The Butter Battle Book-illumination film

The Butter Battle Book is a movie based on a funny rhyming story written by Dr. Seuss. It was published by Random House on January 12, 1984. It is an anti-war story; specifically, a parable about arms races in general, mutually assured destruction and nuclear weapons in particular. The Butter Battle Book was and still is, a New York Times Notable Book that was called the Book of the Year.

The film will be from Illumination, Universal, Legendary pictures, Blue sky, 20th Century Fox, and Dreamworks Animation SKG

Plot
This book-based movie focuses on the Yooks and Zooks who live on opposite sides of a long curving wall. The narrator of the story is a Yook child whose grandfather takes him to the wall, explaining he is a retired soldier. The Yooks wear blue clothes, but the Zooks wear orange. The difference between the two cultures is that while the Yooks eat their bread with the butter-side up, the Zooks eat their bread with the butter-side down. The conflict between the two sides leads to an escalating arms race, which results in the threat of mutual assured destruction.

The race begins when a very rude Zook by the name of VanItch slingshots the Yook patrolman's (Grandpa in his younger years) "Tough-Tufted Prickly Snick-Berry Switch" (a switch-esque truncheon with prickly burrs). The Zooks laugh as Grandpa knows he's suffered a minor defeat. Later on, the Yooks then develop a machine with three slingshots interlinked, called a "Triple-Sling Jigger". This works once; but the next day VanItch counterattacks with his own creation: The "Jigger-Rock Snatchem", a machine with three nets to fling the rocks fired by the Triple-Sling Jigger back to the Yooks' side. Every time the patrolman is defeated, he reports this to his general, who tells him not to worry ("My Bright Boys are thinking"), and three intelligent Yooks are shown drafting plans for a more modern weapon.

The Yooks then create a gun called the "Kick-A-Poo Kid", which is loaded with "powerful Poo-A-Doo powder and ants' eggs and bees' legs and dried-fried clam chowder", and carried by a trained gun-toting cocker spaniel named Daniel. The Zooks counterattack with an "Eight-Nozzled Elephant-Toted Boom Blitz", a machine that shoots "high-explosive sour cherry stone pits". The Yooks then devise the brand new "Utterly Sputter": a large blue vehicle mainly intended "to sprinkle blue goo all over the Zooks". The Zooks counterattack with a Sputter identical to the Yooks'. Eventually, each side possesses a small but extremely destructive red bomb called the "Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo", and neither has any defense against it, so while the Yooks' patrolman and VanItch drop theirs, the Yooks and Zooks will have to stay underground to make sure that they don't get blown away.

No resolution is reached by the book's end, with the generals of both sides on the wall poised to drop their bombs and waiting for the other to strike. The narrator asks his grandfather, "Who's gonna drop it? Will you or will he?" To which Grandpa replies, "Be patient. We'll see. We will see..."

However, the race is over when both red bombs explode as Grandpa and Van-Itch escape, and peace is made since it doesn't matter if one spreads his bread with the butter side-down or butter-side up, that everyone shall be equal.

Soundtrack

 * 1) Bread and Butter (The Newbeats song)
 * 2) "Why Can't We Be Friends?" is a song by the funk band War 
 * 3) I don't know what I've been told
 * 4) Believe in thy butter
 * 5) On the other side of the wall
 * 6) Butter side-down and side-up songs
 * 7) Yooka-Lu-ya cheer song 
 * 8) Making of a Bitsy-big-boy-Boomer-oo

Trivia
In the volcano scene, you'll see a few dinosaurs who roar and snort as we see a pterodactyl flying over the volcanos, screeching like a red-tailed hawk

In the laboratory, you'll hear Muppet Labs theme from the Muppet show [used with permission]

As Van-Itch introduces his elephant-toed gun, the elephants begin to roar and trumpet as they stomp in, while a twiddler owl wakes with a start, just like Friend Owl, during his cameo in Goliath 2-a Disney short film from 1960

Cast
Brett Irwin as Kid

Jim Cumming as Grandpa

Martin Short as Van-Itch

Whoopi Golberg or Renee Zelwigger as Parade bandleader

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