marlon warns Danny not to stress him out, so Da lies that Tucker is making them a five course meal; however, when Jeff finds out he cannot speak to her, he becomes suspicious, so Danny can do nothing but hang up, making Jeff yell "*DANNNY!*" and his stress monitor to beep wildly.

When attending West Eastman High School on their first day, the boys are soon bullied by Mark Marlons and his athletic friends due to their fame and high status, which attracted all of the girls. Though Danny remained a tough target by giving Mark and his best friend Devon a underwear, Marlon received a swirlie while Corey is taunted about his weight until his two brothers attacked them and landed themselves in the principal's office. The boys have fun being looked after by Richard mainly because he is basically a big kid himself. Corey tries to bond with Richard, but he is always either ignoring him or being short towards him.

Meanwhile, Chad now lives in the basement of Cinar Programme. But, a United Parcel Service mail comes to the building and a package falls out. And, three singing female dogs, The Buttercup Sisters, Daisy, Luna, and Cindy come out of it and want to be famous like The Brothers. So they sing "Like A Star" to make Chad adopt them. He does, telling them that The Brothers ran away from him and left him broken-hearted, to make the girls not trust them. He lets The Buttercup Sisters stay in "his" model suite, an apartment room he persuades Daisy to break into and unlock.

Meanwhile, The Brothers enter the school concert to win $30,000 and save the school's music program after realizing the principal was a fan. After Danny displays some athletic prowess in dodgeball, he starts hanging out with the jocks of the school and slowly becoming distant with his brothers. This leads to random blowouts between Dannyand Marlon, but the one who is most affected is Corey who believes he is losing his brothers with them fighting all the time. The Brothers meet The Buttercup Sisters and fall in love. The Buttercup Sisters sing "Hot N Cold" to get Dr. Rubin, the school principal, to enter them in the contest. The Brothers and The Buttercup Sisters compete against each other in a Battle of the Bands. Danny warns Daisy about what Chad did to him and his brothers, but she doesn't believe Danny. Danny, though reluctantly, allows Marlon to be humiliated in front of everyone when one of the jocks tricks him into thinking he's now the school Litter Monitor and he ends up being thrown into the dumpster.

At the concert, The Buttercup Sisters win after Marlon and Corey forfeit the competition because Danny failed to show up (he hung out with the football team instead). Eager to get rich, Chad videotapes the girls performance and posts it on YouTube, along with his phone number. Finally, Danny shows up only to see that everyone's gone. A disappointed Daisy calls Danny selfish and stated that she never wanted to win the way Chad was making her. When Danny returns home, Marlon and Corey pretend they're sleeping and ignore him, forcing him to live with his guilt and failure to live up to his promises. The embarrassment is too much for Corey to take who runs away to the zoo. When Richard and the boys find and save him from an eagle, it brings out the best in all of them and the two brothers forgive Danny and go back to "*One for all, and three for one*". (As Corey put it.)

Soon, The Buttercup Sisters are hired as the opening act at a Taylor Swift concert at the Staples Center. Since the concert is on the same night as the school concert, Chad decides to blow off the battle and get the girls to perform at the concert. When Daisy notices that Chad plans to only make Daisy a star, she rebels by saying she won't do it without her sisters. Unwilling to let anything get in his way, Chad grabs them by their arms and threatens to barbecue them if they didn't do what he said.

At the school, Danny gets a phone call from Daisy, saying that she and her sisters have been locked in a back seat and that she admits that he was right all along about Chad's sinister nature. Danny races to save them on his red motorbike while Marlon tells Luna how to open the cage on the phone. United Parcel Service escape from the back seat, climb out of the limo, and they jump onto Danny's motorcycle. (The Brothers cousin, Digger, from Fox's NASCAR broadcasts, makes a cameo during the chase.) Chad pursues them with an R.C. helicopter, but they leap off the motorcycle and grab onto the helicopter. Luna than snatches the remote and steers the helicopter away from Chad, while the motorbike drives straight into Chad's groin. Marlon and Corey are about to forfeit the concert again, but Richard stalls everyone by singing a short song to his love interest, Julie. Then, Danny and the girls fly into the hall on the helicopter and they all sing "We Are Family," winning the contest and the $30,000. Jeff then comes back and watches them perform, along with Richard.

Meanwhile, Chad dresses up as Daisy, performing in the center alone while people boo him and he is dragged off-stage.

The Brothers and The Buttercup Sisters sing "Call Me Maybe" to end the night and go back home with Jeff, while Richard himself goes back home. The Buttercup Sisters are re-adopted at the boy's request and sleep at the Brothers' house where Jeff has another injury. Jeff tries to get Danny to go to bed and Danny refuses. So, Jeff turns the lights off and Danny turns them back on. Jeff turns them off again. Danny turns them back on while Jeff says "*Danny, that's it! Don't make me come and get you!*" Danny says "*ALRIGHT*" while turning the lights off causing Jeff to trip on the skateboard and crash. Danny turns the lights back on and says "*Ohh brother, I suddenly got really, really tired. Heh, heh, good night Jeff!*" He turns the lights off and Jeff yells "*DANNNY!*"

End credits
As the credits roll, the screen shows photos of The Brothers and The Buttercup Sisters at the beach, at Christmas, in the kitchen, and in the garden. An epilogue shows Mark and his gang of Jocks being forced to scrape gum off of the gym's bleachers as punishment for the way they treated the brothers (and for making Danny miss the battle) and Chad being thrown into a dumpster backstage by the guards.

## Box Office

The film closed in the United States on April 22, 2010. It was a huge box office success, with a final domestic earning of $219,553,378 and a worldwide earning of $223,306,420 for a grand total of $442,859,798, making it the highest grossing Danny and the Brothers film and the highest grossing talking animal film of all time. It is also the 2nd highest grossing CGI star film to only *Avatar* and the 3rd highest TV cartoon live-action film.

## Cast

### Live-action

* Kirby Heyborne as Richard Murphy
* Jack Black as Chad Crosswire
* Bob Odenkirk as Jeff Murphy
* Jane Leeves as Miss Robin
* Bridgit Mendler as Jenny DeLuca
* Alex Borstein as Aunt Tucker Murphy
* Tom Welling as Mark Marlons
* Zac Efron as Devon
* Hayley Kiyoko as Daphne Kingman
* Ryan Donowho as William Woods

### Voices

* Patton Oswalt as Danny Murphy and Marlon Murphy
* Anthony Miller as Corey Murphy
* Elaina Keyes as Daisy Griffin
* Maya Rudolph as Luna Griffin
* Rachel DeLuca as Cindy Griffin