Animal Instinct: A Littlest Pet Shop: Blythe X Movie

### Distributed by

United Artists Releasing/Netflix (2020-2022)/Prime Video (2022+) (United States)
 Entertainment One/Netflix (2020-2022)/Prime Video (2022+) (International)
 Aniplex/Kadokawa (Japan)

### Rating

PG-13

**Animal Instinct: A Littlest Pet Shop: Blythe X Movie** is an American-Japanese adult animated fantasy adventure film produced by Hollowfox Toonimation Workshop, Allspark Animation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Annapurna Pictures and distributed by United Artists Releasing and Hasbro's Entertainment One in association with Netflix. It's the first film based on the television series of the same name and the fourth "theatrical" Hasbro/Hollowfox Humanoidverse film.

It is directed by Norton Virgien, Shinobu Yoshioka and Dallas Parker and written by Sarah Carbiener & Erica Rosbe, Adam Beechen and Roger Eschbacher, from a story by Eschbacher, Beechen, Rosbe, Carbiener, Aaron Montalvo, Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab. Animated by WildBrain, Wit Studio, and Titmouse, the film takes place during the events of the final season. It stars Ashleigh Ball, Samuel Vincent, Nicole Oliver, Shannon Chan-Kent, Kira Tozer, Kathleen Barr, Kelly Metzger, Jocelyn Loewen, Peter New Kyle Rideout, and Tabitha St. Germain (reprising their roles from the series). Joining the cast are, Kate McKinnon, Finn Wolfhard, Seth McFarlane, Chris Parnell, Dominic Cooper, and The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer)

It is set to be released on September 25, 2020 in theatres, and then a month later (October 23, 2020) on Netflix. This marks the first time a Humanoidverse film made for Netflix (due to the underperformance of 2D animated films and the COVID-19 pandemic) will be released in theatres before releasing on Netflix, before when Amazon bought MGM in 2022, the film has moved to Prime Video. The movie is rated PG-13. Marking the first film in the Humanoidverse film series to earn that rating, compared to Anthro Bunraku and Equestria Campus Supremacy films, which are R-rated.

## Production

Hasbro announced that there will be a film series connected with the Humanoidverse with MGM, Annapurna, and 20th Century Fox distributing it alongside Aniplex and Kadokawa. Talks have been made for the Blythe X films to be PG-13, as opposed to the Anthro Bunraku and Equestria Campus Supremacy films being rated R.

Hasbro announced that the film is set for a release around 2020 and 2021, now this time without Fox's involvement as a distributor. MGM and Annapurna Pictures will still be involved for the production with their joint venture United Artists Releasing (while they co-produce it individually) distributing it in North America with worldwide distribution by (now Hasbro subsidiary) Entertainment One. A release date was set for June 26, 2020.

The movie is directed by Norton Virgien with Shinobu Yoshioka and Dallas Parker involved as co-directors. Sarah Carbiener and Erica Rosbe will write the film.

In April 2019, due to the creator's mentality on 2D animation not being "hot" for theatrical releases (with My Little Pony: The Movie and Teen Titans Go! To The Movies) due to them not having successful runs at the box office (leading to the former not having a critically redeeming sequel and the latter having a crossover with Teen Titans instead of a sixth season of the aforementioned series) as well as the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic concerns, MGM, Hasbro, eOne and Hollowfox negotiated with Netflix in order to release not only this, but also future Humanoidverse feature films to the streaming service with some skipping theatrical releases, and Netflix seals the deal with the Humanoidverse Project team. Marking it a Netflix original film. UAR will co-distribute it with Netflix and eOne. The new release date for the series' first film is September 25th, 2020 (as a theatrical run) and October 23, 2020 (Netflix release)

An Aniplex dub release in Japan (with worldwide streaming by Netflix) is released on late 2020 before the Amazon acquisition of MGM led to the film and the franchise removed from Netflix and moved to Prime Video.

However, later this year, Netflix and HFX confirms that only two films from the Humanoidverse will be on Netflix due to theatres reopening and the pandemic slowing down. Leading the rights for future films to go back to MGM and Annapurna, and then to only MGM and later Montalvo Releasing, eOne, Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures.

### Premise

After the Littlest Pet Shop gang was invited to an animal-themed party hosted by a savvy enthusiast, Blythe and the Gang decides to go, and the pets will be going alongside them. When a party becomes as wild as they expected to be, a situation inside it will make it suspicious under the wild side of the people involved in the party. And someone inside might plan a scheme to take over a natural preserving island.

## Cast

### Series Characters

* Ashleigh Ball as Blythe Baxter
* Samuel Vincent as Russell Ferguson and Josh Sharp
* Nicole Oliver as Zoe Trent
* Shannon Chan-Kent as Youngmee Song
* Kira Tozer as Sue Patterson and Minka Mark
* Kathleen Barr as Ms. Twombly and Jasper Jones
* Jocelyn Loewen as Penny Ling
* Peter New as Sunil Nevla
* Kyle Rideout as Vinnie Terrio
* Tabitha St. Germain as Pepper Clark

### New Characters

* Kate McKinnon as Jessica Munroe
* Finn Wolfhard as David Munroe
* Chris Parnell as Carson Munroe
* Seth McFarlane as William Leafenburg
* Dominic Cooper as Simon Leafenburg
* The Lonely Island as 3T
	+ Andy Samberg as Tyler
	+ Jorma Taccone as Tyrone
	+ Akiva Schaffer as Terry

## Info

### Rating

* USA: PG-13 - Parents Strongly Cautioned for stylized animated action violence, irreverent humor, drug use, mild sensuality, strong language, and brief nudity
* CAN: 14A (Overall), PG (Quebec)
* UK: 12A (Theatrical), 12 (Home Video) - For violence, humor, thematical themes and strong language
* AUS: M - Drug references, Adult themes, Nudity, Frequent violence, sexual references, language
* JP: PG-12
* RUS - 12+