Bad Blues Life: The Biggest Baddest Movie Ever

***Bad Blues Life: The Biggest Baddest Movie Ever*** is a 2005 American animated comedy film based on the animated sitcom *Bad Blues Life*. It was the first theatrical feature film based on a The WB animated television series, as well as Blue-Heart Studios' first feature-length film. Co-written, produced and directed by series creators Leyla Griffith and Juliette Bright, in their feature-length directorial debuts, the film stars the regular television cast of Billy West, Catherine Cavadini, Tara Strong and E.G. Daily, with guest appearances by Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Minnie Driver, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Jennifer Saunders, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Goodman. The events of the film takes place after the tenth season of *Bad Blues Life*. When Tyler Blues was framed for causing the town to be chaotic while his siblings Melody, Reed and Marlie Blues declared national fugitives, Terra Rightson, a new mayor of Brightwood takes drastic measures by imprisoning the town under a giant forcefield. As the town just getting more chaotic and much worse, the Blues siblings must go on a quest to clear their name and redeem their image with the help of their friends while also saving Brightwood from becoming a monarchy.

*Bad Blues Life: The Biggest Baddest Movie Ever* premiered at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on May 30, 2005 and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on June 10, 2005. It received universal acclaim from critics and was a box office success, grossing over $343 million on its $50 million budget, making it the fifth highest-grossing film based on an animated television series, and was the highest-grossing television adaptation animated film of all time until it was surpassed by *The Simpsons Movie* in 2007. A sequel was released on April 9, 2021.

## Cast

*Main article: List of Bad Blues Life characters*
* Billy West as Tyler Blues
* Catherine Cavadini as Melody Blues
* Tara Strong as Reed Blues
* E.G. Daily as Marlie Blues
* Jeff Bennett
* Tress MacNeille
* Hank Azaria
* Eric Bauza
* Rob Paulsen
* Julia Roberts
* Jennifer Aniston
* Minnie Driver
* Brad Pitt
* Bruce Willis
* Jennifer Saunders
* Whoopi Goldberg
* John Goodman

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## Production

### Music

In December 2004, Leyla Griffith chose Hans Zimmer to compose the film's score, as Griffith liked his music in other films.

### Post-production

The team working on the film commuted between the project and the series, pushing both to scheduling extremes (changes to The Biggest Baddest Movie Ever were made as late as two months before its release) and fighting constantly with Warner Bros. and the film's writers.

Jon Vitti noted, "50 percent of the things in (one of the trailers)—based on where we were nine weeks ago—are no longer in the movie." Various new characters were created, and then cut because they did not contribute enough. Further changes were made after the January 28, 2005 preview screenings of the film in Denver, Colorado.

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## Release

### Theatrical

*Bad Blues Life: The Biggest Baddest Movie Ever* was initially scheduled for release on November 10, 2004, but was moved up to June 10, 2005, to avoid competition with other films released during the Thanksgiving season. The film received a PG-13 rating by the MPAA due to “violence, language, and obscene sexual content” making it the first Warner Bros. Animation film to receive this rating. The film made its network premiere on The CW on November 21, 2007 and its cable premiere on TNT on December 15, 2007.

### Marketing

* The official teaser trailer was released on April 23, 2004, and was shown before *The Mysterious City*, *Shrek 2*, *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*, *Garfield: The Movie*, *Napoleon Dynamite*, *Spider-Man 2*, *Twin, Duo, and Two* and *Lost in a City*.
* The theatrical trailer was released on November 5, 2004, and was shown before *The Incredibles*, *The Polar Express*, *The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie*, *Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events*, *Meet the Fockers*, *Fat Albert*, *Are We There Yet?*, *Susan Telltale 2*, and *Son of the Mask*.
* The final trailer was released on April 8, 2005, and was shown in front of *Imagine Too*, *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*, *The Toontails Movie*, *Kicking & Screaming*, *Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith*, *The Longest Yard*, and *Madagascar*.

### Video game

*Main article: Bad Blues Life: The Biggest Baddest Game Ever*
A video game based on the film was released on June 28, 2005 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Avalanche Software and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

### Home media

The film was released on DVD and VHS on October 25, 2005. The film earned $49.6 million in DVD sales during the beginning of 2006. It was later released on Blu-ray in North America on September 26, 2006. An Ultra HD Blu-ray was released on February 25, 2020, containing a new 4K restoration.

## Transcripts

### Main

To see the main transcript of the film, click here.

### Trailers

To see the transcript for the trailers of the film, click here.