Zippy: The Movie

Zippy: The Movie is a 2026 American animated adventure comedy film based on the Disney Channel animated television series, Zippy and produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 63rd Disney animated feature film. Written and directed by series creators Brandon Greene and Kyla Greene, it features the series' regular voice cast with Will Ferrell, Alec Baldwin, Demi Lovato, Kristen Bell, Ed Sheeran, and Jane Lynch voicing new characters. It is the first film in the Zippy: The Movie film series. In this film, Zippy finds one of the five Star Crystals that when all are gathered together can grant one wish. But then What's-It's-Face gets it and uses it power to rule Ziptown and enslave everyone in it. With the help from two teenage girls named Vanessa (Lovato) and her friend Gabi (Bell), Zippy and his friends must travel all across Manhattan and London to find the other four Star Crystals and save the world from What's-It's-Face's rule.

Disney Animation accepted an offer for a film adaptation of Zippy from Brandon Greene in 2024. Brandon and Kyla assembled a team from the show's writing staff, including Cameron Perez, Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Matt Braly, Bill Motz, and Bob Roth. The film was originally intended to serve as the series finale, but Disney ordered more episodes of the series as it had become increasingly profitable, so Kyla resigned as co-showrunner, with her brother would remain as showrunner.

Zippy: The Movie was released theatrically in the United States on June 19, 2026 and received mostly positive reviews from critics. It was also a box office success, earning over $480.7 million worldwide against its $103 million budget. At the 99th Academy Awards, the film received two nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (Ed Sheeran's "Change The World"). Two standalone sequels have been released: Zippy: The Movie 2: Family Road Zip (2037) and Zippy: The Movie 3: A Zip Through the Internet (2043).

Plot
One night, five shining objects in the sky fall all across the world. One falls near a cave in Ziptown. The next day after school, Zippy and Wet Willy try to blow the biggest bubble that could last. Zippy blows a bubble so big that it engulfs them both and carries them into a nearby cave. The bubble suddenly pops as it makes an impact with the shining object that fell from the sky last night.

Eager to discover what exactly it is, they decide to take it to the Burger Shack at the Zip Central Mall, where they explain to their friends about what they found. At first, Zack thinks that Zippy and Willy were planning to steal the Star Crystal, which is housed in the Shack, but upon attempting to return it to its spot, he realizes that what they had was, in fact, another Star Crystal which all crystals put together can grant one wish. Suddenly, Shadow, Hazel, Von Papperoth, and Freddy Bear in a ice cream truck drove by, sending out invitations to a feast in What's-It's-Face's Funhouse to apologize for his wicked behavior. Meanwhile, the twins Jack and Mack get invitations as well and they decide to head to What's-It's-Face's Dinner Party. Meanwhile, Flambo enters his dog house and Bubbles reveals that Flambo has an auto-scan replication device which he uses to scan and replicate all of Whiskers' evil inventions and that he recuited detective Chihuahua Pepe on their mission. Flambo and Jane leave the doghouse in a hovercraft to stop Dr. Whiskers.

Curious and spectacle, the crew sets off for the funhouse, but upon their arrival, they find it was a trick as What's-It's-Face and his henchmen trap Zippy and his friends in a cage when they enter. With the group trapped, What's-It's-Face takes the crystal and he and the others head to the Burger Shack to steal the other one. Displeased by the outcome, the gang escaped and head off to the mall. Open their arrival, What's-It's-Face and his attacks the Burger Shack in an attempt to steal the other Star Crystal. After a battle involving giant foods and condiments, What-It's-Face attempts to steal the crystal, but he and Zippy tries to stop him. While Zippy and What's-It's-Face fight over the Star Crystal, Shadow steals the Zip Burger secret formula and sells it to the Sugar Rush Candy Company in Manhattan.

Slugger, roller skating out of control, accidentally swipes the Star Crystal leading to a chase around the mall and Ziptown. The crystal falls into the sewer. Without the secret formula, Zip Burgers cannot be made, causing customers to become ravenous. What's-It's-Face, realizing that the Star Crystals could grant a wish once put together decides to find them. Zippy creates a giant soap bubble, in which he flies away. Ziptown is immediately reduced to a wasteland due to the absence of the much-relied-on Zip Burger. Flambo and Jane crash into Dr. Whiskers' lab but are trapped. While Floppy and Baby Bert leave the lair assist Whiskers in repairing his new invention the Power-Consuming Staff, Jane helps her and Flambo to escape and head to Manhattan.

Zippy and Wet Willy propose teaming up with their friends to find the the Star Crystals. When they get chased by an angry mob, they run away and decide to leave Ziptown until it's back to normal. That night, they camp in the middle of nowhere and lament that if they don't save Ziptown, they will never see any of their friends or do any of the fun things they used to do again, causing Zippy and Willy to be sad and miss their old lives. However, they find an old plane and use it to fly around the world to find the Star Crystals. What's-It's-Face finds out about this and rides his helicopter after the duo. What's-It's-Face uses Bomb Charges to take down the plane and the Zippy and Willy fall down the river and into the sewers. This leaves What's-It's-Face and his henchmen to look for the three other shining objects, the Star Crystals, in peace.

After going into the sewers and enter Manhattan, New York City, they decide to head around the town to find the other Star Crystals and settle the score with What's-It's-Face. Meanwhile, What's-It's-Face meets Dr. Whiskers and he gives him the staff to use the Star Crystal's power. They invite many of Zippy's foes and persuades them to get the other Star Crystals, destroy Zippy, and conquer Ziptown.

While exploring around the city, they stop at Baruch College where they run into the CEO of Sugar Rush Candy Company, Kurt T. Clampitt and he and his loyal butler Edmonton take them a tour around the campus, while also revealing that he was Mr. Baxworth and What's-It'-Face's old college roommate. Zippy and Wet Willy meet two college students named Vanessa Duncan and Gabi Buyer and they followed them to their class. Zippy tells them that they came to Manhattan to find the Star Crystals to save Ziptown and they need their help. Vanessa isn't having two zip kids following her around, but Gabi wants Zippy and Willy to stay since Vanessa has the Star Crystal. Vanessa agrees to this and she and Gabi take Zippy and Wet Willy to their room to see Flambo and Jane with Vanessa's pet Chihuahua Pepe is.

Back in Ziptown, Ceela, Jenny, Zoomie, Jolly, and Pinky find out that Zippy and Wet Willy are missing and convinces everyone in town to form a search party for the two. Ceela and Jenny have them search in dangerous places. After hours of searching with no success, they all want a break, but Pinky does not relent and demands that no one leaves until they find Zippy and Willy. What's-It's-Face and other villains show up and attack Ziptown. They storm the mall and Burger Shack and trap Mr. Baxworth and Zack in a toilet, but Slugger, Franklin, and the Burger Shack employees stall them long enough for Ceela, Jenny, Zoomie, Jolly, Pinky, Billy, and Frankie to escape. The Lange Brothers accidentally reveals that Zippy and Wet Willy have gone to retrieve the Star Crystals. What's-It's-Face sends Shadow, Von, Teddy, Baby Bert, Floppy, Pastrilum, and Vandit to track them down. Billy, Frankie, and the employees are trapped in the kitchen while Ceela, Jenny, Zoomie, Jolly, and Pinky are thrown out of the city. They witness their beloved city of becoming worst and What's-It's-Face declares himself Emperor of Ziptown. Finding out that Zippy and Wet Willy are in Manhattan decide to go there.

The next day, Zippy, Wet Willy, Vanessa, and Gabi head to class, while Flambo, Jane, and Pepe turn on the TV and Pepe's boss Agent 60 appears on screen. Agent 60 informs that someone is on the verge of searching for all the Star Crystals and might use them for something terrible. Jane gets the idea to team up with Zippy and his friends to stop this. During class, Wet Willy defends a student named Dylan from bullies and Zippy helps Vanessa with her relationship with her boyfriend, Brian Paul, an exchange student from London. Brian asked Vanessa if she and Gabi would like to go to his party During a walk around the campus, they discovered a device that could find the Star Crystals and discovered about Clampitt's true nature. Clampitt finds out and sends his robots after Zippy and Willy, but Vanessa and Gabi help them escape, not before Clampitt realized Vanessa has one of the Star Crystals.

Meanwhile, the gang arrive at Manhattan and they split up to find Zippy and Wet Willy. Ceela and Jenny go to a direction and Zoomie, Jolly, and Pinky go in another direction. But a series of mishaps have Zoomie and Jolly labelled quarter thieves/statue smashers, landing them in jail.