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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)
- Director
- Writer
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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.
- ccthemovieman-1
- Jul 1, 2007
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Storyline
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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