Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk

Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The 50th Disney animated feature film, It was directed by Mike Gabriel and Don Hahn from a screenplay by Philip LaZebnik, David Reynolds, Chris Williams and Don Hall, and stars the voices of Jack Black, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christian Slater, Ricky Gervais, and Joan Cusack. The film follows a young prince named Narizinho, who encounters a bronze hawk named Sean during the night outside of his home, and the duo develop a close relationship as Narizinho befriended with Sean, but chaos occurs in the kingdom when Frederick, who is plan is to take over the kingdom. In order to stop Frederick, Narizinho and Sean recruits a princess named Lucy and Narizinho and Sean must stop the disaster before it is too late.

Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk was animated in-house at Walt Disney Animation Studios's main headquarters in Burbank, California and released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 11, 2006, in Disney Digital 3-D, along with the standard 2D version. The film is also the first Disney animated film produced under the name Walt Disney Animation Studios. It received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its animation, humor, and screenplay, and grossed over $232.5 million worldwide over its $35 million budget, making it the fifth highest-grossing animated film of 2006.

Plot
King Austin and his friend Queen Abigail both have a child; Abigail has a son named Narizinho and Austin has a daughter named Clara. At the celebration of Narizinho's birth, the two make a plan to have them meet and spend every summer together in hopes that they fall in love and marry so that they can unite their two kingdoms forever. Meanwhile, King Austin's chancellor, Frederick, plans to take King Austin's kingdom for himself by mastering a type of dark magic known as The Forgotten Kingdom. However, Austin discoveries his plans and Frederick is arrested. Despite calls for his death, King Austin spares Frederick's life and banishes him forever. Before leaving, Frederick swears revenge on King Austin, that he'll get his powers back and claim everything Austin has as his own.

Austin and Abigail put their plan into action. Unfortunately, this fails as Clara and Narizinho hate each other as children, but when they reach adulthood, they do fall in love. However, Narizinho can't think of anything besides Clara's beauty that he loves her for, causing her to reject him, and he and his parents leave disappointed. On their journey home, they are ambushed by Frederick, who is now a sorcerer with his new powers, kidnapping Clara and King Austin. Narizinho arrives on the scene and the dying Austin tells him about his power, and that Clara is gone. After searching and finding no sign of Clara, the entire kingdom assumes that she is dead. Abigail encourages her son to find another princess, but Narizinho is determined to find Clara, believing that she is still alive somewhere.

Narizinho and his best friend Baron practice every day in preparation to face Frederick, Elsewhere, Frederick is keeping Clara captive at his kingdom. but she refuses to marry him, Meanwhile, Prince Narizinho and Baron encounters Princess Lucy and Squinky, a princess and a talking rabbit that have been befriended with him. They later meet Sean, a bronze hawk who is unwilling servant of antagonist Frederick. Narizinho begins to fall in love with Lucy, but hides the true reason that Frederick had returned.

When the signs of Frederick's resurrection begin to manifest, Narizinho finally admits that Frederick are taking over Austin kingdom. Narizinho, Baron, Lucy, Squinky and Sean mount an attempt to rescue Clara and defeated Frederick. Knowing their rescues is hopeless, That evening, Narizinho convinces Squinky to aid him in district the guards before they see them. When Narizinho, Lucy and Sean entered in Frederick kingdom, Clara was tied up until his waiting attempt to death.

Narizinho, Lucy, Baron, Squinky and Sean reunites with Clara from being coughed to demise and they return to Frederick kingdom to save King Austin from the goons. When they are cornered in the top of the kingdom by Fredrick and the guards, Narizinho create millions of sparkles into the kingdom, causing it to rapidly wipe out peoples that has Frederick brain-washed memories, Frederick seizes control of a giant dragon and tries to destroy the kingdom, only to have Squinky and Sean help to destroy the Fredrick kingdom collapse off the cliff, causing Frederick, who is riding inside the dragon and was attempt to kill Narizinho and Lucy, to fall into the ocean to his death, as Narizinho and Lucy cannot swim, Sean decides to drive down into the ocean to save Narizinho and Lucy and escape the ocean.

After Frederick defeat, Sean, Lucy and Squinky join Narizinho, Baron, King Austin and Clara and return them back to his kingdom, Narizinho tearfully confesses his love to Lucy, realizing that it's the person Lucy has become he loves about her, and realizing that she is true love, Narizinho get married and they, along with Sean, Clara, Squinky, Abigail, Austin and the peoples move into Fredrick's former castle. Meanwhile, Baron falls in love with Clara, Squinky becomes the general of an army of forest animals, Sean, who is befriend the most with Narizinho, and Narizinho and Lucy live happily ever after.

In mid credits scene, Squinky find Sean and annoy him. Sean threatens to eat him, but as Squinky refuses it, Sean also get annoy just like Frederick, when he tries to marry Princess Clara.

Voice cast

 * Jack Black as Prince Narizinho, the prince of the kingdom.
 * Freddie Highmore as young Narizinho
 * Bill Murray as Sean, a bronze hawk, who later turns out to befriends with Prince Narizinho and Princess Lucy.
 * Scarlett Johansson as Princess Lucy, a princess of the forest and would later befriends with Prince Narizinho.
 * Joan Cusack as Princess Clara, the princess of the kingdom.
 * Dakota Fanning as young Lucy
 * Alec Baldwin as Frederick, who threatens to destroy the kingdom and was Sean former commander.
 * Paul Giamatti as Squinky, Lucy's talkative pet rabbit
 * Michelle Pfeiffer as Queen Abigail, the queen of the kingdom and Narizinho's mother.
 * Christian Slater as King Austin, the king of the kingdom and Narizinho's father.
 * Ricky Gervais as Baron, a dimwitted man who works with Narizinho.

Additional Voices

 * Jim Cummings
 * Jim Ward
 * André Sogliuzzo
 * Candi Milo
 * Bob Bergen
 * John Kassir
 * Michael Bell
 * Jack Angel
 * Pat Fraley
 * Fred Tatasciore
 * Keith Ferguson
 * Michael Gough
 * Bob Joles
 * Cam Clarke
 * Rob Paulsen
 * Corey Burton
 * Nika Futterman
 * Jeannie Elias
 * Tara Strong
 * Brian Cummings

Production
In 1999, while working on The Emperor's New Groove, writer Philip LaZebnik pitched a script for a "princess" animated fantasy comedy. The film entered development in 2001, with Ron Clements and John Musker as the film's directors with a tentative release scheduled for a holiday 2005 release. Originally, the film was titled Princess Lucy and had a completely different story. This version of the story had a relationship between a princess named Lucy and a prince named Narizinho. However, when Home on the Range was in production, Walt Disney Feature Animation president David Stainton decided that the project should focus on a relationship between a prince and a hawk rather than princess and prince. Because of this, the film was put on hold due to several rewrites and Disney/Pixar's Cars assumed the holiday 2005 release date originally scheduled for Princess Lucy. Ron Clements and John Musker left the project in 2002 following disputes over the film's creative direction, and were replaced by Mike Gabriel, who previously directed on The Rescuers Down Under, Pocahontas and Lorenzo, and Don Hahn, a producer who is credited with producing some of the most successful animated films in 90s, including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.

On April 1, 2003, Walt Disney Feature Animation announced the beginning of the production on its third CGI animated film after Scott and Katherine and Chicken Little, titled Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk. In spring 2005, Jack Black, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Joan Cusack and Alec Baldwin were announced in the film's leading voice cast.

The main animation was done by Walt Disney Animation Studios's main headquarters in Burbank, California.

Release
In September 2004, Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk was originally scheduled for a July 21, 2006 release, but on December 9, 2004, Walt Disney Pictures moved the release up to August 11, 2006, mainly due to Sony's Monster House was taking the slot of July 21, 2006.

Marketing

 * The teaser trailer was released on November 4, 2005 and was shown before Chicken Little, Zathura, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Yours, Mine and Ours, Just Friends, Nicholas: The Second Chapter, Æon Flux, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and King Kong.
 * The first theatrical trailer was released in January 13, 2006, and was attached to films such as Hoodwinked!, Nanny McPhee, The Pink Panther, Curious George, Eight Below, Doogal, Aquamarine, The Shaggy Dog, Night Vision, Ice Age: The Meltdown, The Wild, Akeelah and the Bee, RV, Just My Luck, Over the Hedge and X-Men: The Last Stand.
 * The second and final theatrical trailer was released on June 9, 2006 and was attached into Cars, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Nacho Libre, Click, Imaginable in the Sky, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Monster House, The Ant Bully, and Barnyard.
 * TV spots began to air between July to September of 2006.

Home media
Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk was released on DVD, VHS (through Disney Movie Club exclusive), and UMD Video on December 19, 2006. It was the last Walt Disney Animation Studios film to be released on VHS.

A Blu-ray version was released on April 24, 2012.

Box office
In North America, the film was released on Friday, August 11, 2006 alongside Pulse, Step Up, and Zoom as well as facing competition to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, X-Men: The Last Stand, Miami Vice, and Disney's own Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Cars during the rest of summer 2006. The film earned $19,352,256 on its opening day in the U.S. and a combined total of $63,535,355 in its opening weekend at 4,070 theaters, topping the box office for that weekend. This outperformed the expectations of $35 million that Disney had for the release. The film then grossed $42,467,539 million in its second weekend opened to number two, behind Material Girls, with $17,533,472 million in its third weekend and $15,452,543 million in its fourth.

The film closed on December 28, 2006, after earning $137,363,532 million in the United States and Canada and $95,453,357 million with a worldwide total of $232,834,587 million which became the fifth-highest-grossing animated film from 2006 worldwide, behind Over the Hedge.

Critical response
Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk received widespread critical acclaim, becoming a cult hit among critics upon release. On the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an "Certified Fresh" rating of 86% based on 195 reviews, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Even if it's not an animated classic, Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk is clever and awesome, and the jokes cater to family members of all ages." On Metacritic, it received a score of 74 out of 100, based on 70 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Accolades
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Soundtrack
Main article: Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk/Soundtrack

Video game
Main article: Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk (video game)

A video game based on the film was released on August 1, 2006, for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, PC, and Macintosh. It was also released on November 21, 2006, for Wii, as a launch title.

Sound Effects
Main article: Prince Narizinho and the Bronze Hawk/Sound Effects

Main
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Trailers
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