Bunyan & Babe (2007 film)

Theatrical release poster

**Bunyan & Babe** is a 2007 animated-action adventure-musical family film. Genndy Tartakovksy directed the film as an animation debut, Spike Lee, Julia Pistor, and Bonnie Arnold produced the film, J. David Stem and David N. Weiss wrote the film with Tartakovsky from his story with Craig Mccracken, Billy Frollick, and Chris Sanders helping him, with Jeff Foxworthy, Timothy Spall, Dan Castellaneta, Rene Russo, Tracy Morgan, Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Michael Pena, James Corden and Angela Bassett as the characters who connect from one country to another. It was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to *Ratatouille*. It was the second animated Nickelodeon film to ever be nominated in that category since *Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius*, until *Rango* (2011) was nominated and won. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures along with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Spike Lee's production company *40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks*. In this film, Babe was designed as a robotic black ox but with a fat human, a robotic human, a sponge, a star, and a dinosaur by his side he will go on an awesome adventure to retrieve the Roman cybertronian crown from the frog's stronghold in Scotland and stop Schadenfreude, Thinker, and Shatter with a bunch of new villains by their side.

## Plot

In year 83 of AD, Rome and Scotland war in Mons Graupius over a meteorite containing the metal calamity box. One warrior ingests a "frog-infused thinker" affected by the metal and gains gods of power, becoming the first Roman to hold the cybertronian crown. He unites Italy, China, and Denmark except Scotland to form the nation of the 83 gods. Over centuries, the gods use the calamity box to bring culture to life to keep it away from the frog's stronghold and isolate themselves from the world by posing as a Multiversal Country. In 2013 from another universe, Applejack and Rainbow Dash in the Arctic uncover two frozen myths.
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## Cast

* Jeff Foxworthy as Babe, an Italian-Roman robotic black ox.
* Timothy Spall as Thinker, a Scotish scientist and a villain who created the Spiny Mandrilla.
* Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson.
* Rene Russo as Edalyn Clawthorne, an owl lady in the universe, another version of Edalyn is a Smurf-Moji and is voiced by Angela Bassett in *Plush Toy Cartoon Trilogy*.
* Tracy Morgan as Dr. Schadenfreude, Earlier he is voiced by Eddie Izzard in *Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole*.
Luiz, a Roman brown dog.
* Tom Kenny as Spongebob Squarepants and Bullwinkle.
* Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star.
* Michael Pena as Yoshi, a Roman green dinosaur/scout.
* James Corden as Luz Noceda, a Roman robotic human in the universe, another version of Luz is a Smurf-Moji in *Plush Toy Cartoon Trilogy*.
* Angela Bassett as Shatter, a Danish-Scotish decepticon in the universe, another version of Shatter is a dry-form of Edalyn in *Plush Toy Cartoon Trilogy*.
* Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs and Surtur.
* David Kaye as Blu and Optimus Prime in this universe. Another version of Optimus is the protector of Bumblebee and is voiced by Peter Cullen in *Unknown* and *Hotel Squarepants: Simba's Baby*.