Kids The Third

Kids The Third is a 2007 American 3D flash animated science fiction buddy comedy film and the third installment in the Kids of the Neighborhood franchise, produced by Columbia Pictures, GoAnimate Animation and Silver Pictures for Walt Disney Pictures. It is the sequel to 1999's Kids From A Sequel. Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed and co-directed the film, respectively, with the former also co-writing the screenplay with Jeffery Hatchet, Peter S. Seaman, and Aron Warner. Like the last film, most of the cast for the children and teenagers (as well as young adults) reprised their roles. while Bud Luckey reprises his role as General Marlon Horgat from the previous film and new cast members such as Channing Tatum, Amber Stevens West, and Chris Cooper. The story takes 1 year after the events of the first and second films. Reluctantly desperate to find out how the robbery in the first film started, Joe finds a time machine but accidentally sets all his friends off back in time with him and must fix the time and go back to the present before they are erased forever, while an enemy named Qordox the Time Keeper is plotting to over throw the children to get them erased.

The film premiered on June 5, 2007, at the Mann Village Theatre, Westwood in Los Angeles, and was released in the United States on June 22, 2007. It received positive reviews with most critics saying its "an improvement over the previous film" although the plot was slightly criticized and grossed $872.1 million on a $110 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2007, and the second-highest-grossing animated film of the year behind Computeropolis 2. It was nominated for Best Animated Movie at the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards, but lost to Ratatouille. It was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film at the 61st British Academy Film Awards. It was also the final non-Pixar animated film to be distributed by Buena Vista Pictures, after Disney retired the Buena Vista moniker across their company's divisions in the same year as well as the final film in the Kids of the Neighborhood franchise to be produced by Xtranormal Animation Studios, before folding into Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2017.