Finding Tulip (2016)

Finding Tulip is a 2017 American animated comedy-drama romantic-adventure film produced by TSG Entertainment, DreamWorks Animation, Lord Miller Productions, Vertigo Entertainment, and Lin Pictures, and released and Disturbed by 20th Century Fox under their rights to present on the film. Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Nicholas Stroller, produced by Lindsey Collins and Doug Sweetland, and written by Victoria Strouse, the film is the sequel to Storks (2016). and Finding Dax (2006) Katie Crown, Tom Holland, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, J.K Simmons, Andy Samburg, Casper Jennings, Charlie Day, John C. Relly, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Danny Pudi, Lil Rel Howley, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Danny Trejo, Sam Richardson, Diane Keaton, Will Forte, with Kid Cudi, and Adam Scott joining the cast. The film focuses on the almost amnesiac girl Tulip (Crown), who journeys to be reunited with her parents (Keaton and Scott).

Paramount planned to make a sequel to Finding Dax since 2009, tasking its new studio Circle Seven Animation after disagreements with DreamWorks. Though it never went into production, a script was uploaded to the official Raindance Film Festival website that includes elements of the unmade script. Paramount's acquisition of DreamWorks in early 2006 led to the cancellation of Circle Seven's version of the film. However, After 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to partnership with DreamWorks Animation in 2013, after the final Paramount/DreamWorks film of Rise of The Guardians, A DreamWorks-made sequel was announced in April 2013 as the schedule for a November 2017 release. The fictional Marine Life Institute depicted extensively in the film is based on the production team's research trips to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Marine Mammal Center and the Vancouver Aquarium. Thomas Newman returned to compose the score.

Finding Tulip premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 18th, 2017, and was released in theaters in the United States on June 17. It received widespread praise from critics, like its predecessor, for its animation, emotional weight, voice acting and humor. The film earned $1.029 billion worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as the third-highest-grossing film of 2017 and the fourth-highest-grossing animated film at the time. Finding Tulip set numerous box office records, including the biggest opening for an animated film in North America and the highest-grossing animated film in North America.

Plot:
For generations, the storks of Stork Mountain delivered babies to families around the world, until one stork named Jasper imprinted on an infant girl and attempted to keep her safe for himself, Tulip, a red-haired girl lived with her family ever since, but she gets separated from her parents, Jenny and Charlie, as a child. As she grows up, Eighteen years later, Tulip, now a young adult, tries to promote new ideas on how to find her family, which backfire and cause the city to lose help. Tulip attempts to search for them, but gradually almost forgets them due to her short-term memory loss. Later, she joins the stork Junior looking for Dax Mallard.

One year after meeting Junior, Dax, and her friends: Ralph, Luigi, and Flux, Tulip is living with them in their reef when she's nineteen years old. Tulip bumps into a teenager later adult named Walter Beckett who usually had a crush on her. One day, Tulip has a flashback and remembers her parents. She decides to look for them, but her memory problem is an obstacle. She suddenly remembers that they lived at the "Jewel of Rainforest, Jamaican" across the ocean when Dax mentions the name.

The team accompany Tulip on her journey. With the help of Crash, their parrot friend, they ride the Current to Jamaican. Upon arrival, they explore a shipwreck full of lost cargo, where Tulip accidentally awakens a giant Humboldt squid that pursues them and almost devours Dax and Luigi. They manage to trap the squid and Junior chastises Tulip for endangering them as every time she tries to help. Tulip travels to the surface to seek help, where she is captured by staff members from the Marine Life Institute. Meanwhile, a nasty and rude villain named Mr. Big who is attempt to capture Tulip for a million dollars, and plot his evil plans to destroy the forest to make an amusement park.

Walter and Tulip is placed in quarantine and tagged. There they meets a rude, sarcastic, and cynical but well-meaning safe-cracking machine snake named Mr. Snake. Tulip's tag marks her for transfer to an aquarium in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr Snake, who fears being released back into the ocean, agrees to help Walter and Tulip find her parents in exchange for her tag, and stop Mr. Big for destroying the Rainforest. In one exhibit, Tulip encounters her childhood friend Jenny, a nearsighted white crane, who used to communicate with Tulip through pipes, and Benny, a white goose, who mistakenly believes he has lost his ability to echolocate. and a wisecracking pigeon who is the leader of NYC Pigeon gang: Chump who befriend her as she helps Tulip, Snake and Walter to find her family, Tulip subsequently has flashbacks of life with her parents and struggles to recall details. She couldn't tell to her friends, But as a secret, she finally remembers how she was separated from her parents: she overheard her mother crying one night, left to retrieve a shell to cheer her up, and was pulled away by an undertow current out into the ocean. Tulip's friends attempts to reunite with Tulip while helping her to find her family.

Junior and Dax attempt to rescue Tulip and stop the villain. With the help of the birds and two lazy California dogs named Ron and Jon and a common loon named Becky, they manage to get into the institute and find her in the pipe system. After being chased by fellow aggressive Cane Corso Walter, Tulip, Chump, Snake, and the gang accidentally landed in the Kid Zone, where the children touches birds with hands, Snake and Chump gives a goodbye to Walter and Tulip. As later then, then reunited with Tulip. The search party continues. The team encounters Jasper who had followed them from Stork Mountain. Jasper has nearly repaired Tulip's delivery beacon, but is missing one piece, which had been in Tulip's possession for years. Other people and birds tell them that Tulip's parents escaped from the institute a long time ago to search for her and never came back, leaving Tulip to believe that they are dead. Snake retrieves Tulip from the tank, accidentally leaving the team behind. He is then apprehended by one of the employees and unintentionally drops Tulip and Walter into the drain, flushing her out to the ocean and dark forest.

While wandering aimlessly, Tulip cries sadly as Walter talks to her. She tells how she lost her family. she overheard her mother crying one night, left to retrieve a shell to cheer her up, and was pulled away by an undertow current out into the river. Walter tells that he lost his too. His mother died since on her duty. And he lost his father since he got cancer and died in a car accident. Walter confesses his feelings for Tulip, as he holds her hand and touches her cheek. They kissed as they blushed. Later, they comes across a trail of shells; remembering that when Tulip was young, her family had set out a similar trail to help her find her way back home, Walter and Tulip follows it. At the end of the trail, Tulip finds an empty brain coral with multiple shell trails leading to it. As she turns to leave, her parents arrive. They tell her they spent years laying down the trails for her to follow in the hopes that she would eventually find them. Walter given a thanks by her family.

Junior, Dax, Chump, Snake, Ralph, Luigi, Danny and the gang end up in the truck taking various aquatic creatures to Cleveland. Benny and Jenny escape from their exhibit to help Walter and Tulip rescue them. Mr. Big attempts to destroy the Stork gang as he chases them. Once onboard the truck, Walter and Tulip persuades Snake and Chump to return to the rainforest with her, and together, they hijack the truck and drive it over busy highways, and creating havoc, Chump leaves Tito to drive and saves Tulip where she is captured by Mr. Big, while Chump, Tulip and Walter are thrown from Mr Big's car and back into the truck and onto the pavement of the Brooklyn Bridge just before an oncoming train strikes Mr Big's car, killing him. before crashing it into the sea, freeing all the animals. Tulip, along with her family and new friends, returns to the street, with Junior and Dax. Mr Snake and Chump begins to adapt a happy lifestyle in the ocean and also becomes a teacher for Dax's school. Tulip goes into the drop-off while Walter insist Junior to go spend tine to talk to her. Walter confesses his feelings for Tulip and told her that he loved her. as he holds her hand and touches her cheek, They kissed as they blushed. They watched the view, knowing that it's unforgettable.

In a post-credits scene, the Tank Cage (from Finding Dax), still trapped inside their plastic bags, after one year floating across the Pacific Forest, reach Jamaican; they are picked up by staff members from the Marine Life Institute, much to their dismay. Meantime, Ron and Jon’s enemy Gerald tries to sneak on to their rock.

Voice Cast:

 * Katie Crown as Tulip, an 19-year-old orphan girl human worker, who wishes to find her biological family and had a crush on Walter Beckett. The main protagonist.
 * Tom Holland as Walter Beckett, a socially inept scientific genius who graduated from MIT at age 18 and designs gadgets. Tulip's love interest and the main protagonist.
 * Marc Maron as Mr. Snake, a feisty, sarcastic, cynical but well-meaning safe-cracking snake who befriend Tulip.
 * Awkwafina as Chump, a pigeon who is the leader of a New York City pigeon gang and befriend Tulip.
 * Andy Samberg as Junior, a white stork who is the father of Dax Mallard.
 * Casper Jennings as Dax Mallard, Junior's confident, fearless, daring, and restless playful teenager son.
 * J.K Simmons as Mr. Big, a cold-hearted, immoral loan shark and shipyard agent who lent a considerable sum of money in order to build an amusement park and expects it paid back.
 * Kaitlin Olson as Jenny, a nearsighted white stork who was Tulip's childhood friend.
 * Ty Burrell as Benny, a beluga whale, who temporarily lost echolocation due to a concussion.
 * Charlie Day as Luigi, a fellow-looking plumber who is one of Tulip's best friends and tends to panic.
 * John C. Reily as Ralph, a strong and aggressive friend of Tulip's.