Computeropolis 3

Computeropolis 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Universal Animation Studios for Universal Pictures. It is the third installment in the Computeropolis franchise and the sequel to 2007's Computeropolis 2. It is also the first entry in the series to be released in 3D. The film was directed by Mike Moon (in his directorial debut) and Ash Brannon and produced by Michael Wildshill based on a screenplay by Joe Stillman and a story by Stillman and Brannon. The film stars Jesse McCartney, David Spade, Sarah Silverman, Dan Fogler, Eddie Izzard, David Hyde Pierce, Jodi Benson, Jon Lovitz, and Jennifer Tilly reprising their respective roles from the previous films, with William Shatner returning as Frank from the first film, joined by Guy Richard, Christopher Plummer, Jane Lynch, Danny McBride, and Will Forte. In the film, Peri, Nicky, Travis, and the rest of the gang face off against Jeff Bick, a ruthless nemesis of Peri who plans to melt the internal infrastructure of the Internet. Meanwhile, Vinna pays a visit to her long-lost family, who abandoned her to find a new life.

Computeropolis 3 held its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on February 19, 2010, and was released theatrically in the United States on March 5, 2010 in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D formats, making it the first film in the Computeropolis franchise not to be released in July. It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the music, voice acting and animation, though criticized the plot. The film was a box office success, earning $783 million worldwide on its $85 million budget, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2010. It was also nominated for the Best Animated Film at the 64th British Academy Film Awards. A sequel, titled Computeropolis: The Deep Web, was released in 2018, and a fifth, titled Computeropolis: Webcation, was released in 2023.

Plot
After completing their new successful mission with the Desktop Component League (DCL), Peri Dazz and Vinna Binz are preparing for their first anniversary after numerous dates in the city of Computeropolis while having feelings for each other. The next day, Vinna returns to the DCL headquarters where she meets a married couple, Amy and Hank, and their three children Rachel, Mark and Eli, who happen to be Vinna's long-lost family who are looking for her after abandoning her to have a better life. They quickly bond with Vinna and persuade her to come to her old home so she can spend more time with her family, much to the jealousy of Peri, his partner and best friend Nicky Kickzoo and the rest of the DCL. As a result, Vinna gets eventually separated from Peri with her family. Meanwhile, Jeff Bick, a mysterious internet hacker, plans to develop malware storms that wipe out the cyber city by tricking the citizens into "global internet warming" (G.I.W.) and replace it with a huge factory.

During a meeting in the DCL headquarters for another mission, a violent lightning strikes the place and the gang barely escape while everyone else in Computeropolis is forced to evacuate. Anthropomorphic rabbit Mr. Cotton, the city's local con artist, explains to Peri and the DCL that Bick was responsible for the lightning, much to the gang's confusion. He believes that the only way they could stop Bick from controlling G.I.W. and sending danger to the city is to find some support from Modem Square, a town near almost miles away from Computeropolis. He also hears that Bick is also planning to send a flood towards the city by breaking a dam unless they build an extremely large tower that may save them all. While the DCL are sent to Modem Square to find support, Mr. Cotton visits the Binz family's apartment and convinces Vinna to stop G.I.W. but she refuses to go with him and explains that she feels depressed without Peri. Starting to catch more feelings for Peri, Amy and Hank warn her the same fate awaits her when there are cybercrimes around the city, whereas she could get harmed. Vinna decides to stay, much to the delight of the others.

Meanwhile at Modem Square, Peri and the DCL witness Big Dusty, a talking gorilla gangster, stealing things from a shop and give a fully hectic chase, thus ensuing chaos around the town. However, their mission failed when they allow Big Dusty to escape after crashing into the woods, where they realize that they are lost. While attempting to fix their damaged DCL van after the chase, Nicky finds his old flying ship from Peri's computer game Frenzy, which could help the gang find a shortcut to stop G.I.W. from Bick. However, Bick oversees the ship and decides to send another violent lightning strike to kill the DCL, but they manage to escape successfully. Suddenly, the ship begins to run out of gas, which results in Peri and the gang to break free with parachutes.

Soon, they find Mr. Cotton, who eventually fixed the DCL's van, much to the others' surprise. While worrying about Vinna and only wanting to take advantage of Nicky and the rest of the DCL only just because of Vinna, Peri begins to worry that he is becoming like either King Trojan or Cyber-Boy, threatening Peri's friends in their quest for revenge. Nicky tells Peri that he lied to him about reuniting with Vinna again and that he and the other DCL members only took Peri because they wanted to keep him safe from G.I.W. Furious and hurt over Nicky's misdirection, Peri isolates himself to stop Bick with G.I.W. alone.

The DCL (minus Peri) finds the Binz family's apartment where they take Vinna and the rest of her family to Computeropolis, now in ruins after various disasters by G.I.W. Upon arriving there, they find Mayor Fredrick Moss, who tells them that the construction of the tower Mr. Cotton mentioned earlier is finished, which lead them to board the tower along with the other citizens of Computeropolis. Meanwhile in the woods, Peri becomes lonely without his friends and begins to have a nightmare with his past enemies King Trojan and Cyber-Boy, saying that he cannot save his friends. As Peri wakes up, Mr. Cotton arrives and encourages Peri to fix the mess. Gaining self-confidence, Peri has an epiphany that he must save the city in order to save himself. As Peri and Mr. Cotton travel to Computeropolis, Bick and Big Dusty destroy the dam, which begins the flood towards not only the city, but also Modem Square (where its citizens were evacuated earlier) that the duo is in, but Nicky rescues them on top of a floating log and takes them to the tower from the city, where Peri finally reunites with Vinna.

However, Bick arrives and attempts to kill everyone with a reset machine out-of-anger, while he and Peri engage in a long battle on the log. Peri rolls the log around, resulting in Bick being knocked out. Peri and the gang try to break the machine so they can survive, but after several failed attempts, Peri eventually throws the machine onto the river where it launches on the sky, causing an explosion that restores the sky and weather, diverting the flood and saving the citizens in the city, where they celebrate their victory. At the same time, Bick is attacked by Mr. Cotton and a reformed Big Dusty and gets arrested for his crimes, and Mr. Cotton and Dusty become friends. Soon, Peri and Vinna held their anniversary party they had planned a few days ago along with the rest of their friends including Mr. Cotton and Dusty.

Voice cast

 * Jesse McCartney as Peri Dazz, a teenage boy and the co-leader of the Desktop Component League (DCL). He is also Vinna's boyfriend.
 * Max Neuwirth as a younger Peri.
 * David Spade as Nicky Kickzoo, a video game character whom Peri created and is also his best friend and one of the members of the DCL.
 * Sarah Silverman as Vinna Binz, a teenage girl and one of the members of the DCL. She is also Peri's girlfriend and the oldest child of Amy and Hank.
 * Guy Richard as Scrat
 * Christopher Plummer as Jeff Bick, a ruthless hacker who attempts to wipe out Computeropolis with "global internet warming" (G.I.W.) and replace it with a factory.
 * Jane Lynch as Amy Binz, Hank's wife and Vinna's mother.
 * Danny McBride as Hank Binz, Amy's husband and Vinna's father.
 * Dan Fogler as Travis, one of Peri's friends.
 * Will Forte as Mr. Cotton, an anthropomorphic rabbit and a con artist. He is now best friends with Big Dusty.
 * Eddie Izzard as Fredrick Moss, the mayor of Computeropolis.
 * David Hyde Pierce as Manager Marc, the leading founding member of the DCL.
 * Jodi Benson as Commander Cindy, one of the members of the DCL and Marc's administrative assistant and mate.
 * Jon Lovitz as:
 * Notepad Ned, one of the members of the DCL and Paula's fiancé.
 * Paul, an internet officer in Computeropolis.
 * Jennifer Tilly as Painting Paula, one of the members of the DCL and Ned's love interest.
 * Dakota Fanning as Rachel Binz, Vinna's sister.
 * Will Shadley as Mark Binz, one of Vinna's brothers and the youngest child of Amy and Hank.
 * Freddie Highmore as Eli Binz, one of Vinna's brothers.
 * Brad Garrett as Big Dusty, a former zoo gorilla hired by Bick to track down Peri and the DCL. He is now best friends with Mr. Cotton.
 * Sofia Vergara as Tina, a lab employee who staffs a radar station in Computeropolis.
 * Nathan Lane as Otis, Tina's lab partner.
 * Grey DeLisle as Carol, the computer voice of Computeropolis.
 * William Shatner as Frank, an internet officer in Computeropolis.
 * Kelsey Grammer as King Trojan from the first film, appearing in Peri's nightmare scene.
 * Tress MacNeille as Heather Dazz, Peri's mother.
 * Jeff Bennett as Earl Dazz, Peri's father.
 * Mike Moon as Joe
 * Ash Brannon as Alex
 * Michael Wildshill as Ponk
 * John Carnochan as Tuck

Additional voices

 * Lori Alan
 * Carlos Alazraqui
 * Shane Baumel
 * Bob Bergen
 * John Cygan
 * Bill Farmer
 * Don Fullilove
 * Courtenay Taylor
 * Ashley Peldon
 * Fryda Wolff
 * Gary Hall
 * Jess Harnell
 * Daniel Kaz
 * Audel Laroque
 * Austin Lux
 * Danny Mann
 * Mona Marshall
 * Kari Wahlgren
 * Jan Rabson
 * Grace Rolek
 * Jim Ward
 * Catie Wayne
 * Colette Whitaker

Production
Following the critical and commercial success of Computeropolis 2, a third installment to the Computeropolis franchise was announced in 2007. Universal Animation Studios president Jeff Segal stated that: "Computeropolis is at its third installment as of now, and there may be more potential installments. But we know that there are at least three chapters to Peri's story."

Joe Stillman, who had previously served as a writer on M.I.S.S.I.O.N., as well as the 2001 DreamWorks Animation film Shrek and the 2009 film Planet 51, was hired to write the script for the third film. According to Stillman, who came up with the idea for the sequel, he said that Computeropolis 3 was to pay homage and to parody famous disaster blockbusters, which included Twister, Independence Day (both 1996), Deep Impact, Armageddon (both 1998), The Core (2003) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004), as the plot suggests. "When you see the heroes escape from the Internet Doomsday, they try and find a way to eliminate the global internet warming," says Stillman. He added that: "we had the idea of the characters escaping the chaos when the movie was early in development back then, so we decided to make this story of how Peri and her gang try and find someone who is rapidly controlling the Internet."

Unlike the first two installments, the film was not directed by Audel LaRoque due to his occupation in directing Quest, a 2012 CGI-animated film also by Universal Animation Studios. LaRoque, however, was still involved with the project as an executive producer, and was giving advice for the animators "approximately every four months on the film's current stage". Instead, the film was directed by Mike Moon, one of the developers and co-producers for the first three seasons of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and was co-directed by Ash Brannon, who served as the story artist for the previous films.

Release
Computeropolis 3 premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on February 19, 2010. Its American release soon followed on March 5, 2010. Originally, it was scheduled to be released on July 9, 2010, but the release date was assigned to Despicable Me. The film was later converted to the IMAX film format.

Marketing

 * The official teaser trailer was released on March 13, 2009, and was shown before Woo La La, Monsters vs. Aliens, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and Up.
 * The first theatrical trailer was released on July 1, 2009, and was shown before Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Aliens in the Attic, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Where the Wild Things Are.
 * The second theatrical trailer was released on November 6, 2009, andw as shown before A Christmas Carol, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Planet 51, The Pandemoniums Movie, Old Dogs, The Princess and the Frog, and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
 * TV spots promoting the film began to air between December 2009 and March 2010.

Home media
Computeropolis 3 was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 7, 2010 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The film was released on Blu-ray 3D in North America on May 3, 2011. A 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray version was released on May 8, 2018, in time to promote Computeropolis: The Deep Web.

Critical reception
Computeropolis 3 has received mostly mixed reviews from critics and audiences, with praise for the voice cast and animation, though there was criticism for the story.

Box office
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Accolades
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Soundtrack
The film's musical score was composed by Christopher Lennertz, and the soundtrack was released on March 2, 2010 under Interscope Records. It was the only film in the series not to be composed by Heitor Pereira and John Debney, who did not return for the third film due to Debney doing the score for Iron Man 2, and due to Pereira doing the score for Despicable Me with Pharrell Williams.

Video games
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Comic book
A special comic book based on the film, titled Time Before Time, was released on March 1, 2010 by Ape Entertainment.

Sequel
A sequel, titled Computeropolis: The Deep Web, was released in 2018.

Main
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Trailers
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