Re-Animated

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Re-Animated

Promotional poster
Directed by Bruce Hurtwit
Produced by Evan Adler
Tim McKeon
Written by Tim McKeon
Adam Pava
Starring Dominic Janes
Eunice Cho
Fred Willard
Bil Dwyer
Cinematography Collin Davis
Editing by Michael Kelly
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Renegade Animation
Release date(s) December 8, 2006
Running time 90 min.
Country Flag of the United States
Language English
Followed by Out of Jimmy's Head
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Re-Animated is a live-action/animated television film that aired on Cartoon Network on December 8, 2006. It is a combination of live action and animation. Re-Animated is also Cartoon Network's first original live-action film. The movie features a 12-year old boy named Jimmy Roberts who goes to a theme park named Golly World, where a train runs into him. There, doctors perform an emergency brain transplant, causing Jimmy to see cartoons, more specifically cartoons created by cartoonist Milt Appleday.

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[edit] Plot

Jimmy Roberts (Dominic Janes) is a 12-year-old boy who can't seem to say no to anybody, and as a result, ends up getting taken advantage of on a regular basis, even by his best friend Craig (Micah Karns). This problem continues during his class trip to Gollyworld, where he misses out on many of the rides because Craig tells the popular kids that Jimmy will hold their items for them. The popular kids then, on Craig's suggestion, tell Jimmy to go try to find Milt Appleday's (Fred Willard) frozen brain, which supposedly is hidden somewhere in Tux's Arctic Adventure. As usual, Jimmy unwillingly gives in, and once there, bumps into Milt's son Sonny (Matt Knudsen), who is attempting to retrieve the brain from underneath the ice. After being spotted by Sonny, Jimmy quickly flees and during his escape, accidentally runs onto the path of an oncoming train and is sent to the hospital, where Milt's brain (which one of the doctors keeps in his lunch cooler) is transplanted into his head. He makes it out of the operation just fine with his personality intact (explained by the doctors salvaging his "personality gland") but, he can now see all of Appleday's characters in real life, while no one else can.

With the help of his crush, Robin (Eunice Cho), who is also Craig's sister, Jimmy and the characters learn that the reason they've lost their popularity is thanks to Sonny, who unwittingly ruined their cartoons through his own ideas, especially Golly who is crushed to learn that his top spot as most popular cartoon character in the world has been reduced to nothing, but he figures with Jimmy now at the helm, he can quickly make him a star again. Now that he's president of Appleday Pictures (Sonny was fired by the Chairman of the Board), Jimmy is immensely popular, but no longer has time for school or his friends.

Meanwhile, Sonny has rented out a room in Jimmy's house and now lives with his family because Jimmy's dad allows him when it is obvious that Sonny is deceiving the family. Sonny has dinner with them and meets Jimmy's alien sister, Yancy (Rhea Lando), all the while constantly scheming to get Milt's brain out of Jimmy's head and for himself. And without the brain, Jimmy would die. He devises a plan to modify Crocco's train to include several dangerous devices on it that will decapitate Jimmy and get him what he wants.However, he says this plan out loud (yelling it at the top of his lungs) and Yancy catches on.

Eventually, Robin attempts to point out to Jimmy that the cartoons are walking all over him just like everybody else used to, but he denies this, adding that the only reason Robin even liked him was because of him having Milt's brain. He takes off for his television debut, leaving her behind to encounter Sonny, who says that since she knows his plan, he'll have to do away with her. At the studio, Jimmy tells the ego-maniac Golly that all that the Presidency of Appleday Studios has gotten him isn't what he really wanted, which drives Golly to get angry at him and shout at him that it is impossible for him to say no to anybody. Jimmy finally realizes Robin was right and denounces his position as President, causing the show to be canceled. Sonny, however, still wants the brain, and has tied Robin down to the train tracks, forcing Jimmy and the characters (even Golly who apologizes along the way) to go save her. Golly temporarily changes Jimmy into a cartoon "Knight in shining armor".

Robin is saved from being run over after Jimmy goes inside the train and destroys the engine. Sonny's plan is foiled. Jimmy dresses up as Milt to hide from Sonny, and Sonny is momentarily distracted by his affection for his father. Yancy, Jimmy's alien sister, saves Jimmy just in time by using her power of teleportation. Robin and Jimmy return to Craig's house, where he was planning to throw a party with Jimmy as the guest of honor, and everything is patched up between them. However, since the partygoers were watching the show he was on, and saw him talk about the importance of friendship, they figured that Jimmy wasn't cool, and instead just stupid at gving up all that fame, and leave the party.

In an epilogue, Jimmy is leaving for school. Sonny still wants the brain and is seen hiding behind a curtain. He has a device that can grab his head. Sonny almost succeeds, but the crane misses its target.

[edit] Cast

Main article: List of characters in Out of Jimmy's Head

[edit] Songs

[edit] Out of Jimmy's Head

Main article: Out of Jimmy's Head

Out of Jimmy's Head is a television series adapted from the film continuing the adventures of Jimmy and the animated characters.

[edit] Trivia

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  • Golly The Gopher makes a cameo in a poster (Parody of Space Jam, which is also a Live-Action-Animated Movie) in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends movie "Good Wilt Hunting". McKeon and Pava were also writers for the animated series.
  • Golly is voiced by Paul Reubens, best known for his role as Pee-wee Herman.
  • Dolly's voice is done by Ellen Greene, best known for her role as Audrey in both the off-Broadway and 1986 movie version of Little Shop of Horrors.
  • Matt Knudsen (in character as Sonny) made a surprise cameo on Fridays to send $500 dollars to 200 kids (totalling $100,000).
  • This is the fourth Cartoon Network original movie, and the first to have nothing to do with any recent Cartoon Network original series.
  • This movie combines Flash animation with live action.
  • Tommy Snider, one the hosts of Cartoon Network's Fridays plays the bush that follows Sonny to Appleday Studios Board of Director's meeting. Much of the behind the scenes footage shown on Fridays is Tommy 'preparing' for his role.
  • When Golly is introducing himself to Jimmy, he mentions how popular he is. Jimmy then asks "Is that why there's two of you?", confusing Dolly for a second Golly. The characters then make mention that they look the same, except for Dolly's bow. This is a reference to how Mickey and Minnie Mouse look the same in terms of design, Minnie's bow and eyelashes make her different from Mickey.
  • The Milt Appleday cartoon, "Hero in Train-ing", which Jimmy's dad watches in the beginning of the movie, can be seen as a special feature on the DVD.

[edit] Cultural references

  • "The Marvelous Mind of Milt/Jimmy" is a spoof of The Wonderful World of Disney and Mickey Mouse Club.
  • The animatronic Milt Appleday uses technology similar to famous Disney attractions such as The Hall of Presidents and Madame Leota from the Haunted Mansion.
  • A Class of 3000 poster can be seen in Jimmy's room. The first trailer of the movie was also aired during the Class of 3000 premiere.
  • Golly Gopher and Dolly Gopher are supposedly parodies of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
  • The movie is inspired by two urban legends about Walt Disney, one stating his brain was frozen cryogenically and another stating that it is stored in the cap of the Matterhorn at Disneyland, the former is untrue although there is a small basketball court hidden in the Matterhorn.
  • When Jimmy comes in during Sonny's meeting with the Board of Directors, Sonny is fired as president of Appleday Pictures, a parody of the firing of corrupt Senior Vice President Dick Jones in RoboCop.
  • Tux make a reference to how unsuccessful Disneyland Paris was when it opened by saying, "What's black and white and emptier than Gollyworld Paris?"
  • The story of Appleday Studio's failures in the animated medium due to the absence of Milt reflects the same situation the Disney studios went through after Walt's death, referred to as the "Dark Ages". The comment of Golly Gopher going from a world renowned icon into a laughingstock could also be a commentary about how Disney's own Mickey Mouse has been losing some popularity in the last couple of years.
  • Crocco's name is derived from one of the trains at the Walt Disney World Railroad attraction.
  • Appleday Studios and Gollyworld are a parody of The Walt Disney Company and Walt Disney World Resort.

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