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A janitor at an alien nightclub gets his wish to be a singer.A janitor at an alien nightclub gets his wish to be a singer.A janitor at an alien nightclub gets his wish to be a singer.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
Brad Simonsen
- Meeper
- (voice)
- (as Bradford Simonsen)
Jeff Wolverton
- ChubbChubbs
- (voice)
Peter Lurie
- Zyzaks
- (voice)
Rick Zieff
- Bouncer
- (voice)
Dustin Adair
- Glorf
- (voice)
Eric Armstrong
- Glorf
- (voice)
Yakov Baytler
- Glorf
- (voice)
Mary Biondo
- Glorf
- (voice)
Layne Friedman
- Glorf
- (voice)
Robert Gordon
- Glorf
- (voice)
- (as Bob Gordon)
Franco Pietrantonio
- Glorf
- (voice)
Rick Richards
- Glorf
- (voice)
Chance Thomas
- Glorf
- (voice)
Sully Jacome-Wilkes
- Glorf
- (voice)
Julie Zackary
- Glorf
- (voice)
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- Writer
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I thought that the plot of this film was great. The story of a clumsy janitor who had a dream of singing on stage was entertaining to me. I thought that this film had a lot of great humor including when the janitor would fall onto the leader singer. It was interesting how the director's were able to fool the view by making the Chubbchubbs look cute, instead of the being the tough monsters carrying weapons. The animation was excellent and left me wanting to watch this as a feature length film. I especially liked the Star Wars references because I am a big fan of the series. Overall, I think that this was a great film and I give it a 10 out of 10.
This short movie won the makers the Best Short Animation Oscar in 2003. I agree with it. This is a funny, beautiful and unique story with merry songs. The main character is a tender alien who likes singing a song and longs in be a singer. However, it does not seem to come true. One day, big enemies attacked the town, what does he do then? In the film, there are various unique and cute aliens including Yoda who is in a StarWars. So, the person who love alien like me may really enjoy it. In addition, I also like the music. Their singing and dancing are strange and funny, but very cute. However, I don't recommend watching for young children. It's totally cute, but the scenes of the fight are too frightened. If you are not too easily scared, you should watch right now and then go to karaoke! It's only 5 minutes and their visuals and music are fantastic!
This is another one of these new strange cartoons with not much a storyline and not a lot of jokes but great visuals. The colors in here also are fantastic. It is the visuals, however, that captivate.
We are on some planet in which an Aretha Franklin-alien is on stage singing her famous song and our hero Meeper, the janitor, messes up. He is one-man disaster crew for Franklin, inadvertently turning her into toast a couple of times while she was on stage performing. Meeper, who daydreams of being a singing star, is no singer as we see in his karaoke bit.
Anyway, after getting thrown out of the Ale-E-Inn (get it?) nightclub-bar, he sees a mushroom cloud on the horizon and tries to warn everyone that the "Chubbchubbs" are coming.
When they do, without spoiling anything, we get a big surprise.
I didn't find anything to laugh out loud but I did think this was "cute" and very entertaining, enough to watch it again to see what I missed the first time, where I caught a few quick sights of characters from past sci-fi classics.
Overall, a fun cartoon and an appropriate one to the equally-fun "Men In Black 2" DVD. This is a feature on disc one of the two-disc special edition.
We are on some planet in which an Aretha Franklin-alien is on stage singing her famous song and our hero Meeper, the janitor, messes up. He is one-man disaster crew for Franklin, inadvertently turning her into toast a couple of times while she was on stage performing. Meeper, who daydreams of being a singing star, is no singer as we see in his karaoke bit.
Anyway, after getting thrown out of the Ale-E-Inn (get it?) nightclub-bar, he sees a mushroom cloud on the horizon and tries to warn everyone that the "Chubbchubbs" are coming.
When they do, without spoiling anything, we get a big surprise.
I didn't find anything to laugh out loud but I did think this was "cute" and very entertaining, enough to watch it again to see what I missed the first time, where I caught a few quick sights of characters from past sci-fi classics.
Overall, a fun cartoon and an appropriate one to the equally-fun "Men In Black 2" DVD. This is a feature on disc one of the two-disc special edition.
This 5 minute, 41 second computer-animated short can be found on the second disc of the 2-DVD special edition of "Men in Black 2". And at such a short running time manages to be much more enjoyable then the main feature. The cartoon deals with an alien janitor named Mupps, and his dreams of singing in the intergalactic bar that he works at. A bar inhabited by a great many recognizable patrons. When he find out the Chubbchubbs are coming, he tries to warn everyone with comical consequences. I won't give away any more except to say this cute short deserved the two awards that it won from the Academy.
My Grade: B+
My Grade: B+
My parents dragged me to cinema because of "Stuart Little 2" - while this movie was not a bad one the opening was worth all the money.
The opening turned out to be a (sadly) short movie titled "The Chubbchubbs". It was more than entertaining - the animated characters were downright funny (for example, you can see Darth Vader and Yoda arm wrestling).
It is obvious that the creators of this movie put a lot of effort into it. Both graphics and story (short as it is) were excellent. The movie made me laugh continuously and I don't think I was the only one who wished there had been more once it was over.
Now I just have to convince my Granny to give me one of those Chubbchubbs for Christmas.
What? You want to know what a Cubbchubb is? Well, I certainly won't spoil you the fun of finding out for yourself. All I can say is that I highly recommend this movie if you like to laugh. And who doesn't?
The opening turned out to be a (sadly) short movie titled "The Chubbchubbs". It was more than entertaining - the animated characters were downright funny (for example, you can see Darth Vader and Yoda arm wrestling).
It is obvious that the creators of this movie put a lot of effort into it. Both graphics and story (short as it is) were excellent. The movie made me laugh continuously and I don't think I was the only one who wished there had been more once it was over.
Now I just have to convince my Granny to give me one of those Chubbchubbs for Christmas.
What? You want to know what a Cubbchubb is? Well, I certainly won't spoil you the fun of finding out for yourself. All I can say is that I highly recommend this movie if you like to laugh. And who doesn't?
Did you know
- TriviaContains many references to sci-fi movies:
- Gort the robot from Le Jour où la Terre s'arrêta... (1951) can be seen holding an oil can.
- One of the aliens has a Princess Leia "cinnamon buns" hairdo.
- An alien from Alien, le 8ème passager (1979) is drinking at the bar.
- Darth Vader is arm-wrestling Yoda.
- The two dancing robots are Robbie from Planète interdite (1956) and the Robot from Perdus dans l'espace (1965).
- The alien who warns Meeper about the ChubbChubbs is Jar Jar Binks.
- One of the escaping spaceships is a Martian War Machine from La Guerre des mondes (1953).
- An escaping alien is riding a bicycle with E.T. in the basket. John Williams E.T., l'extra-terrestre (1982) score is also referenced.
- GoofsAfter Meeper gets thrown out of the inn for the second time, we can hear a distinctive sound of the door being locked. However, a minute later, when Meeper gets inside again through the roof, a messenger comes in opening the door from the outside without any problems.
- Crazy creditsNo Aliens were harmed in the making of this film
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
- SoundtracksRespect
Written by Otis Redding
Performed by Mortonette Jenkins
And spelled very poorly by Brad Simonsen (as Brad Simonsen)
Produced by Chance Thomas/HUGEsound.com
Published by Irving Music, Inc.
Courtesy of ATLANTIC RECORDING CORP.
By Arrangement with WARNER SPECIAL PRODUCTS
Details
- Runtime6 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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