Beastz


 * This article is about original 2006 film. For franchise, see Beastz Series.

Beastz is a 2006 American 3D computer animated fantasy comedy film produced by Morlus Animation and distributed by Warner Bros Pictures. 8 feature film produced by Morlus, Beastz was Morlus 1 3D computer animated feature film. Film was directed by Rodney Ousley from a screenplay by Mike Glebus and Harriet Chapman and a story by Ousley and Dianne Shannon, and stars voices of Hugh Jackman, David Spade, Craig Robinson, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, with Anna Faris and John Leguizamo. Film follows a trio of beasts by names of Bernard, Louie and Flint who go and attempt save their village from Migrens, which are vicious creatures who attempt to hunt them down after a major incident between species.

Beastz was animated in house at Morlus main headquarters in San Francisco, California and envisioned by Ousley in 2000. Film was originally going to be a TV series but it was later reconstructed as a feature length film. Heitor Pereira composed film orchestral score.

Beastz was released in US on May 12, 2006 and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised film for it animation, storyline, voice acting and humor, and grossed over $285 million worldwide, making it highest grossing Morlus film at time until Phoenix surpassed it in 2011.

After this success, Morlus launched a franchise based on film a sequel titled Beastz 2 was released on August 3, 2012, along with a TV series titled Beastz Series premiering later following year on Cartoon Network, and a spin off film, Guchii, was released on December 7, 2018. 3 and final installment in trilogy, Beastz 3, was released on March 1, 2019.

Plot
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Cast

 * Hugh Jackman as Bernard, a strong male beast who is often aloof but also suave and good hearted.
 * David Spade as Louie, a naive and clumsy male short beast who annoying but also supportive to his friends.
 * Craig Robinson as Flint, a lazy and cowardly male beast who has a craving for pomegranates.
 * Hank Azaria as King Darren, a short and arrogant male beast who is chief of Beasts village.
 * Zach Galifianakis as Althrope, ruler of migrens and main antagonist of film.
 * Anna Faris as Abigail, a young female beast, who is Bernard supportive sister.
 * Bill Hader as Guchii, a small and incompetent migren who is Althrope minion.

Development
Rodney Ousley, came up with the concept for Beastz, creator of Zooge Toons and co founder of Morlus Animation.

He pitched film to Morlus Animation with some initial artwork in 2003. His story team left with some suggestions in hand and returned to pitch a refined version of story in March.

On April 24, 2004, it was announced that Morlus Animation has started production for Beastz, albeit nothing else about film was known at time.

Writing
Film script is credited to Mike Glebus and Harriet Chapman from a story by Ousley and Shannon.

Animation
Ousley described film animation as a blend of animated films with cartoon styles like Madagascar or Ice Age. Beastz was animated in house at Morlus Animation headquarters in San Francisco, California. Movie animation was made using Wavefront Maya animation software and rendered with Pixar Renderman.

Music
Film original score was composed by Heitor Pereira. Soundtrack album was released on June 6, 2006, by Atlantic Records.

Release
Beastz premiered in theaters on May 12, 2006, in North America. Film was rated PG by Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for mild language, crude humor and some thematic elements. In UK, it received a PG rating by British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) for mild slapstick violence and language. In Australia, film was rated PG by Australian Classification Board (ACB).

Trailers

 * Film teaser trailer was released in 2005, and was later shown in theaters with other films such as Corpse Bride, Wallace And Gromit Curse Of Were Rabbit, Chicken Little (2005), Metro Cone, Yours, Mine And Ours (2005), Chronicles Of Narnia Lion, Witch And Wardrobe (2005), Cheaper By Dozen 2, Hoodwinked and Nanny Mcphee.
 * 1 theatrical trailer was released in 2006, and was later shown before Pink Panther (2006), Curious George (2006), 8 Below, Doogal, Aquamarine (2006), Robot Siblings, Ice Age 2 Meltdown, Akeelah And Bee and Hoot (2006).
 * There were a couple of TV spots for film 1 1 was released in April 2006 and 2 1 was released in May 2006.

Video game
A video game based on film was released on May 19, 2006, for Play Station 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Game Cube, Game Boy Advance, Play Station Portable, and Microsoft Windows.

Home media
Beastz was released on DVD and on October 27, 2006. Both releases included a 10 minutes short film Louie Night Out, which takes place after events of film. It was also released on UMD for PSP in October 2005. It was later on Blu ray in North America on June 3, 2011, and on Blu ray 3D and Digital HD on May 8, 2015. 4K Ultra HD Blu ray version was released on September 14, 2018.

Box office
Beastz open on May 12, 2006, in US and UK. It got to earn $65,315,290 during it open week, placing 1 in it box office during that week. By end of it theatrical run, Beastz grossed a total of $285,345,210 worldwide, making it 7 highest grossing 2006 animated film behind Jimmy And Sam 3000 $334.1 million, Over Hedge (2006) $336 million, Happy Feet $384.3 million, Cars $462.2 million, BJ and Wally (2006) $486.9 million and Ice Age 2 Meltdown $660.9 million.

Critical response
Beastz received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, film has an approval rating of 100% based on 159 reviews and an average rating of 6.9 10. Website critical consensus reads funny and witty tone, Beastz is a fun family film that reaches to levels of Zooge Toons charm On Metacritic, film has 100% approval rating based on 79 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.

Main transcript
To see the main transcript of the film, click here.

Trailer transcript
To see the transcript for the trailers of the film, click here.

Sequels and spin-offs
A sequel titled Beastz 2 was released on August 3, 2012, which took place 2 years after events of 1 film, with same voice cast. A Spin Off Film Starring Guchii was released on December 7, 2018. 3 and final installment in trilogy, Beastz 3, was released on March 1, 2019.