Green Avenger: A Pingu Movie

Green Avenger: A Pingu Movie (Japanese: グリーン・アヴェンジャー：ピング・ムービー) is a Swiss-Japanese-British computer animated film based on the TV series Pingu and it's Japanese spinoff Pingu in the City. The film is directed by Naomi Iwata and Takashi Watanabe and produced by Ian McCue and Keiichiro Moriya and is about Pingu seeing a mysterious green figure in the city, the green figure turns out to be a penguin from the future who has come to warn him about a crime organization that's planning on overthrowing the city government and that Pingu is the only one who'd be able to stop them.

A joint-production between Japan's Polygon Pictures, Canada's Sony Pictures ImageWorks and UK's Mattel Creations. Green Avenger: A Pingu Movie was released in Japan by Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan on July 19, 2019 and in the United States by Universal Pictures on September 6, 2019 to mixed to positive reviews from critics, with praise for the animation and voice acting on the characters but with criticism with the story being a bit too intense for Pingu. Despite those criticisms, it was a huge box office success, grossing $120 million against a $25 million budget

Plot
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Voices

 * Ryota Iwasaki
 * Fumiya Tanaka
 * John Sparkes
 * Eric Bauza
 * Omid Djalilli
 * Emma Tate
 * Frank Welker
 * Henry Burton

Production
After the release of Pingu in the City, Polygon announced that a film was being made around the same time as production on the show began. In November of 2017, Polygon announced the film's title Green Avenger: A Pingu Movie and that Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan would distribute the film in Japan while they would look for a distributor for outside of Japan.

In 2018, Polygon announced that they had partnered with Sony Pictures ImageWorks to animate the movie and that Sony had also bought the worldwide distribution rights via Columbia Pictures save for the United States and China. Universal Pictures later bought the distribution rights in the United States while China Film Group got the Chinese distribution rights.

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Release
Green Avenger: A Pingu Movie was first released in Japan and the United Kingdom on July 19, 2019. The film was later released in the United States on September 27, 2019.

Home Media
Sony Creative Products Inc released the film on 4K UHD Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray in Japan on November 12, 2019. In the United Kingdom, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released it on Blu-Ray and DVD on November 19, 2019, both the Japanese and UK releases contain an audio commentary, deleted scenes, a behind the scenes featurette, two episodes of Pingu in the City, a look into the cast of the movie and a featurette on Pingu's popularity amongst the world. The UK home media release contains an exclusive documentary on the story of the Pingu series as a whole, which was narrated by British actor Ian Holm.

In the United States, the film was first released for digital download on January 14, 2020 and later on 4K UHD Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray and DVD on February 4, 2020 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Universal's home media release brought over much of the same bonus features as the UK release, with the exception of the two Pingu in the City episodes and the Story of Pingu documentary.

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