The Brave African Adventure

The Brave African Adventure is a 2007 American traditionally adventure comedy drama epic film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, produced by John Musker, Ron Clements, Don Hahn and story by Tab Murphy and Guillermo del Toro. The story of a boy named Milo James Thatch who got separated from the explorers and he meet some animal friends in Africa, with a help with some friends. Milo must reunite some friends and save Africa from the threats of danger.

The film features the voices of Michael J. Fox, Jack Black, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Alfre Woodard, Rowan Atkinson, Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis. The film has set in Africa in settings of this motion picture while hand drawn animation has animated some visual effects. The film was released on May 18, 2007 and it was a worldwide success around the world.

Cast

 * Michael J. Fox as Milo James Thatch, a 19 year old teenager who found Africa after he got separated.
 * Jack Black as Po, a panda who is Milo's friend.
 * James Earl Jones as Mufasa, a lion, Sarabi's mate, Simba's son and Milo's mentor.
 * Dave Thomas as Tuke, a Canadian moose.
 * Rick Moranis as Rutt, a Canadian moose,
 * Jeremy Irons as Scar, a lion who is Mufasa's brother.
 * Rowan Atkinson as Zazu, a bird who is Mufasa's major-domo.
 * Rosie O' Donnell as Terk, a gorilla.
 * Wayne Knight as Tantor, a elephant.
 * James Garner as Commander Lyle Tiberuis Rourke, leader of the expedition team.
 * Claudia Christian as Lieutenant Helga Katrina Sinclair, Rourke's deceased lieutenant.
 * Jacqueline Obradors as Audrey Rocio Ramirez, a Spanish mechanic.
 * Don Novello as Vinny Santorini, a Italian bomber.
 * Phil Morris as Joshua Strongbear Sweet, a doctor.
 * Blake Clark as Cookie, a cook and one of the team.
 * Betty White as Packard, a radio operator.
 * Corey Burton as Mole, a man who acts like a mole.
 * Naomie Harris as Sarabi, Mufasa's mate and Simba's mother.
 * Alfre Woodard as Urzu, Mufasa and Scar's sister
 * Nathan Gamble as Simba, Mufasa's son.
 * Michael Clarke Duncan as Tug, a bear.
 * Hugo Weaving as The Eagle, an eagle who guides their friends on their journey.
 * Whoopi Goldberg as Shenzi, a hyena.
 * Cheech Marin as Banzai, a hyena.
 * Tommy Chung as Frankie, a hyena.
 * Jim Cummings as Ed, a hyena.
 * Garry Shandling as Sheldon, a grumpy, nervous, friendly turtle who is one of Simba's friends.
 * Cree Summer as Mena, a bat eared fox who is one of Simba's friends.
 * Wallace Shawn as Fred, a hippo who is one of Simba's friends.
 * John Leguizamo as Iggy, a lizard who is one of Simba's friends.
 * Estelle Harris as Old Lady Bear.
 * Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson as Two Vultures
 * Lewis Black and Joe Flaherty as Two Rams.
 * John Ratzenberger as Peter, a mammoth.
 * Frank Welker as Sabor, a whale, anglerfish, dolphin.

Additional Voices

 * Jack Angel - Rhinoceros
 * Rodger Bumpass - Flamingo
 * Mona Marshall - Mother Swan
 * Bob Bergen - Elephant
 * Patrick Pinney - Giraffe
 * Phil Proctor - Goose
 * Jim Ward - Squirrel
 * Paul Eiding - Rabbit
 * John Cygan - Crocodile
 * Jennifer Darling - Mother Rabbit
 * Mickie McGowan - Horse
 * Sherry Lynn - Pig #1
 * Danny Mann - Pig #2
 * Jane Carr - Duck
 * Debi Derryberry - Female Flamingo
 * Bill Farmer - Turtle
 * Carlos Alazraqui - Elephant #2

Trivia

 * The film was set in Africa however, Pandas are only native to China, Pigs are native to Britain and America, Penguins and Polar Bear are native to Antarctica, Horses, Donkeys and Cows are native to United States, Orangutans are native to Asia and Mammoths are only native to North America. The Red River Hogs are native to Africa instead of pigs. Bears are native to southern country and Leopards are native to Africa. The only Tapir and Monkeys are only native to the rainforest.
 * In order to get Rourke's scream right, the filmmakers repeated and echoed the part seventeen times before it was put right into the effect.
 * Michael J. Fox and Jack Black, who voiced Milo and Po respectively, previously starred in Mars Attacks in 1996. For the film, this is their second collaboration.
 * Originally, Scar was going to be rouge lion, also Mufasa's brother, the directors had to written Scar because it was too heroic for a Disney film.
 * Phil Collins, who did songs of Tarzan and Brother Bear, did songs of the film. Bryan Adams also did songs of the film who also did Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. This is the first collaboration between Collins and Adams.
 * According to the teaser trailer, the film was originally going to be released on November 17, 2006, but it was moved to May 18, 2007 to avoid the date of Happy Feet.
 * Hugo Weaving, who voiced The Eagle in the film, narrated the trailers and TV spots of the film.
 * While the characters are hand drawn, the jellyfish is CGI made by visual effects and VFX software around the animation becaus it was a real jellyfish.
 * The film was rated PG by the MPAA for bloody violence and thematic elements. It was the first Disney animated film that wasn't be rated PG-13. In the UK, BBFC secure a PG rating by removing some gory scenes that was safe for chidren. Some scenes may be scary and disturbing for children including:
 * Sabor rips off a chunk of Helga's neck.
 * The Anglerfish chases Milo and Po.
 * The fight between Milo and Scar.
 * In February 2006, before the release of Cars, Disney/Pixar prepared a special trailer for The Brave African Adventure to show before the film during its initial theatrical release. The moose characters Rutt and Tuke were message the trailer by saying "Beauty eh, if the movie was released this Christmas", then Rutt goes " Well, that film was released with the car movie". Tuke says "If that film had a preview before a car movie", Rutt suggests Tuke that "Yeah the film is totally with animals eh?". Tuke says "The film has a motion picture of seeing this". As the screen fades to black, Rutt says "I guess the movie is released this Christmas", Tuke says "Maybe Santa Claus would like to see the movie".
 * The film opened in 897 theaters around the world in thousand countries. The film was major box office hit.
 * Originally, Audrey was going to be killed by Sabor, but directors, dislike the death of Obrador's character, change this footage for the death of Helga.