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This is about the film. For other uses see Jimmy Neutron (disambiguation).
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a 2001 computer-animated movie, based on a few 5 minute animated shorts shown on Nickelodeon in 2000-2001 which showed much promise(One about Jimmy wanting a cookie, Cindy and Jimmys dogs competing, Carl messing with the cloning machine). It was produced by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The film was produced using off-the-shelf software by DNA Productions of Dallas, Texas.
The film grossed around $80m in North America, and was followed by the television series Boy Genius, the following fall on Nickelodeon.
- Taglines:
- Blasting into theaters this Christmas
- Blasting Into Theatres
- I can fix that...
- He may be small, but he's got a big brain!
Plot
The film's plotline concerns Jimmy and friends having a good time at a newly-opened amusement park and then on the town (after seeing that their parents have apparently gone to Florida), and later on (after finding out where they've really gone) having to rescue their parents from egg-shaped aliens Ooblar and King Goobot, voiced by Martin Short and Patrick Stewart respectively. The aliens make a subsequent appearance in the TV movie The Egg-pire Strikes Back.
Themes
A common theme in American children's entertainment is the "obliviousness" of parents. Usually, the parents of the child protagonist, while loving, demonstrate a humorous but releveant lack of understanding or even ineptitude with their children that all kids can relate to. In Jimmy's case, his parents continuously reprimand him for his inventions, often ignoring the utter brilliance thereof. Appropriately enough, the soundtrack features a cover of "Parents Just Don't Understand" originally by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
Voice cast
- Debi Derryberry - Jimmy Neutron
- Martin Short - Ooblar
- Patrick Stewart - King Goobot
- Rob Paulsen - Carl Wheezer
- Andrea Martin - Mrs. Fowl
- Jeff Garcia - Sheen
- Megan Cavanagh - Mrs. Judy Neutron
- Carolyn Lawrence - Cindy Vortex
- Candi Milo - Nick Dean
- Mark DeCarlo - Mr. Hugh Neutron
- Crystal Scales - Libby
- Frank Welker - Goddard
Soundtrack album track listing
- Leave it Up to Me - Aaron Carter (2:59)
- Pop (Deep Dish Cha-Ching Remix) - *NSync (4:13)
- Parents Just Don't Understand (Teddy Riley Mix) - 3LW & Lil' Romeo (3:55)
- Intimidated - Britney Spears (3:17)
- He Blinded Me with Science - Melissa Lefton (3:15)
- A.C.'s Alien Nation - Aaron Carter (3:23)
- Kids in America - No Secrets (3:06)
- The Answer to Our Life - Backstreet Boys (3:17)
- The Chicken Dance - Stupid (1:32)
- I Can Count on You - True Vibe (3:46)
- We Got the Beat - The Go-Go's (2:31)
- Go!, Jimmy!, Go! - Go Jimmy Jimmy (2:38)
- Parents Just Don't Understand (Bonus Mix) - 3LW & Lil' Romeo (3:52)
- Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones (2:12)
- Jimmy Neutron Theme - Bowling for Soup (2:08)
Trivia
Cultural references
- In the beginning of the message Jimmy sends to the aliens, he salutes them using the Vulcan salute.
- When Sheen takes the Ultralord oath in the amusement park, his right hand is doing the Vulcan salute.
- The Egyptian-style ride "Show me the mummy" is a parody of Jerry Maguire's catch-phrase "Show me the money".
- One of the rides has a scared kid's face with eyes wide open and his hands on his cheeks. That's the famous pose of Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. (Which itself is a parody of the Edvard Munch painting The Scream)
- The alien's YT program is a parody of ET.
- During the scene when the kids are camping on the asteroid, Nick's story is from the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project
Other
- Another poster of this movie had Jimmy & Goddard on the front, looking through a "hole" from metal that they had blasted through. Next to the hole are the words I can fix that... and under the "hole" is the words Blasting into theaters this Christmas.
- This film was pushed from November 2001.
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius was nominated for Best Animated Feature in 2001. It lost to Dreamworks blockbuster, Shrek.
External links
2001 films | American films | Computer-animated films | Jimmy Neutron films | Paramount films | Jimmy Neutron | Films directed by John A. Davis | 1980s retro movement
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