Donald And Douglas

## **OVERVIEW**

Donald And Douglas is the 3rd film of Warner Bros. Films. The Film tells the story how Donald and Douglas teamed up each other and their friends to find a new home after their home is destroyed.

## **THE PLOT**

The Film Begins with Donald and his friends lived survives a natural disaster, due to the overprotective nature of their stubborn patriarch Mr. Krabs. The only one who questions the gang's sheltered life is Donald, who frequently disobeys Mr. Krabs's orders out of curiosity, which he finds dangerous. The family spend time sheltered in their house. Airachnid is watching over Donald.

One night, while his friends are asleep, Donald sneaks out when she sees what he discovers to be a torch of fire, and he encounters an inventive modern hedgehog named Silver. He warns him of an impending apocalypse and offers to take him with him, but concerned for his friends, Donald stays, getting a shell horn from him to blow in case he needs his help. Reuniting with his frantic friends, Donald tries to tell them what Silver told him, but fearing things that are "different" and "new", they destroy it.

A massive earthquake then destroys their home, and to avoid carnivores and omnivores, they descend into a tropical forest that lay hidden behind their house the whole time. Encountering a "Macawnivore", a brightly colored feline who is afraid of the dark that Garfield dubs "Chunky", the gang flees him until he is scared off by swarms of piranhakeets that devour a ground whale. Using another horn, Donald calls to Silver who rescues them from the birds with his fire. After a great deal of confusion regarding their first contact with fire, Mr. Krabs imprisons Silver in Douglas' cab until he can guide them somewhere safe. Silver suggests the gang go to a mountain where there are caves because the Mr. Krabs desires a cave. Mr. Krabs refuses at first, but he decides to go with the promise of a cave. Douglas weas worried that they would get tired and bicker, but Mr. Krabs doesn't listen.

When Georgette finds a bird, he decides to hunt its egg for dinner. Garfield also wants to hunt the egg, but he gets replaced by Eema, who is too tired to hunt it. Georgette and Eema fail to capture the bird's egg, so they get a scorpion instead. During a fight between Garfield and Eema, Donald notices Silver moving away and stops him. Silver wants Donald to stop, so he asks him hunt with him. Donald goes with Douglas to hunt, while the others fight among themselves.

Donald and Douglas make a trap in order to capture the bird but fail when the two get tangled up, and the bird doesn't step in the trap. The bird captures the puppet with Silver in it and throws him up in the sky until he lands on the log. Mr. Krabs asks Silver where Donald is, and he finds him being chased by the bird. Mr. Krabs gets angry but doesn't notice that he was about to step on the trap, so Donald pushes him out to save him. The bird steps on the trap and is thrown up in the sky until it crash-lands on the ground.

The gang cook the bird, and Silver is tied up with a root chain on his left leg. After dinner, Mr. Krabs tells them a story, which is based on a true story, about a train who is similar to Donald and embarrasses Donald. Silver says that his stories never end up like Mr. Krabs's stories, so the gang decide to listen to Silver's story much to their interest. Silver tells them about a train who flew into a place with more suns in the sky called “Bahamas”. Silver also tells them stories of "Bahamas", a heaven of safety where he is headed and in which curiosity is not deadly as Mr. Krabs has claimed.

Outrunning the destruction, Silver is trusted enough to be let out of the log, and he gives the gang rudimentary shoes to walk over the harsh landscape as he leads them to a mountain in which he says will be safe. After the gang is split up in a labyrinth of tunnels, all but Mr. Krabs manage to escape by coming up with ideas of overcoming obstacles in their paths. At his treetop home, Georgette sees the impression Silver is leaving on his gang, and he becomes jealous, especially when he realizes that Donald has made friends with Silver. Attempting to invent things like Silver, Georgette only further embarrasses herself and drives her friends further away from him.

Reaching the mountain, Mr. Krabs tries to force his friends to hide out in a cave, but they resist, telling him that they can't live in caves anymore, that they don't want to survive but to live. This enrages Mr. Krabs, who places blame on Silver and tries to beat the answer out of him, but they both end up in a tar flow where Mr. Krabs learns that Silver's family had perished in one. Touched by that tragic story, Mr. Krabs has a change of heart and realizes that Silver's method of survival is better for his friends, and so decides to work with him, and they lure Chunky into a trap to free themselves. The gang reunites, then flees a massive cataclysm as the land begins to violently rip apart.

The gang is cut off from their destination by a continental split, but Donald, realizing the errors of Mr. Krabs' ways, decides to throw his friends to safety. He shares an invention with Douglas, briefly before sending him across as well. Cut off from his friends, Donald finds a cave for safety, where he found out that Airachnid was the one who destroyed Scotland and decided to expose her to his friends. At first, he encounters Chunky, who is truly a frightened and sweet feline, and he comes up with an idea to getting them across the chasm. Using a ribcage and the Piranhakeets to fashion a simple airship, Donald manages to send themselves, and several animals the friends had encountered during their journey, across the chasm, reuniting with his brother and friends once again. Before they go to Bahamas, The gang teamed up and battle Airachnid and Airachnid is defeated.

Victorious, Donald is praised by God that he was the one that who saved the day. Mr. Krabs apologizes to them all and promises to never be so overbearing again. Later, the gang have settled on a vast beach, where every day they can follow the light to Bahamas as the film ends.

## **CHARACTERS**

* Donald and Douglas
* Georgette
* Eema
* Garfield
* Mr. Krabs
* Silver
* Airachnid
* Bear Owl
* Macawnivore
* Ramu
* Punch Monkey
* Ground Whale
* Llioyote
* Turkey Fish
* God

## **VOICE TALENT**

* Rob Rackstraw as Donald
* Joe Mills as Douglas
* Bette Midler as Georgette
* Whoopi Goldberg as Eema
* Frank Welker as Garfield
* Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs
* Quinton Flynn as Silver
* Gina Torres as Airachnid
* James Earl Jones as God

## **OPENING CREDITS**

Based On Characters Created by:

Britt Allcroft

Executive Producer:

Sam Register

Produced by:

Chris Sanders

Music by:

Alan Silvestri

Score Composed by:

J. Eric Schmidt

Casting And Voice Direction by:

Kirk DeMicco

Edited by:

Darren T. Holmes

Written by:

John Edwards

Directed by:

Darrell Van Citters

## **SONGS**

01. **We Make A Team Together!**

Performed by: Rob Rackstraw, Joseph Mills, Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Welker, Clancy Brown.

02. **Standing Tough**

Performed by: Rob Rackstraw, Joseph Mills, Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Welker, Clancy Brown.

03. **Son Of Man**

Performed by: Quinton Flynn.

04. **Can Somebody Tell Me Who I Am?**

Performed by: Quinton Flynn.

05. **The Most Important Thing Is Being Friends!**

Performed by: Rob Rackstraw, Joseph Mills, Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Welker, Clancy Brown, Quinton Flynn.

## **TRIVIA**

* This film was based on *The Croods.*
* This was the third of Warner Bros. Pictures.
* Donald is the third main protagonist of Warner Bros. Pictures.
* Airachnid is the third main antagonist of Warner Bros. Pictures.