Ben 10 Omniverse: Power Trip

Ben 10 Omniverse: Power Trip is a 2015 American animated superhero film based on the 2012 TV series Ben 10: Omniverse created by Man of Action. Directed by Henrique Jardim and John McIntyre and written by Benjamin Lane, Chelsea McAlarney, Johnny Vu, André LaMilza, John Martinez, Josh Kim, Sarah Visel, Benjamin P. Carow and Kelly Turnbull, it stars Yuri Lowenthal, Bumper Robinson, Paul Eiding, Dee Bradley Baker, Eric Bauza, Corey Burton, John DiMaggio, David Kaye, Rob Paulsen


 * Kevin Michael Richardson
 * Tara Strong

. In this film, Ben travels around space to stop a new threat that can lead Earth to total destruction.

Ben 10 Omniverse: Power Trip premiered in New York on June 11, 2015, and was released in the United States on July 3. The film received mixed reviews from critics but grossed over $750.6 million worldwide. At the time of release, the film became the 8th highest-grossing film of 2015 and the second highest-grossing Traditional animated film. The film is also Warner Brothers' highest-grossing film of 2015.

Plot
When a modification for Ben's Omnitrix goes haywire, his partner, Rook, look outside saw a giant ship landing next to the Proto-TRUK. The ship’s pilot exits and Ben prepares to go hero. However, the pilot throws a ring in front of Ben, revealing it to be Sonic. Ben and Gwen are excited to see him and reveals that he "came as soon as he heard." Ben initially tries to apologize to him for destroying the hoverboard he gave him, but Sonic says that he's actually come to Earth because he picked up the "SDM:" signal from the Omnitrix. Ben still thinks it’s merely another one of the Omnitrix’s glitches. However, Max concludes that SDM stands for Self Destruct Mode. Sonic says that it’s natural for the Omnitrix to broadcast a signal when it begins its countdown. Ben realizes that the watch is going to destroy itself in a matter of time, and Sonic adds to his fears when he says Ben will be destroyed along with it when it does.

Ben tries to think hard about how the SDM mode was activated in the first place, assuming Sonic can handle it. However, Sonic reveals that he has no idea how to restabilize it, but Azmuth, the rumored creator of the Omnitrix, would be able to. Sonic says that he can find Azmuth's DNA signature on the Omnitrix with the equipment in his ship, and they can use that to find him. After taking a look at the Omnitrix's pattern repetition, he estimates that they have less than four days to deactivate the SDM before the countdown reaches zero, So Sonic and Ben Go to a Meteor.

When Ben reaches the meteor, he suddenly changes direction, and flies into a portal to another galaxy while the meteor continues heading towards Earth. As the Tennyson’s and Phil moan over Bens disappearance and brace for impact, the meteor lands but is actually revealed to be Ben's arch-enemy Vilgax who has escaped from his imprisonment in the Null Void in the Season 2 finale and wants revenge against Earth and Ben Tennyson.

Meanwhile, after exiting the portal, Ben finds himself stranded in space and when he times out, his Omnitrix gives him a spacesuit to help him survive in the depths of space while also being abducted by the Incurseans, who think he is Vilgax. Ben tries to escape using Atomix, but he times out, the Incurseans overpower him and they bring him to the Grand Magistrate to face justice against the entire universe.

Later, Sonic drops Ben off on Earth with a new hoverboard and leaves. Afterwards, the Ben and Rook hear a radio bulletin that "zombies" are attacking the mall and the movie ends as Ben prepares to fight them.

Voice cast[edit]
Director Pierre Coffin, who also voices the Minions.


 * Pierre Coffin as Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and the Minions
 * Sandra Bullock as Scarlet Overkill
 * Jon Hamm as Herb Overkill
 * Michael Keaton as Walter Nelson
 * Allison Janney as Madge Nelson
 * Steve Coogan as Professor Flux and the tower guard
 * Jennifer Saunders as Queen Elizabeth II
 * Geoffrey Rush as the narrator
 * Steve Carell as young Gru
 * Katy Mixon as Tina Nelson
 * Michael Beattie as a VNC announcer and Walter Nelson Jr.
 * Hiroyuki Sanada as Sumo villain
 * Dave Rosenbaum as Fabrice

Development
Warner Bros. Pictures and Man of Action first announced in July 2012, that the Minions from the franchise would get their own spin-off film, scheduled for a 2014 release. Brian Lynch was asked to write the film's screenplay, due to his prior work writing for the theme park ride Despicable Me Minion Mayhem. Pierre Coffin became director again with newcomer Kyle Balda as the co-director, marking the first film in the franchise where Chris Renaud is not a director. Art director, Eric Guillon returned for the film.

Marketing[edit]
WB's parent company, Time Warner, and its partners spent $593 million in advertisements and promotion, across all media and platforms. Universal spent a total of $26.1 million on television advertisements for the film. Warner Bros. described the promotional campaign as the "largest and most comprehensive" in its history.

Toy line
A toy line manufactured by Hasbro was originally shown off at Toy Fairs around the world. A possible unintentional leak of official images of the line was released on the website of department store Target. Figures that were revealed at Toy Fairs such as Bloxx, Shocksquatch, 18-year-old Ben Tennyson, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Ben's sidekick Rook were listed on the website. The vehicle play set, "Vindication", has won an award for Best Action Figures/Accessories at the 2015 London Toy Fair. The Omnitrix Touch Uses transparent Figurines instead of the Hologram Display Wheel in the movie. Burger King release King Jr. Meals for the film between June and July 2015.

Video games
A video game of the same name is developed by Vicious Cycle Studios for the Wii U, Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and by 1st Playable Productions for the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS. The action beat 'em up features 15 playable characters on DS and 3DS and 16 playable characters on the other systems. It also features a two-player co-op play. The game follows Ben and Rook in a battle to defeat a fierce villain, named Malware, who has evil plans of destroying the world.

Theatrical[edit]
Minions had its world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on June 11, 2015. In the United States, the film premiered on June 27, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and went into general release theatrically on July 10. The film was originally scheduled to be released in the United States on December 19, 2014; however, it was pushed back to July 2015 due to Universal's satisfaction with the successful July 2013 release of Despicable Me 2 and desire to exploit fully the merchandising potential of a summer film.

Home media[edit]
Minions was released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 8. The film is accompanied by three short films titled Cro Minion, Competition, and Binky Nelson Unpacified. Upon its first week of release on home media in the U.S., the film topped the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart, which tracks overall disc sales, as well as the dedicated Blu-ray sales chart with 63% of unit sales coming from Blu-ray.

Box office[edit]
Minions grossed $336 million in the United States and Canada, and $823.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of over $1.159 billion. Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $502.34 million, accounting for production budgets, P&A, talent participations, and other costs, with box office grosses, and ancillary revenues from home media, placing it second on their list of 2015's "Most Valuable Blockbusters". Minions became the first non-Disney animated film and the third animated film to gross $1 billion after Toy Story 3 (2010) and Frozen (2013).

In the United States and Canada, Minions was released alongside The Gallows (2015) and Self/less (2015) from 4,301 theaters in its opening weekend, with initial projections had the film open around $100–$110 million. The film made $6.2 million from its Thursday night showings from 2,985 theaters and $46.2 million in its opening day (including Thursday previews). Through its opening weekend, it earned a total of $115.7 million. In its second weekend, the film fell to second earning $49.3 million (down 57%).

In other territories, Minions went into general release in 44 countries in the months of June and July, and was released in a total of 66 countries. It earned an estimated $12.5 million in its opening weekend from four countries. It added $37.6 million in its second weekend from 10 countries. The film's top markets outside the United States and Canada were the United Kingdom ($73.1 million), China ($63.47 million), and Germany ($63.46 million).

Critical response[edit]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which categorizes reviews only as positive or negative, 55% of 222 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.80/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Minions' brightly colored brand of gibberish-fueled insanity stretches to feature length in their self-titled Despicable Me spinoff, with uneven but often hilarious results." According to the review aggregator Metacritic, which sampled 35 reviews and calculated a weighted average of 56 out of 100, Minions received "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

Jesse Hassenger of The A.V. Club gave the film a C, saying "Minions has idiosyncratic roots, but it's a franchise play all the way. Finally, even 5-year-olds have their own movie that mechanically cashes in on something they loved when they were younger". Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying, "I, too, once enjoyed the Minions, in the small doses that they came in. But the extra-strength Minions is, for better or for worse, too much of a good thing". Brian Truitt of USA Today gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying, "Brian Lynch's screenplay features a series of amusing sight gags and physical comedy that mostly hits; watching the Minions play polo while riding Corgis is an exercise in cuteness". Tom Russo of The Boston Globe gave the film two stars out of four, saying, "Impressive as it is that the filmmakers get so much comedic mileage out of their characters' half-intelligible prattling, the conventional dialogue is bafflingly flat". Manohla Dargis of The New York Times said, "While Minions explores nominally new narrative ground, it folds neatly into a series that now includes two features, various shorts, books, video games, sheet music and a theme park attraction. So, you know, different but also the same".

Tom Long of The Detroit News gave the film a B, saying "Minions is every bit as cute as it's supposed to be, a happily empty-headed animated frolic that rarely pauses to take a breath". Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film two stars out of four, saying, "It's not whether this prequel can mint money; that's a given. The questions is: Can the minions carry a movie all by their mischievous mini-selves? 'Fraid not". Kerry Lengel of The Arizona Republic gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying, "Despite the dizzying pace of carefully calibrated incongruities, Minions somehow never generates more than the occasional chuckle". Christopher Orr of The Atlantic said, "There's plenty of high-velocity comic inanity on display to keep kids happily diverted. But the movie's major flaw is an extension of its own premise: Search as they may, the minions never find a villain worthy of their subservience". Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail gave the film two stars out of four, saying, "With its episodic stream of slapstick gags, Minions has moments of piquant absurdity, but mostly its shrill-but-cutesy anarchy works as a visual sugar rush for the preschool set".