Gumther (film)

Gunther (marketed theatrically known as The Gunther Movie) is an upcoming British/Canadian/Australlan/French/American 3D computer-animated buddy-adventure comedy film based on the graphic novel of the same name. It was directed by Ishi Rudell and Peter Chelsom, written by C. Robert Cargill, Josh Faber and Nick Jennings, and produced by Brad Lewis, Collen McGrath, Fabrice Giber and Stan Lee It was the internationally co-production between France, Canada, Australla, United States and the United Kingdom. The film is about the banana-looking guy named Gunther Banana, since he wants to prevent his friends to be brought and eaten by humans in a supermarket and saving themselves from the certain death.

The film is dedicated to June Foray, who died during the film's production in 2017.

Plot
Gunther, a dim-witted nerd alien, is sent to Earth, along with his mother and brother, by his father as his home planet is destroyed by a black hole. However, he, his mother and brother lands in Vancouver, thanks to the spaceship crashes over it and flies away, becoming the visitors of Earth.

When government agents arrives on the scene, the aliens flee in their spaceship, leaving Gunther and his brother behind in their haste. They runs away into the woods, only to fall into a box of foam peanuts. At a suburban home, a ten-year-old boy named Donald is spending time with his brother, Michael, his sister, Drew, and his friends. As he returns from picking up a pizza, he discovers that something is hiding in their house. Gunther and his brother reveals themselves to the humans, believing scary at fight, they find them to be nice.

While lost, he met several alien friends; Yoda, a elephant-like creature, Cogsnail, a snail-like monster, and Rhino, a rhino-like creature. and Gunther's old nemesis, Mr. Gorilla who bullies the Bananas in his deceased planet. When Little Brother saw a wanted poster of his mother, believing she is missing, Gunther, Donald, Drew, and his friends start their epic journey on a bike.

Gunther receives Donald's help in building a device to "phone home" by using a Speak & Spell toy. Michael notices that Gunther's health is declining and that Donald is referring to his name as "Gunther Banana". On Halloween, Michael and Donald dress Gunther as a ghost so they can sneak him out of the house. That night, Gunther and Little Brother head through the woods, where they make a successful call home. During the sunrise, Little Brother angrily ends his relationship with Gunther, blaming him for his mother's bad luck. In the next morning, Gunther wakes up in the field, only to find Little Brother is captured by the agents, and Rhino leaves to meet Drew. So Gunther and the pals concocts a plan for rescue his brother.

Arriving for the government, Gunther's friends are also captured by the government agents and Gunther goes face-to-face with a greedy and overager government agent and saves Little Brother. But, instead, Little Brother turns to the dark side and reveals his true colors to lure him to be captured by the agents, as revenge and jealousy for abandoning him to the authorities when Brother's youthful heist went bad which he turns people into gremlin-like creatures as a plot.

Yoda and the other aliens escapes from the government and and reveals that his people are returning. Donald and Michael steal a van that Gunther and the aliens had been hijacked into and a chase ensues, with Gunther's friends joining them as they attempt to evade the authorities by bicycles. Suddenly facing a police roadblock when their overeager agent attempts to exploit the incident for publicity purposes, they escape as Gunther uses telekinesis to lift them into the air and toward the forest, like he had done for Donald before.

He finds that Gunther's long-lost sister is not dead, as he had listened to her late father's warnings, and worn a bullet-proof vest. Standing near the spaceship, Gunther reunites with his grumpy mother as he prepares to return home. Gunther says goodbye to Michael, Donald and Drew as the guards drags Little Brother into the spaceship and is thrown into the Void, promising to see his son again soon. When boarding the spaceship, Gunther apologizes to his mother and sister for never understanding them, when happens, Gunther thanks the humans for saving his life. His mother takes Gunther home and departs the spaceship, and it takes off, leaving a rainbow in the sky as everyone watches it leave. The other aliens board themselves and warp to the future.

Cast

 * Nathan Lane as Gunther, a shy, argumentative, dim-witted, short-tempered but lovable nerd alien who is the son of Momma, older brother of Little Brother and the main protagonist of the film.
 * Trey Parker as Little Brother, the short-tempered, dim-witted, and antagonistic alien who is Gunther's younger brother, the son of Momma and the deuteragonist-turned-main antagonist of the film.
 * June Foray as Momma, the overprotective mother of Gunther and Little Brother.
 * Dane Boedigheimer as Grapefruit, The Dark Lord
 * Bill Hader as Popa, Gunther's father who dies along with his partners when their planet is absorbed by a black hole at the beginning of the film.
 * Seth MacFarlane as French Fries
 * Justine Ezarik as Passion Fruit

Soundtrack

 * 1) "Tutti Frutti" - Little Richard
 * 2) "Hate Me" - Trey Parker and Matt Stone
 * 3) "It's a B-Movie (Show)" - Chorus
 * 4) "I Am a Banana" - Dane Boedigheimer
 * 5) "Witch Doctor" - Devo
 * 6) "Walk the Dinosaur" - Randy Jacobs, David Was and Don Was

Trivia

 * Gunther Banana is the only protagonist to not be an antagonist in the movie.
 * Little Brother and the Agent are the main antagonists.
 * The Gorillas and the Dark Lord are the secondary antagonists.
 * Momma is the antagonist, but a lesser one.

Release Dates

 * July 31, 1987 (USA)
 * December 25, 1987 (Brazil)

Credits

 * Paramount's Gunther Banana (film)/Credits