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CAYOM YEAR 4 - PART I - MOVIE SUBMISSION

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Murky

 

 

Studio: Infinite Studios 

Release Date: 5/15/Y4 

Genre: Horror/Comedy

Director: Eli Roth

Rating: R

Budget: $10M

Theater Count: 2,784

Format: 2D

Runtime: 100 minutes

Cast:

Unknowns

 

While lost at sea on a boat, a group of stereotypical horror movie teens must battle with Creepers (undersea flesh eating monsters). However, one nerdy teen finds a book with the title “Creepers Revenge” and after reading it quickly finds out they’re in a B movie, and changes the ending to save their lives and get them home but keep the book as they’re still pages left and starts changing stuff to benefit him in his life, like seeking gruesome revenge on bullies. Eventually the teens from before try to stop him but he kills most of them until he runs out pages. The survivor manages to stop the crazy teen and helps arrest him.

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I Am Omega, Part One

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Not the film The Asylum made

Director: Ridley Scott

Genre: Action-Sci-Fi-Horror

Release Date: 7/10/Y4

Major Cast:

Hugh Jackman as Robert Neville

Studio: Hot Shot Productions

Theater Count: 4,000

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 1 hours and 40 minutes

Production Budget: $80 million

Music by:

Plot Summary: Based on about the first half of the I Am Legend Novel.

 

Spoiler

From I Am Legend Novel page

 

Robert Neville is the apparent sole survivor of a pandemic whose symptoms resemble vampirism. It is said that the pandemic was caused by a war, and that it was spread by dust storms in the cities and an explosion in the mosquito population. The narrative details Neville's daily life in Los Angeles as he attempts to comprehend, research, and possibly cure the disease, to which he is immune. Neville's past is revealed through flashbacks; the disease claimed his wife and daughter, and he was forced to kill his wife after she seemingly rose from the dead as a vampire and attacked him. Before he killed her, Neville says he did try to keep her with him but gives no details about this.

Neville survives by barricading himself inside his house after sunset, and he is further protected by garlic, mirrors, and crucifixes. Swarms of vampires, led by Neville's neighbor, Ben Cortman, regularly surround his house, trying to find ways to get inside. During the day, he scavenges for supplies and searches out the inactive vampires, driving stakes into their hearts to kill them. He finds brief solace in a stray dog that finds its way to his house. Desperate for company, Neville slowly earns the dog's trust with food and brings it into the house. Despite his efforts, the dog proves to be infected and dies a week later.

After bouts of depression and alcoholism, Neville decides to find out the scientific cause of the pandemic. He obtains books and other research materials from a library, and through painstaking research discovers the root of the disease in a strain of bacteria capable of infecting both deceased and living hosts. His experiments also reveals that the infection creates an allergic reaction to garlic in the host. He further discovers that the vampires are affected by mirrors and crosses because of "hysterical blindness", the result of previous psychological conditioning of the infected. Driven insane by the disease, the infected now react as they believe they should when confronted with these items. Even then, their reaction is constrained to the beliefs of the particular person; for example, a Christian vampire would fear the cross, but a Jewish vampire would not.

Neville also discovers more efficient means of killing the vampires, other than just driving a stake into their hearts. This includes exposing them to direct sunlight (which kills the bacteria) or inflicting deep wounds on their bodies so that the bacteria switch from being anaerobic symbionts to aerobic parasites, rapidly consuming their hosts when exposed to air. He is now killing such large numbers of vampires in his daily forays that his nightly visitors have diminished significantly.

 

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Marked Up Time

 

Writer/Director: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

Genre: Sci-Fi Fantasy/Dramedy

Release Date: March 20

Major Cast:

Lucas Hedges as Mark Hayden

Adam Driver as Jake Hayden

Sasha Lane as Aubrey Green

Zendaya as Agent Violet

Dive Assad as Aanya Khan

Awkwafina as Ashley Evans

Featuring Ben Whishaw as the voice of Car the Supercar

With Liam Neeson as Sullivan

And Jeff Goldblum as Kronos

 

Cameos included in description.

 

Theater Count: 3,946

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, brief sexual content and action.

Runtime: 128 min

Production Budget: $115 million

Music by: Mark Mothersburgh

 

Plot Summary: A guy believing he will never find love is visited by his son from the future, who is there to help guarantee his conception.

 

Plot: 

 

Seattle, the future. In a warehouse, Jake Hayden creates a time travel device for his arm. However, as he begins to charge it, the door bangs and Agent Violet, a timecop wearing a mechanical jumpsuit and holding an energy baton, demands he open it. She uses her energy baton to disintegrate the door and enter. However, in the back of the warehouse, Jake jumps on his hovercycle to escape but Violet follows, wielding her energy baton with gusto. She tells Jake he's under arrest for attempted temporal rewrites  but Jake starts his hovercycle and flies away. Violet rips her energy baton into two pieces. One quickly morphs into a gun and the other becomes its own energcycle. Violet quickly jumps on her energcycle and flies off. Jake’s hovercycle flies past monorails and other flying cars, with energy rays flying past his head. Agent Violet is in close pursuit. Jake checks the charge-gauge on his wrist: 75%.

Jake looks up and sees an empty monorail track. He presses a button on his dashboard. Jake’s hovercycle shoots out a burst of energy underneath it, sending it up in the air, landing on the empty rail. Agent Violet watches the maneuver occur, and grimaces. She aims her energy gun to the ground, charging it quickly. She shoots, propelling her energcycle up in the air as well, landing on the rail, still pursuing Jake. Jake looks behind him, and sees Violet far too close for his comfort. Jake then looks forward. There’s a train headed right towards him. He looks down at the gauge: 95%. Jake smiles and speeds up his hovercycle speeds up, whipping past the monorail. Violet follows in pursuit, speeding up as well. The train is now extremely close to Jake as he checks the gauge on his wrist: 100%. Jake jumps off the hovercycle and presses the button, disappearing instantly.

 Agent Violet sees the hovercycle explode in front of her, the wreckage of it falling to the ground. She then notices the train heading right towards her. She grabs the handles of her energcycle, flipping herself over the train. Agent Violet presses a button on the handles, returning it to half of the energy baton as she flies towards a skyscraper. Throwing her gripped baton in front of her, it digs into the skyscraper, bracing her as she slowly slides down the building. She clicks the trigger on the energy gun in the opposite direction, allowing her to slowly float down, like staggered thrusters of a jetpack. Agent Violet approaches the smoldering fire of the hovercycle wreckage with a now-full energy baton. She uses it to scan the wreck. She adjusts her visor, looking for when Jake went. She frowns, confused. She asks "Who could possibly be that special to travel back then?"
 
25 YEARS EARLIER

Sullivan's Pub. A very typical bar and grill. Mark Hayden walks into the building. Sullivan waits at a desk in a back room as Mark clocks in at 3:59pm. The day goes by and he deals with a variety of bar patrons, including his friend, Aubrey Green, who checks in on him on his long shift. At 2am, he goes to clock out, but Sullivan asks if he can work later. Mark replies that he needs to go, and Sullivan shakes his head in sadness. Mark goes home and crashes. He wakes up the next day at 7am. We cut ahead to him in a classroom at 8am, where he TAs. Mark is not very into the experience.

 That evening, at a restaurant, Mark has a date with Ashley Evans. Mark is not particularly a great date, sometimes interrupting Ashley when they're talking. However, he always catches himself and apologizes for it. To be fair to him, Ashley also seems a bit on the aggressive side, giving him shit for not knowing the restaurant has apple butter. They both decide to restart their date, realizing they started off on a bad foot. However, immediately after that decision, Mark suddenly crawls under the table, leaving Ashley confused. She crawls under the table to join Mark. When she asks Mark what's going on, Mark answers that "she's here." Ashley goes to look and sees Aanya Khan, speaking to the maitre'd. Mark explains that he dated Aanya in college, but he wasn't over another girl from high school, so the relationship was ruined. He wishes he could go back and change it all, but not with Aanya - with the girl from high school. Mark checks out from under the table and sees that Aanya has left. They resume their date, but later, as they walk to Mark's car, Mark asks Ashley if she wants to do this again sometime. Ashley tells him bluntly that he's a nice guy but clearly isn't over some shit. Mark asks her what she means, and Ashley admits that she didn't mind hiding under the table, but she doesn't give a shit about his exes, and it's obvious that he still has some sort of feelings for her. Mark doesn't comprehend this, but still offers to give her a ride home. Ashley says she'll take an Uber, and Mark, at a lack of words, tells her that he thinks she's a good person. Ashley says that she thinks Mark is a good person too, but walks away. Mark says to himself, "No, I'm not."

 Mark clocks in at Sullivan's at 9pm and Sullivan tells him it's his night off; he doesn't need to work there. Mark insists that he works anyway and Sullivan shrugs and says it's his choice. Mark stays and works until 5am. The next two days goes by in a blur and at 10pm, Mark is approached by Aubrey at the bar. Mark gets Aubrey her drink and Aubrey invites him to hang out with her and Kris, a girl from their hometown, that weekend. Mark doesn't want to third-wheel and declines, betting that Aubrey and Kris will be a couple by the end of the weekend since Aubrey.has better luck with women than he does. Aubrey rolls her eyes asks him how his date went. Mark says it went as well as he expected and blames himself for being an asshole. Aubrey asks him what happened, but instead of answering, he complains about the girl from high school, Riley. Aubrey rolls her eyes, saying she's heard this story before but she'll still listen because Mark's her friend. He says if he could have a do-over that one date, all of his regrets would be gone. Aubrey says this isn't old news, and he can't keep complaining about how he wants to change the past. Mark doesn't have a reply, besides saying his break is up. They joke around a bit, but Aubrey sincerely says she gets worried about Mark. Mark says not to worry about him; he doesn't deserve it anyway. Aubrey glares at Mark but just changes the subject, saying she'll take the bet Mark had mentioned earlier.

The following Monday, Aubrey returns to the bar with Kris (Amber Stevens) in tow, and places $20 on the counter. Mark smiles and congratulates the two of them, but Kris just texts on her phone, remarking that she's honestly glad Mark didn't come with them. Mark ignores the snub and tells them both he's happy for them. Aubrey invites him to a party for the weekend, and Kris mentions it's back at home, kinda like a pre-pre-pre-reunion. Mark points out that they graduated high school eight years ago, and any reunion should be in two years then. Kris points out the "pre-pre-pre" but Mark argues there should only be two "pres." They pause and acknowledge the odd mistake. Kris asks if Mark's gonna come and Mark says he'll think about it. Aubrey implies that Riley might be at the party but before Mark can answer, Kris checks her phone and says that she and Riley have to run. They leave and Sullivan comes in, telling Mark to get to work. A few hours later, Mark's face is pale and he deals with a customer who demands wings or nachos. Mark explains he's a bartender and all he has is - before he can explain entirely, he vomits on the counter. The customer runs away and Sullivan runs up in horror. He sends Mark home against Mark's wishes.

Mark enters his apartment looking less pale. He makes some nachos and orders some wings. Later, he sits in his room in his boxers, having mostly finished his meal. He puts one half-eaten box of wings in the fridge and begins watching TV in his room. A couple hours later, Mark is about to fall asleep when a light appears from under his door and a loud THUD is heard. Mark jolts up and asks if anyone is there, and he hears Jake's voice asking where Mark is. Mark quickly looks around his room with his phone's flashlight but can't find anything to use a weapon. He hears Jake note that the fridge light is on and Mark exits his bedroom. Mark walks into the kitchen, holding his flashlight with one hand and his stomach with the other. Jake has the wings in his hands. He’s eating the wings rather quickly and in a disgusting manner. Mark throws his flashlight at him, and Jake drops the wings. He ogles Mark and Mark asks who he is. Jake says that that's no way to greet your son. Mark is confused and Jake proclaims, "I'm from the future, Dad!" Mark gulps and Jake asks if the flash of light woke him up. Mark nods and Jake just yells, "Time travel!" Mark doesn't say anything and Jake asks, "Dad?" Mark says, "Don't call..." and he throws up the wings and nachos. Jake frowns and apologizes for not sitting Mark down first.

Mark sits on the couch, and he still looks pale. Jake walks in with a bucket and places it next to Mark. Mark asks what he's doing in his house. Jake remarks that it's more of an apartment, but once again, he's from the future. Mark says he wants the truth or he'll call the cops. Jake says he shouldn't call the cops on his own son, and Mark says it's not funny. Jake says he'll leave, but he could prove what he's saying is true. Mark scoffs at that, but then sarcastically says if he can prove he's a time traveler from the future, he won't call out. Seeing time travel is impossible though, he's willing to bet he's gonna end up calling the cops. Jake smiles and tells Mark to grab his hand. Mark tells Jake to wash his hands first, as they're covered in BBQ sauce from the wings. Jake washes his hands and returns to Mark with a sleeve rolled up, revealing a device attached to his arm with several buttons and LED displays. Jake presses a couple of buttons, and turns to Mark, explaining he was re-establishing a safeguard for a test trip. Mark rolls his eyes and tells him to get on with it.

FLASH. The restaurant from earlier. Ashley sits across from Mark, smiling at him. Mark stands up in confusion, a piece of bread still in his hand, and asks Ashley where she came from. Ashley responds, confused, with she was born in the area. Mark exclaims that this was last week, and everyone in the restaurant stares at Mark, including Aanya, who was talking to the maitre'd. Aanya asks Mark what he's doing here, and Ashley asks Aanya who she is. Mark introduces Aanya to Ashley, saying he told her about her. Aanya and Ashley both look at Mark confused, and Mark realizes Jake was right; they've traveled back in time. Mark starts laughing with joy as Jake exits from under the table. Aanya is so confused but Ashley just wants to know if Jake was under their table the whole time. Jake says he wasn't and asks Mark if he believes him now. Mark nods his head, somewhat in shock. He's turning pale. Ashley remarks that this is the weirdest first date she's ever had. Jake says that it's a good thing she won't remember any of it. Before anything else can happen, Mark vomits bread onto the table in front of them. Jake remarks that he should've expected that and Aanya and Ashley just stare at the vomit in complete confusion. Jake grabs Mark's hand.

FLASH. Jake and Mark are back in the apartment. Mark freaks out that Jake is a time traveler and his son. Mark asks if they'll remember it and Jake sits down to explain some stuff to him. Jake says he re-established the safeguard for that trip. In Jake's timeline, he's Mark's son. There are only two timelines in existence, Jake's and Mark's, running concurrently. Jake knows for a fact from records and his own regulated time travel research that by this point in time, Mark should've met Jake's mother. Mark is confused and Jake says that he's clearly single and he knows that in his own timeline, the meet-cute should've happened by now. Jake wants to fix things so that way he gets born in this timeline. According to Jake, on Mark's current time trajectory, he will remain single for the rest of his life. Jake tells him not to worry though, he built something into his time travel device that should make any changes in the timeline permanent and without worry of destruction everywhere. Mark asks why Jake doesn't seem to know the name of his own mom. Jake answers that he never met his mom, believing her to have died in childbirth. Jake says though that this will be a totally new timeline, so who knows if Mark's eventual lover will die in childbirth now. Jake invites Mark to time travel with him to the past to fix some relationships. Mark asks if that means they can go fix up his relationship with Riley now, and Jake says they could, but it might be smarter to do a test run with Aanya. After all, Jake has always wanted to see what his dad was like in his college days. Mark agrees and Jake sets up his device, explaining that he's setting it on "potential" for the safeguard. Since they're not sure the do-over on Aanya and Mark will work, this will allow them if they want to reset to the original timeline if it doesn't work out. Mark agrees and then Jake asks him if he's ready. Mark says he's been ready for half a decade. Jake smiles and grabs Mark's hand. FLASH.

Meanwhile, at Sullivan's pub, Aubrey enters to see Sullivan bartending. The bar is empty and Sullivan remarks it must be the 4am rush. Sullivan tells her that her boyfriend isn't here and Aubrey says Mark isn't her boyfriend, and actually she needs to tell Mark that he thinks Kris and her won't be a thing. Aubrey asks where Mark is and Sullivan says he sent Mark homesick. Sullivan asks Aubrey what she'll have and Aubrey says she was gonna leave if Mark wasn't here. Sullivan says she's trespassing and Aubrey orders a Blue Moon to get him to shut up. Outside the bar, a flash of light appears, followed by the materialization of Agent Violet. She checks her baton using to scan her surroundings. There are faint traces of Jake but nothing concrete. She looks at Sullivan's pub and then back at her own mechanical jumpsuit. She realizes she should match it, pulling her energy baton apart, allowing it to cover her entire body, putting herself into a generic high school alternative fashion. She enters the bar where Aubrey is still waiting for her drink. Sullivan asks Violet if she's new around town, and Violet answers that you could say that. Sullivan asks her for her ID since he doesn't think she's 21. Violet takes off an earring and covertly holds it behind her back when Aubrey tells Sullivan to leave her alone. Sullivan goes on an angry rant about college students doing way too much underage drinking as the earring flashes with a bit of energy and turns into an ID. Violet hands it over. Sullivan looks at it laughs, saying she can leave. Violet is confused, and Sullivan says the ID says she's 19. Violet's eyes widens as Sullivan hands the ID back to her. She quickly rubs the ID nonchalantly when Sullivan tells her to come back in three years. Violet asks him to check the ID again, forcing it into his hands. Sullivan is confused, seeing that she is now 21-years-old but chalks it up to him getting older. Violet asks for a Winston cocktail and Sullivan doesn't recognize the drink, so Violet says she'll have whatever Aubrey has. When Sullivan says it's a Blue Moon, Violet says she doesn't care about the color. Violet sits down next to Aubrey as Sullivan quickly serves her.

 

Aubrey strikes up a conversation with Violet, having been amused by her interaction with Sullivan. Violet asks her what she’s doing here and Aubrey answers that she came to meet a friend who apparently went home sick. She was gonna complain about a bad date, but whatever. They introduce themselves to each other and when Violet mentions her name, Aubrey smiles and asks if that’s why she has violet contacts. Violet doesn’t understand, saying she’s always had this eye color. Aubrey asks if Violet’s in town for a college visit, and Violet re-iterates that’s she’s 21. Aubrey doesn’t believe her, saying she knows a fake ID when she sees one. Violet decides to “tell the truth” and say that she’s only 19. Violet came into town to look for a “friend” who went a missing a few days ago. Violet was really worried about him, so she borrowed her car and drove here, since her friend loves Sullivan’s for some reason. After telling Aubrey all this, Violet reaches into a pocket on the inside of her jacket, quickly (but covertly) transforming the pocket into a photograph of Jake. She hands the photo to Aubrey and asks her if she’s seen this guy around. Aubrey looks at the photo and says nah, although it’s weird… the guy in the photo looks kinda like her friend who stood her up, Mark. Violet asks if she can see Mark, and the conversation suddenly devolves into a side-conversation about presuming relationships that I’m not gonna type out all the way because I really doubt you’re interested in the back and forth of it, but basically Aubrey ends up expressing her frustration with Mark pressuring himself into bad dates while she has the same problem. Violet tells her that she could stop talking to Mark if he only ever talks about his own problems; she also tells Aubrey not to let relationships define her. Violet asks if they can go see Mark, saying that it could be her friend, Jake’s, cousin. Aubrey says sure, they can take her car. They both leave the pub.

 

Four years earlier, a younger Mark sleeps in a dorm room. FLASH. Mark wakes up, groggy and confused, as he rolls over and falls off the bed. He stands up quickly, realizing his bed hasn’t been that high since college. He runs to the mirror, recognizing his younger self. He stares for a second and looks around the room, having a slow recognition. Mark screams in terror. Jake knocks on the door, calling to Mark and Mark lets him in. Mark asks why he’s twenty-again, and Jake asks if he was paying attention during the test trip; it’s only the consciousness that’s sent back. How would they be able to rekindle a relationship with Aanya if Mark was suddenly four-years-older with a different haircut? Mark starts freaking out now that he’s actually there, and Jake tells him to calm down, since it’ll all be fine. Jake also is weirded out that Mark doesn’t have a roomie, but Mark explains he didn’t have one sophomore year, and then begs Jake just let them go back since this was a dumb idea anyway. Jake shows his wrist with the charge-gauge. It’s at 0% and Mark is confused about why time travel is chargeable and Jake really doesn’t want go into details about time energy and shenanigans like that. Jake says they’ll be stuck in Mark’s sophomore year for at least a week as it recharges. Mark asks why didn’t they just go back to Riley? Jake points out again if Mark is freaking out this much about Aanya, how would he be able to talk to Riley without having a heart attack. Mark concedes and Jake explains that he’s taken Mark back to ten months into his relationship with Aanya. Mark freaks out, remembering they broke up after eleven months. Jake points out that literally the whole point of time travel is changing the past, and he asks Mark why this relationship failed. Mark says he loved spending time with Aanya but around, well, now, he guesses, he started feeling like she wasn’t taking it seriously. Jake scoffs at this, but tells him to go reconnect with Aanya. Mark says he’s gonna shower first, and Jake says he’ll hide in the room seeing how he has a time machine attached to his arm. Mark offers him to play his launch Xbox One to pass the time, and Jake is excited to do some retro gaming.

 

At Mark’s apartment in the present, Violet and Aubrey open the door (Aubrey unlocks it with a spare key). When Violet asks why she has a key, Aubrey explains that last year, one of her exes kicked her out and Mark let her stay with him for a few months. Aubrey says that since Mark isn’t on his couch, he must’ve actually made it to bed for once. She’ll go get him up. Despite Violet protesting against that, Aubrey explains that if Jake is Mark’s cousin, Mark should know about it too. Aubrey heads off to Mark’s room and Violet quickly takes off all of her clothes, quickly transforming them into her normal jumpsuit and energy baton. Her energy baton scans the room. Neon blue trails are seen through Violet’s cybernetically enhanced eye. Violet enters data into her energy baton when suddenly, Aubrey re-enters the room. Aubrey stares at Violet. Violet stares back and offers to explain. Aubrey sits down and demands that she does because she literally cannot comprehend what she just saw. Violet says she’s from the future and Aubrey instantly believes her, saying she looks like the Terminator, so of course that makes sense. Violet explains that she was raised to be an officer of Temporal and Spacial Reconnaissance. She’s tracking a man, Jake from the photo, who she believes must have kidnapped Mark for some reason. She has reason to believe that Jake has taken Mark with him even further back in time. She need to go back to rescue Mark and apprehend Jake for breaking several time travel regulations. Protocol states that she needs to wipe Aubrey’s memory, and Aubrey asks for her not to. She convinces Violet that since she knows Mark and Violet is bad at blending in, she could help her find both Jake and Mark. Violet returns to her old costume for modern times, saying this fooled her decently. Aubrey says she knew something weird was up with the ID and how it always looks like she’s reading something in front of her. Violet thinks for a second, and says that since she’s enjoyed her company and finds her an asset in her investigation, she’ll informally deputize Aubrey as they both search for Jake and Mark in the past. Violet reaches out with her hand and Aubrey takes it. Violet throws off her clothes, transforming them into an energy baton. The baton quickly attaches itself to Aubrey, giving her a much simpler jumpsuit similar to Violet’s. Violet tells her to prepare for a time-jump. Aubrey smiles giddily when a FLASH occurs.

 

Mark walks down the hall and stops in front of a door labeled "Aanya and Natalie." He gulps and then knocks on the door. The door opens and Aanya, who looks younger than she did four years from now, stands there and smiles at Mark, asking why he’s there early. Mark checks his now old-school flip-phone and sees it’s 9:04am. Aanya mentions its Saturday, but she’s down to hang out. A montage begins of Mark and Aanya hanging out all week, clearly growing closer together as Mark gets more and more relaxed in the new timezone. At the end of the montage, they stand outside Aanya’s dorm where they kiss before Aanya enters the building. Back at the dorm, Jake plays video games in a beanbag chair and Mark enters. They talk for a bit about Mark and Aanya, although Jake continues to play the game. When Jake asks why Mark likes her, Mark begins to answer when Jake throws his controller against the wall and screams about how bad the dorm’s Wi-Fi is. Jake then asks if he’s ready to move on since his charge-gauge is at 100%. Mark says something sentimental about how it seems like no time has passed since he re-met Aanya and Jake scoffs at it, saying he’s ready to leave as soon as Mark inevitably messes things up with Aanya. When Mark asks why Jake is being a douchebag, Jake apologizes and says he’s just mad at the online being awful. However, he reminds Mark that he came here to do this as a test run; they’re now ready to meet Riley. Mark asks for the ability to get some closure tomorrow. Jake says whatever, just let him know when he wants to leave, and Mark rolls his eyes.

 

Cut to a shopping mall where suddenly, FLASH. Violet and Aubrey appear. Aubrey’s jumpsuit comes off of her and turns back into the energy baton. Aubrey keels over and starts heaving. Violet apologizes as nausea is a common side effect of someone’s first time jump. Violet says that due to the data she had, they’re likely very far away from Mark and Jake distance-wise, even though they should be in the right time. Violet transforms her energy baton into the energcycle while Aubrey looks at it in disbelief, weirded out by how much this will obviously blow their cover. Violet argues that if she disguises it, it won’t be as fast a vehicle, and they need to get moving. In the parking lot of the mall, a boss (Nick Kroll) pulls up in a nice Camaro. He parks the car in front of his two workers (Lil Rel Howery and Jimmy Tatro), showing it off. Howery makes a couple of jokes about how it reminds of him of his favorite Michael Bay movies when Violet (in her modern disguise) and Aubrey start heading their way. Tatro points them out as hot chicks, and the boss freaks out because the mall should be closed now, and they’re trespassing. Aubrey apologizes and says she likes his car. The boss doesn’t know what to say when Violet rips off her clothes, turning it into an energy baton. She quickly knocks the baton into the three of them and they all stand frozen in air. Aubrey freaks out at Violet but Violet explains that she simply froze them into their original timeline slots, and will be until they leave this time. Aubrey doesn’t understand and Violet explains that basically, they’re dead until the two of them return to Aubrey’s original time. Aubrey isn’t cool with this until Violet waves her hands through the frozen workers. They then steal the car and discover they’re about 85 miles away from Mark’s undergrad college (according to Aubrey who obviously knows). The car speeds off.

 

Mark knocks on Aanya’s door and Aanya lets him in when he says he wants to talk, even if Aanya doesn’t understand why he didn’t text. Mark gets to the heart of the conversation and asks if she loves him, because he knows he loves her. Aanya is confused since she always says she loves him, and she doesn’t know what’s triggering this. Mark says he feels like Aanya is embarrassed of him, and she seems hesitant whenever they kiss or do anything remotely sensual. Aanya says this relationship has always been hinged on them not having sex, since it’s against her beliefs. Mark immediately backtracks, saying that’s not what he meant, but he’d like to be able to at least meet his girlfriend’s parents. Aanya doesn’t understand what he means, and Mark says her parents were in town a few months ago for family weekend, and she didn’t even introduce him. Aanya explains as she has time and time again, her parents are super Orthodox and don’t want her dating a non-Muslim. She knows she could be shunned for doing that and she’s trying to warm them up to it. Mark asks how long she thinks it’ll take for them to be warmed up. Aanya doesn’t know, maybe a few years or even longer, but she won’t stop trying. She’s sorry if that isn’t enough. Mark immediately apologizes, saying he shouldn’t have blown up about this. It was narcissistic of him to think that and not acknowledge her own struggles. He says he doesn’t want to make the same mistake again, and Aanya doesn’t understand what he means. Mark tells her he doesn’t know and asks her not to leave him. Aanya doesn’t know why she’d leave him and asks him if she should be worried about Mark leaving? Mark says no and Aanya replies with “Good.” Aanya kisses Mark and Mark closes his eyes, kissing back.

 

The Camaro pulls up to the entrance to Mark’s dorm hall. Inside the car, Violet takes off her beanie and earrings while telling Violet to stay in the car for her own safety. Aubrey doesn’t agree with that, saying that she literally time-traveled to help save her friend, she’s not gonna wait in the car. Violet doesn’t want to argue and so asks if Aubrey knows how to shoot. Aubrey says she used to go to a shooting range with her dad. Violet turns the beanie into a pistol and hands it to Aubrey while turning the earrings into another pistol for herself. Inside the dorm, Mark’s phone rings with “Aanya” flashing. Jake picks it up, knowing it to be Mark. Mark asks if they have to leave the time; he would like to stay with Aanya. Jake smiles, and says sure. He hangs up the phone but then says “Shit.” There’s a knock at the door and Jake says “Double shit!”. Violet and Aubrey wait outside the door. Aubrey says they can’t burst in there without an answer, because if Mark’s roommate is there, who knows what could happen? Violet knocks on the door again, asking if Mark is home. Jake looks around in terror and holds the door close. He does a really bad impression of Aanya, saying that she’s currently having sex with Mark and if they could both leave. Violet blushes in embarrassment and apologizes but Aubrey whispers to her that Mark is a virgin. Violet knocks on the door angrily and says that she knows Jake is in there and offers him a plea deal if he comes out peacefully. Jake runs to the window as Aubrey protests the idea of a plea deal, under the belief that Jake kidnapped Mark. Violet explains that’s she’s bluffing as she opens the door, which is unlocked and without Jake against it, easy to open. She raises her gun to Jake and says he’s under arrest. Jake jumps out the window melodramatically, even though they’re on the first floor. He runs away. Violet runs at superhuman speeds but stops when she sees Aubrey trying to follow her. She tells Aubrey to go to back to the car, she’ll meet her there. Aubrey reluctantly obliges.

 

Meanwhile, Aanya and Mark sit in front of a TV cuddling when Jake bursts in the room, demanding that he and Mark leave immediately. Aanya asks him who the hell he is and tells him to get out of her room. She grabs Jake’s arm but accidentally touches the time machine. Aanya is immediately thrown by how odd it looks, calling it a “robot thing.” Mark tries to convince her Jake is his brother who has a prosthetic arm but Aanya doesn’t buy it. Jake tells Aanya he’s a time traveler and he and Mark need to get going now. Aanya is thrown for a loop and Mark tells Jake to shut up when Violet’s voice suddenly rings out, “Jake Hayden, cease and desist!” Violet stands far down the hallway, easily seen thanks to the open door. Energy beams start flying from Violet’s energy gun. Jake pushes Mark to the ground, but Aanya is shot. She gasps and then disappears. Mark screams in horror and Jake grabs his hand. FLASH.

 

Aubrey leans against their car as Violet approaches her, revealing that Jake and Mark got away. Violet beats herself up for failing and Aubrey asks why they haven’t gone after them yet. Violet points out that time travel means they can waste as much as time as they want before trying to catch up with them. Aubrey seems to grasp this idea and Violet reveals that this is her first major mission as a timecop and she doesn’t wanna mess it up. Aubrey says she hopes it doesn’t mess it up, since her friend is in danger. Violet asks how she can be so invested in Mark when they’re just friends. Aubrey says gross to the idea of her being in a relationship with Mark, saying she’s his best friend. She’s always there for him and he’s always there for her. She can’t let him be stuck with a maniac from the future. Violet looks at Aubrey, and then opens the hood of the car. Aubrey jumps back as Violet peels a sliver off her energy baton in a similar manner of string cheese. She melds it quickly with a fuel level sensor. She hands it off to Aubrey, explaining that this is an unrestricted time travel device. Since two heads are better than one, Violet wants Aubrey to go to the future and find a vehicle so she can help with arresting Jake. Violet’s energcycle really works better with only one person on it, and so two people chasing Jake are likely to apprehend her. After all, Jake has a long history of crazy vehicular chases so Violet is sure they’ll be sent on one soon. Aubrey asks how to use it, and Violet says you just say a year and click a button and it should work. When she presses the center button, she’ll go to near the time Violet is, calibrated to Mark’s time trail. Violet tells Aubrey she’s confident in her and she’ll see her in a few. She pulls out the rest of her energy baton. FLASH. Aubrey says she thinks maybe 4000 years from now would be good if the world is still around. FLASH.

 

Three years from the present, in an office skyscraper in Seattle, Mark lands on the floor hard. Glass behind him shatters. However, right outside of his window, Jake freefalls down, adjacent to the skyscraper. Jake fiddles with the time machine quickly FLASH and then lands on a toilet inside the skyscraper, breaking it. Back in Mark’s office, he gets up when the intercom buzzes and the CEO (Jake Johnson – voice only) demands he go to his office now. Mark is so confused and the CEO declares that he’s literally the floor above Mark and this is nothing new. A stomp from above is heard as the CEO says that’ll be his head Mark isn’t up there in two minutes. Mark heads to the lobby of CEO’s office where Abi (Cecily Strong) works as a receptionist. Abi begins flirting with Mark and Mark doesn’t know how to reply, saying the boss called him up here. Abi says he’s busy and so there’s more time for them. She begins kissing Mark awkwardly, and Mark pushes her away, saying he doesn’t know what’s happening. Abi says this isn’t anything unusual, but she can answer his questions. Abi leans in and begins making out with Mark. Mark’s eyes widen in surprise as he falls back into a chair. Abi continues, but Mark pushes her off, saying that just gave him more questions. Suddenly, Jake bursts in the room, calling for his Dad. Abi looks at Mark in confusion as Jake grabs Mark and drags him out the door. Mark asks where they are and Jake says he’ll answer when they’re on the move. FLASH.

 

Jake and Mark are now in the parking lot of the skyscraper standing next to a super-fancy state-of-the-art supercar. Mark asks if the car is his, and Jake sarcastically answers that everything remotely futuristic belongs to him and pushes Mark into the car. Mark is surprised there are no car alarms and Jake says that no real owner of a ridiculously expensive supercar would ever ruin the car with alarms. Jake takes the wheel of the car, which suddenly begins talking, introducing himself as Car, the Supercar. Jake mutters that he hates self-driving cars and Car takes offense to that, asking if Jake even knows his way to the freeway. Jake admits that he doesn’t, and Car says he can drive them there. Mark gives Car the go-ahead since he needs to talk to Jake. Car begins to drive and Mark asks Jake why he took him away from Aanya. Jake says a timecop was gonna get him, and Mark doesn’t know what a timecop is. Car helpfully begins to explain that TimeCop was a 1994 science-fiction action movie – Jake tells Car to shut up and hits the dashboard. Jake then explains that timecops are people trying to arrest him for doing unregulated time travel. Mark asks if they’ve been breaking the law by doing all this and Jake admits it to be true. If they had stayed in Aanya’s time, Jake would’ve gone to jail and Mark would’ve been returned to the present without any memory of their time traveling. Mark asks what happened to Aanya and Jake says she reverted back to the original timeline. Mark realizes that everything he fixed was done but Jake reminds him that they still have Riley to go to. Car says he does not have Riley in his GPS database and Jake tells Car to shut up. Car says he will lower his volume two levels as Jake explains he didn’t want to go to Riley initially, believing the timecop would expect that. Mark asks when they are now, and Jake doesn’t know. Car informs them that it is (three years from the present). Jake says he was testing Mark but Mark thanks Car, clearly annoyed with Jake. Car merges onto the freeway and asks them where they are going next. Mark asks Jake and Jake honestly doesn’t have an answer.

 

FLASH. Violet’s energcycle appears four cars behind Car.  Violet in her jumpsuit smiles. She looks at a meter on her jumpsuit’s wrist. She comments that she has five minutes until Aubrey arrives and can’t let them out her sight until then. Violet speeds her energcycle through two of the cars in front of her, ripping them in half and causing huge explosions. Mark and Jake look out Car’s back window and see the explosions. Jake demands to drive and Car states that for evasive driving, he recommends himself more as he knows the streets better. Jake asks how fast Car can go, and Car responds with up to 245 miles per hour. Mark says they don’t have time to argue and gives Car permission to drive. Car moves evasively through the freeway traffic as Mark questions why Violet is making such a scene with destruction, and Jake says it’ll all be reset after she captures the two of them. Car realizes this means collateral damage doesn’t matter, and Mark says, true, but A.I.’s can’t intentionally harm humans, right? Car chuckles and then speeds up to 150 mph. Violet sees Car speed off fast. She pushes the Energcycle into high gear, demolishing cars in front of her at a breakneck speed. A series of explosions follow the energcycle, as people run in terror. Meanwhile, further up the freeway, Car takes to the sides of the road, going 200mph on the rumble strip. Inside Car, Mark and Jake bump up and down at a ridiculously fast pace. Mark complains about the bumpy ride and Car apologizes, taking a different route towards a bridge over a river. A ferry follows underneath. Jake asks what Car’s plan is, and Car explains that he wants to land on the ferry sideways, and then use their momentum to skip across the water like a stone. Mark and Jake immediately begin protesting and pounding the dashboard, calling this is an insane idea, but Car says it’s the only choice to avoid the timecop. On her energcycle, Violet looks in front of her and sees Car suddenly swerve right - heading straight for the edge of the bridge. Violet asks what they’re doing when Car hits the railing of the bridge at 175 mph, instantly flipping over the air. Mark and Jake scream as Car laughs hysterically, explaining that their seats are locked in, and they will be safe. Mark flatly says he’s gonna die.

 

A couple (Matt Damon and an unknown) sits at a table at a restaurant on the deck of the ferry. There is a double decker buffet, with a ramp leading to the second level of the buffet. The boyfriend gets down one knee and begins to ask a question when suddenly he sees the top of Car heading straight towards them. Car yells at them to duck and the boyfriend tackles his girlfriend to the ground, rolling her out of the way as Car hits their table, shattering all its windows. It skids across the restaurant, making its way to the top of the ramp. Car launches off the top of the ramp, still going well over 125 mph. It heads straight towards the water... but then angles perfectly so it lands just on the roof, and then, promptly skips across the water, as if it was a stone. Car flies up and lands on its wheels, forcing its way through a crowd of people, running them over. Car says not to worry, since he believes the people will be fine from the facts he has heard from Jake and Mark. Jake demands that he drives now and Car stops, saying that will be fine. Jake and Mark take a second to hug, relieved they have survived. Back on the other side of the ferry, Violet looks on at the stunt, clearly impressed. However, she has a mission to complete. She looks to her left and sees a series of skyscrapers. Violet quickly speeds the Energcycle up the vertical incline of the first skyscraper. She then quickly goes across the five of them, keeping her eyes on the parked Car. She then jumps the energcycle from the 1500-foot skyscraper, aiming for Car.

 

Mark looks out the back of the window of Car, seeing Violet heading their way. When Jake tries to start the ignition, Car once again asks if he can drive. Jake just gives up and tells Car to go. Falling through the air quickly, Violet sees Car speed off. Violet knows that if she continues, she cannot stick the landing. She presses a button on the energcycle, transforming it into a parachute. Violet lands on the boardwalk, Car being long gone. A HUGE FLASH occurs. She smiles, and turns around. But then screams. Car is about 20 miles away from the boardwalk when the HUGE FLASH occurs. Mark and Jake keep their eyes focused forward. Neither Jake or Mark wanna look back, scared of what the flash could be. Car turns his radio monitor into a rearview camera. Jake and Mark lean in, in surprised. Standing in front of the original skyscraper, at 2500 ft high, is a Kanga-Rex, a giant monster that is essentially a T-Rex with a pouch. It has a giant, cybernetic implant on its head, with robo-eyes. It roars. In its puch, Aubrey wears a visor and smiles, saying that she’s gonna save Mark. The Kanga-Rex hops its way forward. Every hop demolishes buildings from all around, causing huge infrastructure damage. Violet quickly turns on her energcycle and begins cycling away towards Jake and Mark. Inside Car, the image enhances, revealing someone in the pouch. Jake speculates it’s a timecop but Mark tells Car to zoom. It’s clearly Aubrey and Mark gasps.

 

In the Kanga-Rex’s pouch, Aubrey spots the light coming from the energcycle. Aubrey orders the Kanga-Rex to follow the light. The Kanga-Rex screeches and begins hopping its way towards Violet. With every hop, the Energcycle flies a little in the air. Mark grabs Car’s dashboard, demanding they go towards the monster, saying they have to save Aubrey. Jake doesn’t even know who Aubrey is, and Mark says she’s his best friend and somehow connected to the monster. She must be in danger and Mark wants to save her. Jake says that’s not possible, they’re in danger. During the following speech, Violet holding her energcycle suddenly begins scream in pain. The energcycle changes color erratically: “That thing is most likely from farther in the future than anyone has ever gone. Time travel theory states that the bigger presence from a far away time risks the timelines from collapsing. That thing is ginormous!” Smoke begins to come out of Jake’s time machine, and Jake explains that all the time travel devices at anytime are overloading since all the time energy is directing itself to keeping the Kanga-Rex thing in the current temporal setting. All the timelines will soon begin to merge in a horrendous fashion, preventing time itself to even exist. Jake tells Car to stop. He says Mark can go save Aubrey, he believes in him, but he needs to go save the Timecop. Mark doesn’t understand why he’d be willing to save the timecop, and Jake says she’s just been doing her job. Jake tells Car to let Mark drive and then Jake runs away in the direction of the energcycle, speeding his way. He aims his time machine arm to the ground while standing in the middle of the freeway. Jake begins a countdown. “Three.” Car, driven by Mark, speeds past Jake and the energcycle, going 200mph. In the Kanga-Rex pouch, Aubrey’s visor short-circuits and the Kanga-Rex goes wild. “Two.” Violet tries to let go of her energcycle but the baton itself won’t let her go. Jake stands a few miles ahead of her, but she’s approaching mighty fast. “One.” Jake’s arm EXPLODES, getting instantly cauterized. It sends him rocketing towards Violet. The sheer centrifugal force when Jake hits Violet forces Violet off the energcycle, revealing just her jumpsuit exoskeleton. The energcycle quickly transforms into an energy baton, but then explodes, sending out huge waves of energy. The energy waves sends Car flying in the air, straight into the sky towards the Kanga-Rex’s head. Car screams in delight.

 

Elsewhere downtown, A newscaster (LeBron James) stands outside the building where Kanga-Rex first appeared. The cameraman (David Henrie) stands by, filming. The newscaster recaps Car skipping over the war, sightings of a motorcycle made of pure light, and the giant monster that has arrived. He speculates that it could be the end of the world when the cameraman points up behind and screams. The newscaster turns around and sees a giant portal in the sky. Out the portal falls horses and wagons. Ripples keep coming out of the portal. Inside the wagon, falling towards the ground, a family of Washington settlers circa the 1800s scream in utter terror. The newscaster remains composed and explains that there are ripples in the sky coming out from around a giant hole, which things are – another portal forms and from this one comes out the Wright Brothers’ Plane, followed by the Spruce Goose. Endless portals open up with massive historical artifacts falling out them, such as the White House, a half-built Eiffel Tower, the Sphinx’s nose, and the Coliseum. The sky remains in a constant staple of rippling. The newscaster declares that they are all doomed.

 

Car, still flying through the air, goes through holes in the Eiffel Tower and the Coliseum. Car calculates the trajectory and says Mark will have to jump out of Car. He’s gonna miss Kanga-Rex but he believes Mark can make it if he tucks and rolls. Mark doesn’t seem to think he’ll survive that but Car ensures him, it’s the only way. Inside the pouch of the Kanga-Rex, Aubrey decides to start climbing down. She lifts herself out of the pouch, and grabs onto scales that stick out, trying to make her way down slowly. Car is finally right above Kanga-Rex. Mark jumps out of Car through the windshield , shattering it,and begins to fall down through the air an incredibly rapid speed when suddenly a Kaleidohole appears under Kanga-Rex. The Kanga-Rex roars as its sucked into the hole quickly, forcing Aubrey to lose her grip on the Kanga-Rex. Jake and Violet run towards the Kaleidohole in horror, looking up to see Aubrey and Mark fall at different heights, both entering the Kaleidohole.

 

Cut to a black room. Kronos, wearing an all golden suit, walks out and addresses the camera with the following monologue: “There exists a land in time. That is the land of everyone besides I, where you live. I exist outside of the two timelines, outside of time itself. I am the Time God, and this is my domain. However, time appears to be falling apart at the seams. Maybe I can fix it. But I think I’ll have company soon. The first company in eons. I will wait. After all, these four seem to have it under control so far. I wanna see what happens next. Do you? (a pause) Well. If you don’t, too bad. There’s a reason I’m a god, and you are a mere human. Let’s see what’s going on Mark.”

 

Inside the Kaleidohole, Mark continues to fall. He screams as every color imaginable enters and exits his mouth, piercing his body with transparent light rays until finally he lands in an area of complete darkness. Mark stands on seemingly nothing. He begins to hyperventilate. He asks if anyone is there, and the faint sound of Aubrey’s voice is heard. She can’t see Mark and asks where he is. Mark says he can’t see her either and tell to him where he is. Aubrey doesn’t answer as suddenly (First) Aanya (from college) appears in front of Mark. Mark asks what’s she doing here, and Aanya doesn’t understand the question, not seeming to recognize Mark. Mark tries to remind Aanya but Aanya is too busy introducing herself to notice that. The Present Aanya (from the restaurant) materializes too, and immediately recognizes Mark, saying she hasn’t seen him in years. The First Aanya notices the Present Aanya and they both look at each other in shock. Mark is so lost, but feels the need to explain that it’s his fault. He messed up time travel he guesses. Present Aanya asks where they are and Mark says he doesn’t know and he’s sorry. Present Aanya comments that’s the first apology she’s ever got from Mark and Mark begins to apologize for everyone when Riley (who appears exactly like Present Aanya) appears. The First Aanya asks Riley which Aanya she is and Riley responds with her name. Mark doesn’t believe it and Riley asks if she knows Mark. Mark explains his regret on his high school date with Riley and Riley honestly doesn’t remember the date. Finally, Old Aanya who appears to be mid-50s (in make-up) appears. She just knits though. Mark asks all the Aanyas why they’re here. The Aanyas explain they didn’t want to be here, Mark forced them there. It’s his fault, and if he hadn’t gone along with the stupid time travel nonsense, none of them would be there. Mark screams.

 

The light inverts to an all white background. The Aanyas disappear and Mark is sitting on the ground. He tries to stand up but finds it impossible. Aubrey’s voice is heard, saying she sees Mark and is coming for him. Mark doesn’t acknowledge this, instead looking horrified in a different direction. The College Mark with long hair is coming towards him, and asks Mark if that’s really how he turns out. From behind College Mark walks out Mark from the date with Ashley (Date Mark). Date Mark says he’s the real way College Mark turns out, the Mark he’s talking to is only him if he totally fails to complete the universe in check. College Mark asks Date Mark what he means and Date Mark says it honestly makes no sense to him either. A Mark in a prison jumpsuit appears laughing. Prisoner Mark explains that they’re all potentially the real Mark, who can say what is real when time is in flux. Mark says they must all be versions of himself from different timelines, although from what he had gathered from Jake, he thought there should’ve only been two timelines. Prisoner Mark says there was until someone destroyed time itself. Mark says he didn’t mean to when Owner Mark who is in his mid30s appears. Owner Mark says he didn’t want to inherit Sullivan’s pub, but that’s his life now. Young Mark, age 4, appears and demands Mark to give him his toys. From the ground rises Old Man Mark, in his 80s, looking at all the other Marks and sighing that he wasted his whole life. When Mark tries to deny it, Old Man Mark says he’ll understand when he’s older. Mark freaks out and tells all the other Marks to stop and they disappear.

 

Mark is shocked it was that easy when a woman his age walks up to him and helps him off the ground. The woman asks him if he knows why they’re here, and Mark says he thinks he messed up time itself. The woman says she’s the one who messed up time itself. Mark doesn’t understand and the woman explains that she has been chasing a guy for a while, since high school, really. Her son from the future – Mark cuts her off and says no. They both stare at each other and say in unison, “You’re me.” At this realization, the Marks from before reappear and infinite Marks stretched every direction appear. Any alteration from Mark’s conception to his adventure with Jake arrive, as the timelines have split infinitively. It is impossible to tell which Mark is the original Mark. A few hundred feet away, Aubrey climbs up from the infinite whiteness and sighs, yelling out that she’s here. She then notices the infinite Marks. A random Mark (who is completely identical to the original Mark) asks Aubrey what kind Mark she is. Aubrey, believing him to be the real Mark, says she’s Aubrey, obviously. The Mark rolls his eyes, saying the female Marks all have dumb names. Aubrey, weirded out, runs away and asks another Mark (with a mustache) if he recognizes her. The mustached Mark tells her to please leave. Aubrey begins running through the crowd. Everyone glares at her, not recognizing her. A random Mark with glasses stops her. He asks Aubrey if she belongs here. Aubrey explains that she’s looking for her Mark, and the glasses Mark asks if by “her Mark” she means they’re dating. Aubrey rolls her eyes, tired of the heteronormative agenda. The glasses Mark calls her Mark a loser, and Aubrey loses her temper, shouting and asking if any of these Marks knows her? The 30 Marks surrounding her all shake their head no. The glasses Mark snarks that maybe what her Mark special is Aubrey herself. Another Mark says all the Marks have something unique about them, saying he’s special because he doesn’t know how to ride a bicycle. Yet another Mark calls that Mark a loser. Aubrey runs away from this grouping of Marks, shouting Mark’s name.

 

Back with the original Mark, Mark is standing stunned in horror when he hears Aubrey shouting his name. He shouts back and Aubrey shouts his name relived. Mark runs in the direction of her voice, running straight into her almost knocking them both to the ground. A side Mark comments on those two being two clumsy Marks and Aubrey says she isn’t Mark. Mark says thank god and hugs her when Aubrey asks where they are. Mark says he thinks it’s all the possibilities of who he could’ve been, and Aubrey says that doesn’t make sense, some of them are out of his control. Mark says of course they could be him still, sometimes you can’t control who you become. They all have something that make them special, and Aubrey smiles asking if he knows what he has that the other Marks don’t. Mark shrugs and Aubrey explains that none of them recognize her, Mark is the only Mark that has an Aubrey. Mark smiles and says he knew Aubrey was a special friend. Mark comments that in a way, seeing all the different Marks is really cool; the infinite possibilities being literalized. Aubrey says she was okay with just the one Mark and Mark says he has no idea how to get out of here. Aubrey asks how he got here, and Mark says he think sit’s when he started thinking about all the possibilities of who he could’ve been. Aubrey facepalms, calling him angsty and Mark apologizes, saying he’s not a good person, so maybe the alternate Marks are. Aubrey tells him to shut up about the good person bullshit, she teamed up with a timecop to help find him and save his life, she wouldn’t do all that for an asshole. Mark points out that Aubrey calls him an asshole all the time, and Aubrey puts her arm around his back and says, “Yeah, but you’re my asshole. My asshole who always helps me out as much as I help you. The funniest guy I know, and the sweetest too. Always trying to impress me and get the best for me. You might not feel like a good person, Mark, but to me, you’re the best guy I know.” Mark smiles, touched by the speech, and thanks her. Aubrey says it’s no problem, but she wants to know how they could get out of here. Mark thinks that maybe Aubrey is the way out; if he focuses on the memories of Aubrey he has, they can get out since none of the other Marks have that. Mark sits down again, and Aubrey joins him. Mark clutches Aubrey’s hand as he closes his eyes tightly. Marks around them begin to disappear and then Mark opens his eyes. Aubrey is sitting next to him. They’re on a bullet train with the Aanyas being the only other passengers on the train. Mark screams in frustration.

 

Back in the future, Jake and Violet stand on the edge of the Kaleidohole, both barely maintaining their composure in silence. Violet breaks the silence and asks Jake why he saved her. Jake answers that even if he doesn’t like Violet, she was just doing her job. She shouldn’t die just because of him wanting to hang out with his dad. Violet, a little confused, says he was just trying to fix the timeline, right? Jake sits down and cries, saying he just went through all this trouble to try to save his dad from dying. Violet sits down next to Jake and asks him what he’s talking about. Jake explains that in his timeline, Mark dies before Jake is even born. Jake kept that from because he figured it’d make him lose interest in finding a girlfriend pretty quick. So Jake came back to help himself be conceived in a timeline where his dad could possibly live. All he’s ever wanted to do is hang out with his dad and now he’s gone again. This time though, it’s Jake’s fault. Violet, trying not to breach an awkward subject, says that if he was worried about Mark’s wellbeing, maybe skipping a car across the water wasn’t the best idea. Jake glares off into the distance and blames Car bitterly. There’s a bit of silence and Violet divulges that Aubrey was her first friend. Jake asks why she let Aubrey destroy the fabric of time. Violet defends her saying it was an accident, and this was Violet’s first real mission anyway. When Jake snarks that it’s her last one too, Violet rolls her eyes and points out they’re all gonna die within a half hour, so it’s everyone’s last mission. Isn’t Jake happy he got to spend his with Mark? Jake, begrudged, agrees and Violet says she’s glad she got spend her time with Aubrey, since she’s never had friends or family before. She wishes she knew what it was like. Jake says being upset about is dumb, and Violet is offended by this. Jake explains that since timecops are chosen at birth at random, she can’t really blame herself for not knowing her parents. She didn’t have a choice. Jake smiles but then Violet calls him an idiot, pointing out that he caused the end of the universe. Jake says it was actually Violet’s fault, and Violet says the blame may belong among the four of them, but Jake was the catalyst and he did it all just to meet his dad because he's dead. Jake thanks her for the recap, and Violet screams that it was out of his control; he didn’t kill his father, at least the first time. So it’s not Jake’s fault as much as it’s Violet’s fault she hasn’t met her parents. This wasn’t something that needed to be fixed and Jake screwed things up for no reason. Jake says that he essentially killed the new Mark anyway. Violet stands up and punches Mark on the stub where his time travel arm used to be. Violet says she has an idea.

 

Inside the bullet train, Aubrey sits at the window seat as Mark looks around the cabin. Aubrey looks out the window, revealing the train is heading down a mountain at top speed. Beautiful ranges of other mountains surround it, but the final destination: a glistening metropolis in a valley at the center of it all. Aubrey marvels at the beauty of it, saying she’s always dreamed of this. Mark asks her what she means, and Aubrey reveals that when she was applying to colleges, she got accepted to a place in Salt Lake City. When she visited, it was beautiful and so many people were there who she would’ve loved to meet. She’s always wanted to live in a city. Mark is surprised, saying Aubrey’s never told him that. Aubrey turns her back to him and says she spent her senior year too obsessed with a girl. Mark smiles saying he remembers that, and Aubrey says it was nice until she ended up at community college and barely getting into grad school in yet another boring ho-dunk nothing town. Mark says she can’t regret it too much, right, and Aubrey says her life would be so much difference if she had been accepted to the SLC school with a scholarship. Her junior year grades should’ve locked her in, but she blew it. Mark asks why they’ve never talked about this and Aubrey says with a slight smile that they’ve been too busy talking about other girls, gesturing to the Aanyas. Mark realizes something. Aanya was great and Riley was too but that’s it – was. Even if he time traveled back to either of them, he’s a different person now than he was back then. Aubrey puts her head on Mark’s shoulder and says she’s changed a lot too. Repeating the past doesn’t change the fact that they aren’t the same person. Yet, she still regrets it all. Mark looks out the window. They seem to actually be moving up despite the train being on a decline down. Mark says that this place isn’t real, and Aubrey asks what is then? After all, they just saw millions of Marks and even if they don’t make it to the city, the train is nice. Mark points out if they don’t go, Aubrey will be the only person he sees for eternity besides the Aanyas. Aubrey says it’ll be the same for her. They’ve lasted this long with just each other, right? Mark pauses, and says that he knows they’ll regret it. Aubrey sighs and says she knows too. Outside the bullet train, on a connecting cord between cars, Aubrey and Mark stand on the edge. Mark says they’ve gotta clear the cord and make it down the mountainside. They should be able to roll down to the city and find a way out. Aubrey asks him if he’s sure about this, and Mark says he’s about as sure as he could be. Aubrey takes his hand and they jump on the count of three. They jump off the bullet train and land... in a bizzare room. Mark and Aubrey land on their feet, tripping over themselves. They take a look at their surroundings. It’s got the interior of the restaurant  from Mark’s date with Ashley, but Sullivan’s bar is at the center. Aubrey asks how they could be here and the voice of Kronos is heard, saying “I’ll answer that.”

 

Right outside the Kaleidohole in the future, Violet holds a broken arm piece of her jumpsuit. She dips it slowly in the Kaleidohole, extracting some time energy from it. She holds it carefully as Jake pulls up in Car. Car asks if he can go faster; he hates moving so slow. Violet asks how Car could possibly be one piece still and Car answers that he’s highly bulletproof. Jake says that that’s a terrible explanation and order Car to pop his hood. Car answers in the affirmative allowing Violet to carefully pour in the time energy into a fuel capsule. Car asks what the plan is and Violet says the energy will allow him to surf the time waves. If they can get past the beginning of time, perhaps the three of them can get to Mark and Aubrey. Car asks how fast the time energy will make him and Jake answers with faster than the speed of light. Car closes his hood in glee, praising the heavens for the greatest day of his programmed life. Violet says she’ll have to drive and Jake tells her good luck with Car’s attitude. Car offers to let Violet since he has no idea what the terrain of time is like. Jake sits in the passenger seat with his arm crossed, as Violet takes the driver’s seat. Car comments on Jake’s foul mood and Jake tells Car to shut up. Violet tells Jake to be nice, she likes Car and Car thanks her, offering her to put her pedal to his metal. Violet puts her foot on the gas pedal and Car rockets into the Kaleidohole. They’re in the time oceans now, with all of time before Car. Car stares in shock and awe and Violet revs the engine again, allowing Car to rocket past the time waves at the speed at light. Time periods quickly fly by: WWII, the Civil War, American Revolution, Columbus, the Middle Ages, Jesus, the Pyramids. Inside Car, Jake and Violet’s faces are sunken in as Violet presses the brakes. Car apologizes that he forgot recommend re-installing windows. Violet says they’re almost at their destination but she needs to know how much more time energy Car has. Car answer that he has an infinite amount. Violet doesn’t understand, and Car reminds her that he is a Supercar, and thus has adapted to use time energy as his primary fuel source. Jake is glad, because they need to go even faster than they were earlier to break the time barrier. Car audibly smirks , saying he can do that, reving his engines. After all, Car says, he is superb. Car blasts his way through the time oceans heading straight towards the time barrier…

 

At the bizarre room, Aubrey and Mark turn to see Kronos tending the bar. Kronos tells them to sit down and have a drink. Aubrey and Mark are stunned but sit down as Kronos congratulates them for being the first humans ever to step outside time itself. Mark asks who the fuck this guy is and Kronos gets excited about the “f-word,” since it’s definitely the first time he’s heard anyone say it in this entire story. Mark is still annoyed but Aubrey asks more politely who he is. Kronos sighs and introduces himself as, well, Kronos, the god. He tells them that they are out of time. Aubrey asks for what, and Kronos says they’re out of time for nothing, they simply are. Mark doesn’t understand and Kronos tells them to have a beer and he’ll explain. Kronos hands them both a beer. Aubrey opens hers while Mark still looks pretty pissed, asking if Kronos would just explain why they’re here. Kronos sighs and says Mark is no fun. Aubrey asks more politely, explaining it’s been a long night. Kronos knows saying he’d loved it and thanks them both. Aubrey asks what he’s thanking them for and Kronos says entertainment, but he’s getting ahead of himself. He congratulates the two of them for completing the two big obstacles keeping them from the center of time. Mark asks what exactly those obstacles were, and Kronos says it was Mark’s self-loathing and both Mark and Aubrey’s timely regrets. Aubrey asks if that’s what that was all about and Kronos says regrets are wonderful and he loves them but at points, they hold you back and this one of those points. Mark finally opens his beer and asks if Kronos said he was the time god. Kronos answers in the affirmative and Mark asks if technically speaking, any god would be a time god. Kronos says that’s what the others would make you believe, but all he ever hears is gossip anyway. Yes, he’s the time god. That’s how he knows both their lives from beginning to end, but nobody has ever broken time before. Kronos thanks them again for the show, although now they have time to kill. Mark, trying to follow, says he thought time was gone. Kronos says yes, but it exists in relativity to some people.

 

Mark puts his beer down and stares at the wall, saying he can’t do this. Aubrey decides to play Kronos’ game and ask a question, since they’re killing time after all. Aubrey asks if Kronos knows their lives from beginning to end, and they changed their lives because of the time travel stuff, does Kronos still know their whole lives, because of the time changes. Mark stares, confused at the question but Kronos understands, telling her not to get him started on time travel. He hates it, finding it the worst thing to happen ever. He always knew it was coming and something he’d have to deal with, but that’s why he put the two timeline limit on it. Mark says that if he was excited by their adventure, why wouldn’t he be okay with time travel? After all, time is constant but the changes would allow there to be some unpredictableness in Kronos’s life. Kronos answers that the changes are constant too to him. Kronos is on such a higher level the time travel changes are premediated and boring in addition to defeating the point of time. Aubrey asks what the point of time is then, and Kronos answers that time is great because without time, you can’t move on. Kronos is the only being who can see it all constantly. For example, Aubrey is allowed to forget that when she was five, she accidentally dropped all the cookies in the backyard. Now she doesn’t beat herself up over that everytime she sees her grandma’s homemade cookies. Aubrey says she forgot about that, but remembers feeling guilty for weeks. Kronos says she gets it; dropping the cookies destroyed a younger Aubrey but as they say, time heals all wounds. Mark snarks that Kronos is easily the biggest fan of time he’ll ever meet and Kronos replies with, “I’d hope so. I’m in charge of it. I love it though. It always ages, but never gets old.” Aubrey says that’s sweet, but Mark asks that, if he gathered correctly, regulated time travel is just to observe the past, not to change it like he and Jake were doing. Kronos rolls his eyes and starts another rant, saying it’s definitely great to pretend things were better in the past. People only observe the best parts of the past, nostagilizing it all. Mark says he doesn’t thinks that’s a word, and Kronos says it will be in a couple of years for Mark. People are always convinced things are better in the old days, and being able to visit them just added some confirmation bias. Mark and Aubrey say they have no idea what Kronos is talking about and Kronos begins speechifying again. “Alright. Movies. People are always talking about movies are going downhill, and they remember so many decades as being back when cinema was great.” Mark asks if Kronos watches movies and Kronos replies with “No, I watch lives. This is an allegory. Movies have always been a mixed bag with plenty of good and bad every year. It’s just that the good ones are the only remembered. That’s why time travel is stupid. It allows people to selectively remember only the good parts of history. Relive the Victory Parade, forget Hiroshima. Stupid. Oh my, they should be here now.” Mark asks who.

 

Car flies through the back of the bar, transparently making it jiggle. He quickly flies through the other end, not destroying the wall, but leaving Jake and Violet in the room. Violet asks what just happened and Jake asks where’s Car. Mark says hi to them, and Jake runs to hug him. Aubrey asks Kronos if she should explain where they are and Kronos says that if they studied time travel theory correctly in school, they probably know all of this shit anyway. Aubrey nods at him and hugs Violet. Jake confesses Mark that he never knew him in his own timeline, revealing to Mark that he died before Jake was born. Jake just wanted Mark to end up happy with someone, not necessarily his mother. Jake reveals his mother was Riley but if they had got together, Mark would’ve possibly died. Jake didn’t want to risk that. Mark says he’s understands and Kronos asks Mark and Aubrey if they consider themselves changed by the experience. Aubrey and Mark answer in the affirmative, with Mark asking if he seriously had to ask that.  Kronos doesn’t want to do the whole “deus ex machina” thing if it was a total waste of time, and Violet points out that deus ex machina would imply they didn’t put any effort into it while Jake and her literally drove a supercar through the entire history of time. Kronos gives them credit for that, and says that since he’s the time god, he’s the only one with the power to fix things. He’s gonna return time back to normal but will let them keep their memories, because unlike some deities, he actually likes the idea of character development. Jake begins to say goodbye to Mark and Kronos says he wasn’t planning on sending Jake back to his hometime. Mark calls him out, saying he just said he hates messing with time. Kronos says that recreating time isn’t the same as messing with it, and if somebody hadn’t brought a Super Kanga-Rex three millennia before the first was close to being engineered, the time fractures might actually be fixable. Aubrey apologizes and Kronos says he was going to give Jake a place in Mark’s time as Mark’s brother. Jake freaks out positively, asking if their memories would be the same. Kronos says the memory thing is non-negotiable, and they can deal with awkward family interactions for a few years. Mark asks why Kronos is doing this for them, and Jake asks if his dad really doesn’t want to. Mark tells Jake bluntly he can’t call him Dad anymore if they’re gonna be brothers and then asks Kronos if they should be punished seeing they destroyed time. Kronos shrugs and says that since he got some entertainment out of it, honestly, that deserves a reward.

 

Violet asks if she can return to the present with the other three and Kronos apologizes, saying that won’t be possible. The timecops will know Kronos had to fix time and will still try to prosecute whoever broke it. Violet is the only one who is trackable since she is outfitted down to the DNA with timecop tech. Violet is disappointed but then Kronos has a proposition for her. He has been re-reading the mythologies recently and suddenly realized he hasn’t had a Kairos. Aubrey asks what that is and Kronos explains that Kairos is the goddess of the defining moment, who changes people’s lives but cannot see all of time itself like Kronos. They can just see the defining moment and how that person is changed by it. Some of the moments are good and some are bad but that’s life and time. He wants to offer the job to Violet. Violet is confused why she would get such an honor, and Kronos says he knows Violet hasn’t enjoyed being a timecop, being without family and preventing people from getting (unnecessary) closure. If Violet becomes Kairos, she will be Kronos’s daughter. They’ll see each other regularly, and Kronos has always wanted a daughter, but being a god makes that tough. Better though is that if Violet is Kairos, she will never have to prevent time from being changed ever again. Violet realizes it would let her allow her to make time complete for people. Violet is honored, bowing to Kronos and accepting the position. Aubrey says she’ll miss Violet. Violet becomes full of a purple light and her jumpsuit transforms into a lavish violet dress. She is Kairos now, but yet, she hugs Aubrey, saying she’ll miss her too. The moment lingers and Mark asks what’s next. Kronos tells him to clock in, “me boy” with Sullivan’s voice. Kronos winks and Mark leads Aubrey and Jake to the backroom. Jake puts his arm around Mark’s back and Aubrey grabs Mark’s hand, squeezing it.

 

Aubrey: No regrets?

Mark: No regrets.

 

Mark clocks in and Mark enters Sullivan’s pub with Jake and Aubrey following him. It’s the present and Sullivan is sitting at the bar. He smiles at Mark, happy he’s there and he’s brought his friend. Mark asks if he was late to work. Sullivan tells him he was just on time. Fade to black.

 

After the credits, in the bizarre room outside of time, Kronos and Violet sit together sharing a beer. Violet asks Kronos if “he” should be here soon, and Kronos says he believes so. Sure enough, Car flies in. Violet jumps up and catches him, making him tangible for the center of time space. Car thanks Violet, saying that the infinite driving through all of time was dreadful. Violet says it was no trouble and Car asks if he can stay with her, thinking it would be nice. Kronos says he’d love to have Car, he’s always wanted to try driving. They all laugh as it fades to black. Car’s voice is heard, saying “Oh, you think you’ll be the one driving. That’s funny, sir, thank you, I needed that.”

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Big Enough

 

Director: Dan Mazer

Genre: Western/Comedy

Release Date: September 11

Major Cast:

Adam Devine as Daniel Wayne

Charlie Heaton as Craig Wayne

Emilia Clarke as Margaret Miller

With Ben Foster as the Lone Screamer

 

Theater Count: 3,235

MPAA Rating: for graphic nudity, language, drug use, and a party scene.

Runtime: 93 min

Production Budget: $50 million

 

Plot: Two brothers who hate each other, Daniel and Craig, end up in the same town. They hate each other and don't believe the town is big enough for the two of them. However, the town is terrorized by the Lone Screamer, a cowboy that screams in people faces. Professional whistler Margaret falls in love with Daniel after hiring them both to bring in the Lone Screamer. When they do, the town celebrates, and discover that the town might be big enough for him too. They then go a world tour from Australia to America, Russia to China, All of Asia to Europe and Great Britain! They meet Mounties in Canada! They go to Kenya and India! Syria and Bolivia! Ghana, Africa, South Africa, South Korea, North Korea, Algeria, Nigeria, Antarctica, around the Equator, Cuba, Indonesia, Florida, the Vatican, Mecca and Jerusalem. Everyone loves the Lone Screamer! The world is big enough for all of us! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

 

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Brave


In Association with EssGeeKay Studios

Co-writer/Director: Debra Granik

Co-writer: Brenda Chapman
Genre: Fantasy/Dramedy/Adventure

Release Date: June 5

Major Cast:

Freya Mavor as Merida
Lena Headey as Queen Elinor
Iain Glen as King Fergus
Clare Higgins as The Witch
Peter Capaldi as Lord Dingwall
Angus Macfayden as Lord MacGuffin
Henry Ian Cusick as Lord MacIntosh
David Tennant as The Crow (voice)
 

Theater Count: 4,257

MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements and some frightening images and peril.

Runtime: 110 min

Production Budget: $95M

 

Plot Summary: Headstrong Scottish princess Merida wishes to change her fate and future, resulting in beastly consequences for her family. A more mature take on the award winning 2012 Pixar film.

 

Plot: 

The film begins in Medieval Scotland, on the sixth birthday of Princess Merida of the clan Dunbroch. Merida’s father, King Fergus, gives her a bow and arrow as a present, to the annoyance of her mother, Queen Elinor. After shooting an arrow into the woods, Merida goes to retrieve it and encounters a will-o’-the-wisp. Merida follows the light straight to Mor’du, a massive demon bear. The bear attacks the family, though Merida and Elinor manage to escape on horseback while Fergus fights off the bear. Though everyone survives, the resulting fight costs the king one of his legs.



 

Ten years later, on her sixteenth birthday, Merida learns she must marry one of the sons of one of her father’s allies, Lord Dingwall, Lord MacGuffin, and Lord MacIntosh. In response to Merida’s hesitation, Elinor tells Merida of a legendary prince whose refusal to follow his family’s wishes destroyed his kingdom. She tells Merida that marrying one of the suitors is what is best for the kingdom and Dunbroch.

 

The Highland games serve as a competition between the suitors (all firstborn sons) for Merida’s hand in marriage. Realizing a loophole, Merida announces that she will compete for her own hand since she is her own clan’s firstborn. She excels in the archery contest, making the other clans look foolish. That night, Merida and Elinor argue about Merida’s behavior, and Elinor calls her daughter selfish and shameful. The fight ends with Elinor throwing Merida’s beloved bow into the fire, causing Merida to storm out, but not before tearing her family’s tapestry from the wall and damaging it. In the woods, Merida encounters several wisps, which she follows to the hut of an elderly witch. The witch senses Merida’s inner turmoil with her family, and offers her a spell to change her fate. She explains to Merida that all she has to do is give her mother an enchanted cake and her wish will be granted. Merida accepts.

 

The next day, Merida gives Elinor the cake under the guise of wanting to apologize for her prior behavior. When Elinor eats the cake, she suddenly transforms into a large bear, though she retains her human personality. Panicked, Merida rushes back to the witch’s cottage only to find it empty. She discovers a message from the witch in the form of a talking crow, telling her she must “mend the bond torn by pride” before the second sunrise or the spell will become permanent. Merida and Elinor follow wisps to some ancient ruins, where they encounter Mor’du. Merida realizes that Mor’du is in fact the legendary prince, and vows to fix her mistake. She decides she must fix the damaged tapestry in order to reverse the spell. 

 

Upon returning to the castle, Merida finds that the clans are on the verge of war following Merida’s bold display at the games. Merida prepares to choose a suitor in order to mend the bonds of the clans and maintain tradition, but instead declares that the firstborns should be allowed to marry whomever, whenever they want. Elinor looks on in approval at Merida’s display of leadership, and the alliances of the clans are restored. 

 

Merida sneaks into Elinor into the tapestry room, but Elinor is losing her humanity and nearly attacks Merida and Fergus before regaining her composure and fleeing. Fergus mistakes the queen for Mor’du and refuses to listen to Merida, locking her and her brothers in the castle while he and the other clans set out to hunt the bear. Her younger triplet brothers reveal that they stole the remaining enchanted cake and they decide to eat some in order to transform and help Merida escape. As bear cubs, the brothers are able to help Merida leave the castle and pursue her father. She quickly repairs the tapestry and catches up to Fergus, who has captured Elinor. Merida stops her father from attacking before Mor’du arrives. Mor’du violently attacks the clan members and targets Merida, but Elinor protects her and is injured by Mor’du, who is crushed by a falling ruin. As the bear dies, the prince’s spirit is released, thanking Merida for freeing him. As the second sunrise occurs, Merida tearfully reconciles with her injured mother, unknowingly fulfilling the real meaning of the witch’s message, causing the queen to heal and for her and the young princes to turn back into humans. 

 

With peace in the kingdom following Mor’du’s death, Merida and Elinor bond over working on a new tapestry before Fergus bids them farewell before his hunting trip. Elinor wordlessly grants Merida permission, and Merida joins her father, riding through the woods on her horse, when her mother suddenly joins them.

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Pokemon: Rise of the Rockets

 

Genre: Fantasy/Adventure

Cast: Angourie Rice (Stephanie), Art Parkinson (Gary Oak), Jared Harris (Giovanni), Amy Acker (Mom), Rufus Sewell (Mr. Apollo), Constance Wu (Erika), Hannah John-Kamen (Sabrina), Hiroyuki Sanada (Koga), Yun Lin (Janine), and Bill Nighy (Professor Oak)

Release Date: 2/14/4

Theater Count: 3888 Theaters

Budget: $145 million

Running Time: 109 minutes

MPAA Rating: PG for fantasy creature violence, mild language, and situations of peril

 

Previous Film’s Gross: Pokemon: The Journey Begins

$123,406,792 OW/$293,102,238 DOM/ $766,449,101 WW

 

Background: These are Stephanie’s Pokemon so far:

Silva- A female Ivysaur

Conan- A male Nidoking

Spike- A male Beedrill

Selene- A female Zubat

Leviathan- A male Gyarados

Houdini- A male Drowzee

 

Plot Summary:

 

Spoiler

 

The film opens in Celadon City. We follow Mr. Apollo (Sewell), a Team Rocket leader introduced in the previous film, walk into a casino and use a secret entrance in the back to descend into a secret base. He eventually reaches the office of Giovanni (Harris), the Team Rocket leader. They talk about an upcoming major operation for Saffron City and say that the casino in Celadon generates tons of money for their operations. Giovanni tells Apollo to continue overseeing preparations in Saffron City at Silph Co., using his senior position there as cover.

 

The scene shifts to the southern entrance of Rock Tunnel near Lavender Town, where we suddenly see the main character Stephanie comically running out of the entrance in terror with her Pokemon following her, a cacophony of roars emanating from the entrance. They eventually wind up hiding behind a big boulder. Out of breath, Stephanie declares that that will be the last time she ever goes into a cave, though she comments that at least they have a new friend out of the experience. She pulls out a Poke Ball and reveals that she caught a male Mankey which she has named Ali.

 

She arrives in Lavender Town, which is home to Pokemon Tower, where many trainers have deceased Pokemon of theirs buried and go to pay their respects. Stephanie looks at the Tower sadly (remembering from the first film learning that her mother’s original Pokemon died and the loss caused her mom to stop being a trainer) and says maybe she’ll check it out some other day. At the Pokemon Center she contacts Professor Oak (Nighy). They talk for a couple minutes about her journey and Oak says the next Gym is in Celadon City to the west. Oak says her mom is wishing her well and signs off. Stephanie sighs and goes to get some rest after sightseeing for a little bit.

 

In Pallet Town Professor Oak visits Stephanie’s Mom (Acker) and gives her an update on her daughter. Mom is a bit saddened when Lavender Town is brought up but says she is confident Stephanie can avoid her mistakes because she is smart, confident, and she cares for her Pokemon. Mom asks Oak if there is any news of his grandson Gary and Oak says he hasn’t heard anything since Gary left Vermillion City.

 

Stephanie travels west to Celadon City, which is one of two major cities in Kanto (the other being Saffron City). There’s tons to do and see in Celadon, especially shopping and Stephanie is enthralled, ending up at the top of the huge department store and looking out at the city from the roof. Her Pokemon are excited too and enjoy the sightseeing and we also see some of them getting into comical mischief. Eventually Stephanie decides it’s time to go to the Pokemon Gym but finds that it is closed. Stephanie is confused but is told by one of the trainers that the Gym Leader, Erika, is investigating suspicious activity in the city.

 

Stephanie follows directions to find Erika (Wu) and learns from the gym leader that she suspects Team Rocket is running the casino in Celadon and is using it to fund their illegal projects. Stephanie remembers the chaos Team Rocket caused at the S.S. Anne and the people put into danger and volunteers to help Erika find out what Team Rocket is up to.

 

Erika appreciates the offer, since she is far too conspicuous as a Gym Leader to do much investigating herself. “I’ve heard about you from the grapevine. The preliminary Gym leaders, especially Misty, speak highly of your skills. However, if you want to get involved in this, you need to make sure that you are absolutely ready.” Erika suggests Stephanie train her Pokemon some more while Erika finds out some more information, and she will alert Stephanie when the time is right.

 

We briefly see Mr. Apollo at Silph Co. where we know he is a high-ranking executive. We see him sitting in on an important meeting of the chief officers, including the company president, where the scientists brief the officers about research progress. We learn that one project, the “Master” project, is nearing prototype stage. Later Apollo and Giovanni talk via videoscreen and Giovanni is happy to learn of the updates. He says that the resources of Silph will be perfect for their Cinnabar and Sevii projects.

 

We see a few short scenes of Stephanie training her Pokemon outside of Celadon City and we see her catching a new teammate, a female Growlithe she names Io. She’s growing more and more confident about her abilities.

 

We then briefly shift back to Erika, who is going over reports from the local authorities who she had enlisted to stake out the casino and surrounding area. She exchanges text messages with a few other Gym leaders, including ones we haven’t met yet, popups of the texts appearing onscreen, and it seems that most of the Gym leaders are growing very concerned about what Team Rocket may be up to.

 

Her training sessions finished, Stephanie returns to Erika to say she is ready. Erika nods and says that it looks like there are unmarked exits and access points inside the casino, which indicates that there is more going on there behind the scenes. Erika gives Stephanie a small device to signal her when she finds illicit looking stuff or something out of the ordinary. Erika then looks at Stephanie sternly and says “Whatever you do, do not get in over your head. You find something suspicious or dangerous, you signal me and get out.” Stephanie nods.

 

Stephanie goes to the casino to take a look around. She’s briefly tantalized by the wealth of gambling but soon gets focused and observes some employees suspiciously exiting through a door in the rear of the gaming hall. She follows them into a series of bland looking corridors and stairways, kind of lost in the moment of following them and she eventually winds up in a vast, multi-level underground operation. In all of this she is distracted so she forgets Erika’s warning and forgets to activate the signal device. She then stumbles across one warehouse where dozens and dozens of Pokemon are caged up and is seen by guards, who challenge her. Stephanie is able to defeat them in Pokemon battles. Meanwhile Giovanni watches her on security cameras and he looks intrigued.

 

After a couple more short Pokemon battles that she wins, Stephanie arrives in front of a fancy looking office. Giovanni’s voice speaks over an intercom and he invites her to come in, as she has intrigued him. Only now does Stephanie remember and she activates the signal device. A couple of her Pokemon nudge her as if to tell her to leave, but Stephanie says to them “No I gotta make sure this guy doesn’t escape before Erika and the cops show up.” A bit cocky, she enters the office to find Giovanni standing behind a fancy desk, waiting for her.

 

Giovanni compliments Stephanie and says she is an impressive trainer for a teen but she can’t just go around meddling in adult plans. Stephanie says she will meddle in anything Team Rocket does and Giovanni laughs. He tells Stephanie to prove her skill then against Team Rocket’s leader and sends out his Pokemon to battle. At the same time a couple goons show up, so Stephanie has to divide her forces. First up for Giovanni is a Rhyhorn and Stephanie sends out Silva. Silva is strong and has a type-advantage, so she easily beats the Rhyhorn, and does the same easy victory against Giovanni’s Onix. Meanwhile the two goons send out a Raticate and a Koffing, and Stephanie sends Houdini and Ali to face them. Ali easily karate-chops the Raticate into submission, but then the Koffing uses self-destruct and triggers an explosion. Houdini uses his psychic powers to contain the blast and protect Ali, Silva, and Stephanie, but the explosion still pierces the psychic shield and badly injures him. Giovanni in the main fight has sent out a Kangaskhan, which hits Silva with a powerful punch that dazzles her. Stephanie switches Silva out for Conan, who can better match the Kangaskhan blow for blow. The two duke it out but the Kangaskhan is starting to get an advantage over Conan. Ali tries to help tag-team but the Kangaskhan easily swats it aside. Giovanni laughs and says Stephanie is still no match for a truly skilled trainer, and a couple more Rocket guards arrive with Pokemon to help finish the battle off.

 

Luckily at that moment, Erika bursts through the office doors and her Pokemon, a Vileplume and a Victrebell, use a combination of sleeping spores and vines to subdue the guards and their Pokemon. Erika tells Giovanni that Team Rocket’s plans are over, and Giovanni laughs and says they have just begun. Giovanni recalls Kangaskhan and tells Stephanie they’ll continue this battle another time and uses a small smoke bomb to conceal his escape via hidden passage. It is only now that Stephanie, having been caught up in the moment, notices Houdini’s injuries and tries to apply first aid and keep him conscious as Erika calls on her phone for first aid.

 

Film shifts to shortly afterwards at a Pokemon Center. Stephanie is sitting anxious and scared in a waiting room, her Pokemon milling around with some nuzzling up against her (we see Leviathan in the background outside taking up the entirety of a fountain. Eventually Stephanie is told by the doctors that Houdini was badly hurt but will recover, though it will take some time to get over the injuries. Stephanie lets out a sigh of relief and tells the doctors she’ll send Houdini back to Pallet Town to rest there at Oak’s lab and with her Mom. The doctors say they can arrange for that, and resting in the country would be the right choice.

 

Stephanie is allowed into the recovery room to see Houdini, who is groggy and bandaged up, but is aware enough to notice Stephanie and is happy to see her. She apologizes for not keeping a better eye on him and says if something had happened it would be her fault. “I think I have a lot of growing up to do still” she says. She rubs Houdini’s farewell and says that Mom will appreciate the company and that she’ll make sure to come by Pallet Town soon.

 

Stephanie then leaves the Pokemon Center to see Erika waiting for her. Stephanie says she has to make a phone call to Professor Oak and Erika says she was actually planning to do the same thing, so Stephanie goes with Erika to the Gym, where they contact Oak on a video screen in Erika’s office. After some explaining to Oak about the stuff with the Rockets and then about Houdini being sent home to recover, Oak says that he would be glad to help look after Houdini for her. He is also concerned about the boldness of the Rockets and he suspects that their operation in Celadon City was just to make money for funding something bigger and far worse. Erika says that the Council is being indecisive about what steps to take next, and that because Team Rocket keeps to the shadows, they may not be able to do anything until the Rockets make their next move. Oak agrees and says that perhaps the Council as a whole should be summoned to talk about this. Stephanie asks if she should leave so they can continue but Oak says they can finish another time. He wishes Stephanie well and tells her to be careful out there.

 

After the call ends, Erika walks Stephanie back to the front of the Gym. For Stephanie’s help in ferreting out Team Rocket, she gives her the Rainbow Badge. “I probably shouldn’t” Erika says, “since you disobeyed my request and got yourself and your Pokemon into a hole you almost couldn’t get out of. But, what happened to Houdini was lesson enough for that. As good as a trainer you may be, there will always be battles you cannot handle alone.” Stephanie graciously accepts the advice and bids Erika farewell. We follow Stephanie as she leaves Celadon City on the open road, heading east.

 

Giovanni arrives in some secret hideout to meet with Apollo and says that the Celadon operation was compromised, but the Silph takeover will more than compensate. Apollo says that everything is almost set for the coup; it’s just a small matter of waiting for a few little pieces to fall into place. Giovanni is pleased.

 

We briefly cut to Pallet Town with Professor Oak conferring with several Gym Leaders via video conference, such as Brock (cameo by John Boyega), Misty (cameo by Sophie Turner), Surge (cameo by Josh Holloway), Erika, Koga (Sanada), and Sabrina (John-Kamen). Koga says that Blaine has refused to answer his calls and Oak says Blaine can’t be trusted. They discuss the growing threat of Team Rocket and no one has a plan on how to stop their influence. Sabrina expresses some concerns about suspicious activity in Saffron City, but there’s no link to Team Rocket at this time. Everyone is resigned to having to wait and see what happens next.

 

Oak then goes to talk to Stephanie’s Mom and we see that a bandaged but otherwise ok Houdini is walking alongside him. Oak informs Mom of what happened in Celadon. Stephanie’s mom is understandably worried, and Oak suggests she go find Stephanie so Stephanie can understand things better and he’ll look after Houdini until she returns home.

 

Stephanie returns to Lavender Town, planning to then go south and encounters none other than her rival Gary Oak (Parkinson), who has acquired several badges as well. They talk and Stephanie talks about what happened in Celadon City. Gary is sympathetic but says Stephanie really proved herself by taking on the head of Team Rocket, and he sounds a bit envious. Both of them plan to go south so they agree to stick together for a little bit. We learn that Gary has evolved his Eevee into a Flareon, the fire-evolution of Eevee.

 

The following morning Stephanie and Gary let out their Pokemon to mingle and socialize, with some cute and comic results, while they walk around town. As they return to the Pokemon Center, they see Stephanie’s Mom there. Stephanie is surprised and her Mom says she wants to help Stephanie process almost losing a Pokemon. Her mom says it’s been many years since she’s been here and she would like Stephanie to come with her into Pokemon Tower. The two do so with Gary waiting outside. Inside, Stephanie’s mom shows her around and finally takes her to where her deceased Pokemon is laid to rest. Her mom relates about how distraught she was, but says that the bond between Stephanie and her Pokemon will never die. The two have an emotional moment and after a bit finally leave. It’s getting dark so they decide to stay the night together before Stephanie heads out in the morning.

 

We get a nice little scene of Stephanie and her Mom having dinner at a hotel, with Gary included as well. Both Stephanie and Gary share some stories of their exploits with Steph’s Mom and her Mom relates an adventure or two as well. Gary eventually leaves for his hotel room and Stephanie and her Mom bond and talk some more before both go to bed.

 

The following morning Stephanie and Gary get all packed up and ready to go and meet Stephanie’s Mom down in the lobby. Stephanie and her Mom talk a little more, with her Mom saying that she knows Stephanie will take all her lessons to heart, and then leaves after hugging her daughter.

 

Stephanie and Gary then travel south together for a bit and encounter something strange: a giant sleeping Pokemon blocking the road. It’s a Snorlax. They try to wake it up with several different methods, each comically failing, until finally they consult a Pokedex and learn that music can wake it up, so Gary takes out a small music player and turns it on to first play some hard rock music, which does absolutely nothing except hurt the ears of Stephanie and various Pokemon in the vicinity. Stephanie suggests he play a more soothing tune next. The Snorlax wakes up, but gets very grumpy and forces a battle. Stephanie and Gary use Silva and his Flareon to fend it off and after a short fight with the Snorlax lumbering around, it gets bored and wanders off into the woods a short distance to start eating berries.

 

Stephanie and Gary have a laugh over the incident and continue south towards Fuchsia City, which is home to the next gym. Gary has already gotten the badge from there so he says he’s way ahead of where Stephanie is. He’s fine with going back since he wants to check out the Safari Zone, where conservation efforts keep many rare Pokemon safe and allow for other uncommon Pokemon to be caught.

 

We briefly go to Saffron City to see Sabrina conducting some investigations of suspicious activity and learning something might be up with Silph Co. She goes to speak to the President of the company, who believes things are normal but promises to keep an eye out. Sabrina is uncertain but leaves. Afterwards an assistant to the President is revealed to be a Team Rocket impersonator and he tells Apollo of the meeting. Apollo brushes it off and says by the time Sabrina learns the truth it’ll be too late.

 

Stephanie and Gary arrive in Fuchsia City and Gary convinces Stephanie to come check out the Safari Zone. On the way there they see a young woman, a few years older than them, having an argument with an older man and then storming off into the Safari Zone. As they get closer they see that the man is none other than Koga, the Fuchsia Gym Leader. Koga remembers Gary and introduces himself to Stephanie. Koga asks her some questions about her training and says it takes a clever trainer to strategize how to beat his Gym. Stephanie asks what the argument they saw was about and Koga dismisses it, just saying that it was “someone who doesn’t like to listen.”

 

Stephanie and Gary explore the Safari Zone, following its very selective rules about encountering wild Pokemon, the rule being you’re only allowed to catch and keep a single Pokemon, so you have to choose wisely when you encounter a Pokemon. You’re also not allowed to bring any Pokemon into the Zone. They stumble upon a Scyther, a super-rare Pokemon and Gary immediately wants it. He throws the special Safari Ball but in a bit of comedy the Scyther sees the ball coming and swats it away, the Ball flying a few dozen feet sideways where it hits into a sleeping Slowpoke, which lazily looks up confused and yawns before it is caught. Stephanie chuckles while Gary says “I meant to do that.”

 

“Sure you did” a voice from behind them says. It is the young woman they saw earlier. She introduces herself as Janine (Lin). Gary immediately tries to act a bit more mature and cool around her and it’s obvious he is terrible at it. Stephanie asks Janine about herself and she says she is Koga’s niece and that even though she is an adult now he refuses to let her train at his Gym, saying she isn’t ready. Stephanie says that’s too bad and says Janine can hang out with them if she wants, even though they’re still kids. Gary tries to protest about being called a kid but gets shushed by Stephanie. Janine says she won’t mind the company. She came in to find the Warden, who has gone missing in his own zoo yet again, and says that they can help her out.

 

With Janine in tow, the three do some more exploring around the lush  Safari Zone, until they finally find the Warden aimlessly wandering around as if in a daze and he accidentally antagonizes a Tauros, a big bull Pokemon, which revs up to charge him until Gary and Stephanie distract it and Janine grabs the Warden and pulls him to safety. Gary leads it in a circle on a chase, realizing a little late that running from a charging bull isn’t the smartest idea, and then Stephanie is able to time it perfectly to capture it to end the threat. The Warden, now out of his daze, thanks the three of them and asks them to lead him out.

 

After getting the Warden out he thanks the three of them, though in a bit of old man forgetfulness he confuses Janine with someone named Janice. Stephanie is amped up and now wants to challenge Koga but Gary says she will need to train some more first, since Koga uses crafty tactics. He says he’d stay to watch but he wants to go to Saffron City to get his next badge. He wishes her luck and says he might stick around Saffron to wait and see how good she is. He then runs off, waving at Stephanie as he goes and she waves back. At that point Janine clears her throat from behind and says “You know, if you want to know how to beat Koga, you might want to listen to someone who spent half her childhood in that Gym.”

 

We cut to a montage of Stephanie training with. She gives her male Tauros the name. We see her train and see Silva evolve into a Venusaur and Selene evolve into a Golbat. We see a couple of Janine’s own Pokemon, a Sandslash and a Venomoth. Janine gives Stephanie tips and advice as to how to get through the Gym and Stephanie asks Janine why she is so committed to helping her. Janine says that she lost her parents when she was very young, so she was raised by Koga, who was distant. She really wanted to be close with him, and prove she was a great trainer, but he wouldn’t let her. So “if he won’t let me train at his Gym, then I’ll help a trainer beat him in his Gym.” They train a bit more until Stephanie feels that she is ready.

 

Koga’s gym is set up to have lots of trick rooms and obstacles to stump the trainer’s intelligence, but Stephanie is able to think her way through them, in part from the advice given by Janine, to reach Koga in the center. We see Janine watching from an observation gallery on an upper floor and she nods to Stephanie. Koga says she now has to apply the same skills to a Pokemon battle and sends out his first Pokemon, a Venomoth. Stephanie sends out Selene and the two Pokemon engage in an aerial duel of evasion that culminates in both Pokemon firing a confuse ray at the other. They rays collide and the backwash sends both Pokemon into a daze, but Selene is able to recover quicker and knocks out the Venomoth. Koga then sends out a Muk, who is able to absorb Selene’s hits easily and cover Selene in sludge. Stephanie recalls Selene and sends out Leviathan, whose sheer offensive power allows it to break through defenses and smash the Muk. Koga sends out his last Pokémon, a Weezing. The Weezing uses a smokescreen move to cloud the room with smog. Leviathan’s attacks all miss and the Weezing is able to lumber behind it and deliver a powerful body slam to take it out. Stephanie sends out Io and orders it to use flame wheel, which sends out a burst of fire in all directions that burns away the smog, revealing the Weezing. Io dodges the Weezing’s sludge attacks and is able to use a flamethrower move, winning the battle. Koga congratulates Stephanie and gives her the gym badge. He says it was almost as if she knew his tactics ahead of time, and he looks up at Janine, who gives him a smirk.

 

We get a brief scene with Koga in a back room of the Gym and Janine enters. He asks her if she had fun, living through the exploits of the other trainer. Janine says she wouldn’t have to if Koga would let her train with him. Koga says he won’t have this discussion again and starts to walk off, but Janine demands he explain why he doesn’t care about her. Koga stops and looking over his shoulder, says he does care. “I lost your mother and father because they were trainers who got involved in things they couldn’t handle, so I did not want to lose you too.” He says he understands if Janine wishes to take her own path, but “I cannot set you on it.” He then leaves.

 

Stephanie decides to celebrate by going to the beach south of Fuchsia and relax in the sun while her Pokemon play in the water (Leviathan making some huge splashes!) and frolic around. She is joined by Janine, who congratulates her on the victory and asks what she intends to do now. Stephanie says that she probably will go to Saffron City to the next Gym. Janine asks if she can come along. “I finally agreed with Koga on one thing, I can’t just stay here waiting for him to change his mind.” Stephanie says she’d be happy to have the company. We cut to the two of them heading north out of the city, chatting as they walk.

 

In Saffron, Giovanni receives a message from Cinnabar Island that things have suddenly gone poorly and their lab there is damaged. Giovanni tells Apollo that they must go now to seize Silph so they can use its resources immediately to contain the Cinnabar situation. With the go order, Team Rocket goons that had been secretly shipped into the city over the past several weeks start to swarm the key areas of Saffron City, including the gatehouses controlling entry to the city by road. Giovanni and Apollo walk into the President’s office in Silph Co. to let him know that the company is now in Team Rocket’s hands (as we see goons taking the building). Giovanni tells the President that his company is now going to be used the proper way: to harness power.

 

Afterwards, Giovanni tells Apollo to go to Cinnabar to try and manage things with Blaine while they send resources from Silph his way. Apollo says that all of Kanto will now focus on trying to stop Giovanni here and Giovanni recognizes this. “We don’t need Silph for long, just long enough to get the resources and technology we need for our plans.” Giovanni tells Apollo that if he is defeated here and “disappears” then Team Rocket is Apollo’s until he returns.

 

We briefly see a conference of the Gym Leaders, minus Sabrina, Blaine, and the Viridian Gym Leader discussing with Professor Oak and Bill the Scientist (cameo by Tom Hiddleston reprising his role) about what happened. There isn’t a consensus as to whether to act immediately or to wait for instructions from the Elite Four. Oak and Bill are frustrated since they agree that this is a means to an end for Team Rocket, not their final goal.

 

Stephanie and Janine are on the road and are nearing Saffron City, unaware of what is happening. As they near one of the gatehouses they see that it is blocked off, with police on the outside behind a perimeter. They ask what is going on and learn about the Rocket takeover. Stephanie immediately goes to find somewhere to call home and reaches her Mom, who is glad she is safe. Stephanie asks her Mom to get Professor Oak, who is soon on the line and also relieved that Stephanie is ok. Oak says he hasn’t heard from Gary since the Rockets took over. He says that most of the Gym Leaders and the Elite Four are taking too long debating how to respond. Stephanie says if she hears anything while here she will let him know.

 

After Stephanie hangs up she sees Janine waiting for her expectantly. “A friend of mine is probably trapped in there” she says “and I am going to get him out. You in?” Janine smiles.

 

We briefly go to inside Saffron City, with the Gym barricaded up. A bunch of civilians are sheltered inside with trainers and guards helping tend to them. We get the sense the place is low on power, food, etc. Sabrina has a conference call with Erika, with a very spotty connection that she says probably won’t last for long. Erika says that there is indecision about what to do. Sabrina tells Erika that she is the closest of all the Gym Leaders and that the Gym here can’t hold out for much longer. “If we don’t get help now, people will get hurt” she says. Erika nods and says she will do what she can.

 

We cut to Stephanie and Janine sneaking into Saffron City with help from Selene, who is able to hypnotize some Rocket goons into letting Stephanie pass by. We see that Saffron City is essentially under martial law. Stephanie learns at the Pokemon Center that Sabrina tried to fight but was overwhelmed and barricaded herself in her Gym with some other trainers. Stephanie goes to check this out and finds the Gym surrounded by a bunch of Rockets. She realizes she has to create a distraction. She uses Selene to do hit-and-run attacks with hypnosis and confusion attacks to incapacitate some Rockets. When they focus on her, Silva is deployed on a rooftop and she grabs Rockets with her vines and stuns them and drags them to other rooftops. At the same time Janine uses her Venomoth to send out a very loud screeching noise that causes many of the Rockets to be disabled by massive migraines.

 

This throws the Rockets into even more confusion but they start to unify and gang up, but then suddenly most of them get a glazed look and fall asleep. The door to the Gym opens and Sabrina comes out with some trainers, Stephanie goes to meet her and Sabrina says that she couldn’t make a move with her Psychic Pokemon before since all of the Rockets were focused on her and a focused mind is hard to manipulate. Sabrina recognizes Janine and asks if Koga is coming as well. Janine says she doesn’t know, he is very cautious and will probably wait for the Elite Four to lead the way. Sabrina nods and asks the two if they will help her reclaim Saffron. She says Erika will be coming with aid, hopefully soon, but the other Gym leaders are too far away to give any aid at this time.

 

Stephanie asks if Sabrina has seen Gary Oak anywhere and she says that she hasn’t. However, one of the refugees from the Gym says that she saw a young man being cornered by Rockets and hauled off to the Silph Co. building. Sabrina says this makes sense. If they figured out who Gary was, they probably thought he would make a valuable hostage. Stephanie says she has to find Gary and help him, since he is a friend and she promised Professor Oak she would keep an eye out for him. Sabrina understands but says her first priority is to free Saffron City as a whole, and only then take on the Silph Co. building. If Stephanie wants to free her friend, she’ll have to do it alone. “Good thing you’re not alone then” Janine pipes in. Stephanie thanks her for the help.

 

Stephanie and Janine sneak through the streets of Saffron City towards Silph Co. The entrance to the Silph Co. skyscraper is heavily guarded but then battle noises are heard from elsewhere in the city (Sabrina’s actions) and many guards rush off. With the reduced number Stephanie and Janine are able to overpower the guards and enter the building.

 

Inside the skyscraper, we see Gary in an office, tied up to a chair. Giovanni enters and chats with Gary, saying that he once tried to recruit Professor Oak to the cause, but the old man was too “noble” and “moral” to consider true scientific opportunities and Pokemon advancement. Gary says his granddad is a great scientist and that he and the Pokemon League are gonna bust down the door any moment. Giovanni says he is sure that they’ll try, but by that time he will have gotten everything he has needed from here. He tells Gary to stay comfortable, he’ll be fine so long as he stays put.

 

We get a couple scenes of Stephanie and Janine going further and further up the Silph building, looking for signs of Gary or other hostages. After taking out a couple Rockets and freeing a group of hostages, they learn that Team Rocket has been looting the science facilities of the building and has taken the company President hostage on the top floor. She learns that someone matching Gary’s description was being held in the science facilities near the captured scientists. Stephanie and Janine now know where to go next.

 

As they set off, Giovanni is back in the penthouse office and watches on security camera screens. He sees that Stephanie is part of the group and smiles. He gives an order for some men to take some key research tools and go to a safe zone, to be cautious.

 

Meanwhile, we see that Sabrina with her trainers is slowly taking back control of the city, though the Rockets and their Pokemon are putting up a fight. In one tough battle, things look like they are turning against Sabrina, when suddenly more Pokemon appear from the rear. It is Erika, with several trainers and police officers from Celadon City, and between the two groups they rout the group of Rockets. The two Gym Leaders shake hands and Sabrina says they have a bit of work ahead before they can clear the city.

 

Stephanie and Janine do some smart maneuvering and battling to get to the main research floor and find that a number of scientists are being held hostage and forced to work against their will. They are heavily guarded. Janine also directs Stephanie’s attention to a side office and she sees Gary through a window. He notices her and tries to subtly jerk his head towards a side table, where his belt of Pokeballs is being kept. Stephanie asks Janine if she can create a distraction and Janine says “I grew up with a Gym Leader who liked to act like a ninja, distractions are my thing.”

 

Cut to one of the Team Rocket guards fiddling with a tablet. He puts it down, and it is missing. He looks around for it, and then suddenly it is back there. More things around him mysteriously shift and he gets confused, and the audience soon sees that it is a Haunter moving things around to troll him while switching between invisible and not. Finally it appears right in front of the Rocket’s face and he freaks out and screams, causing the other Rockets to run over. Janine then uses her other Pokemon to create further distractions, giving Stephanie time to head to the office with Gary in it and cut him loose. Gary says thanks and Stephanie abruptly gives him a hug since she is glad he is ok, and Gary, a little flushed, says that it was nothing, he could have handled them if he had his Pokemon handy. “Well prove it now” Stephanie says, grabbing his belt of Pokeballs and handing it to him.

 

Stephanie and Gary join the fray, and between them and Janine, they are able to drive off the Rockets and their Pokemon, and then they free the scientists. Stephanie tells Gary and Janine to get the scientists to safety, she will go find the President and get him out. Gary objects, saying that the least he can do is help her out, but Stephanie says she isn’t going to argue. She promised his granddad she’d look out for him and the best way for that is he goes now. Gary is reluctant but Janine tells him not to argue with a lady who’s made up her mind. She asks Stephanie if she is sure she wants to do this alone. Stephanie replies “No, but I have to.”

 

Stephanie then makes her way up, finally reaching the President’s office to find him cowering at his desk while Giovanni waits. Giovanni says he is very impressed of her skills and says if she understood all of his plans she wouldn’t interfere. He says that only the strongest trainers deserve the best assets and his plan will ensure that the strongest trainers not only have the technology to study and control Pokemon, they will be able to control Kanto through those Pokemon. Stephanie says Giovanni’s crazy and she’ll stop him. Giovanni says he has been waiting to finish their earlier battle and the fight begins.

 

It’s a double battle with Giovanni sending out a Rhyhorn and a Nidorino. Stephanie sends out Silva and Leviathan. Between their grass and water attacks they’re able to subdue Giovanni’s first two Pokemon, but then he sends out a Nidoqueen and his Kangaskhan. The Nidoqueen is able to fight Silva equally and the Kangaskhan delivers a series of powerful punches that stun Leviathan, forcing Stephanie to switch him out for Conan, who had almost fought the Kangaskhan to a stalemate in Celadon. The fight is again even with lots of back and forth, until finally Conan is able to land a powerful uppercut that knocks out the Kangaskhan. With Silva having wrapped up the Nidoqueen in its vines, Giovanni is out of Pokemon. Giovanni laughs and says Stephanie is even better than he had expected, and says such talent will go to waste fighting for the common, weak people. He presses a small button on a device on his belt and seconds later a helicopter appears outside that uses an air cannon to smash the office windows open. Giovanni nods to Stephanie and says Team Rocket will have to regroup, but its master plan can’t be stopped. He then runs to the window and leaps into the waiting helicopter, which then flies off away from Saffron. The fight over, the President thanks Stephanie for her effort but says she came too late to stop Team Rocket from taking some of their most secret research.

 

In the aftermath Stephanie and the President exit the building to find that Sabrina and Erika have driven off most of the Rockets guarding the city borders and Saffron is safe again. Gary and Janine are waiting outside and are glad to see that Stephanie is alright. Sabrina and Erika walk over. Sabrina thanks the three of them for their help and Erika, with a smile, comments that she sees that Stephanie has learned her lesson about not fighting all battles on her own. Stephanie says that she has. We then see that in the distance, Koga has arrived. Janine asks them to excuse her for a moment and she goes over.

 

Koga looks stern and Janine says she doesn’t want to get into another argument and says that she did what she needed to do and- she is cut off by Koga giving her a big hug in relief that she is ok. Janine is stunned at first, but then hugs back. Koga apologizes for not believing in her, and says that both her parents, and him, are proud of her. They go back to join the others. Erika says that they should share all the information they have learned with the other Gym Leaders.

 

This segues into a scene with 6 of the 8 Gym Leaders (minus Blaine and the Viridian leader), Oak, Bill, Gary, Janine, and Stephanie present through video conference. Stephanie relates what the President of Silph said and Sabrina says that she is collecting data about exactly what projects are compromised. At this point another person joins in, Lance (cameo by Riz Ahmed), leader of the Elite Four. Lance says that the Elite Four has underestimated Team Rocket and that they will need to send all of their investigative powers to uncovering their plans. Lance tells the Gym Leaders to coordinate with all police forces to track down all leads swiftly. Oak and Bill say that they’ll run through the data they know Team Rocket copied for their own use and see if they can figure out what the Rockets are planning. The meeting then breaks up. Oak stays onscreen to talk to Stephanie and Gary in private and says they’ve done far more than anyone could ask of them and says they should focus on their trainer quests for now, to keep their minds focused on “happier” things.

 

We then briefly see Oak and Bill, in Oak’s lab, talking about what to do now. Oak says that the police forces won’t dig up anything unless Team Rocket reveals itself, and with two gym leaders not participating, those cities won’t be dug into by the police. Bill volunteers to go to Cinnabar Island and the nearby Sevii Islands to try and see if he can learn anything there. Oak warns him he’ll be on his own since Blaine is a suspect and Bill laughs and says that knowing Stephanie and Gary, he wouldn’t be surprised if they wind up involved yet again to bail him out.

 

We now see Cinnabar Island for the first time and follow Apollo as he enters the prestigious Pokemon lab on the island to talk to its director: Blaine (cameo by Rutger Hauer), the island’s Gym Leader. We learn that Blaine works for Team Rocket as their science division head and that the legitimate Pokemon Lab on the island is a front for a secret lab elsewhere on the island, which Blaine says has run into difficulties. Apollo tells Blaine to explain everything, and when Blaine says he reports only to Giovanni, Apollo says that Giovanni has disappeared and now Team Rocket works for “me.”

 

Back in Saffron City we see Stephanie and Gary recuperating with their Pokemon in a large grassy park. Gary is planning on going straight for the Pokemon League since he thinks he is ready, while Stephanie wants to get some more badges first. At that point Janine shows up and sits down with them. Stephanie asks if Janine is going back to Fuchsia City and Janine says that Koga has asked her to start training at his Gym, so that one day she will be ready to inherit it if she wants. Stephanie says that sounds great, and Janine says she declined for now. She thinks she has a lot of learning and training to do on her own first. Stephanie says that she is more than welcome to travel with her. Janine says she’d like that. The three of them sit back and relax under the sun with their Pokemon as for the time being, they have no problems to worry about. The camera pans up into the sunlight and the screen flashes white with light and then it fades into the end credits.

 

*POST CREDITS SCENE*

 

Spoiler

 

We cut to a helicopter having landed in the middle of nowhere. Giovanni sits in it, legs draped over the side. A minion walks over to him and hands him a briefcase, saying it was one of the last things they retrieved from Silph Co., as it was only just finished. Giovanni thanks him and says they will stay here for the immediate future. The minion asks if they shouldn’t rejoin the main groups, so they can lead Team Rocket onward. Giovanni says that it will be good to see if Apollo can handle running the show without someone looking over his shoulder. “And besides” he says as he opens the briefcase. “Even if our friend Mr. Apollo fails, we have everything we need right here.” He looks down into the open briefcase with a smile.

 

Inside, snuggly secured in some padding, is a brightly colored Pokeball, shiny and new, with a large “M” printed on the top.

 

 

 

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Proudly Present:

 

 

Jonny, Jonny! (Yes Papa?) Making Movie? (No Papa!) Telling Lies? (No Papa!) Buy Tickets Now! (Ha! Ha! Ha!): THE MOVIE

 

Director: James Bobin

Genre: CGI/Live-Action Hybrid Musical/Comedy/Thriller/Drama/Mystery/Fantasy

Release Date: October 2

Major Cast:

David Henrie as Papa
Mindy Kaling as Mama
Amy Adams as Grandmama
Rachel House as Detective Detective
Jacob Tremblay as Evil Real Estate Agent Tex Richman Jr.
Mahershala Ali as Jonny (voice)
Edward James Olmos as Chiya (voice)
Constance Wu as Dolly (voice)
Judi Dench as Refridgerator (voice)
Michael Shannon as Poppy (voice) 
Ringo Starr as Ice Cream (voice)
Norm MacDonald as Cereal (voice)
Edward Norton as Bagel (voice)
 

Cameo list:

 

Alec Baldwin as the Boss Baby Hammer (voice)

Dave Bautista as James Gunn
Larry the Cable Guy as Tow “Mater” Mater (voice)
Timothee Chalamet as the Boss Baby Hammer (live-action)
Taissa Farmiga as Evangeline Hansen
Colin Firth as Heidi Hansen
Jake Gyllenhaal as Zoe Murphy
Armie Hammer as himself
Jimmy Kimmel as Armie Hammer’s dad
Lisa Kudrow as Armie Hammer’s mom
Patti LuPone as Connor Murphy 
Bette Midler as Evan Hansen
Patton Oswalt as Patti LuPone
Pasek and Paul as themselves
Flo Rida as Tyler Bates
Tye Sheridan as Parzival (voice)
Stellan Skarsgard as Heidi’s New Husband
Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants
Michael Stuhlbarg as Armie Hammer’s grandpa
David Yazbek as himself

 
Michael Fassbender as Finger Family

Donald Glover as Spider-Man
Jude Law as Iron Man
Idina Menzel as Elsa
Chris Pine as Jack Frost
Eden Sher as Ryder from Paw Patrol
David Tennant as Peppa Pig
 

 

Original Songs and Score by: David Yazbek

 

Soundtrack list:

1. Audience, Audience - Cast


2. The Detective Detective Song - Detective Detective, Jonny, Ice Cream, Cereal
3. I Hate Hamilton - Mama
4. Why Didn’t They Make a Musical for Ed Edd ‘n Eddy Instead?...David Yazbek
5. Bagel Was My Friend - Ice Cream
6. Welcome To My House - Dolly, Tex Richman, Jr.  (ft. Tyler Bates)
7. Visions of Lollipop - Chiya, James Gunn, Armie Hammer, Boss Baby Hammer, Mr. Hammer, Mrs. Hammer, Grandpa Hammer
8. I’m Just a Child - Dolly
9. Are Children Witches? Opera Battle!!  - Papa, Grandmama, James Gunn
10. A Refrigerator Could Kill - Refrigerator
11. Zoe’s a Bitch - Poppy, Mama
12. My House (reprise) - Tyler Bates
13. Sugar Will Be Found - Evangeline, Connor, Patti, Poppy, Mama
14. Audience, Audience (Reprise) - Cast

 

Theater Count: 3,690

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some crude humor, language, and mildly disturbing images.
Runtime: 123 min
Production Budget: $65M

NOTE: For voice characters, the animation is very much akin to how the characters appear in the Billion Surprise Toys videos, but keep in mind that the parents (and all other characters (except Mater, Parzival, and Peppa Pig)  are live action.)

Plot Summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1trLgFJy2M

Plot: 

 

 
Jonny walks out and stares directly at the audience. It looks like the classic video. He screams “BILLION SURPRISE TOYS!” which causes his entire family (Papa, Mama, Chiya, Dolly, Poppy, Grandmama, Refrigerator and Ice Cream Cone) to appear. They all begin to dance and talk to the audience!

Family: Audience, Audience.
Words at the bottom of the screen for audience to read aloud: Yes, family?
Family: Watching movie?
Words at bottom of screen: No, family.
Family: Telling lies?
Words at bottom of screen: No, family!
Family: Open your mouth.
Words at bottom of screen: (please laugh)

 The laughter is so loud it allows them all to dance their way the real world. They begin to sing about how they are finally in a live-action movie instead of YouTube; after all, things are always better when you pay for it (“Audience, Audience”). It’s gonna be the best day ever, and they hope everything makes the audience so happy they come back and buy tickets again and vote for them to win the Best Popular Film award at the Oscars. The opening credits begin, set to a fully orchestrated original track by Michael Giacchino, that has the prestige of an old 1960s musical. It proudly lists everyone but when Directed by James Bobin appears, the film appears to burn up and reveal….

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Jonny is sitting on a couch watching cartoons. Suddenly, he hears a blood curdling scream and gets startled. He runs to the scene of the crime, which turns out to be by the kitchen floor. A bagel, split in half, cries out for help. “Please, someone end my suffering!” The bagel begs, revealing his name to be Sami.

Jonny: What is wrong, Sami?
Sami: I have been murdered. You must solve the mystery!
Jonny: Oh no! Who murdered you?
Sami: It was….no…she is watching. Call Detective Detective! Please help me!

Jonny picks up the bagel and eats it. Meanwhile, the family’s Pink Refrigerator begins to sob. She is so sad that more could not have been done to stop this horrible crime, but since she is a smart fridge, she can call Detective Detective right now. Suddenly, Jonny and the fridge, as well as other utensils and boxes of food, begin to sing a song about Detective Detective. As the song leaves its first chorus, we see a rundown car in the driveway, as a woman leaves the car in a trenchcoat.

She comes inside, introduced as Detective Detective. She gets a verse all to herself, as she sings about her three favorite things in the world. (“The Detective Detective Song”) The first is solving mysteries, the second is Chicago, and the third is Parzival from Ready Player One. She performs a saxophone solo and everyone starts dancing. After the song ends, she playfully asks what the mystery is.

At breakfast, Chiya feels bad because his parents are more interested in his two younger siblings, Jonny and Dolly. Feeling sad and distracted, he notices a film crew secretly moving downstairs. Following them, it seems like a bustling scene right out of Hollywood. Everyone is moving around with props and the likes as the setting of the movie seems to be a house. Three adults (and a 21-year old in a high chair) sit around the table. One of the adults is wearing clothing that a 7-year old would wear. The director of the movie, acting in a typical Hollywood style, turns out to be James Gunn.

Someone calls out: “Take 3 for The Boss Baby, live action!” and the cameras start rolling. In this scene, Armie Hammer tries to convince his parents that his baby brother is actually acting just like a grown businessman. The father pinches Boss Baby Hammer’s cheeks, and Armie storms off. His grandfather tries to stop him, giving him a monologue about how he once desired to have a boss baby as his younger brother. Armie feels better now, and he tries to talk to his brother. However, he reveals that he is in fact a boss baby, played by Alec Baldwin. (i.e. It’s Baldwin dubbing over Chalamet) He tells Baldwin that he needs his broomstick ASAP. Chiya, the whole time, is watching the scene unfold with intense excitement and glee. However, Armie Hammer (the character) makes a joke about genitals, and they dance to an 80s song.

Poppy is browsing the computer when Mama approaches him. Mama asks him what he’s looking at, and Poppy answers that he’s desperately looking for tickets for that night’s showing of Dear Evan Hansen at the Oriental Theater. However, they are sold out, so Poppy is sad. Mama is sad too because she desperately has been wanting to see a show at the Oriental Theater for years, but unfortunately, all Papa has been taking her to is Hamilton at the CIBC Theater every week. Mama sings about how she misses the days when she didn’t have to watch Hamilton every week (“I Hate Hamilton”), and how she wishes she could find people to give her ticket a way too. Unfortunately, no one likes Hamilton so she always has to see it. Poppy wants to make his Mama’s dreams come true so he says they will see Dear Evan Hansen that night no matter what. Mama agrees and orders an Uber:

Poppy: Mama, Mama!
Mama: Yes, Poppy?
Poppy: Ordering uber?
Mama: No, Poppy!
Poppy: Telling lies?
Mama: No, Poppy!
Poppy: Gimme phone.
Mama: Hahaha.

Their uber arrives and it’s Tow Mater! Mater has recently moved to Chicago to try to become a successful undertaker but unfortunately, none of the funeral homes are hiring right now. Mama and Poppy sit in silence after Mater eats them, allowing them to ride in his stomach. However, they quickly arrive at the Oriental Theater, so Mater vomits them up. As he drives away, Poppy comments that Mater will not be getting a good tip.

 After Mama and Poppy try to buy their Evan Hansen tickets online, Dolly goes on the computer, and goes on Facebook. She streams live that she wants to sell her Dollyhouse, This gets the attention of Evil Real Estate Agent Tex Richman, Jr., who frequently scours the internet looking for places to buy. After hearing famed social media celeb Dolly is selling her house, he’s determined to get it, especially when he hears rumors of James Gunn’s new movie shooting in the basement.
However, the doorbell to Richman’s apartment rings and he answers it, revealing there to be SpongeBob SquarePants. Richman says hi to SpongeBob but SpongeBob insists he is out-of-work Broadway actor Ethan Slater, who has been down-on-his-luck ever since losing a Tony to the guy who played Monk.

Suddenly a star wipe happens, and reveals David Yazbek in the recording studio. He says when he was writing the movie’s soundtrack, he was gonna put a song here for Ethan Slater to lament, but since Ethan has insulted his good friend Tony Shalhoub, he will instead the sing the demo for a new song, entitled "Why Didn’t They Make a Musical for Ed Edd ‘n Eddy Instead?". Yazbek sings horribly, but at the end smiles at the audience as the film explosion wipes back to:

Richman doesn’t believe him but SpongeBob doesn’t care, instead enlisting Richman into finding him a house he can stay in while looking for work in Chicago. Richman offers him Dolly’s house, believing it to be the best house he has in his slate and SpongeBob agrees that it looks like a good house. He pays Richman $40, the asking price for the house, and asks if he can have the deed that night. Richman then realizes he doesn’t have the deed to the house.

Suddenly, we hear a sound come out of the fridge. Jonny asks the fridge to open the door, and she says, “ha ha ha!” while opening it. A bowl of cereal and milk is seen as the door opens. Detective Detective begins to interrogate the cereal. The cereal is scared of the fridge and being in such a cold place, even if he is a cool cat. He also remarks that the ice cream should be able to help as well. “Did someone call for me?” a voice cries from above. The ice cream cone from the freezer jumps out, magically forming legs and turning human size. “Hello, Mr. Cereal. Seems there have been a lot of murders going on.” Ice Cream begins to sing the original song, (“Bagel Was My Friend.”)

Mama leads Poppy up to the box office and Evangeline Hansen is working there. Evangeline asks them if they want tickets to that night’s showing of Dear Evan Hansen. They say yes, and Evangeline reveals she has two front row orchestra center seats left. Mama buys them, but then Evangeline points out that there are no dogs allowed in the Oriental Theater. Poppy begins to cry, saying he was joking earlier. All he’s ever wanted to do was see Dear Evan Hansen. Mama comforts him and offers they fly to New York to see it. Poppy shakes his head, calling all New Yorkers slimy bastards; he’s a Windy City doggo, true and true.

Mama decides that they will disguise Poppy so that way he can see the show with her. She orders an Uber and again Mater shows up. They jump into his mouth after telling him they need to go somewhere to buy a very large coat. Mater knows just the place and reveals that he has installed a rocket in the back of his trunk. He flies them to Arlington National Cemetery, and Poppy sniffs the air, growling. He hates New England, calling them all disgusting sons of bitches. Mama says they will only be there briefly, just looking for a large coat.

Richman drives over in a toy Jeep to Dolly’s house and rings the doorbell. James Gunn screams, realizing his shot was ruined by a stray doorbell sound. Dolly answers the doorbell and Richman says he’s there to buy the house (“Welcome to My House”). Dolly smiles and asks him how much he is willing to pay. Richman offers $39 for the deed to the house, and Dolly takes the $39 and gives him her dollhouse. Richman is confused, and Dolly says it’s her “dolly house”. Richman screams in anger at this misunderstanding and decides to scheme how to get the house.

Chiya trips over a wire, and Chalamet notices him. No one else does. Filming stops, and Chalamet lures Chiya over. Chiya has the ability to sound like an 80-year old man, and Chalamet is tired of acting, so he wants to trade places. Chiya excitedly makes a deal. Chalamet, much to Chiya’s surprise, decides that he wants to take Chiya’s place, and he comes upstairs to play games. Chiya smiles, being able to memorize the script by scanning it with his eyes.

James Gunn calls for action again, and Chiya begins to give an epic performance. He reads his lines with such an intense gusto that none of his co-actors can resist. Suddenly, everyone feels the urge to start singing along as Chiya recounts his own experiences in the song (“Visions of Lollipop.”) Everyone sings along. James Gunn stops filming the scene then and there. Armie Hammer is about to break down, so Gunn turns out the camera again in surprise. He admits that he wants Chiya to be his brother until the end of time, and they share a warm hug. Armie Hammer’s parents come out to applaud, while Armie’s grandpa turns into dust, winking at the camera. The film is a wrap, and everyone is beyond excited. Gunn comes up to Chiya and tells him that he wants Chiya to become Hollywood’s next star. He asks for his parent’s permission, but then begins to laugh hysterically. Chiya signs many forms, and Gunn parades him around the room. From a vault, we see a sad Chalamet looking down in jealousy.

Mamma and Poppy go to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier where Poppy digs up the titular Unknown Soldier. However, the ghost of Bagel arrives, telling them they have desecrated the tomb. They must rebury the corpse of the unknown soldier or be cursed for several generations. Poppy doesn’t wanna do it, instead trying to eat Bagel, but since Bagel’s a ghost, that’s not possible. Mama is too grossed out by the rotting corpse, but decides to call Mater again. Mater is excited by a chance to show off his undertaking skills and reburies the corpse. Bagel thanks them but before he goes, Poppy asks him if he knows where they could get a coat. Bagel suggests the LEGO store in Chicago.

Ice Cream Cone tries to help them interrogate the different foods in the house. The case takes a stressful toll on Jonny, who begins to get addicted to sugar. The Cereal begins to question him. “Jonny Jonny, Yes Cereal! / Eating sugar? No Cereal! / Telling lies? No Cereal! / Open your mouth, Ha ha ha!” The laughs turn to sobs, as Jonny breaks down dramatically about not being able to save everyone, and that the high he gets from eating sugar is the only way to help. Detective Detective appears, giving Jonny a pep talk and also informing him that Cereal had gone missing.

Ice Cream Cone begins to look around, but sees that the cereal has spilled inside the fridge. Moreover a gust of wind comes through the window and a watermelon fridge rolls towards the back, ricocheting and crushing the cereal. Jonny, DD, and ICC all scream. DD asks the Refrigerator how the cereal got inside, and who put it in. Fridge is confused, claiming that Jonny put it in after finding out that the cereal knew about his bad habit. Jonny denies it, but the fridge is adamant.

Upstairs, we see a taxi arrive in the house, and Papa’s mother, Grandmama steps out of the car. Papa and Grandmama hug, but Papa soon breaks down in tears. Grandmama wipes his face and asks him a question:

Grandmama: Papa, papa.
Papa: Yes Grandmama.
Grandmama: Hiding emotions?
Papa: No Grandmama.
Grandmama: Telling lies?
Papa: No Grandmama.
Grandmama: Open your heart up.
Papa: Ha ha ha.

Papa worried that Chiya feels underappreciated, and knowing that he is their son, he is desperate to help make things right. Grandmama suggests that they make Chiya a cake, and Papa gets excited. They spend time in the kitchen baking, completely oblivious to the murder mystery going on, even as they take ingredients out of the fridge. Papa even has to stop Jonny from eating sugar.

Meanwhile, Tex Richman Jr. leaves and knocks on the door again. Dolly answers it and doesn’t recognize Richman, as he has put on a fake mustache. Dolly marvels at how old Richman is and she sings about how she is sad that she is young (“I’m Just a Child”). While she sings, Richman searches the house, flipping over every piece of furniture looking for the deed. He sees the cake that Papa made and decides to write on it “Give me your house.” Dolly sees this and screams! She knows how hard Papa worked on the cake and she decides to fight Richman for the right to fix the cake!

While Papa is telling Jonny not to eat sugar (them going over the trademark rhyme), Dolly and Richman seem to be meddling with the cake. But Papa doesn’t notice. Grandmama doesn’t either, as she is taking a power nap.

A big action scene commences, with Dolly throwing her dolls and Richman dodging them. He’s a real estate agent, not a soldier after all. Richman is scared for his life, he wasn’t prepared to deal with such a youngling today. He puts up a white flag and demands a peace summit. Dolly says okay, but only after they fix the cake. Richman helps Dolly fix the cake and they end accidentally making extra frosting. They mack on it since it’s delicious and make a deal. Richman will take the doll’s house and give it to SpongeBob. Since he paid $39 for the doll house, he is still making a profit and remain in the strong business of capitalism.

Cut ahead to Mama leaving the LEGO store with Poppy, who is walking with a large trench coat, looking like three people stacked on top of each other. They smile at each other, ready to watch the show. However, they accidentally enter through the dressing room, since Dolly’s parade was blocking the main entrance to the theater. They walk past Evan Hansen and Mama fangirls out. Mama runs up to Evan Hansen and asks for his autograph but Evan Hansen suddenly has a heart attack and dies. Heidi Hansen walks up and asks them if they brought a dog in the theater. Poppy lies and says no and Heidi reveals that her son is deathly allergic to dogs, and that’s why they were banned. Now the show will have to be cancelled since they can’t do Dear Evan Hansen without Evan Hansen. Connor Murphy smiles though because now he doesn’t have to die. Patti LuPone, the producer of Dear Evan Hansen, is sad and so is Pasek and Paul, who are bummed they won’t ever win an Emmy now (the play that night was supposed to be live-broadcast to Nepal). Mama has an idea though. She goes to the lobby and asks Evangeline if she wants to be the lead of a Broadway in Chicago show. Evangeline says she’d love to!

An hour passes, and Detective Detective has a large board of connections and evidence in the dining room.  Fridge is sound asleep, while Jonny and Ice Cream Cone and reading a eulogy for the cereal. Suddenly, they hear a knock from the door. Detective Detective comes to get it, and it turns out to be Parzival from Ready Player One! Detective Detective begins to fangirl out of excitement, and he says that he heard about the mystery and wanted to solve it. Doing so could help him make the Oasis safer. After some investigating, Parzival is tired and needs to sit down. he fridge pulls away from the wall and releases a toxic fume, sounding exactly like a fart, right in Parzival’s face. He passes out, while the fridge rolls over him, turning Parzival into a pancake.

The cake is soon done, and they go downstairs. Suddenly, they find Chiya with the film crew! Papa and Grandmama are confused, but Chalamet soon tumbles down the stairs. Chalamet yells at Chiya, claiming that the film has a subliminal message that will make parents think that all children are evil witches. Gunn denies it, but Armie gasps when he looks through the script. He sees that the phrase “Children are witches” is used over 250 times. Papa is disgusted, prepared to fight Gunn.

Papa ft. Grandmama and Chalamet and Gunn ft. Kudrow and Kimmel get into a brutal opera battle, as they call out each other and believe that the other is precisely what is wrong with the world today. (“Are Children Witches? Opera Battle!!”)

“Oh my goodness, the refrigerator killed Parzival from Ready Player One!” Jonny says. The fridge confesses to the murders, saying that she was jealous that she could not eat anything, so by murdering food, she could have the same experience. Murdering Parzival was meant to hurt Detective Detective’s spirit and stop the case, but she decided it would be more fun to come clean. No one would believe that “A Refrigerator Could Kill!” (Original Song)

Mama pitches Patti, Pasek, and Paul on her new idea for Dear Evangeline Hansen, a remake of the original show but now feminist. Heidi raises her hand and asks if she can have a husband in this version. Mama says sure and Stellan Skarsgard materializes, asking if someone wanted a husband. Stellan and Heidi kiss. Zoe asks if she still has a role and Poppy says no, it’s against the law because she was the one who brought the dog in the theater. Everyone is confused by accusation but Poppy proves in song that in fact Zoe is the dog and he is a human (“Zoe’s a Bitch”). Everyone agrees with his sound logic.

After a fight, the floor breaks, while the refrigerator fall from the ceiling and into the basement. As Gunn is about to hit a high note, the refrigerator comes down and crushes him! Everyone gasps, but Kudrow and Kimmel check their phones. As the fridge and the mystery solvers run away, they see that Gunn looks like a pancake. Armie Hammer grabs the James Gunn pancake and calls everyone outside. Hammer, Chalamet, Papa, Grandmama, and Chiya play frisbee with the flattened James Gunn frisbee. Eventually, the frisbee falls into a busy highway, causing a pile-up that triggers a massive explosion. During the moment above, Tyler Bates, the composer of the Boss Baby remake, appears, singing a darker rendition of his hit song “My House,” with every rhyme causing a massive explosion. Everyone gasps, but Chalamet says that the wind from the frisbee, combined with Gunn’s determination, inadvertently caused the deaths of many. Everyone begins to laugh, while they then decide to eat the cake that Papa made.

Meanwhile, Detective Detective, Jonny, and Ice Cream Come chase the fridge as it rolls out of the house. They all drive tricycles into Chicago. The ice cream is starting to melt, so it needs to go underground. The refrigerator keeps moving above land, so Detective Detective tries to chase it.

Dolly gets rid of her doll’s house and now has money to buy a new one. She asks Richman if he has anything new when suddenly…THE WASHING MACHINE EXPLODES!! The floor is suddenly flooded when SpongeBob enters, demanding his house. Richman says he doesn’t know how to swim and SpongeBob shakes his head in anger. Richman offers him the dollhouse and SpongeBob says he doesn’t need a dollhouse when watching Richman drown will be good enough. SpongeBob’s phone rings and he picks it up, realizing it’s his agent. SpongeBob leaves as Richman begins to drown! Dolly saves him though and does CPR. The flood also sweeps the entire production equiment and crew of The Boss Baby away and into the Chicago river.

Richman survives and seeing that Dolly saved him, offers her a free house. Dolly decides to take the offer, getting the deed to Trump Tower, the other property Richman was trying to sell. She replaces the word “Trump” with “Dolly,” and decides to have a parade in Chicago. SpongeBob gets mad and decides to buy tickets to Dear Evan Hansen to cheer himself up. It’s the last of the money he has, but who cares about him? Richman and Dolly are best friends now, and they have a happy ending together.

Poppy and Mama go to their seats to enjoy the premiere production of Dear Evangeline Hansen. SpongeBob sits down next to them, trying to take his mind off of being homeless. There’s an announcement that dogs are now allowed in the theater, and Poppy takes off his costume in order to celebrate being himself. They watch the show, which is portrayed in montage as the greatest Broadway in Chicago show of all time (“Sugar Will Be Found”), making SpongeBob sad that it wasn’t his show. Poppy and Mama give it a standing ovation and hug each other, happy their day was amazing!

Detective Detective begins to spring rapidly toward the fridge, but she chases it towards the Oriental Theater, where Dear Evan Hansen is playing. The audience is leaving the play, while Detective Detective tells everyone that the fridge is a murderer. The refrigerator sings a touching song about how she regrets what she had done, and how she can bring everyone back to life with her fridge magic. Suddenly, everyone claps, and Parzival and the food are alive again!

Patti LuPone comes out, telling the fridge that she should be in the show and play Zoe Murphy. Zoe agrees, knowing she would be fired for supposedly being a dog, and she decides to write a musical about the encounter.

Jonny: Zoe, Zoe!
Zoe: Yes, Jonny!
Jonny: Writing play?
Zoe: No, Jonny!
Jonny: Telling lies?
Zoe: No, Jonny!
Jonny: Show me script!
Zoe: Ha ha ha!

Everyone laughs and starts eating sugar. 

Meanwhile, they see Mama and Poppy come home from Dear Evangeline Hansen! Everyone returns home and gives a big hug, while the whole cast and crew, all eating lollipops, does a reprise.

Family: Audience, Audience.
Words at the bottom of the screen for audience to read aloud: Yes, family?
Family: Staying for post credits scene?
Words at bottom of screen: No, family.
Family: Telling lies?
Words at bottom of screen: No, family!
Family: Open your mouth.
Words at bottom of screen: (please laugh)

Everyone laughs and waves goodbye.
 
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Scenes from the movie play in a montage, soon appearing in a blue haze. We zoom out and see the footage in a crystal ball, surrounded by seven figures in cloaks made of digital code.

Spider-Man: It appears that these children have become entities in modern culture as a whole.
Finger Family: If they expose our secret, everything we’ve worked to control will be gone.
Ryder from PAW Patrol: We better not let that happen.
Peppa Pig: We won’t! Not if I can help it!
Iron Man: These kids will never know what hit them.
Jack Frost: So we’ll make it happen. I’ve got the teens. You’ve got the kids? Madame, what shall we do as a whole?

 The woman begins to speak, unveiling her hood. “They may have had their fun, but when we take control, they’ll have to…..let it go.”

 

 
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Jonny, Jonny! (Yes Papa?) Making Movie? (No Papa!) Telling Lies? (No Papa!) Buy Tickets Now! (Ha! Ha! Ha!): THE MOVIE

 

Director: James Bobin

Genre: CGI/Live-Action Hybrid Musical/Comedy/Thriller/Drama/Mystery/Fantasy

Release Date: October 2

Major Cast:

David Henrie as Papa
Mindy Kaling as Mama
Amy Adams as Grandmama
Rachel House as Detective Detective
Jacob Tremblay as Evil Real Estate Agent Tex Richman Jr.
Mahershala Ali as Jonny (voice)
Edward James Olmos as Chiya (voice)
Constance Wu as Dolly (voice)
Judi Dench as Refridgerator (voice)
Michael Shannon as Poppy (voice) 
Ringo Starr as Ice Cream (voice)
Norm MacDonald as Cereal (voice)
Edward Norton as Bagel (voice)
 

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Original Songs and Score by: David Yazbek

 

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Theater Count: 3,690

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some crude humor, language, and mildly disturbing images.
Runtime: 123 min
Production Budget: $65M

NOTE: For voice characters, the animation is very much akin to how the characters appear in the Billion Surprise Toys videos, but keep in mind that the parents (and all other characters (except Mater, Parzival, and Peppa Pig)  are live action.)

Plot Summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1trLgFJy2M

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