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Mr. Peabody & Sherman (film)

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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Film information
Directed by Rob Minkoff
Produced by Alex Schwartz and Denise Nolan Cascino
Written by Craig Wright
Music by Danny Elfman
Studio Dreamworks Classics
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date March 7, 2014
Running time 90 minutes
Gross revenue $268,578,027
Preceded by Cleopatra

Mr. Peabody & Sherman is an American 3D computer-animated comedy adventure film based on the classic 1960s animated television series Rocky & Bullwinkle, featuring Mr. Peabody and Sherman. It is produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Rob Minkoff is the director, and Alex Schwartz and Denise Nolan Cascino are the producers. This is the third film based on Rocky and Bullwinkle. Mr. Peabody & Sherman stars Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann, Ariel Winter, and Allison Janney. This is the first Dreamworks film based on a TV show and the first Rocky and Bullwinkle film to be fully animated. The film was released on March 7, 2014 in the United States. Despite the huge sucess, it made profits go down for DreamWorks Animation and barely even a huge profit. 

Plot

Mr. Peabody is a talking dog who is the smartest being in the world. As a puppy, he was rejected by every potential owner, leading him to devote his life to science, athletics, and technological discoveries. One day, Peabody finds an orphaned infant and legally adopts him under the name of Sherman. He tutors Sherman through a series of adventures throughout history with the use of the WABAC, a time machine and his greatest invention. After narrowly escaping the French Revolution, Sherman starts his first day of school and falls into conflict with classmate Penny Peterson, who he innocently showed up in history class with his first hand knowledge of George Washington. Penny bullies and humiliates Sherman, insulting him by calling him a "dog" for being raised by one, which provokes Sherman into biting her. Peabody visits Principal Purdy about the matter, but is confronted by Ms. Grunion, a bigoted child and family services agent who threatens to reclaim Sherman if an upcoming home inspection is deemed unfit for him.

Peabody invites the Petersons over for a dinner party to mend fences between the children. While Peabody charms Paul and Patty, Sherman is left with Penny. Sherman reveals the WABAC to Penny after she calls him a liar about his first hand knowledge and they joyride in it, despite Peabody's warnings. Moments later, Sherman seeks Peabody's help to retrieve Penny, who refused to leave her engagement with King Tut in Ancient Egypt. Penny learns that she will be killed upon Tut's early death and is dragged to the wedding while Peabody and Sherman are trapped in a tomb. They escape and impersonate the god Anubis to call off the wedding. Their cover is blown at the last second, but they escape in the WABAC along with Penny.

With the WABAC low on energy, the three stop in Renaissance Florence to seek the aid of Leonardo da Vinci. While Peabody and Leonardo build a contraption to recharge the WABAC, Penny convinces Sherman to explore Leonardo's workshop with her and they bond by using Leonardo's flying machine without permission. They crash-land and Leonardo is thrilled that the machine worked but Peabody is angered by Sherman's disobedience. During the return trip to the present, Penny reveals Ms. Grunion's intention of reclaiming Sherman. An argument ensues between Peabody and Sherman while the WABAC draws near a black hole. They escape but crash-land in the Trojan War, where an upset Sherman runs away to join King Agamemnon's army. When Peabody and Penny come to retrieve him in the Trojan Horse, they find themselves in the battle and Penny becomes trapped in the Trojan horse as it races towards a cliff. In a rescue attempt, Sherman and Penny are saved, but Peabody appears to have gone down with the horse and is presumed dead.

Desperate to save Peabody, Sherman and Penny return to the present minutes before Sherman returned the first time to get Peabody to remedy the situation. However, the present copies of Peabody and Sherman show up, along with Ms. Grunion. Ms. Grunion attempts to reclaim both Shermans, which causes them, along with the copies of Peabody to merge and disrupt the space-time continuum. Grunion makes another attempt at reclaiming Sherman, hurting him in the process, which causes an enraged Peabody to revert to his natural instinct and bite her. As Ms. Grunion informs the police, Peabody, Sherman, and Penny flee to the WABAC, but are unable to travel back in time as several historic figures and monuments rain down into the present. The WABAC eventually crashes and Peabody is apprehended by Animal Control who plan on euthanizing him under false pretenses, reported by Grunion. Sherman protests by explaining that everything that happened is his fault and declares that he would rather be a dog as good as Peabody than a person. Moved by his speech, every historical figure present and the Petersons concur. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Bill Clinton support Peabody's legal custody of Sherman and award Peabody a presidential pardon.

When a vortex in the space-time continuum rips open, Sherman pilots the WABAC while Peabody handles the computations intending to travel to the future by a few minutes and undo the damage with success. The historical figures and monuments return to their respective times and bring back souviners from their visit, along with a smitten Agamemnon dragging Ms. Grunion with him as she swears vengeance on Peabody. Although it appears Peabody and Sherman are lost, they return spontaneously as the Petersons look on and celebrate. Sherman, closer to Peabody than ever, returns to school where he has become good friends with Penny. Meanwhile, time periods are contaminated with modern traits and Ms. Grunion marries Agamemnon.

Voice Cast (International)

English 🇺🇸🇬🇧

Spanish (Español) 🇪🇸

Spanish - Mexico (Español - México) 🇲🇽

French (Français) 🇫🇷

French - Canada (Québécoises) 🇨🇦

German (Deutsch) 🇩🇪

Italian (Italiano) 🇮🇹

Dutch (Nederlands) 🇳🇱

Portuguese (Português) 🇧🇷

Hungarian (Magyar) 🇭🇺

Danish (Dansk) 🇩🇰

Russian (Русский) 🇷🇺

  • Леонид Парфёнов - Mr. Peabody (Мистер Пибоди)
  • Анна Денисова - Patty Peterson (Пенни Питерсон)
  • Илья Исаев - Paul Peterson (Пол Питерсон)

Polish (Polski) 🇵🇱

Romanian (Română) 🇷🇴

Lithuanian (Lietuvių) 🇱🇹

Estonian (Eesti) 🇪🇪

Czech (Česky) 🇨🇿

Greek (Ελληνικά) 🇬🇷

Putonghua (普通话) 🇨🇳

Mandarin (國語)

Production

Plans for a film starring Mr. Peabody and Sherman have existed for several years with director Rob Minkoff. His first attempt to make a feature film goes to 2003, when it was reported that Minkoff's Sony-based production company Sprocketdyne Entertainment and Bullwinkle Studios would produce a live-action/CG film, with a possibility of Minkoff to direct it.[1]

The live-action film was not realized, but in 2006, Minkoff joined DreamWorks Animation to direct a computer-animated film adaptation. Andrew Kurtzman was set to write the screenplay, based on the pitch, developed by Minkoff with his longtime producing partner Jason Clark.[2]

The film went through several release date changes. Originally scheduled for March 2014,[3][4] DreamWorks Animation's high expectations moved the film to November 2013, replacing another DreamWorks Animation film Me and My Shadow.[5][6] The last shift happened in February 2013, which pushed the film back to March 7, 2014, reportedly due to "more advantageous release window," again replacing Me and My Shadow.[7]

Originally, Robert Downey, Jr. was set to voice Mr. Peabody,[8] but in March 2012, he was replaced by Ty Burrell.[9] Max Charles, the actor who plays young Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man, will voice Sherman.[9] Stephen Colbert will voice Paul Peterson. Leslie Mann, who replaced Ellie Kemper, will voice Peterson's wife, Patty;[10] and Ariel Winter will voice their daughter Penny. Also joining the cast are Stephen Tobolowsky and Allison Janney as Mrs. Grunion.[5]

Changes From the Source Material

There were many significant differences from the show in this movie. These were all criticized by Mr. Peabody's fans. 

  • Peabody treats Sherman like a son in this CGI universe as opposed to the series where he treats him like a pet. 
  • Peabody's kind and fatherly in this movie, but in the show, he was egotisitcal and arrogant. 
  • Sherman was adopted by Mr. Peabody when he was a baby in the movie, but in the show, he was adopted as a boy. 
  • The WABAC is more space-age like in the movie, but in the show, it's a literally a door to the past. 

Release

Mr. Peabody & Sherman was originally set to be theatrically accompanied by a DreamWorks Animation short film based on the Rocky and Bullwinkle characters from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The short was directed by Gary Trousdale, who is known for co-directing Beauty and the Beast and featured June Foray as Rocky as well as Tom Kenny as Bullwinkle. It may have served as a test for a possible feature film based on the characters. However, for currently unknown reasons, the short film was canceled and replaced by another short film titled Almost Home a prequel short to upcoming film Home. It is unknown when the original short will be released or if it will be released at all.

Box office earnings

During the first three days of its release in the United States, Mr. Peabody & Sherman earned $32,207,057 and premiered on 3,934 screens.[11]

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References

  1. ↑ AnimationMagazine.net - "A CG Mr. Peabody Will Time Travel in Feature" by Ryan Ball
  2. ↑ DreamWorks Animation Investor Relations - "DreamWorks Animation and Director Rob Minkoff Team Up to Bring 'Mr. Peabody & Sherman' to the Big Screen"
  3. ↑ DreamWorks Animation Investor Relations - "DreamWorks Animation Announces Feature Film Release Slate Through 2014"
  4. ↑ DreamWorks Animation Investor Relations - "Gregg Taylor Named DreamWorks Animation's Head of Development and Alex Schwartz Named Producer of Mr. Peabody & Sherman"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named thr2
  6. ↑ DreamWorks Animation Investor Relations - "New Distributor Twentieth Century Fox Unveils DreamWorks Animation's Release Slate Through 2016"
  7. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named thr1
  8. ↑ Entertainment Weekly - "EXCLUSIVE: Robert Downey Jr. to star in 'Peabody and Sherman' for DreamWorks Animation" by Anthony Breznican
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named dwair1
  10. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named usatoday
  11. ↑ Box office earnings at the Internet Movie Database

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