Beno (2016)

Beno is a 2016 American animated comedy-sci-fi film produced by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures. it was directed by Charlie Bean, co-directed by Yarrow Cheney, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy. The film stars the voices of Jack Black, Tony Hale, Anne Hathaway, Eric Edelstein, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin Hart, and Jason Statham. The film plot is about a little young alien named Beno (Jack Black) who want's to accepted at the Alien Federation but gets in trouble and chased over to earth to find help and meets and young girl to help him on his journey to warn the other alien agents about the Zorgon Empire coming to invade earth.

Synopsis
A small green and blue alien named Beno (Jack Black) is wanting more in the Galactic Federation rather than being just an employ for the force. When Beno accidently gives a message to the whole galaxy and the other aliens are in fear of the message being sent to their feared enemy the Anti Dictator Zai-Gorg the Leader of the Zorgons, he get's chase away by the other aliens and stranded on earth. There he meets a young strange and bizarre girl by the name Cora Miller (Hayley LeBlanc) that's in love with anything space and alien related and dreams of going into the unknown of astronomy. In the chaos in Galactic Federation the chief of the force Mrs. Madam Lucy (Michelle Monaghan) assigns 4 aliens to bring and arrest their own close friend from earth while to delete the message from the Zorgons. Can Beno and Tori be able to stop the Zorgons form invading earth.

Plot
The film begins with a huge ship passing throw a destroyed planet which they don't know the cause and just move pass and cuts to alien getting let to huge event in the space alien community and head to a huge council meeting where all alien's are gathered to this huge meeting including the head of the party named Madam Lucy the Head Council (Michelle Monaghan) the head of the federation gathering all the aliens on board with her right hand soldier Commander General Shark Eye (Jason Statham) and Lucy gathered this whole council to interrogate the victim for Illegal Genetic Experiment Creation (Rule State 501) and it turns out to be the star of the film himself Beno "The Last Javiro (Jack Black) and is caught for his intentions and tries to talk his way out of it and says it was all to show the community his talents and wants to show them he is made of an intelligent mind set and want to a alien government agent as well and not be simple worker like every simple alien in the force, and starts showing off his pet abomination named Mar Mar that everyone is freaked out by and General Shark Eye is commanding the monstrosity to destroyed at once, Madam Lucy is reasonable and tries to talk out with Beno's pet and say's to it if there is something inside it that is good and Mar Mar gets up coughs up and says to everyone a unknown language that everyone gets offended by and Shark Eye commands the guards to kick Beno out and decides to send the creature Mar Mar to a alien creation deception room, with Beno getting kicked out it cut's to a cool film intro with a 50's style comic book animation and giving a preview of half of the movie.

Cast

 * Jack Black as Beno
 * Hayley LeBlanc as Tori Miller
 * Tony Hale as Fonzo
 * Anne Hathaway as Phoebe
 * Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Felix
 * Eric Edelstein as Carlos
 * Kevin Hart as Ralphie (R-Money)
 * Michelle Monaghan as Madam Lucy (Head Council)
 * Jason Statham as General Shark Eye
 * Rainn Wilson as Dr. Daxter Nicklejar (Nickname Nickster)
 * Thurop Van Orman as Chives Blobert (General Assistant 1)
 * Kevin McDonald as Apollo Steves (General Assistant 2)
 * Rosa Blasi as Sofie Miller (Cora's Mother)
 * William Levy as David Dietz (Cora's Step Father)
 * Javier Bardem as Harold (Cora's Ballet Teacher)
 * Laura Marano as Angelina Dietz (Cora's Older Step Sister)
 * YaYa Gosselin as Missy Dietz (Cora's Little Step Sister)
 * Dean Scott Vazquez as Jacob Dietz (Cora's Little Step Brother)
 * TBA as Professor Ian Hawkeye (Secret Agent Scientist)
 * TBA as Zai-Gorg (Anti Zorgon Dictator)
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Mar Mar (Beno's Pet)

Production
Beno was announced on August 21, 2012 and was set to be release on December 19, 2014. However, on September 20, 2013, the release date was delayed until July 8, 2016.

During the end credits Fonzo, Felix, Carlos, and Phoebe start auditioning for their own separate spin off and end up ruining the whole set.

Trivia

 * Jack Black wanted to uses a specific voice for Beno instead of using his normal voice but the studio said to just use his regular voice make the performance feel much more of a loaner Beno is to everyone.
 * Beno was the first animated original film Illumination made beside Despicable Me.
 * Most of the film was inspired by the 2009 film Monsters vs Alien's
 * Michelle Monaghan always wanted to do voice over for an animation film and had a lot fun with it.
 * Both Beno (2016) and Sing (2016) were both in production at the same time.