Peppa Pig: Holiday Resort

**Peppa Pig: Holiday Resort** is a 2017 American-British animated comedy film based on the Peppa Pig series by Neville Astley and Mark Baker. The film is a sequel to Peppa Pig: The Movie and Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots and the third of a planned Peppa movie trilogy, with Bird and May returning to reprise their roles from the first two films as Peppa and George respectively. The film was released on June 9, 2017, by Columbia Pictures, and received mixed reviews from critics.

## Plot

2 months after the events of Peppa Pig:The Golden Boots and The Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Movie, The kids go on an imaginary fairy adventure with Peppa impersonating Merlin the Wizard, who is his role model and spoofs his nature show; the babies and their families are about to go on vacation on the Lipschitz cruise ship.

When the families arrive at the dock, they miss the Lipschitz cruise. Peppa's father, Daddy Pih, has rented a ramshackle boat called the S.S. Nancy which he reveals to be their real mode of transportation, and their real vacation. The families are angered that Daddy Pig did not consult them on his plans, and soon the boat is flipped over by a rogue wave during a tropical storm. Everyone is forced to abandon the ship and board a life raft as the ship sinks. Everyone blames Daddy Pig for causing all of this and lose hope of being saved. Things start looking up when Chloe sings about having hope on her karaoke machine.

The next morning, they arrive on a small, seemingly uninhabited island. The adults make Mr. Zebra the leader after Mummy Pig forbids Daddy Pig from volunteering, much to his chagrin. On the opposite side of the island is the famous globe-trotting family the Fairies (out to film a clouded leopard). Peppa, George, and the rest of the kids,, set off to find them, for they suspect they are somewhere on the island.

After an Jumpscared meeting, Simultaneously, Ben and Holly find the lost kids. They head in their direction but ends up tumbling down a hill and suffers amnesia after a coconut falls on his head, which reverts him to his three year-old self. They encounter an tiger named Siri, but Ben fends her off. Then Pedro finds him and they get back their clothes. After escaping from Siri on a high-speed pram, the gang lands in a crater. Chloe runs into Holly, and takes off with Holly all-purpose mobile communication vehicle (commvee). In order to get back faster, Chloe steals the fairies's bathysphere, accidentally sinking the commvee in her attempt to pilot it. She finds and retrieves the babies and Ben.

Meanwhile, Daddy Pug, who has managed to create a working coconut radio, and the other parents run into a frog, who is wearing Pedro's shoes. After chasing him down the beach, they run into Ben and Holly and their children.

With the other parents' help, Ben and Holly then raises the commvee and uses the automatic-retrieval system to rescue The Wizard and the fairies just as the air runs out. They are reunited with their families and forgive Daddy Pig, and everyone finally gets on board the Lipschitz cruise. The Fairies join them too, deciding that they should take a vacation, much to Holly's delight, and Turulus vows never to lose his babies again.

## Cast

Harley Bird as Peppa

Oliver and Alice May as George

Rosie van Hulzen as Suzy

Jen Pringle as Danny

John Sparkes as Daddy Cat

Ava Lovell as Zoe

Joshua Morris as Pedro

Rohal Soomro as Holly

Jamie Oram as Ben

## Production

*Holiday Resort* was originally made by Hit Entertaiment's television unit (directed by Mark Baker and Neville Astley and written by Steve Oram, Philip LaZebnik and Joel H. Cohen), but after screenings, Columbia decided it should be shelved and remade into a feature film.

Among the biggest promotion the film received was John Mulaney voicing Turulus, and the use of "Odorama" cards to enhance the viewing experience, Burger King and Blockbuster released a scratch and sniff piece of cardboard that was to be scratched and sniffed during the run of the movie.

## Release

During its initial theatrical run, Holiday Resort was presented in "Smell-O-Vision". During certain scenes in the movie, an icon would pop up on screen with an item inside of it (example: a smelly shoe). When this happened, audience members would smell a scratch-and-sniff card (which were handed out at the box office) with the corresponding image.

## Reception

In the United States and United Kingdom, the film, with Peter Rabbit, Fifty Shades Freed and The 15:17 to Paris, was expected to project a gross around $16 million from 3,725 theaters in its opening weekend, with some estimates as high as $25 million.However, the film only grossed $970,000 on the opening weekend. It grossed $99,265 in the UK and $1,064 in the US. The second weekend grew the gross to about $23 million. The end result was $47 million, the highest box office bomb film.

## See Also

Peppa pig: The Movie (2004 Film)

Peppa Pig:The Golden Boots (2015 film)

BananaBrothersMonkeyCircus

High Score (1998 film)