Puppet Pals (2006 film)

Puppet Pals is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy film, directed by Steve Martino and produced by David Silverman, it was released in the United States on June 23, 2006. The film was produced by Twentieth Century Fox Animation for 20th Century Fox. The film features the voices of Jesse McCartney, Amy Poehler, Sandra Bullock, Seth Rogen, Josh Peck, Sarah Silverman, Zachary Gordon, Kevin James, Steve Carell, and Sarah Vowell.

Puppet Pals premiered at the Mann Village Theater on January 6, 2006, and was released in the United States on January 13, 2006. It received universal acclaim from critics and was a box office success, grossing $662.2 million worldwide on its $90 million budget, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2006. Puppet Pals was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to Ice Age: The Meltdown and Cars. It also received nominations for Best Original Screenplay (for writers Jon Vitti, Peter Ackerman, Mike Reiss, and Brad Bird) and Best Sound Mixing (Randy Thom, Dennie Thorpe, Jana Vance, Gary Rydstrom and Tom Myers). Puppet Pals saw a 3D re-release in theaters on April 8, 2016 to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The film's success helped spawn an expanded franchise, with four sequels—2009's Puppet Pals 2, 2012's Puppet Pals the Third, 2015's Puppet Pals: Collision Course and 2018's Puppet Pals: Forever After— a holiday special, several short films, theme park attractions, and a television spin-off.

Plot
Nathan Ritter, a 18-year old human boy who loves the solitude of his home, finds his life interrupted when a little boy named Zack Stevens comes spewing out of the sink and decides to stay in his home. Nathan schemes to get rid of Zack by luring him into a unknown portal, but is Zack is not fooled, instead throwing Nathan into the portal in and sending him away into a town called Tinywood.

He later finds a new home in Tinywood, but hours later, countless characters and creatures are exiled there by the toon-hating and vertically-challenged Rosie Storm. He brings along another human boy named Toby Smith, who is the only toon character willing to guide him to a weirdly-named team named the Puppet Pals.

Meanwhile, Rosie tortures a Smiley named Steve for the location of the Puppet Pals. Her guards rush in with something she has been searching for: The Magic Ball. She asks the ball that his son, Rob Storm, wants to become the new king of Tinywood and wants to take over it, but is told that he is not even a king. To be one, he must marry a girl, so Rob resolves to marry Anna Dawson, an street-wise and "tough as nails" 19-year-old girl.

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