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Do
you like those animated films meant for kids that threw in lots of jokes for
the adults? You know, movies like Shrek, A
Bug’s Life, and Toy Story 2.
Well I do too, but Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is not one of those kinds of films.
It is indeed animated and meant for kids, but adults won’t have anything
entertaining to watch. As
the previews suggest, Jimmy Neutron (Debi Derryberry from Toy
Story) is a bright
little tike that likes to make inventions and play with rockets. His best friend
is Carl Wheezer (Rob Paulsen), a chunky, asthmatic kid who likes Jimmy for who
he is. At the start of the film we see Jimmy and Carl heading into space to
launch a toaster satellite into orbit so Jimmy can talk to the aliens that had tried
contacting Earth. Well this works and soon the aliens pay a visit. But before
that Jimmy is shown as an outcast for his brainy ways by the cool kids Cindy
(Carolyn Lawrence, Little
Man Tate) and Nick (Candi Milo). In addition, he gets in trouble at
home for making a mess with his experiments (namely destroying the chimney). Due
to these parental issues he wishes that his parents would disappear (sounds like
Home Alone to me), and they do when the aliens come to take them away to use as
food. See, the aliens get Jimmy’s satellite and decided that the parents would
be good sacrifices to their giant chicken like god/beast (by the way these
aliens are green goo encased in suits that look like egg shells, much like the
aliens from The Simpsons). So now all the kids have to figure out what happened
to their parents, and then how to get them back, but not before they go on a binge of
doing things their parents told them not to do. Since Jimmy is the smart one, he
figures out what happened, and devises a plan to get the parents back. The other
kids then help to build a fleet of spaceships out of amusement park rides before
heading off into space to rescue the parents. Blah blah blah. Who cares? This
poor attempt at a kid’s film is directed by John Davis, who along with Steve
Oedekerk wrote the thing. Besides those already mentioned, other crewmembers are
Megan Cavanagh, Mark DeCarlo, Martin Short, and Patrick Stewart (X-Men).
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