Jose Maldonado: The Biggest Movie Ever

Jose Maldonado: The Biggest Movie Ever is a 2003 American animated musical comedy film based on the Fox animated television series ''Jose Maldonado. ''Produced by Maldonado Studios as its first feature-length film, it was written, produced and directed by series creator Jake Maldonado, co-directed by Mike Minchin, co-produced by Tim Blackburn and Mark Wilson, and co-written by Jon Vitti, Steve Rowland, Tim Conner, Dan Irwin, Nancy Carter, and Larry Lee. The film stars the regular television cast of Tom Kenny, Tara Strong, Billy West, Hank Azaria, Kelsey Grammer, Catherine Cavadini, Carlos Alazraqui, and Rob Paulsen, with guest appearances by Dave Foley, Mike Myers, Minnie Driver, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Ewan McGregor, and John Goodman.

The events of the film take place during the seventh season of Jose Maldonado. The film was originally intended as the series finale, but Fox ordered more episodes of the series as it had become increasingly profitable, as Jake Maldonado resigned as showrunner with Tim Blackburn taking his place.

Jose Maldonado: The Biggest Movie Ever premiered at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on July 7, 2003 and was released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on July 18, 2003. It received universal acclaim from critics and was a box office success, grossing over $343 million on its $50 million budget, making it the fifth highest grossing film based on an animated television series, and was the highest-grossing television adaptation animated film of all time until it was surpassed by The Simpsons Movie in 2007.

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song at the 76th Academy Awards, but lost to Finding Nemo and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, respectively, and through home video releases and television syndication, the film gathered a cult following years later. A sequel was released on July 10, 2020.

Plot
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Cast

 * Tom Kenny as Jose Maldonado / Mr. Gay Marvin / Mr. Robles / George Sanford / Police Officer #2 / additional voices
 * Tara Strong as Sara Summers / additional voices
 * Billy West as Robert Robinson / additional voices
 * Isabel Maldonado as Nikki Williams
 * Hank Azaria as Mr. Morrison / Ted Norman / additional voices
 * Mona Marshall as Gladys Summers / additional voices
 * Arthur Hendricks as Aaron Summers
 * Richard Steven Horvitz as Jacob Young
 * Tress MacNeille as Leslie Robinson / Principal Barbara
 * Russi Taylor as Florence Maldonado / additional voices
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Chef Jack Hensley
 * Eric Bauza as Clyde Wells / Bob / Karl Blumenthal
 * Jake Maldonado as Ambassador / Bombardiers / American Soldier #1 / James – News Reporter / Police Officer #1 / Truck Driver
 * Catherine Cavadini as Wendy Hopkins / Carol Williams
 * Jess Harnell as Victor Maldonado / Barry
 * Rob Paulsen as Chief Gene Simmons / Dan Williams
 * Madeleine Wood as Mike Summers
 * Susie Markowski as Hazel Perkins
 * Carlos Alazraqui as Roman Vetrov II
 * Kelsey Grammer as The Devil
 * John Goodman as Sergeant Charles Strickland
 * Brad Pitt as Jay Cohen
 * Ewan McGregor as Luke Oliver
 * Mike Myers as Dr. Wille Villadsen
 * Minnie Driver as Bella Crawford
 * Dave Foley as Troy Hickman
 * Bruce Willis as Dr. Montes
 * Randy Thom as Man In Theater
 * Samantha Campos as Woman in Theater
 * Sebastian Hanson as American Soldier #2
 * Fred Hanson as American Soldier #3
 * Jimmy Benton as European Fighter Pilot

Development
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Animation
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Music
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Cultural references
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Release
Jose Maldonado: The Biggest Movie Ever was initially scheduled for release on December 13, 2002, but was moved up to July 18, 2003 to avoid competition with other films released during the Christmas season. The film received a PG-13 rating by the MPAA due to “violence, brief strong language, and obscene sexual content” making it the first 20th Century Fox Animation film to receive this rating.

Marketing

 * The official teaser trailer was released on May 16, 2002, and was shown before Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Scooby-Doo, and Lilo & Stitch.
 * The theatrical trailer was released on November 15, 2002, and was shown before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Treasure Planet, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and Daredevil.
 * The final trailer was released on May 2, 2003, and was shown in front of X2: X-Men United.

Video game
A video game based on the film was released on August 5, 2003 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts.

Home media
The film was released on DVD, D-VHS, and VHS on December 9, 2003. The film earned $49.6 million in DVD sales during the beginning of 2004. It was later released on Blu-ray in North America on November 20, 2012. An Ultra HD Blu-ray was released on February 25, 2020, containing a new 4K restoration.

Critical reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Jose Maldonado: The Biggest Movie Ever holds a 91% "Certified Fresh" rating based on 146 reviews, with an average score of 7.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Jose Maldonado: The Biggest Movie Ever is unabashedly offensive, subversive and good-hearted, and unexpectedly funny in which that makes the show so popular." On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 88 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

Box office
In North America, the film was released on Friday, July 18, 2003 alongside Bad Boys II, Johnny English, and How to Deal as well as facing competition to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Finding Nemo, and Fox's own The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen during the rest of summer 2003''. ''The film earned $17,742,299 on its opening day in the U.S. and a combined total of $52,916,577 in its opening weekend at 3,070 theaters, topping the box office for that weekend. This outperformed the expectations of $30 million that Fox had for the release. The film then grossed $27,741,221 million in its second weekend opened to number two, behind Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, with $19,421,112 million in its third weekend and $12,121,234 million in its fourth.

The film closed on December 18, 2003, after earning $163,245,147 million in the United States and Canada and $180,422,237 million with a worldwide total of $343,626,992 million which became the highest animated TV adaptation of all time until being surpassed by Fox's own The Simpsons Movie. It is also the third-highest-grossing animated film from 2003 worldwide, behind Dusk and Dawn and Finding Nemo.

Sequel
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