CartoonMania: The Movie

The film's logo.

***CartoonMania: The Movie*** is a 2019 animated independent web film based on the 2017 *CartoonMania* series created by Matthew Littlemore. It is directed, written and animated by Littlemore. The first trailer was uploaded on March 9, 2017. It premiered on September 20, 2019.
It is the series finale to the 2017 CartoonMania series.

It is the highest viewed upload on animator320 as of October 2023, with 785k views.

## Plot

When Matthew gets a job in the animation industry with the help of Timmy and Tanya, he has to learn to control his anger. During this, he and the gang must stop a mysterious figure which threatens the entire household.

## Cast

### Main Characters

* Matthew Littlemore (voiced by Himself)
* Timmy Tiger (voiced by Tenor R.)
* Tanya Tigress (voiced by Uranimus)
* Victor Virus (voiced by Tenor R.)
* Penny Bleat (voiced by PinkGalaxxy)
* JoJo Violet (voiced by Fly Discopal)
* Stanley The Half Man-Half Camel (voiced by Matthew Littlemore)

### Supporting characters

* Mr. Rage *(debut)* (voiced by Matthew Littlemore)
* Lulu Galloway *(debut)*
* Wilford Johnson *(debut)*
* Bert Harrigan *(debut)*
* Ling-Ling Spinelli *(debut)*

### Background And Minor Characters

* Earth Andrews
* Fire Lansky
* Air Danes (voiced by Jane C.S.)
* Water Monica (voiced by Jane C.S.)
* The StickFigure Brothers
* Wacky Quacky (Death)
* Macky Quacky
* Zacky Quacky
* Jacky Quacky
* Austin Alligator
* Anne Mermaid (voiced by Jane C.S.)
* Zack Zebra
* Quincy Quail
* Rachel Rabbit
* Leo Lemming
* Baxter Boa Constrictor
* Melba (voiced by Jane C.S.)
* Quang Quail
* Quentin Quail (voiced by Nick)
* Quade Quail
* Quinto Quail
* The Weasel Nonuplets
* The Rooster Twins
* Donald Trumpet
* Oboesferatu
* Saxwell Atoms
* Zither N. Yon
* Isaac Fluteon
* R.T. French Horn
* Newton Spotneck
* Mr. Xavier Scarletbird
* Suzy Squid (voiced by Jane C.S.)
* Norman the Security System (*debut*)
* Ryan
* Electrick James
* Catherine Caterpillar

### Good Or Bad Monsters And Creatures Characters

* Chompy The Incredibly Huge Monster Type Thing
* Virusaurus Rex (*debut*)

## Locations

* Matthew's House
* The Toon Lake City Animation Studio
* Downtown
* The Earth's Core
* The Abandoned Factory

## Objects

* Matthew's Car
* Stress Ball
* Lucifer’s Car
* The $10,000 Prize Money
* Matthew's self-portraits (flashback)
* Mona Lisa (flashback)
* Mes's Watch
* Photo Album
* Greek Matthewology Book
* Chicken Wizard's Magic Wand
* Chicken Wizard's Book Of Magic Spells
* The Missing Page
* The Giant Mechanical Machine
* The Giant Vat Of Acid
* Ice Picks
* The Spare Fingerprint
* The Fingerprint Scanner 2000
* Lucifer's List Of Seek Revenge
* Tanya's Diary Book

## Production

*CartoonMania: The Movie* began production on October 31, 2016, prior to the series premiere online. The first trailer was released 4 months later on March 9, 2017.

The film features many voices other than Matthew Littlemore's himself, they are a mix of school friends and online friends of Matthew's. Tenor R. and PinkGalaxxy, who provided the voices of Victor Virus and Penny Bleat in "*Whatever Happened to Victor Virus?*", respectively, will be reprising their roles for the film.

On June 17, 2018, Matthew Littlemore revealed the characters of Mr. Rage and his employees, who will debut in the film.

### Post-production

In August 2018, Matthew began adding music and sound effects to the film. In late August, he recorded new dialogue and re-recorded old dialogue. As of September 7, 2018, Matthew is still recording dialgoue for the film, but says it will not interrupt the production of normal episodes. As of May 2019, dialogue recording for the film has not yet completed.

In March 2019, Matthew posted screenshots from the film on Twitter.

The fifth and final trailer for the film was released on May 26, 2019.

## Gallery

Main article: *CartoonMania: The Movie/Gallery*

## Memorable Quotes

Matthew as he's finally getting his rage out to Lucifer Killingsworth. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH".

Matthew & his 318 characters having a riot. "KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!"

## Trivia

* This is the longest known *CartoonMania* production to date, with production starting on October 31, 2016 and ending in September 2019.
* It initally began production because Matthew wanted to see how far he could make an animation without quitting and he's always wanted to do a movie.

* The film is animated in the same style as the series, albeit with shading to make it feel more theatrical.

* Towards the end of the film, Matthew and his characters are in an angry mob carrying torches, which is a reference to *The Simpsons Movie*. According to Matthew, this was the first scene to be animated and that it took three months to complete.
	+ According to prop designer PajamaFrix, the scene was going to be a combination of 3D and 2D animation, featuring the characters animated on various "planes" frame-by-frame. However, this did not make it into the film as he didn't know how to change the plane's texture each frame.
* This film features the most character appearances in a *CartoonMania* production.
* Wacky Quacky originally appeared in the first draft of the opening hallway scene (running upside down on the ceiling) after Matthew's interview, but it was changed because Matthew realized Wacky was supposed to be the suitcase.
* Inspirations for Lucifer include Scar from *The Lion King*, Jafar from *Aladdin*, Professor Ratigan from *The Great Mouse Detective* and Sideshow Bob from *The Simpsons*.
* During the year of 2019, the most trailers for the movie were released. (three out of five)
* Virusaurus Rex was designed when Matthew got to his part of the film.
* Norman the Security System was inspired by Sheldon's mobile virtual presence device from *The Big Bang Theory*.
* The code to Matthew's safe is 1993.
	+ This could possibly be a reference to the year when "Animaniacs" premiered on, due to it being one of Matthew's favorite cartoons of all time.

* Matthew's car from "*The Golden Painting!*" makes an appearance in the movie.
* Lucifer tracked Matthew down for 11 years.
* Matthew had a few ideas for what the plot of the movie would have been, one of which included a musical.
* The scene where Matthew yells at Lucifer was inspired by *Regular Show*, *Courage the Cowardly Dog* and "Super Saiyan in general".

This movie has a similar plot to the *Regular Show* episode "Think Positive", since they both involve temper issues.

* Ironically, the scene where Matthew finally gets his rage out to destroy Lucifer, is similar to the scene where Benson finally gets his rage out to tell Mordecai and Rigby about their jobs not going too good.

* It is the second most popular upload on the animator320 channel as of May 2020 with over 50K views, second only to a reupload of "*Abstract Count*". It is the most popular CartoonMania related upload on the channel. As of July 2020, however, Abstract Count was removed from the channel, making the movie the highest viewed.
* This is the first time that the word "hell" was ever mentioned in CartoonMania media, despite according to Zacky Quacky & Henry StickFigure in the 2017 series episode "Handle With Scare", that CartoonMania is meant to be a kids cartoon. (Much like The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie's first trailer)
* Everyone in Toon Lake City heard Matthew's scream at the end of the movie, even the deaf people.

### Errors

* It is revealed Matthew has had 10 thousand dollars locked away in a safe for the entire series, which directly contradicts his claims of having no money in "*Xmas Marks The Spot*" and "*Fifty Bucks*".
* During some of Penny's dialogue, a smoke detector chirp can be heard.

## Trailers

### Trailer 1

   On March 9, 2017, the first trailer was released. It's 14 seconds long and features Matthew's characters in an angry mob carrying torches in a similar fashion to *The Simpsons Movie*. The trailer doesn't have any set release date, just promising that it was coming soon.

### Trailer 2

On January 28, 2018, a slightly longer trailer was posted to the YouTube channel featuring various clips from throughout the film. The description expressed wishes to release the film before the Summer of 2018. However, due to production taking much longer than expected, the film missed the initial deadline and a more vague release date of 2018/2019 was set.

### Trailer 3

On March 22, 2019, a third trailer was released. It is 57 seconds long. This trailer promises a release date of 2019. It was briefly pulled off of YouTube after Matthew discovered he accidentally uploaded it in 240p. The trailer features a new CGI logo for the film.

This is the first trailer to have an audible voice, with Matthew saying "I'm so sorry".

### Trailer 4

On March 23, 2019, a fourth trailer made by Gamerduck was released on Twitter. Unlike all the previous trailers, it reveals the plot and contains more dialogue, including Penny Bleat who had previously never spoken in the series. It also has different music than the first three trailers. This is the second longest trailer, clocking in at 1 minute and 28 seconds. It was posted to YouTube on March 24, 2019.

This was originally going to be the final trailer.

### Trailer 5

   A fifth and currently final trailer was released on May 26, 2019, made again by Gamerduck. It reveals more of the films plot, with an unknown villain messing with Matthew's characters. According to Matthew on twitter, this is the absolute final trailer and the film will likely finish production in June, although the date has passed and the film is still in production.

This trailer has only been uploaded to Twitter, as it contains licensed songs that YouTube detected to be non-copyright-friendly. Eventually, Gamerduck fixed it and it was uploaded to YouTube about 2 months later on July 12, 2019.

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