Mike, Lu & Og: Journey Back to Manhattan

Mike, Lu & Og: Journey Back to Manhattan (released internationally in some markets as Mike, Lu & Og's 1st Movie) is a 2020 American animated musical adventure comedy film based on the Cartoon Network television series. Produced by Warner Animation Group, DreamWorks Pictures, Kinofilm, Cartoon Network Studios and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the 37th film in the Cartoon Network Cinematic Universe (CNCU). The film was directed by series creators Mikhail Shindel and Mikhail Aldashin and. It features the series' cast of Nika Futterman, Nancy Cartwright, Dee Bradley Baker, Alison Larkin, Brian George, Corey Burton, Martin Rayner, S. Scott Bullock, and Kath Soucie. With the series ended in 2001, the film serves as the series finale of Mike, Lu & Og and serves as their final send off.

Warner Bros. theatrically released the film in the United States on August 21, 2020 and internationally on August 13, 2020. The film grossed $778 million worldwide and was a moderate box-office success, but it received generally mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, mainly due to the stale humor, Lu's arrogant mean-spirited nature dialed up to eleven, signs of animal abuse with Lu treating Lancelot like dirt, slow pacing, and inconsistent story, with several negative comparisons to The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie.

Plot
After being tired of living in Albonquetine, Mike finally decides to go back to her hometown, Manhattan. With the help of her friends, Lu and Og, she'll might need all the help she can get.

Cast

 * Nika Futterman as Mike Mazinsky
 * Nancy Cartwright as Princess Lulu Belisimo
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Og
 * Chris Wedge as Lancelot
 * Kath Soucie as Margery
 * S. Scott Bullock as Wendell and Baggis
 * Jim Cummings (replacing Dee Bradley Baker) as Goat
 * Kari Wahlgren (replacing Kath Soucie) as Pig
 * Martin Rayner as Alfred, Spiney, and Mate
 * Corey Burton as Old Queeks and Bos'n
 * Alison Larkin as Hermoine
 * Brian George as Captain and Haggis

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 29% based on 118 reviews and an average rating of 4.45/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Although it has stayed faithful to the source material of the show and has breath-taking animation, Mike, Lu & Og: Journey Back to Manhattan is an hour and a half of boring, worthless, obnoxious, padded-out garbage"

Trivia

 * This is the first and last time where Lu has given Lancelot to Mike, because she regrets treating Lancelot like dirt.
 * This movie reveals that Lu has been exploiting Og, and her pet turtle, Lancelot, for decades, even before Mike gets dumped to Albonquetine.
 * Some of the sounds Lancelot makes are reused Scrat sound effects