The ChubbChubbs!

The ChubbChubbs!
The ChubbChubbs! film poster
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

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