Pip Ahoy!: The Movie

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Pip Ahoy!: The Movie is an upcoming 2025 animated musical adventure film based on children's television series "Pip Ahoy!". The film was produced by Paramount Animation and Cosgrove Hall Fitzpatrick Entertainment, using traditional animation created with Toon Boom Harmony and outsourced to South Korea at NE4U. It had its World Premiere in London at the Odeon West End on July 12, 2024. It later premiered in the United States on July 18, 2025, by Paramount Pictures and in United Kingdom by StudioCanal.

Premise
Pip and friends have mission to save Salty Cove and help the Mice Pirates to find the treasure!

Cast

 * Teresa Gallagher as Pip (UK Dub), Aubrey Snail (UK Dub), Aisha (UK Dub) and Amir (UK Dub)
 * Emma Tate as Alba (UK Dub) and Billy (UK Dub)
 * David Jason as Skipper (UK Dub) and Pasty (UK Dub)
 * Jimmy Hibbert as Hopper (UK Dub) and Shelvis (UK Dub)
 * Jason Alexander as Morris Maurice (UK Dub)
 * Amanda Root as Mrs. Twitcher (UK Dub)
 * Lena Headey as Madame Eclair (UK Dub)
 * Christian Bale, Andy Serkis and Benedict Cumberbatch as The Mice Pirates (UK Dub)
 * Kerry Shale as Giant Grasshopper (UK Dub)
 * Alec Baldwin as Alan
 * Julia Roberts as Professor Evie (UK Dub)
 * Robby Benson and Julie Nathanson as Mr. and Mrs. Snail (UK Dub)
 * Stacey Solomon as Fuchsia (UK Dub)
 * Brian Trueman as Rocktopus (UK Dub)
 * Wallace Shawn, Gilbert Gottfried and Cheech Marin as Kevin, Cyril and Percy (UK Dub)
 * Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Pip (US Dub), Aubrey Snail (US Dub), Aisha (US Dub) and Amir (US Dub)
 * Tara Stong as Alba (UK Dub) and Billy (US Dub)
 * David Kayne as Skipper (US Dub) and Pasty (US Dub)
 * Jimmy Fallon as Hopper (US Dub) and Shelvis (US Dub)
 * Daran Norris as Morris Maurice (US Dub)
 * Susanne Blakeslee as Mrs. Twitcher (US Dub), Madame Eclair (US Dub) and Fuchsia (US Dub)
 * Tom Hanks as The Mice Pirates (US Dub)
 * Mr. Lawrence as Giant Grasshopper (US Dub)
 * Carolyn Lawrence as Professor Evie (US Dub)
 * Tom Kenny and Jill Talley as Mr. and Mrs. Snail (US Dub)
 * Rodger Bumpass as Rocktopus (US Dub)
 * Clancy Brown as Kevin (US Dub), Cyril (US Dub) and Percy (US Dub)

Production
Pip Ahoy!: The Movie was first conceived in 2020, When Brian Cosgrove meet John Offord for the offer to make an Animated Musical Film Based on Pip Ahoy!. StudioCanal agreed to finance the film in 2021, putting their finances into script development and model design. Paramount officially came on board in 2022. Paramount beat out studios like Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. and largely won due to the perseverance of Paramount Animation chairman Connor Sentance. Sentance explained that he had "been chasing these guys for five or six years, ever since I first saw Pip Ahoy!." Paramount secured the distribution in all territories except Europe, which StudioCanal handled. The two studios co-financed the film. Paramount also retains rights to worldwide merchandising. Sentance Really wanted to make a Disney Renaissance-styled Film ever since he saw Anastasia (1997) on Blu Ray

Two songs were cut from the film during production mainly because Sentance Felt Like it would cause the Movie to have its G Rating be changed to a PG. The first revolves around Skipper in a nightmare sequence where The Mice Pirates criticizes his sailing career through a song. The second is a Version of Copacabana sang by Pip.

Tech
This film used traditional animation created with Toon Boom Harmony similar to what Disney did with the CAPS software, and blended Cel Shaded CGI with 2D animation. The film was produced in a widescreen 2.40:1 aspect ratio, to distinguish it from the look of the television series and colored with the largest palette the animators ever had available to them. A lot of the animation was produced using Wacom Cintiq tablets, which allowed images to be drawn directly onto a computer monitor to facilitate production. Animation production work was done by NE4U in Seoul, South Korea. As with the television series, the storyboarding, characters, background layout, and animatic parts of production, were done in the United Kingdom. NE4U completed the inbetweening, digital ink and paint, and rendered the animation to tape before being shipped back to the United Kingdom.

The CGI backgrounds moved around with the motion trackers via Cinesite's proprietary software Ball Buster, which identified the markers through algorithm. To avoid mistakes in the visuals as much as possible, Cinesite artists worked on the film by frame instead of viewing each shot as a whole; those, such as Jonathan Privett were dissatisfied with the method, primarily because it put them under much pressure: "We much preferred the good old-fashioned run-at-24-fps, just-as-the-viewer-sees-it approach."

Characters
Sentance suggested the hurried workflow of the animators bled into the character animation, resulting in a mix between the Disney Renaissance Era Style and the quick-witted Animation of SpongeBob SquarePants.

There was also a lot of experimentation with motion blur with the 2D characters, especially Tweety; as Simon Eves explained, "The workflow was that an artist would track some specific points on the sequence of 2D character-on-black that came from the animation house, and I think it was able to take a basic roto shape as well, and then it would generate an interpolated motion vector field which could be applied as a variable directional blur. The field would deform based on the relative motion of the tracking points on the camera, to produce more accurate blur as the character deformed."

US Version
In the US version, the majority of the British cast's voice work was dubbed by American Voice Actors and Celebrities such as Colleen O'Shaughnessey (Pip, Aubrey Snail, Aisha and Amir) Tara Stong (Alba and Billy), David Kayne as (Skipper and Pasty) and Jimmy Fallon (Hopper and Shelvis). Alec Baldwin voices Alan in Both versions. The US Voice Actors' Recordings were done at Bang Zoom! Entertainment in Los Angeles, California, While the UK Voice Actors' Recording were done In-House at CHF Entertainment's Headquarters in Manchester, England.

Release
Pip Ahoy! debuted at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on July 12, 2024, followed by a general release on July 19, 2024.

Music
''See page: Pip Ahoy! The Movie/Soundtrack''

Release Dates
''See page: Pip Ahoy! The Movie/Release Dates''

In Theaters

 * July 18, 2025 (International)

Trivia

 * This is Cosgrove Hall Fitzpatrick's first animated feature film.