Totally Spies! (film)

Totally Spies! is a 2000 American animated action comedy film produced by Marathon Media and Fox Animation Studios for 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by David Michel from a screenplay by Alicia Kirk and a story by Chris McKenna and Ken Kaufman, and stars the voices of Jennifer Hale, Andrea Baker, Peri Gilpin, Ron Perlman, John Rhys-Davies, Roseanne Barr, Patrick Warburton, Mark DeCarlo and Jeffrey Garcia. It follows the three teenage girls

Michel envisioned the story in 1993, which was based on his dream of himself finding a Undercover Spy Tower that "sucked him into Undercover Agents Work". He then began developing the film after production had finished on Kassai and Leuk (1996) and wrote the original story with Chalvon-Demersay to pitch it to 20th Century Fox, with Kirk on writing the screenplay. Following Kirk's first draft, Chris Mckenna, Ken Kaurfman, and Thomas Hart were brought in to reconstruct the third act and add additional material, while the latter was selected to co-direct. The 20th Century Fox animation team drew inspiration for Totally Spies!'s urban design from major cities including New York City, Seattle, and London. John Debney composed the film's score.

Totally Spies! premiered at the London Film Festival on June 9, 2000, and was released in the United States on July 7, 2000. It received universal acclaim from critics and was a box office success, grossing $742 million worldwide on its $85 million budget, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 2000. Totally Spies! won the 2000 Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production for Andrea Baker, for his voice performance as Clover, and was also nominated for an Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Dreamworks/Aardman Chicken Run. The film's success helped spawn an expanded franchise, with three sequels — Totally Spies! 2, Totally Spies! 1 1/2, and Totally Spies! 3 — Two Spin-Off  — Mandy franchise and Blue Sky Britney  — and a television series.