Lidsville (film)

Lidsville is a 2023 American computer-animated musical comedy film directed by Conrad Vernon and written by George Clooney. Based on the psychedelic children's series of the same name from the 1970's created by Sid and Marty Krofft, the music scores were composed by Alan Menken who was known for composing multiple musical scores for Walt Disney Animation Studios films.

Produced by Sid & Marty Krofft Productions & DreamWorks Animation, the film premiered on January 1, 2023 by DreamWorks Animation and recieved positive reviwes from critics. It grossed $340 million at the box office and resulted in a major upgrade for DreamWorks Animation.

This is the sixth Sid and Marty Krofft property to be turned into a film, and the first film adaptation to be entirely animated in CGI.

Plot
A young boy named Mark attends a magic show performed by Merlo the Magician. Then, Mark finds his hat and decides to take a look. But, he gets too close to the edge and fell inside the hat. When he comes out on the other side, he found himself in the middle of a new world called "Lidsville", the land of living hats. The hats act just like normal people who would normally wear them, Mark soon gets into the fun they get into. But, not all is happy and peaceful, for an evil magician named Horatio J. Hoodoo (or HooDoo for short) his Bad Hat minions, his dimwitted henchman rabbit: Raunchy, his master Imperial Wizard, and the Jack of Clubs want to take over Lidsville. Along the way, Mark also meets a genie named Weenie, who had trouble doing magic. Together, they all team up to stop HooDoo and his minions before they destroy Lidsville...forever. With tons of music, singing, dancing, &amp; tons of excitement, this film will literally "filp you whole family's lids!"

Heroes
Frank Welker as Scorchy Jim Nabors as Tex Zachary Levi as Tonsilini Maurice LaMarche as Hiram Mark Hamill as Little Ben Jensen Ackles as Admiral Scuttlebutt Bob Bavnani as Big Chief Sitting Duck Seth Green as Weenie the Genie
 * Noah Schnapp as Mark
 * Troy Baker as Rah-Rah
 * Laura Bailey as Madame Ring-a-Ding
 * Cree Summer as Mother Wheels
 * Stephanie Seph as Nursie
 * Jason Ian Drucker as Twirly
 * Tim Curry as Colonel Poom
 * Shan Xi as Mr. Chow
 * Steve Blum (in a French accent) as Pierre LeSewer

Villains
Christopher Sabat as Horatio J. HooDoo/HooDoo Tom Kenny as Raunchy Multiple as Jack of Clubs The Bad Hats Crispin Freeman as Mr. Big Albert Hensley (in a pirate accent) as Captain Hooknose Gary Oldman (in his Translyvanian accent) as Bela Keith David as Boris Rob Paulsen as Imperial Wizard

Production
On January 31, 2011, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation was adapting Lidsville to make a 3-D animated musical. The feature would be directed by Conrad Vernon, and the music would be composed by Alan Menken, known for composing multiple musical scores for Walt Disney Animation Studios films. Menken stated that, "The songs will be an homage to '60s psychedelic concept-album rock." In January 2013, he posted on Twitter that "Lidsville is underway... Finally." The lyrics would be written by Glenn Slater, a frequent Menken collaborator. In June 2016, Sid Krofft said in an interview about the project: "It was going to be like Hair or Tommy, a full-blown musical. But they went in a strange direction and it just didn't work." Then, the project was revived again, and they pitched it after New Year's Eve.

Release
The movie was released in theaters on January 1, 2023 and on DVD on January 6, 2023.

Reception
The movie was smash hit at the box office, praising the film for staying true and blue to the original series with its psychedelicy and style of the 70s.

Trivia

 * Pierre LeSewer can't come out of the sewers because he is too ugly, but looks more like a handsome warrior.
 * All of the characters in Lidsville are all in CGI, similar to other DreamWorks Animation movies.