Film / Detective Santi

Detective Santi is a 2020 film directed by Rob Hoskins and starring Noah Crawford, Bill Murray and John Lovitz. It was first announced in September 2019, it was finally released on October 2020.

The film takes place long after the video game series´s events, a young boy named Santi must reunite all of his great-grandfather´s childhood toys to discover a powerful secret to seal the curse of Menacor, but unfortunately, no one knows where these toys are now. Santi must find them in order to prevent terrible things happen to his family, and also reunite and make some friends in the process.

The film has loose elements from the games and is mostly considered to be based mostly on the TV live action series, wich was based strongly on the real Cun-Cun and Santi´s plays.

## Detective Santi provides examples of

* **Abandoned Laboratory:**Menacor´s old lair has his original laboratory wich caused the accident that made Menacor stole Cun-Cun and Santi´s original house in the first place.
* **Actor Illusion:**John Lovitz plays a **red character that can play music and podcasts**.
* **Adaptational Badass:**Lotto´s spells and magic are greatly expanded in this movie and Tigre has stronger, sharper claws. Additionally, none of the toys need to be in presence of their owners to be alive now.
* **Adaptational Nonsapience: Inverted.**The toys in this movie are explicity alive and is no longer imagination, this is sort of implied to be beacuse of the faithful friendship the original Cun-Cun and Santi had for them (and also probably some magic involved).
* **Adaptational Ugliness:**Most of the toys since they look more alive and less cartoony, with a more pragmatic design.
* **Adapted Out:**Some toys (especially those introduced in the second game) are absent in the movie.
* **Adult Fear:**A young boy going on a journey alone to find his great-grandfather´s toys wich are somehow truly alive now.
* **And I Must Scream:** Coco has been trapped under mud and rocks this entire time. He didn´t seem to mind that much, though.
* **The Blank:**Like usually, Lotto, though he does have eyes, doesn´t have facial animations or expressions.
* **Buffy Speak:**Santi sometimes.
* **Brutal Honesty:**Coco questions why their original owners didn´t care for him much, then Tigre says it was beacuse "they didn´t like him".
* **The Cameo:**Even though Cun-Cun doesn´t appear in the movie, his blue baseball cap can be seen in the scene where Detective Santi, Tigre and Lotto visit their old house, now in ruins.
* **Darker And Edgier:**This movie is a lot of a difference from the games and generally the TV show in terms of tone and violence, and touching certain topics like abandonment, growing up and responsabilities.
* **Evil Brit:**Lotto when they first encounter him, but that´s beacuse he was in his evil mode, they re-activate him not much later and becomes the friendly toy he always was.
* **Foil:** Detective Santi to Morado.
* **Genre Shift:**Like, you expected a *Cun-Cun & Santi-*related movie to be about detectives?.
* **Good Cop, Bad Cop:** Detective Santi and Tigre attempt this routine on Morado. Morado is so nervous and scared that taunts Santi into switching roles.
* **Humans Are Bastards:**Some of the toys complain about how their owners abandoned and forgot them, Morado is even scared of humans for this reason.
* **Innocently Insensitive:**Detective Santi, trying to help him feel better, says that perhaps the original Santi stopped playing with Morado beacuse he was "not funny enough" then cut to Morado screaming and crying.
* **Legacy Character:** The Santi in this movie, Detective Santi, is actually the great-grandson of the original Santi from the videogame series.
* **Kid Detective:**Detective Santi, of course.
* **Maniac Monkeys:**Papa Mono and Monito at first, due to their distrust on Detective Santi.
* **Mythology Gag:**
	+ At some point, Detective Santi uses Tigre to attack the same way Cun-Cun did in the first game.
	+ Morado is hidden in an old, worn out green box, referencing his locations in the levels from the first game.
	+ In the wardrobe scene, there is a green V-neck shirt along some blue shorts and red sneakers, referrencing Zambrana, the protagonist of *Earthcraft 3*.
* **Really 700 Years Old:**If this movie´s Santi is the original Santi from the games´s great-grandson and the toys are the original same toys from the games, this means the toys in this movie are at least a hundred years old.
* **Roger Rabbit Effect:**Like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ted, and other such films, Detective Santi features a jaded human teaming up with animated CGI toys with a much more flawed personality than you'd expect to see in a full cartoon.
* **Ruder And Cruder:**Detective Santi uses the first instances of profanity found in English-speaking media based on Earthcraft.
* **Shout-Out:** Like in the games, Felipe is one to **Chucky**. There is even a recreation of the chase scene from the second movie in the scene when they meet Panza.
* **Snarky Non-Human Sidekick:**Tigre provides wisecracking running commentary throughout the film that only Detective Santi can understand.
* **You Can Talk?:**Detective Santi´s first reaction upon meeting Tigre.