The Star vs. the Forces of Evil Movie

Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Movie is a 2020 American animated adventure action fantasy-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Animation Studios, directed by Daron Nefcy and co-directed by Joss Whedon. It's based on the 2015 animated TV series. It will be released on April 24, 2030.

Synopsis
Star and Marco adapt to their new lives several months after Earth and Mewni merge together and explore the new world that they had created, but when an old and familiar enemy returns with a new army and a new found power to seek revenge, Star discovers a secret that leads to something far darker than Magic itself and must face her greatest challenge yet...

(Extended): The Story is set Two years after the events of the TV series' fourth and final season, After the dimensions of Earth and Mewni are "cleaved" together, Star Butterfly and her best friend Marco Diaz, who are now 16-17 years old, begin their new lives together as a couple, while the Mewmans and Monsters learn to adjust to life without magic, and the Humans learn to get used to co-existing with the abundance of other creatures in Echo Creek, which is now Earth-ni.

Meanwhile, Mina Loveberry has been organizing a plan to exact her revenge on Star and her Family for her defeat, the destruction of the Realm of Magic, and the loss of her solarian army. When Star and Marco discover her plan, they and their friends work together to stop Mina and save their home.

Plot
Star Butterfly, back to residing in the Diaz residence two years prior, is tasked on doing her daily chores. Later that day she, her boyfriend Marco Diaz, her ex-boyfriend Tom Lucitor, and Kelly are at Britta's Tacos talking about the all-day marathon of Youths on Sunday with Pony Head. Elsewhere, Mina Loveberry, the former warrior of Mewni, her pet crow, Sebastian, and her accomplice Manfred, who was previously a servant to the Butterfly family, return for vengeance.

As Sunday arrives, Marco tasks Star into driving to Emilio's to get the pizza for the marathon. Driving there, she spots Mina downtown. Stopping by to confront her, Mina claims that she has changed her ways and wants to set things right. But Star, distrustful of Mina over what she tried to do to her, her family, and the entire kingdom of Mewni in the past, refuses to believe her and drives off. Later that night, a mob of people arrive at the Diazs' house to apprehend Star after being manipulated by Mina that Star had "deliberately" destroyed all magic throughout the universe and caused the merge. Fortunately, she escapes and flees town, accompanied by Marco, Tom, and Pony Head. With the police on their trail, Star suggests they find somewhere to lay low until the search is called off; to which Marco chooses staying with her grandmother in Mexico.

In their absence, Mina has taken control of the town and had forced the citizens to imprison the monsters and the Butterfly family, which was followed by enslaving the human citizens. During their stay, Marco discovers about Mina's takeover through the news, prompting them to go back and save their home, except Star; who is upset over the fact that, in her efforts to stop Mina's plan by destroying all the magic in the universe and bring peace to Mewni, she only drove her desire to get rid of monsters even further, and refuses to go back, knowing that the Mewman townspeople have shown no respect for her or her family anymore, leading Marco to call her out on her selfish behavior since the past two years and her decision to neglect saving her friends and family, and He and the others leave her behind to save Echo Creek on their own. The next morning, Star finds a note from Marco, saying that he cannot decide whether or not he can live being with her unless she changes. Star, realizing her selfish decision,  goes out to help rescue her friends and family and set things right.

Returning home, Marco and the gang find the town now desolated and run-down after the past three days. Overhead, Sebastian spots them entering the town from a distance and flies off to inform Mina of their presence. Upon hearing the news, Mina despatches a group of hunters who followed her to capture Marco and the others. Marco and the gang encounter Mina's hunters and get into a standoff before charging into battle against one another. Meanwhile, Star is still behind, but she was fortunately given a lift by a generous truck driver. When the truck driver asks where Star is heading, she says that she is heading back to Echo Creek, explaining how she was inadvertently responsible for causing the merge between Earth and Mewni after destroying magic to save her home and doesn't know if she can forgive herself for the decision she made. The truck driver tells her to not beat herself up over it, saying that she did what she thought was right, and explains that her past mistakes don't define who she is, she can't change what she's done in the past, but she can change the future. Star remarks that she can't change the future alone, to which the Driver tells her that she has friends she can rely on, and encourages her to face her fears that are holding her back. This gives Star a boost of confidence and she exclaims that her friends need her in order to save their home.

Arriving at Echo Creek, Star and the truck driver find the town in ruins. Star thanks the driver for the ride as she prepares to go find her friends and the driver wishes her luck before driving away. After exploring the ruins of the town, Star finds her friends defeated and captured by Mina's forces. From there, she confronts Mina and demands her to release her friends and all the people and monsters she had confined, to which Mina refuses, stating that Star took everything from her when she destroyed the Realm of Magic, and now she's going to return the favor by taking everything from her, claiming she will not stop until she makes every single human, mewman, and monster suffer for what she and her family had done. Star, discovering Pony Head picking the lock on her friends' cage, engages Mina in combat to stall so the others can escape.

Once Star's friends have freed all the monsters as well as the human and Mewman citizens, they all agree to join forces to fight against Mina's hunters and save the town. During the battle, Sebastian immediately swoops in from above and relentlessly attacks Tom, seeking to get back at him for scaring his eye with fire a long time ago. Marco jumps in to help Tom and swings a club at Sebastian to get him away from his friend. Sebastian dodges Marco's attacks and circles around to counterattack, but is hit in the wing by an arrow shot from a monster ally, crashes into a wall, and is crushed by falling debris, killing him instantly. Marco and Tom then continue to help the allied citizens of Mewni Creek defeat several more of Mina's followers. Recognizing that they are losing the battle, Manfred attempts to escape the chaos only to be cornered and captured by several more citizens who joined the fight.

After all the citizens are freed from captivity and Mina's forces defeated, they all look on Star's fight with Mina atop the abandoned Butterfly castle. Star angrily tells Mina that she used to believed that she was her idol, her hero, that she looked up to her as a young girl, and how she protected Mewni from danger, but now sees that she only wants to hurt innocent people, including monsters, to which Mina replies that all her actions in getting rid of monsters were out of loyalty to Queen Solaria, and Star and her family ruined everything, but Star, knowing her true motives, asks whether they were really for Queen Solaria or for herself, remarking that she was the one who betrayed her family and the kingdom, tried to hurt monsters, that her actions would've destroyed Mewni because of what she did, and she is the real monster. This enrages Mina and she attack Star relentlessly. Following a brief struggle, Mina eventually gains the upper-hand and prepares to finish her off. However, Star notices the balcony behind her and summoning enough strength, kicks her away, sending her plummeting to her death, and ending her threat for good.

With Mina dead and the townspeople freed, Star receives their forgiveness and respect, those who sided with Mina are arrested and sent to prison for their crimes, and they begin to rebuild the town soon after. One month after the final battle, Echo Creek is renovated, everyone goes back to their normal lives, and Star returns to the Diaz residence, reconciling with Marco, and the two give each other a hug.

In a post-credits scene, Janna Ordonia, fellow friend of Star and Marco, has returned from her trip and asked the five teens if anything happened during her absence; to which Star replies, "Not much."



Trivia

 * Nefcy has stated that in the future she would like to see a continuation of the series, such as a film adaptation, another season, or a spin-off.
 * The running time for this film is 2 Hours.
 * The Film is Set after the events of "Cleaved".
 * The Film is Set after the events of "Cleaved".

Reception
The film received positive reviews from fans and critics. Many fans said that Joss Whedon did a wonderful job co-directing the film and voicing as a new character in the film. They give it 8 out of 10 stars.

Tagline
After the finale, the series became the first ever fully animated film like your never seen before.

The Battle Between Good and Evil will never be seen like it before.

Music
The film features a song titled "Night Skies" performed by American singer Adam Young of Owl City.

Transcript

 * Star/Transcript
 * Star/Trailer Transcripts

Logo Variations

 * The current Walt Disney Pictures logo is in black, and the castle is replaced with the Mewni castle, with a rainbow forming in place of the curved line. The rainbow then burns. And the byline says the word "Presents" on the bottom. The regular variation is used during the end credits.
 * The Walt Disney Animation Studios logo plays at the end credits, but without the Walt Disney Animation Studios logo at the beginning, and the background is black. Star and Marco appear in the beginning of the logo, with Marco asking Star why isn't the logo starting to stay like that. Star fixes the logo with her wand using two hands, revealing the logo using magic. Marco thanks Star for bringing the logo back with her wand.

Opening and Closing Credits
* Before the opening name credits where was the opening scene first in the beginning after the Disney presents logo.

* At the end of the movie there was a Scrolling Credits instead of the Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story, Music, and other closing credits stuff.

Animation
Despite being based on a Disney animated TV series, the film was jointly produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation, Rough Draft Feature Animation, Mercury Filmworks, Toon City Animation and Sugarcube. Development began at Disney TV Animation in Glendale and pre-production was done at the main WDAS studio in Burbank. Walt Disney Animation Studios, Rough Draft Feature Animation, Mercury Filmworks, Toon City Animation, and Sugarcube all worked together on the animation with the additional scenes animated at Rough Draft's sister studio in South Korea and clean-up work done at the main Burbank studio. Additional clean-up animation was done by Sunwoo Entertainment, Studio B. Productions, Yowza Animation, James Baxter Animation, July Films, Hanho Heung-Up, HGN Produções, A. Film A/S, Neomis Animation, Estudio Moro, SPA Animagic, Milimetros, and Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd., with digital ink-and-paint done at Collingwood & Company and Terraglyph Productions.

Cast

 * Eden Sher as Star Butterfly
 * Adam McArthur as Marco Diaz
 * Jenny Slate as Flying Princess Pony Head (aka Pony Head)
 * Alan Tudyk as Ludo and King Butterfly
 * Esmé Bianco as Eclipsa Butterfly
 * Grey Griffin as Jackie Lynn Thomas, Queen Butterfly and others
 * Abby Elliott as Janna
 * Fred Tatasciore as Buff Frog
 * Chris Tergliafera as Rasticore
 * Matt Chapman as Alfonzo
 * Nate Torrence as Ferguson
 * Jon Heder as Oskar Greason
 * Minae Noji as Brittney Wong
 * Dee Dee Rescher as Miss Skullnick
 * Artt Butler as Rafael Diaz
 * Nia Vardalos as Angie Diaz
 * Maurice LaMarche as King Pony Head and others
 * Tony Hale as Pie King
 * Amy Sedaris as Mina Loveberry
 * Jonny Rees as Manfred
 * TBA as Sebastian
 * Jon Heder as Oskar Greason
 * Minae Noji as Brittney Wong
 * Dee Dee Rescher as Miss Skullnick
 * Artt Butler as Rafael Diaz
 * Nia Vardalos as Angie Diaz
 * Maurice LaMarche as King Pony Head and others
 * Tony Hale as Pie King
 * Amy Sedaris as Mina Loveberry
 * Jonny Rees as Manfred
 * TBA as Sebastian

Short film
On June 3, 2019, Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Animation Studios are proud to the all-new animated featurette short of the 2016 fully feature film Moana gets a new title called Moana: Tamatoa's Returns. The first animated short film is directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, produced by Osnat Shurer and the former Dreamworks Animation filmmaker Mark Swift in his first Disney film with a executive producer Brigham Taylor instead of John Lasseter is left from the studio and written by Jared Bush, Steve Hulett, Burny Mattinson and Marc E. Smith and the voices of the reprises and return of Dwayne Johnson as Maui and Aui'li Cravalho as Moana and also the voices of Temuera Morrison, Nicole Schrezinger, Alan Tudyk as Hei Hei the chicken and the new character Earakai and Jemaine Clements as Tamatoa the meanst coconut / hermit crab-like crabnelilious that collecting shiny objects to keep all the treasure safe from the intruders (expect thieves like humans).

The film has been released on limted edition engagement in front of Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Movie on November 25, 2022 and has been television released to Disney+ on February 17, 2023.

Marketing Partners
Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Movie from Walt Disney Pictures is proud to the partners from:
 * Mars / Wrigley (Hubba Bubba)
 * Kraft (Macaroni & Cheese shapes & Lunchables)
 * HSN.com
 * Kohl's
 * Covergirl
 * Neutrogena
 * Sparkling Ice
 * SC Johnson (Ziploc)
 * TCBY
 * Ebay
 * Kellogg's (cereals and Pop Tarts)
 * Verizon
 * McDonalds (Happy Meals and color changing cups offers only)
 * and Best Western

Credits
Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Movie (Credits)