Floyd & Tyke

Floyd & Tyke: An Adventure In Time (Also known as Floyd & Tyke: The Movie in certain countries) is a 2002 American-Italian-Canadian-Japanese Animated Comedy Adventure movie based on the television series Floyd & Tyke. The film was produced by  Lux Cartoons Limited, TMS Entertainment, Studio Cartoni Animati S.R.L. and Wang Film Productions (For Animation Services only)  with Distribution by MGM, which was their first theatrical Animated release since All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 in 1996.

The Film was well received and opened #1 in the box office for two whole weeks. It grossed 3.9 Million domestically on a 2.2 Million Budget, making it a success in America, as well as Canada and Japan. However, the film flopped in Italy and other parts of Europe.

Plot
The film begins with Lily finishing up her time-travel machine. She explains to her Parrot Watermelon that it works with the synthesis of the four elements. Just outside, Floyd and Tyke decide to pay Lily a visit so Tyke can give her a Flower he picked for her. Floyd’s friends, Frida & Samba come along too. They arrive in Lily’s Lab where a fire occurs due to a miscalculation on one of Lily’s other experiments. In the process of putting out the fire, Floyd accidently crashes into Lily's machine, causing the elements to travel to different periods in time. The kids decide they have to travel into different times to retrieve the elements in order to fix The Machine. If they fail, time will slow down and eventually stop. Lily ends up in Prehistoric times to recover the element of Fire. Frida is sent to the 30th century to recover the element of Air. Floyd & Tyke are sent to a few years back (when the kids were babies) to recover the element of Grass. Samba is sent to an indigenous tribe in The Colonial-era to recover Water. Meanwhile, Dennis, a villain, is after the kids to recover the elements for himself in order to create his own Timeline, and the Kids have to stop him.

Voice Cast
Collin Lindsey as Floyd Fox

Richard Robinson as Tyke Fox

Victoria Harris as Frida Fox

Sally A. Miller as Lily Fox

E.G. Daily as Samba Dingbat & Additional Voices

Allen Rose as Dennis

Joshua Parker as Timba The Native

Rob Paulsen as Floyd's Father & Additional Voices

Tom Kenney as Additional Voices

Tara Strong as Floyd's Mother, Miss Cindy and Additional Voices

Dee Bradley Baker as Additional Voices

Development
Following the success of Floyd & Tyke on television, David Lux wanted to expand into a feature film featuring the characters. In 1998, they secured a deal with MGM, who would financially back and release the film in America. This would be Lux Cartoons Limited's first feature film since Tabby The Racoon in 1986. Production on the film began in 1999.

Parts of the film would be animated at Lux Cartoons Limited, their Italian-based subsidiary, Studio Cartoni Animati, TMS Entertainment (Who also licensed Floyd & Tyke in Japan) and Wang Film Productions. The Teaser Trailer was animated by Fox Animation Studios, who also did promotional animations for the film as some of their final work.

Music
David Newman was originally going to produce the films score, but instead, The Cincinnati Group Orchestra was chosen, which would be their first score for a film. They recorded the score from 2000 to 2001.

Release
MGM scheduled the film for a Winter 2001 release, but due to the September 11 terrorist attack, it was pushed ahead to March 15, 2002, then pushed back to avoid competition with Ice Age. The film premiered on January 30, 2002.

The film was distributed in America and Canada by MGM. Internationally, the films were released by 20th Century Fox, except for Japan, where Toho would handle it's Japanese distribution with TMS. Following their acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019, The Walt Disney Company currently owns international rights to the film, excluding Japan.

Marketing

The film was marketed heavily from October to it's release, with UPN (The network that aired Floyd & Tyke) airing marathons every Saturday Morning for Three Weeks leading up to the film's release.

Promotions were made with Pizza Hut, United Airlines, Nike, Target, Toys R Us, Microsoft, Hershey's, and Cartoon Network. From January to March 2001, an event was held at SeaWorld Orlando and San Diego titled "Floyd & Tyke: Orlando or Bust". The characters also made appearances at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Home Media

The Film was released on DVD & VHS on May 18, 2002 by MGM Home Entertainment as part of the MGM Kids label, and sold Seven Million Units. The film was reissued on March 14, 2006. In 2009, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the film for the first time on Blu-Ray in Japan, while it was released in America by MGM in 2011.