Blastoff!
He's smart.
Something has entered the earth's atmosphere.
He's courageous.
We've gotta show these aliens what we're made of.
He's inventive.
Bubble travel is the way of the future!
And he's got a really big head.
I can fix that.
He's Jimmy neutron, star of his very own adventure,
from Paramount pictures and nickelodeon movies.
Gotta blast!
Jimmy neutron is a boy genius.
We're ready for intergalactic travel!
He's one-third Einstein,
one-third Bart Simpson,
and then one-third Jim carrey.
You rock.
I can't really tell you the whole story of "Jimmy neutron".
Basically, aliens come to earth and abduct all the parents.
You must erase all impressions of any kind of alien that you've seen.
You let us go, you big ball of phlegm!
Even "star trek" never produced aliens like this.
That's no way to talk to the king. He is the royal phlegm!
Parents are abducted by the evil yokians,
and Jimmy and all the kids need to work together to get their parents back.
That gives us about two days to build our interstellar warships.
We'll also need to bring snacks.
And now, blast behind the scenes on "Jimmy neutron".
There you go again!
Meet the stars.
Throw these minuscule vermin into the dungeon!
Explore the gadgets.
This is my hypnobeam.
Experience the cutting-edge animation.
Here we go! Here we go!
It's all part of bringing Jimmy's world to the big screen.
Fasten your seat belt. It's gonna be a bumpy ride!
Gotta blast!
My goal was to try to hit as many kid-fantasy buttons as possible.
DNA match confirmed.
In the movie, Jimmy's got a lot of neat stuff.
He's got an underground lab, this huge complex under the house,
trap doors everywhere - cos trap doors are cool, secret passages are cool.
And in his lab he concocts all these amazing experiments and inventions.
The latest burping-soda formula.
A guaranteed one burp per sip.
He's constantly launching rockets off the roof, setting the drapes on fire...
He builds all this stuff and takes off,
and when they think he's asleep in his room he's out rocketing around.
Basically, a little hellion.
His coolest invention is Goddard, his robotic dog that he built.
And Goddard is like Jimmy's batbelt:
He can turn into anything at any time.
Thanks, boy. Oh, good dog!
Jimmy's constantly tooling with him
and trying to come up with new things that Goddard can do.
He can transform into a radio and a disco ball
and a fire extinguisher at any moment.
It's pretty amazing.
Jimmy neutron is a bit of an outcast - he's so bright
that a lot of the other kids don't understand where he's coming from.
Behold. The shrink ray!
Help me. Help me.
I'm so tiny - just like Jimmy's brain!
Some of the greatest inventors started as complete, hopeless failures too.
Carl is Jimmy's best friend,
and if he has an experiment to try out, Carl is his Guinea pig.
I don't know, Jimmy. You know, I get carsick.
Well, luckily, this is a rocket.
Carl wheezer is named Carl wheezer for one obvious reason,
and that is, in fact, because Carl wheezes.
He's not nearly as handsome and young-hero-like as Jimmy neutron is,
but it's Jimmy's show, so he's the hero.
We need to ask ourselves "what would ultra lord do?"
Sheen's just quirky and a little different, and he's really into ultra lord.
Sheen loves ultra lord to the point of it being a problem.
In episode 224,
he fried the zeebot's brain with his heat-seeking infra-thought. It was cool!
He's very nervous, but once he gets that ultra lord thing going,
he has no fear, no nothing - he gets an ultra lord mask, it's all over.
Neutron!
Cindy vortex is the know-it-all from school.
Nice invention, nerdtron!
Cindy and Jimmy actually like each other a lot,
but they're at a time and they're at an age where they're very competitive.
They like sparring with each other mentally.
It's kind of a love-hate friendship.
I didn't think we liked girls yet, Jim.
Oh, we don't! We don't, no.
Is this one of those macho things?
Cindy is all-out crazed,
and Libby is the best friend of Cindy.
Libby tries to tone her down, and is pretty much the conscience of her.
What's wrong with you, Cindy?
The cool thing about the movie is all of the characters are entirely unique.
Retroland!
It's really like a fun family.
I can hang out with ultra lord!
And there's a petting zoo.
Well, look at this.
Let's go!
The look of Jimmy neutron is done with 3-d computer graphics,
so it's not like a 2-d show, it's not hand-painted.
All the characters are constructed on the computer.
It's like having a live-action set in the computer.
The first thing they'll wanna see is the animatic.
When we're designing the characters, we'll design them on paper,
and sculpt maquettes out of some of the main characters,
and then the modellers can take those
and build the same thing in the computer.
We can make modifications right there in the computer, and it works great.
Engaging pulse rockets now!
We love the "squash and stretch" and action of the looney tunes heritage,
and to take looney tunes into cgi and make a cartoon-animated world
that takes advantage of what computer graphics can do,
you've got something very different and very special.
It's original, it seems to me, the art for this.
It's extraordinary, animation today.
Whereas once upon a time we were used to a classic style of animation,
now you never know what you're going to see.
How many times have we told you not to launch yourself off the roof?
Probably nine.
Exactly nine. They say repetition is good for a developing brain.
Jimmy's parents are fantastic because they accept the fact that he is a genius.
I received a message from outer space but it was garbled in the ionosphere...
Message from space? Wow!
They're great characters in themselves, cos his mom can fix the car,
and she's obviously the engineering part of the family.
The father has sort of a wide-eyed innocence himself.
He loves the toys in the cereal box.
This is a good one!
And he totally loves Jimmy's gadgets.
Anytime he sees him he's, like, "boy! Wish I had that toy!"
Is that a brainteaser puzzle? I'm so good at these!
I was President of the brainteaser club in high school. Watch this.
Jimmy's got a great relation with his parents, and respects them,
and tries to do what they say, but sometimes it's just hard.
You'll spoil your dinner.
We have told you time and time again about playing with rockets.
Your father will have a few words to say when he gets home.
Oh, and by the way.
Mom says you're grounded. Sorry!
The kids are down on their parents. They feel they're being treated unfairly.
They wish they'd go away. "Wouldn't it be great if our parents disappeared?"
We could do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted.
We could have fun all the time!
Jimmy?
Basically, aliens come to earth
and abduct all the parents, leaving the kids in charge.
No parents!
So it's just kids running amok.
It's like every kid's fantasy. The whole town is taken over,
and the kids do everything that they can imagine doing without the parents.
After a couple of days, the kids start to miss the parents
and realise "oh, my God..."
The earth's been visited by aliens!
The parents have been abducted by aliens that are eggs: The yokians.
So it's almost like having your breakfast kidnap you.
Don't look so surprised. We are an advanced alien race.
What did you expect?
These characters are eggs outside their shell,
and if they're not contained in some way, they run all over the floor.
They must be an advanced species, millions of years ahead of us.
When I sneeze, it looks like an advanced species too.
They fly around in giant chicken ships,
and they worship this chicken God,
and they're bent on stealing the parents of retroville
to sacrifice them to their God poultra.
Jimmy didn't mean to ruin our lives
and get our parents eaten by a giant space monster!
Nobody eats my parents unless I say so!
Come on!
Roll tape.
Hello, and welcome to our special edition of "poultra: God of wrath".
If you're watching this, chances are your friends and/or relatives
are about to be sacrificed to the mighty poultra -
which is a great honour indeed.
And very painful.
Mary and I play yokian newscasters,
not unlike ourselves here on earth.
There's a lot of prestige to being a yokian anchor.
They're from outer space, reporting on the human sacrifices
that are about to take place.
I, king goobot the fifth,
give you sacrifice!
I play king goobot,
and the king is an angry sort, and...
No, no, Martin. I'm playing king goobot.
You are? Then I would have done it differently.
Do it again. Take two.
- I play king goobot. - Yes.
King goobot is a very powerful alien leader.
When did it become acceptable
to approach my royal throne unannounced?
And this is my prime minister.
Oh, please, oh, please...
I would love for that to stop.
... Oh, please.
His name is ooblar.
Ooblar - me.
He's kind of the servant to the king,
and the king is, shall we say, moody,
and can freak out and kill people arbitrarily - so he's frightened.
Space him!
So Jimmy has gotta get his parents back,
or they're gonna get eaten by a gigantic chicken.
And you just don't want that.
Ok, so me, you and a dog
are gonna battle an alien civilisation.
But he's a good dog, aren't you, boy?
The idea of building a rocket in the back yard
where you can jump in with your buddies and your dog and some tang,
like real astronauts, and go into outer space, will appeal to the audience.
Sensors lead to the orion star system three million light years away,
so we'll need to leave by Friday. Any questions?
Jimmy organises this great armada to go into space
by retrofitting all of the rides at the amusement park in town.
So he takes the Ferris wheel
and the roller coasters and everything in the amusement park,
turns them into these spaceships powered by neutronium.
You heard the man! Stop sucking your thumbs and let's light this candle!
My theory is that the more fun the audio session is,
and the more the characters laugh, the better the show.
- You stay here, I'll be back. - All right.
Stay! I go. You stay.
- I'm staying. - Ok.
It's really trying to find people that also have the ability to work off each other.
That was great. I felt...
No, seriously. I felt like you were really being abducted by aliens.
Voicing an animated character is such a liberating experience.
There are no boundaries, because the animators can do anything.
You have that opportunity to be that broad.
And childish, in a way - it's like being back in playschool.
I am awarding permission to commence with the commencing!
The commencing shall commence! All hail the commencee,
for he alone doth do the commencing, which I think is fun.
Ooblar.
It is a very creative process, doing animation.
You can come up with a new voice, a new character,
so creatively it's most interesting.
- Poultra will be quite pleased. - That's great. Thanks. Really good.
We're working on "Jimmy neutron" right now,
and we enhance the sound of the film, we bring it to life.
We create sound effects by the use of various props and sound gadgets
that create a world of sound.
Jimmy neutron is a wonderful project for us,
because we get to entirely create the soundtrack.
In animation, you really have free rein,
and you can be as creative and as crazy as you want.
All the sounds that you hear are made up,
and I particularly like the egg creatures,
because they have a gooey kind of sound, but they're in armour,
and they're really fun to create sound effects.
Jimmy neutron is a little boy genius who creates wonderful inventions,
and one of his inventions is his dog.
Normally when we do dogs, we'll use gloves with little nail clips attached.
But Goddard, he is the coolest robot ever,
so we had to come up with some great sounds for him.
And he looks like he has little tin cans for feet, so that's what we use.
The most fun I have is going to work, and we just get together, and we play.
We create these sound effects, and we play.
That sounded great.
Now I'd like to go into the ending.
If it's fun to work on, it's gonna be fun to watch.
That's how we treat the whole process,
in terms of voices, animation, everybody that's working on it.
There are as many jokes for adults as for kids.
But, dad, all my friends are gonna be there.
I know, son. But if all your friends were named cliff, would you jump off them?
It's clever, and funny, and slapsticky,
all rolled into one delicious bonbon of entertainment.
It's wackier than I expected.
And you will find that wackiness reflected in our performances.
I can't wait.
Gotta blast!