The Butter Battle Book-new movie

This film is from the makers of Horton hesrs a who and the Grinch (2018 film)

It begins, with a story about the Yooks and the Zooks who once lived on opposite sides of a long curving wall. The Yooks wear blue clothes; the Zooks wear orange.

the grandpa tells his grandson, "Here we're the yooks, and on the other side of the wall live the zooks!"

The primary dispute between the two cultures was that the Yooks ate their bread with the butter-side up, while the Zooks ate their bread with the butter-side down. The conflict between the two sides lead to an escalating arms race, which results in the threat of mutual assured destruction.

The race begins when a Zook patrolman named Van Itch slingshots the Yook patrolman's "Tough-Tufted Prickly Snick-Berry Switch" (a many-pronged whip) in other words, a rude guy named Van Icth destorys the whip with his own slingshot, making the other Yooks howl in laughter. An owl observes saying, "whoo dear!"

Then, the Yooks then develop a machine with three slingshots interlinked, called a "Triple-Sling Jigger". This works once; but the Zooks counterattack with their own creation: The "Jigger-Rock Snatchem", a machine with three nets to fling the rocks fired by the Triple-Sling Jigger back to the Yooks' side.

The Yooks then create a gun called the "Kick-A-Poo Kid", loaded with "powerful Poo-A-Doo powder and ants' eggs and bees' legs and dried-fried clam chowder", and carried by a dog named Daniel.

The Zooks counterattack with an "Eight-Nozzled Elephant-Toted Boom Blitz", a machine that shoots "high-explosive sour cherry stone pits". The Yooks then devise the "Utterly Sputter": a large blue vehicle intended "to sprinkle some blue goo all over the Zooks".

The Zooks counterattack with a Sputter identical to the Yooks'. Eventually, each side possesses a small but extremely destructive red bomb called the "Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo", and neither has any defense against it.

No resolution is reached by the book's end, with the generals of both sides on the wall poised to drop their bombs and waiting for the other to strike. The Yook patrolman's grandson (who had followed his grandfather to the wall) asks, "Who's gonna drop it? Will you or will he?" To which he replies, "Be patient. We'll see. We will see." In the end, the Yooks and Zooks learn to set their differances aside.

Coming soon to DVD, based on the book by Dr. Seuss