The ChubbChubbs!
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Directed by | Eric Armstrong |
Written by | Jeff Wolverton |
Produced by | Jacquie Barnbook |
Starring | Bradford Simonsen, Jeff Wolverton, Mortonette Jenkins, Peter Lurie, Rick Zieff |
Cinematography | Thor Freudenthal, Kevin Johnson, Brian Kindregan, Sean Mullen, Vladimir Todorov (storyboard artists) |
Edited by | Robert Gordon |
Music by | Chance Thomas |
Distributed by | Theatrical Realese: Columbia Pictures (2002, with Stuart Little 2 and Men in Black II.) |
Release date | 2002 |
Running time | 0 hr. 5 min. |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
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.
On August 8, 2007, a sequel short film The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas was released, playing in theaters before TriStar Pictures' Daddy Day Camp.
Cast
- Bradford Simonsen as Meeper , a troll/turtle-like alien who finds the ChubbChubbs
- Jeff Wolverton as the 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
Trivia
- This film was created using Autodesk Maya.
- 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 U.S. release of the PSP game Frantix, and features Meeper as a playable character.
- 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.
External links
- The ChubbChubbs! page at Sony Pictures' website
- The ChubbChubbs! at IMDb
- The ChubbChubbs! page at Sony Pictures Imageworks' website
- The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas page at Sony Pictures Imageworks' website