Squirrels (2016 movie)

Squirrels is a comedy/computer rendered/3d movie by Dreamworks. It was released on July 2, 2016. It is available on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. It costs $3.44 on Amazon Prime. It cost $45 million to create. It grossed $998  million, making it one of the most successful Dreamworks movie worldwide. It was created by the creators of Shrek and Madagascar.

Synopsis
In the beginning scene, a squirrel named Nutty is walking on a tree, looking at a view of a park in a fictional large city called "Instantville". While Nutty is exploring the tree for awhile, he sees a a giant pile of nuts in a hole in the tree, He decides to check it out, but to his surprise, a another squirrel named Jay is sleeping in the hole. Nutty decides to be sneaky and slyly grab an acorn from the pile of nuts, but didnt go as planned. Instead, Jay wakes up, screaming, as Nutty screams aswell. After screaming to eachother, Jay introduces himself.

Jay and Nutty decide to hang out on the tree for awhile. Later in the film, A bragging, selfish ferret named Alan steals the acorns from Jay, in order to make money for destroying the park that Nutty lives in.After Jay and Nutty find out that the acorns are gone, they ask to help another critter named ''Emilia, a strong, sassy and kindhearted groundhog. When they find Alan, rushing away from the R.A.C.C.O.O.N ''police, a team of police raccoons that try to find suspicious critters around the town, and arrest them. Emila, Nutty and Jay decide to join the R.A.C.C.O.O.N team to chase Alan. A few minutes later of a crazy chase, The critters finally caught Alan and arrest him. And finally, Jay gets his acorns back. The squirrels and raccoons decide to throw a party in Jay's tree.

Credits
In the credits, it shows all of the critters dancing in Jay's tree, while the cast, storyboard artists and much more roll. The song called "Cake by the Ocean" is playing. There are strobe lights, dance floors, and much more as Nutty and Jay are robot-dancing, as it cuts to Emilia break-dancing and the raccoons head-bobbing. During the end of the credits, it shows Alan in his jell cell, a boarded-up wooden crate. He says to himself, "Ugh, they are having so much fun...".

Production
Squirrels was in early development in 2010. They decided to scrap the idea, but a few years later they decided to work on Squirrels again. Squirrels was originally going to be set to be released on ''December 10, 2014, but the producers decided to change it to July 2, 2016. ''A few years later, they were making storyboards, and improved character designs and names. In late 2014, new cast members joined, as Ben Stiller as Nutty and David Schwimmer as Jay. Workers of the film started doing the 3d rendered animation for the film. They decided to do some test screenings to see if the scenes were appropriate for kids. They deleted some scenes, since the audience said it was too "frightening" for kids. On early 2015, Dreamworks officially announced that Squirrels will be releasing on July 2, 2016.