Gabriel and the Wacky Pack

**Gabriel and the Wacky Pack** is a 2011 computer animated film and the first film in the ***Gabriel and the Wacky Pack*** franchise, and the first feature film produced by Blur Studio and Geo LTD. Pictures and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is based on *The Wacky Pack* comic book series. The film follows Gabriel Garcia, the boy who is the adapted owner of Roge, Leno and Cole and had a midnight "party" in his room; until then Blues, a small imaginary girl who was the newcomer at Gabriel's neighborhood, betrayed Roge for some reason. Gabriel, Roge, Leno, Cole and the lars need to defeat Blues. The film features the voices of Zachary Gordon, Geo G., E.G. Daily, Nicky Jones, Jake T. Austin, Jennifer Hale, Sarah Jessica Parker, Laurence Fishburne, Ariel Winter, and Rob Paulsen.

The film was released on November 27, 2011 and was met with positive reviews. A sequel to this film was released on November 21, 2014.

## Plot

Gabriel Garcia is a smart 10-year-old boy who is the adapted owner of Roge, Leno, Cole, Loy and the Lars. He also had a midnight "party" in his room with them, which have so much fun. One day, Roge, Leno, Cole and three Lars (Ted, John and Cody) were off at top of a cell tower, which was located at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, to take a photo for a "cell tower surfing" portrait. Suddenly, the surfboard that Roge, Leno, Cole, John and Cody were on starts to move slowy to the ledge and begins to surf without the water like in air. Their brother and scientist Loy gives Gabriel and the lars the safest moment to spring up being bipedal. After the Wacky Pack interrupt a meeting with his wild antics, Loy has a talk with his brother Roge and his partner Gabriel, in which he tells them that he's a scientist and inventor, and never be happy if Gabriel and the Wacky Pack just goof off. Gabriel and Roge ignore their advices and have fun with Leno and Cole. That same day, Roge meets a new yet imaginary girl named Blues.

That night, Gabriel and his gang throw a massive party in his room; all the imaginary friends including the lars are there except Loy, who is making a invention in his lab. Roge is assigned his shift along with him, but he talks himself out of it, saying that he's needed for a certain role in the midnight party room. Loy talks with Roge and says that he was called by people a "coolest scientist in the world." Roge is given the privilege to party out, and the thankful brother runs to Gabriel's room.

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## Cast

* Zachary Gordon as Gabriel Garcia, an artistic, creative, sweet, friendly, smart 10-year-old boy who is the owner of a small wacky pack, Roge, Leno and Cole.
* Geo G. as Roge, the first and the leader of the wacky pack who wears a red cap.
* E.G. Daily as Leno, the second of the wacky pack who is very intelligent and known for his rebellious attitude and was named after the famous actor and talk host Jay Leno.
* Nicky Jones as Cole, the third of the wacky pack who is afraid of everything.
* Jennifer Hale as Blues, a small imaginary girl who betrayed Roge for some reason.
* Jake T. Austin as Loy, Roge, Leno and Cole's bigger brother.
* Sarah Jessica Parker as Christina Garcia, Gabriel's mother who takes care of her son.
* Laurence Fishburne as Mel Garcia, Gabriel's father and Christina's former husband.
* Ariel Winter as Desirae Garcia, Gabriel's older sister.
* Rob Paulsen as Michael Garcia, Gabriel's older brother who moved away to Japan.
* Frank Welker as Roxy, a Cocker Spaniel and Gabriel's pet dog. Welker also voiced Kratos, Gabriel's former pet dog and was moved to Michael.
* Alex Borstein as Pat, Gabriel's neighbor.
* Grey DeLisle as Gaby, Gabriel's girlfriend when he was little.
* Tara Strong as Bella, Gaby's liitle sister.
* Hynden Walch as Nancy, a student who was waylaying Gabriel.
* Tim Miller as Jim, Tom, Dan, Jerry, Jack, Sam, Jeff and Max, eight of the lars.
* David Stinnett as Gary, Ben, Peter and Ted, four of the lars.
* Cat Chapman as John and Cody, two of the lars.

## Production

The development of the movie started way back in 1991. New Line Cinema acquired the film rights of the comic book series *The Wacky Pack* in 1992, then later the rights were eventually given to Sony Pictures. Then in 1996, Sony gave the distribution rights to Warner Bros. until Geo LTD. now had the film rights in 1998. Universal is set to distribute the movie with Geo LTD. since September 2007 because of the distribution deal.

The film was going under the working title *The Wacky Pack Movie*. Steve Samono has said that it is “a funny title based on the comic series of the same name. Well, of the title *The Wacky Pack* and not of the title Movie, of course. Just didn't want to confuse you.” Then the film was later retitled *Gabriel and the Wacky Pack* in March 2008. The production of the film started in June 2010 and ended in October 2011.

## Sequels and Spin-offs

* Gabriel and the Wacky Pack 2 was released on November 21, 2014.
* Wacky Pack and Lars will be released on November 11, 2016.
* Gabriel and the Wacky Pack 3 will be released on October 20, 2017.
* The Vocaloids will be released on August 10, 2018.
* Gabriel and the Wacky Pack 4 was announced for a 2019 release, but has since been removed from its schedule due to the studio's restructuring.

## Other media

*Main article: Gabriel and the Wacky Pack: The Video Game*
A video game based on the film was released on multiple platforms.

## Trivia

* The home video release has a bonus Geo Team episode "Read 'Em and Keep" if you unlock How Gabriel Met Gabriella.
* Max Records, known for playing Max from the live-action film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are, was originally going to be voice Gabriel in the film, but he was cut from the final version of the film because he had other commitments outside production; he was later replaced by Zachary Gordon. If this could been happened, this would have been the animated film debut of Max Records.