Geo Movie

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***Geo Movie*** is a 2000 American animated comedy film based on the 1998 Fox animated sitcom, *Geo TV*, and the first of the *Geo Movie* franchise. Produced by Glass Ball Productions in their first film to be released, with animation produced by Film Roman, Bardel Entertainment, Saerom Animation, Wang Film Productions, and Fil-Cartoons, and

distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film was directed by series creator Geo G. and *The Powerpuff Girls* creator Craig McCracken and produced by John Bush, Lolee Aries and David Pritchard.

The film was released into theaters on March 10, 2000, received positive reviews and was a commercial success. It was also a box office success, grossing over $288 million in receipts.

## Plot

The film opens where Leah wakes up in the morning and goes downstairs to eat breakfast, but her mother Kate told her that her breakfast is getting cold, her dad Harold is reading the newspaper saying Geoville Apple Day Festival, Leah says it was tomorrow and asks her mom that they can go, but Kate says to don't count on it with Leah's confused face and decides to get out of the house and Kate tells her to be back before sunset.

Leah is walking on the sidewalk, she said there were a lot of people in Geoville, she was thinking of making friends but she said she has no real friends and walks away. Later at night, Leah and her family are eating dinner at the dining room, her mother says that she made real friends, but Leah doesn't care about making real friends, Kate asks Leah that someone made her happy, Harold tells Leah that her dinner is getting cold. But, Madame Gabrielle says that everything be okay and Diana tells Leah that she always have it coming as a mail delivery person, Leah says it was time to get some shuteye. Leah is in her bedroom, Kate tell her she have a big day tomorrow. Harold told her to get some shuteye and asks her that her hands washed and teeth brushed, Kate says goodnight to Leah before closing the door. Leah says goodnight before going to sleep. An evil laugh is heard, waking Leah up and thinks it came out of nowhere, she tries to sleep. But, she heard a voice, Leah turned around and saw Mr. Hell came out of nowhere before going to Hell with trapped in a cage, Leah asks what he trying to take her soul, Mr. Hell is about to take Leah's soul, she said she didn't do anything, Mr. Hell says it's too late for her and laughs evil, Leah wakes up screaming and saying it was all just a dream until then Mr. Godappears out of nowhere and Leah says it was really him before singing a lullaby and fixes her necklace Mr. God disappears in the clouds and Leah is finally asleep.

The next morning, Leah wakes up this morning and saying that her wish is not working anymore, she goes downstairs and see her parents, her aunt and uncle, and her grandmother, but they left without her. Leah feels sad that her family left, with tears all over her face until a tear drops on her necklace and starts glowing. Leah walks into her bedroom door. But, Leah heard voices coming from her bedroom and opened the door and saw 3 boys, Geo Guy, Rico and Eis and Geo Guy walks to her and says hello, Leah screamed and Geo Guy says there was nothing to be afraid of them. Leah reliefs as they were ghosts, but she has to do chores and she tries to clean the lightbulbs, she suddenly falls and Geo Guy catch her and says she will get hurt. As Geo Guy, Rico and Eis follow Leah to take a tour around the house. Later around evening, Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah are having fun around the house, but Leah feels scared that her family's home and she tells the boys to go hide themselves, but they didn't, the boys open the door for Leah's family. Kate, Harold, Diana, Anthony and Madame Gabrielle recognizes the boys who made friends with Leah while they're gone. At dinnertime, Geo Guy, Rico and Eis have a surprise for Leah, and she saw pizza and chocolate cake for dessert and began eating the pizza and chocolate cake for dessert, and Kate, Harold, Diana, Anthony and Madame Gabrielle eats the pizza and chocolate cake for dessert.

Around bedtime, Geo Guy, Rico and Eis has a sleepover in Leah's bedroom, Geo Guy is doing laundry, Rico is reading a comic book with Eis, but Leah tells the boys to go to bed. Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah tell stories before went to bed. Meanwhile at Mr. Hell's Lair, Mr. Hell is flipping the channels until his minions came and tell him that he a plan to do is destroy Geo Guy, Rico and Eis, taking Leah's soul, and kidnapping Mr. God, which angers him, Mr. Hell tells his minions to get out of here, but they said to him, he yelled at his minions to get out of here.

This morning, Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah wake up and go take a walk around in Geoville. Geo Guy then says hi to his parents, Liz and Tom before continue walking around in Geoville. Geo Guy and his friends finds a paper that is laying on the ground, the paper says "Come meet me at the lab at my house." - Eddie Lioose, they go inside the house and finds Lioose while holding his science project, Volcano Science Project for the show and tell at science school, as they watched his volcano science project, and Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah gives Lioose an applause and Geo Guy tells him that he did a very good job making the volcano science project, and Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah watched another project coming, Rocket Science Project and many science projects. 2 hours later. Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah heading out and Lioose says thanks for coming.

Mr. Hell saw Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah walking to the pond. One of his minions came and tell him it came from the mail, as Mr. Hell opened it, he reads that Geoville will be destroyed, he laughs evil and one of his minions runaway. Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah are still walking, they saw Geoville on fire, people screaming and Gum is about to be killed in a fire, Geo Guy calls out his name, Leah saves Gum and they run out of Geoville and looks the sign saying, "You are now leaving Geoville." Geo Guy, Rico, Eis, Leah, and Gum continue walking, they discovered Boulder River, they go on the boat and floats down the river and found a cave, Geo Guy, Rico, Eis, Leah, and Gum found a light saying there was a way out, they discovered a waterfall, they were scared because they were about to fall, but Geo Guy and his friends jump off the boat. At night, Geo Guy, Rico, Eis, Leah, and Gum walking in snow, they saw northern lights with different colors until they found an old cabin. Geo Guy, Rico, Eis, Leah, and Gum go inside and get some sleep. But, they woke up and there was an abominable snowman named Rudy and they screamed and run away, Geo Guy and his friends find a sled and go back to Geoville.

Geo Guy and his friends made it back to Geoville, which caused a destruction. but Leah is trying say something to Geo Guy, outraged, Geo Guy accuses Leah of going new adventures with him and his friends, Leah risked the boys' lives to save Geoville. As Geo Guy and Leah get into a big argument about how he trusts her, Geo Guy then angrily lashes out by saying that Leah is selfish and stubborn girl. Geo Guy tries to take back what he said, but Leah refuses to hear it and runs off, crying. Geo Guy feels bad because he finally snapped at Leah by saying it was all his fault, but Rico and Eis confronting Geo Guy and says there's a better way to save Geoville, which making Geo Guy feel better.

Leah is walking to her house and opens the door, no one's home, she sits on the floor and falls into deep remorse over her actions. Leah sobs herself, then she was taken by Mr. Hell and her necklace was dropped on the floor while taking people to Hell. Magic-Geo Guy then comes to life from one of Lioose's science projects and go to tell Geo Guy, Rico and Eis that Leah was taken to Hell, the boys were shocked that their friend is in Hell and they have to go save her from Mr. Hell.

The boys has an epiphany and believes they must save Leah. The boys find Leah's necklace, and Geo Guy says that she must have been taken, they found a portal and go to Hell. Leah is trapped in a cage once again just like in her nightmare, Mr. God was in here too. Geo Guy, Rico and Eis looks at the people of Geoville including Leah's family too. The boys heard Leah's calling, Geo Guy, Rico and Eis finally found Leah and Mr. God, Geo Guy apologizes to Leah for he was wrong to her earlier. Leah apologies to Geo Guy too and they free her and Mr. God, and the people of Geoville, including Leah's family. Then, Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah suddenly stopped by Mr. Hell, and he tells his minions to get them, and brainwashing Mr. God to destroy Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah, but Magic-Geo Guy stops Mr. God for trying to kill Geo Guy and his friends, Mr. Hell transforms into his true form. In a battle between Mr. God and Mr. Hell, Mr. God uses his powers to defeat Mr. Hell, but no avail, Geo Guy and his friends join the battle too. Geo Guy and Mr. God defeats Mr. Hell, who was back to his old self, Mr. God warns Mr. Hell to never rule Geoville and taking everyone's souls before defeating Mr. Hell with the help of Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah. The crowd cheering Geo Guy, Rico and Eis, Leah hugs her family by saying i missed them with the magic restoration back to Geoville.

Geo Guy and his friends go back to Geoville, which was back to normal with the magic of Leah's necklace, they crowded Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah and they decide to go to Geoville Apple Day Festival to watch the fireworks and parade. Then they started Geoville Barbeque Party with family and friends. Geo Guy, Rico, Eis, and Leah are playing bubbles and Harold says that who wants hamburgers and hot dogs, with Geo Guy and his friends went to the picnic table. The film ends with an narration saying saying "They lived happily ever after" and revealed as Gum and blinks his right eye.

The post credits scene, Geo Guy, Rico, Eis and Leah stating their opinions about this movie, Gum says what sequel will come out, they leave the movie theater.

## Voice cast

* Geo G. as Geo Guy
* Tom Kenny as Rico Koism
* Phil LaMarr as Eis Pikken
* Grey DeLisle as Jea / Eddie Lioose / Kate Thompson
* Janice Kawaye as Leah Thompson
* Tara Strong as Magic-Geo Guy / Geo Girl
* Carlos Alazraqui as Mr. God
* Jennifer Hale as Liz Conner
* John DiMaggio as Tom Conner
* Keone Young as Harold Thompson
* Candi Milo as Madame Gabrielle
* Billy West as Mr. Hell
* Colleen Clinkenbeard as Gum
	+ Maurice LaMarche as Gum's narrations

Additional voices were provided by Jack Angel, Cathy Cavadini, Frank Welker, Hynden Walch, Jess Harnell, Danny Mann, Cam Clarke, Laraine Newman, Nancy Cartwright, Richard Steven Horwitz, and Greg Eagles

## Production

### Animation

Geo G. stated that the animation would "top that of the series" and "would be much better than what you see on TV".

The animation was mainly outsourced to Bardel Entertainment in Canada; according to studio executive Barry Ward, stating that "they were more than an cel animation/ink-and-paint". As with the television series, the storyboarding, characters, background layout, and animatic parts of production, were done in America. The overseas studios completed the inbetweening, cel animation, ink and paint, and rendered the animation. Additionally, the animation was outsourced to Saerom Animation in Seoul, South Korea, Wang Film Productions in Taipei, Taiwan, and Fil-Cartoons in the Philippines.

The team of animation directors was supervised by Chris Cuddington and Oliver Callahan, lead by Genndy Tartakovsky, and directed by Frank Andrina, Zeon Davush, Robert Alvarez, John Rice, Allen Wilzbach and Joanna Romersa, all animation directors for the series, respectively.

The layouts for the movie were done by Studio B Productions in Canada.

### Rating

Geo Moviewas rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for "violence and language".

### Home Media

Main article: Geo Movie/Home media
The film was first released on DVD and VHS on July 4th, 2000 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The DVD release features an audio commentary, animatics, deleted scenes and more. The film was also released on Laserdisc on July 4th, 2000. On September 2012 the film was released for the first time on Blu-ray. The film was released on March 10th, 2020 as a part of the 20th Anniversary Edition.

On September 2020. The film was now available on Disney+.

### Critical reception

Geo Movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, lost to Snow Day.

## Soundtrack

Main article: Geo Movie/Soundtrack
Released on March 23, 2000, by Columbia Records, the music for the film was composed by Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker.