Arlene

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Arlene is a 1999 traditional 2D animated film based off of the graphic novel of the same name. It is directed by Robert Nadal, the creator of ”Arlene” and it’s original novel, and Chris Savino, an animator and creator of the 2016 Nicktoon “The Loud House”. The film stars Brittany Murphy as the voice of the title character, Will Ferrell, Andrea Libman, Hugh Jackman, Robin Williams, Robert Nadal, Spencer Breslin, Winona Ryder, Thurl Ravenscroft, and Mary Kay Bergman.

Plot

Prologue

It all started in the outer regions of space. Two creatures who fled their home after it became completely destroyed went in search of planet with life to live. They went for Earth, but life on that planet was to risky for them to go. They decided to send their ship near there and protect the planet if there’s any instants of it turning into what’s become of their home.

These 2 creatures were named Tiberius and Trevor. Tiberius is the brains and Trevor has fast reflexes. As they observed Earth from a distance, they used the time to do some plan off for the future. Trevor was still feeling guilty of him and Tiberius failing to save their home and he feared they’d fail to protect earth. Tiberius tells him it’s their calling to protect others. They can do this. It makes them wonder what’s happening down on Earth

Story

One night, out on an island called Tawaho, there was a town named DiamondVille. And outside the town, there was a hoard of farm animals providing the islands resources. And without warning, a Monsters came out to destroy and devour the animals. It managed to get half of the cows, sheep, horses, and pigs. The entire town of DiamondVille overheard the carnage. As for the mayor, he tried to assemble everyone and head for the meadows. And when they saw the monster, it was too late. They were all gone. The monster head for the castle where it would disappear. Everyone in the town was concerned. They all decided they had to head to the castle to report the catastrophic events that happened.

As it turns out, they were the only ones who heard all the carnage. So did Tiberius and Trevor. Tiberius and Trevor were startled to hear the carnage down there. Fearing that the monster would get the world, they had to find a way to destroy it. But they didn’t want to fight it in person, because they’d be exposed to the humans. And they couldn’t use their starships laser because it could possible destroy the island and possibly the planet. Tiberius had to think of an idea, and he decided to put his lifes work to action. He pulls out his blueprint for a creature he planned out for years. All he needed was some ingredients to create it. What’s worse is that he had to go to the planet Earth to get them because his home was destroyed. Tiberius has to be prepared for this. Trevor wish him good luck. If anything were to happen to Tiberius, Trevor would take over for him. Tiberius thanks him and sets off for Earth

The citizens of DiamondVille come to consult the king. The kings servents, the Drogan block of the citizens for it was the King and his right-hand man’s dinner time. The mayor tries to explain the monster that attacked the farm animals, saying it headed for the castle. The Drogan guard is baffled and insulting, not believing his word, saying there was no monster in this castle. They describe it, but they still don’t believe him. The king of the island, Kyle K. Kragles, and his right-hand man/majordomo, Deacon, overheard the conversation and granted them access. They explain the crisis, and the king seems intrigued. He pointed at his pet Octopus and asked if it looked like that. They said it look exactly like that, except it was 20 times bigger and...evil. He explains it ain’t some monster, it’s just his pet. Deacon says it only eats Veggies and Fish. Wouldn’t hurt a fly unless it was on the end of a fish hook. They go back to their dinner and orders the citizens to leave the room. Then a little girl comes in and tries to get contact with Kyle, wanting to know if the octopus turned into the monster. Kyle stops her before she can ask, but she still tries. She’s later left off with a warning saying he’ll release his toughest man, or in this case, creature, Ripjaw. Kyle sends him in to show himself off. Seeing Ripjaw, she backs away going back with the group.

In the first tower, 3 watchdog Drogans we’re watching for any sense of trouble, but they try not to be audible or they’d be in trouble. They eventually discovered a pod landing on the island and they started to startle in place. They calmed down and decided to go out and find the one from the pod. They head out and remained quiet so they don’t blow their cover. The eventually found Tiberius, and they followed him to see what he was doing. After he gotten all the ingredients to create the creature, the Drogans found out what he was doing. They pulled out a tranquilizer pistol and tranqualized him. The Drogan then tok Tiberius to the castle and he dissappeared before he can finish the creature

Back at the starship, the radar marks Tiberius as unconscious or even dead. Trevor is baffled and saddened to see his long time friend gone. He decides to avenge him and finish the plan. He tries to track down the ingredients for the creature, seeing if Tiberius dropped it when he was caught. Finding them, he shoots them with the Gravity Puller and brings the ingredients to the ship. He then prepares for the DNA transformation. Once completed, he sets targets for the island of Tawaho, and launches the capsule himself toward the island. However, the DNA might have gone a defect as the capsule had no heat shield and re-entry caused a slight damage to the DNA. What kind of damage? We’ll see.

Back in Tawaho, it was a dark and stormy day. The citizens of DiamondVille came to the legendary architecture known as “The Angel Heart”, an talking ancient statue that sees the past, present, and future. They approach it to find answers, What happened, How did the giant Cephalopod get here, What’s gonna happen to the island, and who can stop this monster. The Angel Heart looks to the event, saying “The monster is here, a creature of 8 appendages and thirst for blood, and this island is in brave danger”. It says that the creature was summoned by the king himself. As it turns out, Kyle was eavesdropping and realized his cover was blown. He calls Ripjaw and 2 other Drogans to pull out the Robo-Drogan. The little girl comes up and asks what will become of the island and can they do anything to stop it. The Heart responds “Life here won’t be as good and easy as you’ll all hope. There is simply nothing you can do”. The citizens are startled and traumatized in fear. The girl’s 2 best friends came up and ask if there is anyone who can save us. The Heart responds, “There is one hope. 2 men named Tiberius and Trevor have the one thing they can use to stop it.” The citizens are relieved and full of hope.

Kyle, Ripjaw, and the Drogans barge out of nowhere with the Robo-Drogan. Kyle speaks out saying that there ain’t no such thing as Tiberius and Trevor. They don’t exist, they’re myths, half-truths, lies. Everyone is baffled by his statement, not knowing who was telling the truth. The Heart responds that they are real. But, Kyle is still refuses to believe in them. The little girl comes up and explains who they are. But, before the Heart can respond, 2 flashes of light was spotted. Those were 2 of the rockets. One of them crashlands upon a cliffside, and the other one had someone flying out of the rocket, and the rocket lands into the ocean, and Trevor crashed onto the ground like an anvil. He heads for the other rocket to release the creature. The citizens of DiamondVille, Kyle, Ripjaw, and the Robo-Drogan try to head for where the first rocket crashed.

Trevor opens the rocket and releases the creature. This the day where everything changed, Trevor saw a glimpse of the creature and got to see all it’s glory for the first time...but not quite as he would expect it. Trevor looked confused as to how this is possible. Everyone manage to make it to the crash site and see Trevor, but not the creature since the smoke was too thick to see through. Everyone looks at Kyle implying that he was stupid. Kyle felt insulted and decided to come up and talk to Trevor. He asks what he’s doing. And when Trevor says he’s releasing his creature, the little girl and her 2 friends came up to see while everyone else, except Kyle of course, backed away from the rocket just in case. In the smoke, a shadow formed in the smoke. They backed away slowly feeling something was gonna happen. The smoke cleared up and everyone saw the creature. Everyone, including Trevor and Kyle were baffled seeing the creature. The little girl was speechless. Kyle felt like this was some kind of joke. Trevor swore this wasn’t what was planned and start to wonder how this is possible.

Kyle ceased the opportunity to show that creature what for. The little girl screams to stop, but he’s not listening. He pulls out his giant mallet and sends the creature flying right into a trench. Trevor starts to get mad and tries to tackle Kyle in anger. Ripjaw runs up and grabs Trevor, saying no one hurts his friend, and then he throws Trevor like a helicopter in the same place Kyle flung the creature. Everyone is startled to see him do that. They felt like what they did could have possibly been a bad decision. Kyle and Ripjaw starts to try pinning Trevor and the creature, saying they could have possibly been the monster that at the farm creature. Everyone wasn’t sure if he was telling the truth or if he was lying. They say that looked nothing like what they saw. The little girl tries to sneak out of the group and head for the trench, and when her friends saw her, they followed her.

The little girl and her friends made it to the trench to see if they can find Trevor and the creature, but they were visible to their sightings. They decide to turn around but the little girl accidentally slips on the side, loses her grip, and falls to her doom. The creature woke up from unconsiousness and notices Trevor mourning on how he failed to finish the project correctly. She pulls him up from the edge. But then, they see the girl plummeting to her grave. The creature is startled and Trevor is in fear to see the girl fall to her death. And then, all of a sudden, the creature stretches her hair out and uses them as wings and flies down to the girl. She grabs her at the last second, saving her. The girl’s friends and Trevor try to go down the trench to see she saved her life. Impressed by it, they soon relies she might not be a mistake after all, but they’re not quite fully convinced though. And then, not paying attention, the creature disappears. Having no way to track her down, they had to go find her on foot.

Kyle and Ripjaw return to the castle in frustration and all the other Drogans try to back away from them cause they don’t like to get involved in that, no matter who has the courage to do it. Deacon comes up and asks what happened. Kyle responds that he wasted his time seeing a ”mistake”. Deacon is confused. Who would have thought Trevor and Tiberius would make a “mistake”. But Deacon starts to think Kyle and Ripjaw were just looking at the outside and there was actually more. Kyle starts to realize he might be on to something. He decides to send out Drogans to examine the creature. Kyle, Ripjaw, and Deacon decide to plan off what would happen next.

As for outside of the city, The little girl, her friends, and Trevor were looking for the creature. She asks Trevor where he think the creature would go. He says it was design to care for everyone and everything that is on the side of good, so she’d most likely be at a location for watching over civilization. The little girl then thinks of...the mountains. It’s where she went growing up as a child. They decide to head there. After an hour of going up the mountains, they eventually find the creature sitting on the cliffside of the mountain, looking at almost the whole island. They come up to her and asks what she’s doing. She responds that she just look at civilization wondering why and how they came to be. The little girl decides to come up and explain life, the sun, the moon, the bodies of water, their structures, you know the thinks that he’ll people live peacefully. The creature seems intrigued with all of that, and later ask what it’s like for the little girl. She responds it’s every she dreamed of. She decides to later introduce herself. Her name is Tiffany, but her friends call her Tiffy. She’s an soft-hearted kind and happy little girl who always does something to help others. Trevor decides to introduce himself to the creature as well, saying he is the most agile person than anyone else. Tiffy two friends then come up and introduce themselves as Hoover and Desiree. Hoover is considered the creative of the 3 and is from a wealthy family. Desiree is...to put at lightly...the fast-thinker. She like to make plans and put them into action. The creature starts to feel a bond between Tiffy, Trevor, Hoover, and Desiree. Tiffy decides to ask what the creatures name is. But she doesn’t have one. Tiffy decides to name her...Arlene. The creature kind of likes that name and she stuck with it. She gets a better understanding of relationships and knows that they’ll all be great friends.

After a few hours, Arlene, Tiffy, Trevor, Desiree, and Hoover decide to go to DiamondVille for a small tour. But they weren’t alone as a Drogan was eavesdropping on them with no one noticing. As for Arlene, she seemed pretty intrigued with all of what life has to offer. The drogan sees Arlene as if she has the brain of an infant, but then again, she was just released from the capsule, so it’s a first for her. At one point Arlene is introduced to the church. Tiffy explains that the church is considered they’re symbol of peace. It was where her parents took her as a baby. It was like her home. Arlene comes up and asked what happened to her family. Desiree and Hoover come in cause they haven’t learned. Tiffy responds that her father was assassinated and her mother disappeared when she was 4. Arlene feels very sorry for her. The Drogan, overhearing her backstory, kind of gotten a bit emotional, but tried to hold it in so he doesn’t blow his cover. Arlene says to Tiffy that she at least has her friends and her to keep her happy.

Later that night, it was time for a feast for their new hero. The Drogan tried to follow Arlene, but he couldn’t go in because he isn’t permitted. He wonder how he would eavesdrop on them. He later finds a ledge leading to a window and decides to look through there. Seeing everyone prepare the table and saying grace. DIG IN. As for Arlene, she got a plate of fries and a steak. She cut a piece, ate it, and she was...immediately obsessed. She took a bite of a fry and felt the same. But then she had a thought in her head, that putting both in her mouth at the same time was a delicacy, and it actually was. She started to feel a little addictive. She later notices something underneath the table. An active vacuum cleaner, but it wasn’t ordinary. Arlene tried to bring it over here. Then she thought of doing the unthinkable. She grabs the nozzle and sucks in all of the food on the table. Everyone is startled and stunned. Tiffy is straight up traumatized seeing this. After the vacuum was filled up with all of the food, Arlene sticks her mouth in the nozzle and blows out all of the food into her gasket.

Everyone is completely speechless, except for Trevor. He’s more disappointed with what happened. Tiffy starts to feel a little cheated out seeing her do that. Everyone looks at Arlene as if they were mad. She starts to feel scared and runs away with the vacuum following her. Trevor is now mad at everyone for scaring her away. He starts to chase after her. Tiffy and her friends then start to follow him. The Drogan is like “I KNEW IT!”. He starts to quietly follow them towards where their going. Arlene stops to catch a breath. But in front of her, she sees the remainings of the farm animals. Tiffy, Desiree, and Hoover caught up with her. They start to get the feeling that Kyle was right. As for Trevor, he starts to feel like this really was a failure. Tiffy tells him to tell them what’s going on. He explains that Arlene was given the ability to grow different adaptions based off of what she does. And in the case of the delicous food, she might have grown an addiction. He fears that everyone will see this as proof that Kyle was right. Tiffy ask how she managed to get all that food to Arlene’s vicinity. Then they notice the vacuum cleaner, not know what it does. Trevor recognized it. It was the Transdimensional Vacuum, a weapon and tool invented by him and Tiberius. It was used to suck in anything from a wide radius. Tiffy is confused as to how that got here. This shown how Arlene managed to get all that food. They start to believe that Arlene might be the innocent one here. They just have to find a way to prove this to everyone. But as for Arlene, she felt too guilty and ran away without anyone noticing. They now have to try finding her again. This is not gonna end well

The Drogan’s duties are complete. He heads back to the castle to report. Kyle, however, was busy with his midnight massage and the Drogan couldn’t get access unless it’s granted. He knocks the door to tell Kyle that he found evidence about the creature. Kyle decides to grant him access and postpones the massage for a half-hour. The Drogan enters the room and is asked what has he got. He explains that the creature seemed to start of normal at first up until dinner. Kyle was confused as how it had to take until her dinner. The Drogan says that the creature gotten a bit addictive to the food in the banquet, and she used a weapon to suck out the entire feast and push it down her esophagus. Kyle sounded repulsed and disgusted with that. But ultimately, he still find the creature as a mistake. He asks the Drogan if they’re anything else he found. Other than that, The Drogan claims all he got was her ability and her name. Kyle thanks him anyway for the report. After the Drogan leaves, Kyle tries to ponder on what to do. Hopefully things don’t turn out as bad and other would think.

Trevor, Tiffy, Desiree, and Hoover are still looking for Arlene. They almost decide to give up cause she wasn’t in any place they knew. Trevor feels so guilty for letting this happen and is about to just leave feeling like he failed again. All of a sudden, he starts to hear moaning. It wasn’t the other 3 kids. It sounded like it was coming from somewhere no one would go. Trevor decides to head over there, but Tiffy tries to stop him because she heard where he’s going might be dangerous. Her friends start to follow them too. After a few minutes, they stop at where the moan has gotten louder. It was in a cave. Trevor decides to head it and he uses the flashlight on the Vacuum to find the way through. Tiffy fearing something would happen decides to follow him in along with her friends.

Trevor and Tiffy manage to eventually find Arlene as she was moaning and groaning in guilt. They come up to ask of she’s feeling alright. She responds that she feels guilty for what she just did. She couldn’t control herself and she let the greed get the best of her. Tiffy understands that it was just an accident and she forgives Arlene. Trevor feels her pain and decides to say that it was a simple mistake. It’s nothing to feel guilty about, and he should know. All of a sudden, Desiree and Hoover, still staying out of the cave, starts to scream and run into the cave hiding. Arlene, Tiffy, and Trevor are startled and they start to hide. The vacuum turns of the lights so the cover isn’t blown.

As someone stepped into the cave, everyone tries to keep a low profile so they don’t get caught. However, Trevor didn’t mare the smart choice. He hid where there was a scatter of dust. Before he knew it, he had to sneeze. He tried to hold it in, but...but ah...ah, ah...ACHOO!!! The dust start to get everywhere and everyone is startled. The man who walked in was startled and was like WHO GOES THERE! The vacuum accidentaly bumps into the wall an turns on the light. Arlene and Trevor were all of a sudden stoked. It was Tiberius. He managed to escape the castle after he was tranquilized. Trevor is so relieved to see he was ok. Tiberius is glad to see Trevor again. He then decides to ask if he managed to finish the project. Trevor suddenly gets silent, fearing he would notice. Tiberius thinks he’s hiding something. Arlene eventually decides to come up and introduce herself and explain about herself. Tiberius feels a bit concerned with the fact that his creation looks...normal. Arlene tells him that she isn’t exactly normal. She brings up what she did and Tiberius was immediately intrigued, but he wasn’t convinced. He thinks that maybe she needed a modification, but Arlene and Trevor don’t agree. Tiberius grabs Arlene, But Trevor tries to take her back, but Tiberius isn’t budging. The starts fighting over the creature. Eventually, Tiffy comes in and tries to plead to Tiberius to give Arlene a chance. Tiberius isn’t willing, which lead to Tiffy most powerful move, Her cute big eyes. Tiberius tries to contain himself, but failed. He just straight up decides to give Arlene one last chance to prove himself. Arlene is relieved. She lets out her hair wings and flies out of the cave. Tiberius didn’t think fast and forgot to let go of her, yet Trevor did. They all try to follow them to their location.

An alarm goes of at the castle. Kyle is startled and he rushes to the Drogans to see what’s happening. He shoves a Drogan out of his way to look through the telescope. He sees Arlene flying up from above. As Tiberius tries to hold on, Arlene does a hard immediate stop and Tiberius falls off. He starts to plummet to the castle grounds, and BOOM, he crashing into the roof and lasts on the ground. Kyle was traumatized and furious. It was time for his revenge. Arlene heads out to find a quiet way into the castle. As for Trevor, Tiffy, Desiree, and Hoover, they sneaked in to the castle thanks to Trevor’s resilience fast thinking. They later find Tiberius who is trying to find Arlene’s location in the castle. Arlene tries to find a way into the main room. There, she sees the small creature Kyle talked about a long time ago. Kyle walks in to prepare for any intruders. He feeds the creature and calls the computer. Arlene tries to back it up so she doesn’t blow her cover. Arlene wondered what she should do. (She wakes up the Narrator to finish his sentence)

In the main room, Kyle is about to leave the room, while Arlene tries to sneak in to remove the octopus. But she accidentally toppled the tank down and it shaders all over the ground leaving the octopus vulnerable. Kyle overheard the racket and runs back in. Arlene tries to find a spot to hide. Kyle comes in looking pretty concerned. He sees the tank and is immediatly startled and later...mad. He tries to find the perpetrator in this room cause they couldn’t escape from him and they can’t hide. He uses his sense to track it down. He grabs the hammer and BAM! Arlene is exposed. Kyle sees this to be pretty ironic and decides to finish the job. Arlene starts to remember the first time he hit her with the hammer and she was prepared. She grab the hammer right as it was about to hit her and BOOM! She breaks the entire hammer into bits. Arlene looks pretty angry now. As the rest of the group found her, they were surprised to see what she did. Arlene challenges Kyle and he takes up on it. Calling the 20 guards, Tiberius and Trevor decide to fight back to buy Arlene some time. Kyle pulls out his sword and en garde! Arlene, however, doesn’t have anything to fight back with. But right at that moment, Tiberius tossed her a glowing yellow blade called, The Hope Blade. Arlene catches it and starts to challenge Kyle. Time to battle

Taking a look at the octopus, it woke up from unconsciousness, seeing Arlene and Kyle battle. It starts to black out again but then it opening with red bloody eyes. It was about to enter it’s next stage.

All of the guard Drogans are down, but there was more coming. Tiffy decides to join in with the Drogans and she ain’t kidding. She actually managed to take down a few of them. Tiberius and Trek are impressed while Desiree and Hoover are surprised. One drogan decides to do a call. HI-HO-HAAA! He keeps doing it until he saw it. Arlene manages to get Kyle vulnerable and is ready to finish him. But she’s stopped as Ripjaw swoops in and snatches the Blade from Arlene’s hands and leaves her open for Kyle to attack. Tiberius sees Arlene vulnerable and in trouble. He decides he wasn’t gonna do this, but they left him no choice. He throws an energy star and it sporadically ricochets all over the room, hitting Kyle, ramming into Ripjaw and he drops the blade. Arlene catches the energy star and gains more energy and power. She grabs the blade. As for Kyle, he decides to pull out The Nightmare Blade, a dark incarnation of The Hope Blade. They start to battle like one-on-one rampage.

One drogan gets up and decides to run into the weapons room, and bring out the Robo-Drogan. It runs right through the walls. As Arlene and Kyle were battling, the Robo-Drogans crashing through the walls. Arlene is traumatized and starts to feel...frightened. Kyle comes up and is glad to see reinforcement. He orders them to destroy Arlene. The Robo-Drogan takes request and runs toward Arlene. She runs, or better yet, flies out through the halls with the Robo-Drogan following her. Tiberius, Trevor, Tiffy, Desiree, and Hoover tries to run to her. But Kyle and Ripjaw follows them, too.

After rampaging through the halls, Arlene starts to feel like she lost it. She tries to sneak back into the main room. But that is where the Robo-Drogan, Kyle, and Ripjaw were waiting. The Robo-Drogan roars and grabs Arlene and eats her. As Tiberius and Tiffy find them and see this, they are traumatized and startled. Arlene was taken down. Or so they thought. As the Robo-Drogan started to head back to the weapons room, it stopped before it could leave the room. And it stumbles backwards. Inside The Robo-Drogan, Arlene clamps wires and machines off of it. She reaches it’s controls and takes down the two drogans controlling it. The system starts to shut down and the Robo-Drogan falls down. However, the way out is blocked out with the Robo Drogan falling with it’s back flat on the ground. They can’t get out from there. They almost went for the back passage, but it wasn’t a good idea and the turn around. Kyle tries to contact the Drogans into pushing the Emergancy button. The drogan can’t find it anywhere. Trying to find it, he hits the self destruct button by mistake. WARNING! WARNING! SELF DESTRUCT IN ONE SECOND! Everyone is startled and runs for cover. KA-BOOM!!! The Robo-Drogan blew into bits and died with a boom. Arlene and the two Drogans are sent rocketing out of it. All that is left of the machine is a skeleton of the robot.

Arlene wakes up from the blast and is feeling relieved to win. Arlene gets up and goes to Kyle as he goes to look at the remainings of the Robo-Drogan feeling depressed. As he sees Arlene, he left with nothing else to stop Arlene. No weapons can take her down he thought. Kyle decides he has no other option but to surrender. Arlene gives Kyle the chance to live but let’s him off with a warning that she’ll be ready to prevent Kyle from continuing his rain of evil. But Kyle already came prepared, not realizing it.

All of a sudden came a roar in the castle. The octopus started to grow and grow and grow and grow AND GROW!!! Everyone tries to back away from it and later deciding to...RUN!!! The octopus grabs everyone, including Kyle and Ripjaw. The octopus bursts from the roof of the castle and is heading towards DiamondVille. Arlene tries to get out of the tentacle, but is held on to very tightly. She tried to pull out the energy star and slice off the octopus’s tentacle. The octopus screams bloody murder and Arlene breaks free. As for Tiffy, Tiberius, Trevor, Desiree, and Hoover, the octopus accidentally lets go of them. Arlene tries to fly towards them and grabs them before they can touch the ground. She holds on tight to them saying there’s nothing to worry about. The octopus regrows his tentacle and tries to get Kyle to give it a source of power. Kyle decides to pull out a Power Partical, a substance that when in contact with organism will gain the Power it represents. As for the one Kyle has, this one represent Fire. The octopus grinds the partical and breaths in the fumes and gains its powers. It throws a fireball directly at Arlene and BAM! Arlene loses control and nearly stops flying. She accidentally dropped everyone, and the octopus steals them back.

As Arlene decides to fight back, she’s stops in fright seeing the octopus’s fire powers. Ripjaw decides to fly in to help the octopus by combining his powers with the fireballs. Arlene wondered what she should do. Suddenly, the Transdimensional Vacuum flies in towards Arlene. But why? The vacuum tells Arlene to use it to suck the fireballs into it. After Ripjaw charges up the fireball, the octopus locks on target. It throws the fireball and Arlene quickly uses the vacuum to suck in the fireball. Ripjaw and the octopus are baffled at how that didn’t work. So the octopus decides to straight up destroy Arlene. It grab her and squeezes her tight. She tries to struggle to get free but it doesn’t work. All she can do is get her arms out. The vacuum seeing this, spits out a Power Partical and Arlene catches it, unknown what to do with it though. She can’t grind it cause her muscles are paralyzed from the tentacles. She decides to go and digest it and hope for the best. She starts to feel it’s powers. But the octopus shoves her in it’s mouth and swallows her. It looks like it won against the forces of good. But...after a few seconds, it starts to feel a little hot...on the inside. it starts to belch out flames and is screaming HOT! It runs towards the shore and jumps in head first, trying to drink the sea water. As for Arlene, she breaks free revealing her new fire powers. Tiffy, Desiree, and Hoover are strucked and confused as to how she got those. Tiberius explains the Power Particals, but we’re skipping that since I already mentioned what they are. After the octopus gets its head out of the water, he decides to fight back. It was now a one-on-one flame battle

After countless fighting, the octopus decides he wants to finish this completely. Ripjaw and Kyle join in to combine their powers on the fireball. This created an Atomic Fireball, that would be enough to kill Arlene, they thought. The fireball was pretty big and heavy, the octopus picked up the ball and gave it a toss. Arlene tries to outrun it, but it was locked on to her and she couldn’t outrun it for long. She needed to find a way to dispose of it. She sees a giant gasoline tank and she tries to grab it. She opens the lid and the fireball flies into the tank. IT WAS ABOUT TO BLOW! Arlene starts to pull back and throw it hitting the octopus, send it along with the tank creaming into cosmos. As Kyle and Ripjaw falls off of the octopus, Ripjaw is sent crashing into the castle, while Kyle is sent rocketing and crashing toward the mountains. After the octopus leaves the stratosphere, BOOM! The gasoline tank explodes, turning the octopus into calamari.

It was all over. Catching everyone and bring them to safety, landing down towards DiamondVille, and discarding her Fire powers, Arlene knew she won. The citizens of DiamondVille cheer for her as she feels proud for what she did. DiamondVille proposes Arlene the honor of making her the protector of the island of Tawaho. She accepts and says to everyone that she’ll do anything to save them all. Tiberius is impressed by her action and decides to leave her be. She decides to give him back the energy star and The Hope Blade, but Tiberius turns down on it, saying she earned it. She felt as if she was his star pupil. She goes in for a hug, and eventually Trevor and Tiffy comes and joins in, too. They all know that they’re all gonna be the bestest of best friends.

Epilogue

Back at the mountains, Kyle wakes up from unconsciousness, seeing the celebration of Arlene’s victory. Kyle swears on his ultimate powers, he will get his revenge, and she’ll be sorry for the way she treated him. A Drogan flies by and catches Kyle sending him back to the castle. Could Kyle possibly be determined or delusional to think he can win? Who knows?

Cast

List of Arlene Characters

Narrated by James Earl Jones

Main Cast

Brittany Murphy as Arlene, a creature created by Tiberius and Trevor that may look harmless, but is very powerful (referred to as ”the creature” in the beginning)
Andrea Libman as Tiffany, a peppy happy 7-year old girl and Arlene’s best friends(Oftend referred to as The Little Girl)
Will Ferrell as Kyle, the king of the island of Tawaho and leader of the Drogan Race
Robert Nadal as Ripjaw, Kyle’s best friend and the sharpest of the sharpies
Ted Lewis as Deacon, Kyle’s right hand man and majordomo
Robin Williams as Tiberius, a scientist and intelligent creature who created Arlene
Hugh Jackman as Trevor, a creature of precise reflexes and fast thinking and Tiberius best friend
Spencer Breslin as Hoover, Tiffy and Desiree’s friend and the creative of the two
Winona Ryder as Desiree, Tiffy and Hoover’s friend and the smartest of the two
Mary Kay Bergman as The Transdimensional Vacuum, One of Tiberius and Trek’s powerful inventions
Thurl Ravenscroft as The Giant Cephalopod, the monster that killed and ate the farm animals(Final Film Role)

Minor Cast

Various Actors as The Drogans, a mythical creature with the body of a dragon and the head of a Dinosaur
John de Lancie as Mayor Weber, the mayor of DiamondVille and Hoover’s father
Vanessa Williams as Ms. Brickette(Later renamed Dr. Brickette), Desiree’s mother
Frank Welker as The Angel Heart, a psychic statue with an active heart on top
Robert Nadal as Robo-Drogan, a giant mechanical representation of a Drogan

Music

Soundtrack

The film’s soundtrack is home to a compilation of background music and it’s 2 original songs.

Music included

The Arlene Theme
Out in the Cosmos
The Cephalopod
The Drogan Theme
Consulting the Angel Heart
Crashing Down
Runaway Creature
Blade Battle
R.O.B.O.T
Octo Crusade
Sing it Loud performed by Brittany Murphy
Off to See the World performed by Michael Jackson

Proposed Musical

The film was originally proposed to be a musical, but Robert declined the idea because he thought it would contradict the thought of Arlene. However, the film has 3 different iconic compositions from the opening and credits. These songs include “The Arlene Theme” composed by John Williams, “Sing it Loud” composed by Robert Nadal and performed by Brittany Murphy, and “Off to see the World” composed and performed by Michael Jackson.

Release

The film was originally supposed to be release in April 7 1999, but was pushed back after Robert added more pages to his graphic novel to make it seem less rushed.

The film premiered in New York City on July 12 1999 at El Capitan Theatre

The film was released in theaters worldwide on July 15 1999. The film was actually accompanied with the Jimmy Neutron pilot episode, Runaway Rocketboy, making it the third and last Nicktoon pilot to be released alongside a theatrical movie

Marketing

Arlene was very favorable among the marketing buisness since the original novel’s publishing. In February 1999 to August 1999, Paramount Parks promoted the film with the “Arlene Admiration” event, where young kids get to meet Arlene. In June 1999, McDonalds Happy Meals featured 7 different ”Arlene” toys. In November 1999, Arlene began merchandising toys, plushes, video games, and board games. In 2000, Arlene became a walk around character at Universal Studios Florida, and at some occasions, she would be seen in the audience during Double Dare 2000 in Nickelodeon Studios before it’s closure. She eventually made it into the Nickelodeon Family Suites in 2005.

Home-Video Release

The film was first released on DVD and VHS on November 1st 1999. There was also a limited-Edition bundle with included the original Arlene graphic novel.

The film was eventually released on Blu-Ray in 2009 along with a bundle in mark of the film’s 10 year anniversary. The bundle included the Arlene Blu-Ray and DVD, the original graphic novel, and an Arlene plush.

Reception

The film was well-received by fans and critics alike. It became one of the most popular moves after opening week. The film has grossed out $253,491,206 worldwide. It has scored an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 8.8 out of 10 on Meta Critic

Extended Franchise

Acquirement of the franchise

In 1998, Robert allowed Nickelodeon to do more to the Arlene franchise. This would lead the the extension of the film franchise as well as a tv show. But in 2000, it was told the a sequel to the film would probably push the release of an animated series to give it something cool and original. Later in 1999, before the release of Arlene, Robert later announced that another film based off of one of his novels was in the works.

Sequel

In 2000, a sequel has been confirmed to be in development. It’s said it would introduce 5 new characters into the story. It was released in theaters everywhere on February 14, 2003.

On October 7, 2007, a third installment was released in theaters everywhere.

Eventually in 2010, Jessica Dicicco announce the development of Arlene 4 to be completed and released in 2013

TV Adaption

In 2002, Chris Savino began creating Arlene the Series and it aired it’s first episode on July 15 2004

Gallery

Trivia

This is the first project Nickelodeon worked on with their partnership with Robert Graphic Novels
This is the second Nickelodeon theatrical animated film
- The first being of course “The Rugrats Movie”
- Arlene is also the first theatrical animated Non-Nicktoon movie
This is the first theatrical animated film Chris Savino directed
This is one of John Williams fewer animated films he composed the music in.
- His most famous composition in the film is “The Arlene Theme”
This was Thurl Ravenscroft‘s final feature film he appeared in