Bob The Builder: The Search For Lofty

Bob The Builder: The Search For Lofty is a 2019 animated movie based on the original bob the builder series and created by Jayden Kindling. The film is directed by Mike Mitchell with a screenplay by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger from a story by Erica Rivinoja. The film features the voices of Alan Marriott, Lachele Carl, Maria Darling, Lorelei King, Sonya Leite, Mark Silk, Kate Harbour, Jo Wyatt, Rupert Degas, James Andrew Pearsons, Gwen Stefani, Johnny Depp, Chris Phillips, Marcia Savella, Emma Watson and Richard Ian Cox. The film follows four members of Bob’s Team who go on a quest to save Lofty and their village from corruptions by the Utazo Imps, demons who eat kids to rule the world.

The film premiered on April 18, 2019 at the Tokyo International Film Festival and was theatrically released in the United States on August 15, by JayMeDino Productions. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $346 million worldwide against its $125 million budget. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for “I Kissed A Girl”.

A second installment, Bob The Builder: Day Of The Mysties, is set for release on October 8, 2022, with Bob The Builder: Daycare Rescue being set for release on December 12th, 2025.

Plot
The machines are big, huge and amazing vehicles who work for builders all day until the sun goes down. They are discovered by the small, colorful, perpetually-happy Utazo Imps, who believe they can only rule the world by consuming a child. The Uzato Imps imprison the machines in a gigantic jail cell, and demolish them every year on a special occasion, Woo-Hoo Day.

On the year that Cuchillo, the daughter of King Dragon, is due to demolish her first machine, the wizard in charge of the ceremony discovers that the machine’s leader, Queen Gialla, has taken her infant daughter, Princess Poppy, and her people and organized an escape. King Dragon banishes Sangue, and he vows to find the machines, while secretly plotting to become the king and take over the kingdom with his evil wife, Sortita as revenge for his exile.

Twenty years later, Scoop, the unofficial leader of Bob’s Team, is now a five-time Table Tennis champion, renamed the Bernoulli Table Tennis Club, after the recent death of his mentor Isaac Bernoulli, and returns to build places and put up houses with with his friends and spends his off season with Muck and Scratch. But Wendy organizes a enormous party to celebrate the anniversary of the escape. A short-tempered survivalist named Sakiko warns that this could compromise their position, but everyone ignores her. Her warnings come true when Cleo, Cuchillo and the pinheads follow the lights and noise and kidnap serval people, including the blue mobile Crane, Lofty. While the machines and builders cower in the survival bunker, Scoop and his team set off alone to rescue Lofty. They naively gets themselves into several potentially dangerous and deadly situations and are finally rescued by a snake-human hybrid named Holexx, who believes the quest is hopeless and reluctantly follows them to escape his crowded bunker.

Upon arriving in Goldeneye Valley, Scoop, Muck, Dizzy, Roley, Scratch, Scrambler and Holexx see the 67 year old Queen Gialla seemingly watching someone being served a little girl by Stinky and Al. Muck joins Scrambler as she goes into a tribe of Techno Kids attending a rave when a yellow pinhead named Tacky uses a weaponized guitar to destroy the buildings. Scrambler orders him to stop but he just doesn’t listen except for Muck, who believes that he used to be her friend at Runnamuck High in Class 4-2. Dizzy and Scratch find Lofty holding a Nikki plush by an evil sailor girl named Carol. Still hoping that their queen is alive, Dizzy helps her brother, Nixon, out to see if Bob and the others are still okay. Roley doesn’t believe and gets captured by a Classical group called The Music Maids and the K-Pop Trolls, who fight over him until he convinces them to work together with him against the Utazu Imps.

Meanwhile, Bob and Wendy spot the pinheads capturing their friends, including the scarecrow spud. Queen Sortita and King Sangue then arrive and capture them and Scoop is horrified on his smartphone that lofty has been corrupted. He looks at the machines and they all spot Cleo, Cuchillo, The Pinheads and Carol in exchange of betraying them and turning everyone into heavy metal zombies. When Dizzy zooms into Fixham Harbour and summons the rest of the humans and machines, while the Utazo Imps succeed into capturing the and putting them in a huge jail cell to be served at the party. The machines then fall into despair and turn gray.

Roley and the other tribes, realizing they have fallen in love with Nixon, proceeds to get Roley to sing “Triple Speed Round” to cheer them up. Scratch, Scrambler and Holexx reciprocates their feelings and sings along, and all the people of Fixham regain their hopes and dreams. Sakiko, unwilling to see harm come to the machines, releases them while her mean parents are looking. Scoop, knowing how Lofty snapped him and Carol out of it and returned to normal, refuses to tell Bob and Wendy to sacrifice themselves. The machines and humans return and explain to the Imps that Dizzy is a doctor, and that she and Roley are already happy being in love with one another.

Through the song “I Kissed A Girl”, the machines show all the demons they too can find happiness inside themselves, bringing light and color and joy to Goldeneye Valley. King Sangue, while staring at the people and looking, shrugs, and decides to become good while his evil wife is put on a flaming serving cart and sent rolling out of the hotel into the woods. Bob and Wendy make Muck a Queen of the harbour, and she and the machines share an awesome hug.

In a post-credits scene, Diesel 10, who was the one who hired Cuchillo to take over the harbour, watches the machines and humans and demons above the party palace and vows that he will have revenge of Scoop for insulting Carol and Nixon, foreshadowing the events of the following sequel.

Cast

 * Mark Silk as Bob, the leader of the can-do crew.
 * Kate Harbour as Wendy, Bob’s business partner.
 * Alan Marriott as Scoop, the table tennis champion and unofficial leader of Bob’s Team.
 * Lachele Carl as Muck, the queen of Fixham Harbor and Scoop’s friend.
 * Maria Darling as Dizzy, a small orange cement mixer.
 * Lorelei King as Roley, a slow steam roller.
 * Sonya Leite as Lofty, a blue mobile Crane who lacks confidence.
 * Jo Wyatt as Scratch, the youngest of the machines.
 * Rupert Degas as Scrambler, a quad bike who was won by bob in the sunflower valley competition.