Cubo: The Movie

Cubo: The Movie is an 2007 animated comedy film based on Cubo by Bob Plauzer. The Film was Directed by Bob Plauzer and cinematographer is David Grills. The Film feature the original voice cast such as including Candi Milo, Nancy Cartwright, Charlie Alder, Julie Kavner, Hank Azaria, Frank Welker, Carlos Alazraqui, Jim Cummings and Tara Strong. The Fim was released in theaters on April 23, 2007 in the United States and Wldwide.

The Film got an Emmy Award for the best 2007 Animated Film and a Gammer Award for the Best film on the 2007 Movie Theater. Tie-in promotions were made with several companies including McDonald's, 7-Eleven, the latter of which transformed selected stores into Kwik-E-marts. The film premiered on the Angelika Film Festival Center in New York City on April 12, 2007 and was released theatrically on 11 days later by 20th Century Entertainment across the United States. Cubo: The Movie was both a critical and commercial success, grossing over $207 Million worldwide and becoming the 9th highest rated film of 2007, the third largest traditional animated film (behind the original version of The Lion King and The Simpsons Movie) and the second highest rated ever grossed film based on an animated television series, A sequel called Cubo 2: The Big Race was released on theaters on April 23, 2019.

Plot
After visiting the farm, Cubo and his friends goes to their favorite hang out restaurant, Slick n Ups, Cubo notices a mascot named Mr. Slurp were on the list, leading him curious, while his friends were talking he went to his house to search him at his computer, he saw it quickly went popular to the restaurant during the 70s and uses popularity since then. He went back to the restaurant and tries to tell his friends that where's Mr. Slurp, The gang laughed at him and leave the restaurant. He went to the museum to see the mascots, he spotted some old spots resembling his and gathered around but struggled looking for him and his legacy.

Meanwhile, The friends were playing chess at Michael's house, matching Knowy to revenge the test at michael, soon Cubo came to his house and tried of looking much forward of the mysterious clown. the others were sorry for being a little harsh on him, so matching their stale equipments. That night, the gang would go to their favorite restaurant again, eventually telling the owner that this happening that his ending career would come to eventually end during the time period were he ended captured from outer space from two aliens named Shicks and Sly, The were too evil and surprisingly bad, The gang telephoned the player of Cubic Town, who continued that Slurp was completely forgotten and disappeared after several days for him after the invaders granted and spawn his fouls.

The Cubo and his gang goes on an journey to find him, Theresa notices the wheel is missing so they spend much time fixing and repairing the old, junky ship a astronaut named Buster asked them why their floating up appears, the gang commences him to go through the spaceship. A star that leads them near the planets they went over to together while they floated around overseas, the gang founded their shelves stuck on a planet called Landscapes City, a metropolitan city populated by ampromopic scientists bees, the bees pleaded them their way, but through Cubo asking them out for fuel and lighting blobs out, the allies asked their assistant and bossy member to joint forces but all it

They founded Slurps at a old-fashioned cage full of aliens, Sly and Shucks, the duo stops their commission and started to attack and kills them, The Cubes quickly ran, into a plan tree were a coconut knocks them to the castle, the clown was pretty delightful and hyperactive so used his honk to pleasure them, Cubo, Sally, Knowy, Theresa and Michael camed closely to the cage unlocked him so he can escape, while doing hope, the aliens mysteriously stated that the clown escape the cage, leading them angry.

The Cubes soon fell down into a long vaccuum cleaner cleaner by the giant named Jones Beaver, The Giant comes to the recuse mistaking them as toys, but soon befriended them as besties, the gang escape the planet but there's no escape from turning then over cages, Minutes later, the gang were trapped in the cage, Cubo spotted a key the chairman owns, he sneaked and get it while they tries to capture the key, the gang sneakily went to their home planet, but still was surrounded by Greeks, they climbed to their spaceship and the planet exploded were they gotten into to their planet, The townspeople and Cubic Town were proud and happy when Mr. Slurp comes home and forgive him, Cubo and the gang were happy so they celebrate and make dances. Cubo and Mr. Slurp winked at the camera as the film ends.

Cast
Main article: List of Cubo Characters
 * Candi Milo as Cubo, Mayor Daria, Benita Smith and additional voices
 * Nancy Cartwright as Sally, Geek #2 and additional voices
 * Charlie Alder as Michael, Geek #1, Museum Owner #1, additional voices
 * Frank Welker as Knowy, additional voices
 * Julie Kavner as Theresa, additional voices
 * Jim Cummings as Gruncy, additional voices
 * Carlos Alazraqui as Frankie.
 * Tara Strong as Farina
 * Kurt Russell as Clown/Mr. Slurps
 * Hanks Azaria as Bobby, Stringy, Sly Ailen
 * Tom Kenny as Jones Beaver, Mister Hoopers and additional voices
 * Kath Soucie as Nerse Suzy
 * Jess Harnell as Jones Gradfy,
 * Greg Berger as Neo
 * Maurcie LaMarche as Mayor Brickle.
 * Rob Paulsen as Shucks, The Museum Owner #2, Peaceful Sid
 * Cree Summer as Rita Matthews, additional voices
 * Tom Hanks as Himself
 * Perrie Cofin as June the Juggler
 * Tress Macnellie as Erma Millers, Miss Cubic
 * Dee Bradley Baker as The Chef of Cubic Town
 * Jones Sparkes as The Narrator

Production
Cubo: The Movie was long-planned, creator, Bob Plauzer has approached 20th Century FOX Studios to do a film on the show, but he refused for more than a year. Development stages began for the film midway through the series' third season production in September 1990. The production staff had considered the film adaption of Cubo since early in the series. Plauzer felt a feature length film would allow them to license the show's scale and animate sequences too complex for a TV series. There were attempts to adapt the fourth season episode "The Dancing Cows at Space" into a film, but difficulties were encountered in expanding the episode to feature-length.

Cubo: The Movie was announced in January 2002 headed by Bob Plauzer. In April 2003, Plauzer announced he was working on the script, and the film was panned to be released in theaters in Summer 2006 instead of it's date of April 23, 2007 to avoid competition with Ice Age 3. The producers were initially worried that creating the film would have a negative effect on the series, as they did not have enough crew to focus their attention on both projects, As the series progressed, additional writters and animators were hired so that both the show and the film could be produced at the same time.

Animation
While animation production for the film began in January 2006, the film was animated aboard at Rough Draft Studios in South Korea and Los Angeles. Plauzer rejected making an live action or a CGI film, calling the film's animation "deliberately imperfect" and "a tribute to art of hand drawn animation". The film's hand drawn animation was made by Rough Draft Studios in both Los Angeles, California and Seoul, South Korea and was outsourced to Sunwoo Entertainment and Hanho Huang-Up co. Ltd in South Korea, Wang Film Productions in Taiwan and TMS Entertainment in Japan.

Casting
The main voice actors from Cubo: Candi Milo, Nancy Cartwright, Charile Alder, Frank Welker, Julie Kavner, Hanks Azaria, Jim Cummings and Greg Berger, respied their roles from the show. The cast did the first and third of the three table readings in August 2005, and began recording every week from January 2006 until its ended production.

Music
Bob Plauzer announced in November 2004 that series composer Heitor Pereira will be composing the film's score. Music production began in 2005 and ended in 2006.

Release
The film originally released on Film Festival Center on April 12. 2007, 11 days later the film was officially shown on theaters on April 23, 2007.

Soundtrack

 * 1) The Long Day
 * 2) The Restaurant is the place to eat
 * 3) Cubo's Insanity
 * 4) Clown's disappeared
 * 5) The Steady Might go on a Flow
 * 6) Magic Planes
 * 7) They're Offering Us!
 * 8) The Invaders Attack
 * 9) Here we Come
 * 10) The Biggest Problem
 * 11) Cubo saves the day

Reception
Cubo: The Movie received positive reviews by a number of critics and fans of the show upon release. Based on the reviews collected from 325 critics by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 88% gave Cubo: The Movie a positive review, when the site's consumers stating: "Cubo: The Movie is getting more edgier, and it's a fantastic movie with way better animaton and storylines." On Metacritic, the film has weighted average rating of 80 out of 100 based on 53 professional reviews published in newspapers, magazines and in highly regarded internet sites, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars saying it's "Wonderful, entertaining, hilarious, and it's full with enjoyment." while Richard Corliss of Time magazine gave a positive review and called it "laughably fun." Max Nicholson of IGN commented, "Cubo: The Movie lives up to the groundbreaking hit, expect the plot is very familiar." Jamez Rocchi of MSN Mivies gave the film four out of five stars, calling it "a film that is cool filled with some action and more".

Home Video
Cubo: The Movie was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 28, 2007 and on Blu-ray 3D on May 3, 2011. Bothreleases include a short film titled Cubo have Done it. A 4K Ultra Blu-ray version was released on September 15, 2016.

Trivia

 * Neo is a supporting character in this film