Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls (Cartoon Network Movies)

Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls is a traditional animated musical feature film produced by Cartoon Network, and was released on July 4, 2020 by Cartoon Network Studios. It is the first theatrical Warner Bros. film to be 2D since Looney Tunes: Back in Action. The film focuses on Milky Way as she moves to outer space and befriends Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, and Mars. Most of the entire voice cast from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic voice their character roles. Tara Strong sings the theme song of Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls for the film's end credits and soundtrack album.

Plot
The film tells the origin story of the titular characters.

Voice cast

 * Cathy Cavadini as Annie - The main protagonist
 * Tara Strong as Milky Way - The secondary main protagonist who lives in her home called Galaxy.
 * Ashleigh Ball as Pluto and Jupiter
 * Pluto is a rockstar girl with a cold attitude, but a good heart within her.
 * Jupiter is a peace-animal loving gal who wants to make sure the earth is clean. Her accent is inspired by Applejack's.
 * Andrea Libman as Venus and Mars
 * Venus is a peace-loving girl who knows that violence is not the way, and respect is what she and the galaxy girls wants.
 * Mars is the only galaxy girl in the main five group who is an alien and loves to do arts and crafts.
 * Nicole Oliver as Uranus - The assistant to Milky Way who is smart, but travels with Milky Way occasionally.
 * Tabitha St. Germain as Sun - The galaxy girl who rise the sun over the half of the earth and rules over the Galaxy with Moon.
 * Christina Ricci as Moon - The moody girl who rules over the galaxy with Sun by her side.
 * Mark Acheson as Black Hole - The main antagonist



Production
Back in the year 2004, Disney's Home on the Range had became a critical and box-office failure, that the called of hand-drawn animation was close down, bringing computer animation films onward. The team had decided to bring back the traditional films that both kids and adults had miss, as much as they do. Lauren Faust, the creator of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, stated that Cartoon Network Studios' new film Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls will be a 2D film, but will be done in Flash animation. Lauren Faust had also stated that this will be her direct debut, as she had left Sony Pictures Animation when working on a project Medusa. Guillermo del Toro, known producer for The Book of Life, agree to produced the film, with John Lasseter being executive producer, and Craig McCracken will be the co-director. They will later on agree to call Alan Menken to compose the score for the film. Alan Menken will later on agree, seeing on how he miss working with The Walt Disney Company since his last score for the animated film was Tangled. The film was made using Toon Boom Animation.

Trivia

 * This is Alan Menken's first Cartoon Network Movies theatrical score, and his first animated film score since Disney's Tangled.

Credits

 * Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls (Cartoon Network Movies)/Credits