Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (film)

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is a 2003 American animated adventure comedy film based on the Japanese pop rock group Puffy AmiYumi. It was directed by Scott O'Brien, produced by Renegade Animation and Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, with animation provided by Rough Draft Studios. The film features a ensemble cast with Janice Kawaye and Grey DeLisle as the main characters, alongside Keone Young, Jeffrey Tambor, Renée Zellweger, Patrick Warburton, Susan Egan, Olivia Holt, Bebe Neuwirth, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Stoller, Raven-Symoné, Bella Thorne, Rob Paulsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Brad Garrett, Andy Dick, Tom Kenny, Angela Bassett, Melba Moore, Phil LaMarr, Aubrey Plaza, and John Rhys-Davies. In Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Ami goes out on a journey of twists with her friend, Yumi and turns to get back Kaz Industries after his second-in-command replacement, Julie.

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi was released on July 18, 2003 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received generally positive reviews and was a box office success, grossing $173 million worldwide against a $76 million budget and later gaining a cult following through television syndication and its home video release. This film along with fellow Victor Hugo Pictures animated film Super Hedgehog, Sony Pictures's The Triplets of Belleville, Disney's Brother Bear and Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo were nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003, ultimately losing to Finding Nemo. It was the second Cartoon Network theatrical film, first being The Powerpuff Girls Movie. The film made its television debut on Cartoon Network on November 12, 2004 to promote the TV Series based on this film.

Due to its success, the film was spun off into a Cartoon Network television series titled Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, which premiered on November 19, 2004 and ended on June 27, 2006. A sequel, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi 2, was released on September 8, 2006.

Plot
In 1983, Ami Onuki is an aspiring young musician from Machida, Tokyo who idolizes Kaz, an duo's well-intentioned yet money-grubbing manager, whose successes are usually balanced out by his foolish decisions, Ami buy a cat named Tekirai to assist her father Phil Onuki. When Phil's neighborhood confronts them, Tekirai panics and wreaks havoc in the outside, leaving Phil in debt. To help Phil pay for the damages and starting to be singer and musician, Ami decides to move to United States, hoping to present Tekirai to Kaz Industries in order to get a job there; despite objections from her mother Jane, Phil encourages Ami to pursue her dream, as he gave up her musical ambitions for forming a band and has regretted it ever since. Upon arrival at United States, Ami is kicked out from Kaz Industries by her second-in-command Julie, who in Kaz's absence has stopped producing band, thereby "Pop rock" band who are unable or refuse to play for them. Juile's father, Bill Blake, runs the Abandon Shop, a facility that collects scrap and broken parts with trucks, and melts them to create ashes.

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