The ChubbChubbs!

The ChubbChubbs!
Directed by	Eric Armstrong
Produced by	Jacquie Barnbook
Written by	Jeff Wolverton
Starring	Bradford Simonsen, Jeff Wolverton, Mortonette Jenkins, Peter Lurie, Rick Zieff
Music by	Chance Thomas
Cinematography	Thor Freudenthal, Kevin Johnson, Brian Kindregan, Sean Mullen, Vladimir Todorov (storyboard artists)
Editing by	Robert Gordon
Distributed by	Theatrical Realese: Columbia Pictures (2002, with Stuart Little 2 and Men in Black II.)
Release date(s)	2002
Running time	0 hr. 5 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Followed by	Early Blommer (2003)
IMDb profile

The Chubbchubbs! is a 2002 computer-animated short by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was produced by Jacquie Barnbrook, directed by Eric Armstrong (Stuart Little 1 and 2) and written by Jeff Wolverton. The ChubbChubbs won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. It was theatrically released along with Stuart Little 2 and Men in Black II.

[edit] Cast

Bradford Simonsen as Meeper
Jeff Wolverton as ChubbChubbs
Mortonette Jenkins as Singing Diva
Peter Lurie as Zyzaks
Rick Zieff as Bouncer
Glorfs: Dustin Adair, Eric Armstrong, Yakov Baytler, Mary Biondo, Sumit Das, Layne Friedman, Robert Gordon, Sully Jacome-Wilkes, Franco Pietrantonio, Rick Richards, Chance Thomas, Julie Zackary

In the beginning of the bar-scene the robot with the oil can is Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Darth Vader and Yoda are arm wrestling in the bar.
E.T. is escaping in the basket of a bicycle.
One of the fleeing spacecrafts is a Martian War Machine from The War of the Worlds.
The film appears in the PSP game Frantix, including an extra level where Meeper is playable.
The Chubbchubbs are similar looking to the monsters in the film The Langoliers
One of the aliens in the bar has "hair buns" similar to Princess Leia.
An Alien is slurping his drink through a straw.
The alien who warns the main character is Jar Jar Binks.
In the bar are two robots dancing next to each other, where one is Robbie from Forbidden Planet and the other one is from Lost in Space.

Sony Pictures Imageworks
Sony Pictures Animation feature films: Open Season (2006) • Surf's Up (2007) Sony Pictures Imageworks shorts: The ChubbChubbs! (2002) • Early Bloomer (2002) • Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run (2006)