Earthworm Jim: A New Adventure Awaits

Earthworm Jim: A New Adventure Awaits is a direct-to-video DVD movie released on November 14, 2001. This direct-to-video movie is exactly based off the Earthworm Jim television series from the mid-90s. It's about where Earthworm Jim and his sidekick Peter Puppy decided to stop playing poker, and begin a new adventure with a new villian to fight. The villian is known to be by the name of Alphacoon.

Overview
Earthworm Jim: A New Adventure Awaits retains the absurdist and surreal humor of the games as well as introducing its own features. It involved the supervillians attempting to reclaim the super suit, rule/destroy/freeze/knock over the universe, or otherwise causing mayhem throughout the galaxy. Also, the direct-to-video movie breaks the fourth wall with characters often talking to the audience and the narrator.

It began with Earthworm Jim and Peter Puppy in Alphacoon's terrible peril that has nothing to do with the main plot, with little explanation of how they got into the mess. The end of the movie involves Jim and Peter being crushed by a cow, a play on the first game of the original video game series (in the first stage, the player launches a cow into the sky, only to have it crush the princess upon the game's ending).

Production
The movie was produced by Film Roman along with Wang Film Production Co. Ltd, Flextech Television Limited, and Shiny Entertainment.

Voice Cast
Dan Castellaneta - Earthworm Jim, Evil Jim

Jeff Glenn Bennett - Peter Puppy, Narrator, Great Worm Spirit, Hamstenator

Kath Soucie - Princess What's-Her-Name

Jim Cummings - Psycrow, Bob the Killer Goldfish, Walter

Charlie Adler - Professor Monkey-for-a-Head

Edward Hibbert - Evil the Cat

John Kassir - Snott, Henchrat

Andrea Martin - Queen Slug-for-a-Butt, Ms. Bleveredge

Rob Paulsen - Alphacoon

Patrick Warburton - Powerhouse Wolf

Crew
Main Writer, Developer, and Story Editor: Doug Langdale

Storyboard Artists: Travis Cowsill, Keith Tucker, Enrique May, 'Pat' Ventura, Dave Arnett, Sean Bishop, Dave Krocker, Byron Vaughns, Paul Schibli

Directors: Doug TenNapel and Phil Roman

Producer: Phil Roman

Layout Key Design: Enzo Baldi, Stuart P. Hemidal, Edgar Duncan Jr., Lorenzo Martinez, Kenneth McGill

Assistant Layout: Julio Lean

Overseas Animation Facility: Wang Film Productions, Inc.

Overseas Animation Director: Eric Goldberg