Nature Cat: The Movie

Nature Cat: The Movie Is A 2020 Canadian-American live action/animated adventure family comedy musical film Written And Directed By Leonardo Navarrete (in his directional debut) and based on the PBS Kids educational animated television series Nature Cat. And The 2nd Theatrical Film Based On A PBS Kids Show Since Clifford's Really Big Movie. It stars the regular television cast of Taran Killam, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, Kate Micucci, With Kenan Thompson And Chris Knowings. New additions to the cast include Cobie Smulders, Jason Ritter, Leonardo Navarrete, Huck Milner And Reece Caddell (In Her Film Debut) Produced by New Line Cinema, Spiffy Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Leonardo Navarrete Productions, Broadway Video, SNL Studios, 9 Story Media Group, and WTTW, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Plot
Fred (Taran Killam) is a house cat who dreams of exploring the great outdoors. After he transformed into Nature Cat, he decides to start the day exploring with his three friends, Squeeks (Kate McKinnon), Hal (Bobby Moynihan), and Daisy (Kate Micucci). Meanwhile, Fred's owner, Robert (Taran Killam) watches the news on TV, and becomes shocked when he finds out about the disease called "Humanious animailopius", known as "Talking syndrome", in which animals have human instincts and can talk, in which Robert decides to put them up for adoption.

After overhearing, Nature Cat and his friends decide to look around in the forest so that humans won't be able to see them talk. However, Ronald (Kenan Thompson & Chris Knowings), a fat purple cat, begins a plan to remove and destroy anything related to nature for good.

While walking in the forest, the four begin to recall memories of all of the great things they did during the past, such as replacing plastic bags with bags made from cloth, using pumpkins for more things, and making Valentine gifts out of reusable items. Soon, they noticed that they have done so much to help their community and helping nature. So, the four decide to send a message out to the city. However, they manage to escape when Nature Cat sees his owners Robert And Alyssa (Cobie Smulders) and his two children James (Huck Milner) And Emma (Reece Caddell)

At the police station, Robert is talking with two officers to try to get the pets back. The two officers agreed to help and would call animal control.

After his owners left, Nature Cat and his friends would have to get to the TV station to broadcast their message to the entire city. With the help of the GPS on Daisy's smartphone, the quartet counts the blocks while on the subway train and finally arrive at the TV station.

After arriving, they decide to use the disguise to avoid getting past the huge crowd of people without them seeing that they have talking syndrome. They look at the TV screens and find out about Ronald's plan of becoming an industrialist. After overhearing, the four decide to get home. However, some trouble with the police and the animal control came up, so Nature Cat and his friends use camouflage so that the officers don't see them.

They then encounter Sadie, in which she then thanks Nature Cat for recreating the playground that he and his friends recreated for her. The hawk shows up and gives them a way of going back home, which is going south one block and then going east over the bridge for two blocks.

Along the way, Nature Cat

Animated Cast
Taran Killam as Nature Cat

Bobby Moynihan as Hal

Kate Micucci as Daisy

Kate McKinnon as Squeeks

Kenan Thompson And Chris Knowings as Ronald

Chris Parnell as Sir Galahad

Vanessa Bayer as Hayley

Hal and Hayley's kids are voiced by Hayden Rolence, Sadie Sink, Felix Avitia, Abby Ryder Fortson, Justin Felbinger, Scarlett Estevez, Owen Wilder Vaccaro, and Jacob Ewaniuk during the mid-credits scene.

Live Action Cast
Huck Milner as James

Reece Caddell as Emma

Taran Killam as Robert

Cobie Smulders as Alyssa

Jason Ritter as Darren Kreison

Leonardo Navarrete as Jason

Priscilla Star Diaz as Veronica

Production
After The Premiere Of A Nature Carol 17 Year Old Leonardo Navarrete Decide To Make A Movie Based On The PBS Kids TV Series Nature Cat In December 12, He Hold On Posters Of The Film And In December 14, 2019 He Announced The Film Release In Theaters July 17, 2020

Casting
In December 16 He Announced The Cast Of The TV Series Reprise Their Roles

In December 18 He Hired New Cast In The Film Like Cobie Smulders, Jason Ritter, Huck Milner And Reece Caddell

And In December 20, Leonardo Navarrete Join The Cast Of The Film Along With Priscilla Star Diaz

Live Action Filming
Principal Photography Begin January 16, 2020 In Vancouver British Columbia Canada Along With Dadnapped Wrapping Both Films April 4, 2020 In Chicago Illinois And Glenview Illinois

Post production
Post production Begin During Principal Photography In February 14, 2020 And Finished In March 7, 2020

Music
Leonardo Navarrete, announced that he will be working and collaborating with a live orchestra to compose the film's score and songs along with Bill Sherman.

Software
The software used for this movie are Toon Boom Harmony (for 2D animation, clean-up, inbetweens, 2D effects, and digital ink & paint), Toon Boom Storyboard Pro (for storyboards), Adobe Animate (for 2D animation, building, rigging, and inbetweens), Adobe Photoshop (for visual development concept art, 2D layouts, backgrounds, 2D animation, clean-up, and inbetweens), Autodesk Maya (for CGI modeling, texturing, rigging, simulation, layout, animation, lighting, and rendering), Pixar's Renderman (for CGI simulation and rendering), Adobe After Effects (for visual effects and compositing), The Foundry Nuke (for compositing), Houdini Effects (for CGI effects), Avid Media Composer (for video editing), Audacity (for sound and dialogue editing), and Avid Pro Tools (for music editing and arrangements).

Toon Boom Harmony has been used in most of the 2D animated sequences, while Adobe Photoshop is used for the rest of the 2D animated sequences.

Trailers
The film's teaser trailer was released on December 25, 2019 and was attached to theatrical showings of 20th Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios' Spies In Disguise. A second teaser trailer was released on April 3, 2020, and was attached to theatrical showings of Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway the film's first theatrical trailer was released on April 17, 2020, and was attached to theatrical showings of Trolls World Tour  A third trailer was released on May 22, 2020, and was attached to theatrical showings of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run The following month, TV spots also aired as well.

Merchandise
TOMY released plush toys and figurines based on the film in July, 2020 to coincide with the film's release. A video game based on the film title, Nature Cat: The Video Game was released on August 4, 2020 For PlayStation 4, XBOX One And Nintendo Switch.

McDonald's also produced 10 toys in their Happy Meals that were given away if anyone bought a kids' meal with an adult's paid order.

Scholastic released five books for the film: Nature Cat: The Movie: The Junior Novel, Nature Cat's Amazing Nature Adventure, Nature Cat: The Movie: The Essential Guide, Darren Kerison's Revenge!, and Nature Cat: The Movie: The Story Book.

Rating
Nature Cat: The Movie is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America, making it the first film based on a PBS Kids TV show since 2004's Clifford's Really Big Movie.

Screenshots
Screenshots of the film were presented at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 5, 2020.

Release
The film was released on July 17, 2020. The film also had its premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival on June 24, 2020, was screened at the Microsoft Theater on July 3, 2020, The film also had a television airing on PBS Kids on July 21, 2020, and on Family Chrgd on July 24, 2020.

Home media
The film was released on Digital HD on September 7, 2020, and on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on September 14, 2020, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Special features include deleted scenes, games such as "Make Your Own Guard Costume", "Find the Directions", and "Interactive Storybook", and the music videos of "Electric City", "You Get Me", and "Dog Gone Dance".

The Canadian release offers previews for "Dadnapped", "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run" and "Trolls: World Tour", and a Government of Canada Stop Hating Online PSA.

Video games
A video game, titled Nature Cat: The Video Game, was released on August 4, 2020 and was published by Activision and developed by Vicarious Visions.

A second tie-in video game, Nature Cat: Save Nature! was announced to accompany the film's release. It was developed by Electronic Arts And Published By Rockstar Games in 2019 and it was released on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4,and Xbox One on August 10, 2020, in North America and on August 17, 2020, in Europe. As Microsoft is not publishing the game Ubisoft published the tie-in game.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 79%, based on 175 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Nature Cat: The Movie has a brilliant story to go with the usual hand-drawn animation and computer animation, and with a creative idea of "talking syndrome", and Darren Kreison being the film's main antagonist. with Ronald as secondary antagonist-turned supporting protagonist" On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 69 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

Box office
As of August 10, 2020, Nature Cat: The Movie has grossed $520 million in the United States and Canada and $130 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $650 million, against a production budget of $45 million, making it currently the fourth highest grossing animated film behind.

In the U.S. and Canada, Nature Cat: The Movie was released in theaters July 17, 2020 and is projected to gross $11 million from 3,900 theaters during its opening weekend. It made $4.8 million from Thursday night previews and $64.3 on its first day.

Accolades
The film was nominated for many awards including Best Animated Feature. At the 76th Golden Globe Awards, it was nominated for Best Animated Feature but lost to The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run. At the 46th Annie Awards, it received 2 nominations for Best Animated Feature and Directing in an Animated Feature Production. At the 91th Academy Awards, it won 3 Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing.

Gallery
See Nature Cat: The Movie/Gallery

Credits
See Nature Cat: The Movie/Credits

Transcripts
For the main transcript, see Nature Cat: The Movie/Transcript

For the trailer transcripts, see Nature Cat: The Movie/Trailer transcripts