Rap Island

Rap Island is a 2005 American computer-animated adventure musical comedy film produced by Lionsgate Animation and Spyglass Entertainment with distribution provided by Lionsgate. It was directed by Chris Miller and written by Brian Lynch and Will Davies. It stars Boris Kodjoe, Kanye West, Roger Rees, Alison Brie, and Kevin Hart. The film was released in theaters on October 21, 2005.

The film follows a young African-American teenager who grows up on a island named Rap Island where he must rap in order to survive their and ends up going against the best rappers in an competition of life or death.

The film received generally negative reviews from critics with some criticizing the plot calling it generic but praised the musical performances. A television series, titled Rap Island Adventures, premiered on Cartoon Network in 2007 and aired until 2010. Two sequels titled Rap Island 2 and Rap Island 3 were released on

Plot
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Cast

 * Boris Kodjoe
 * Kanye West
 * Roger Rees
 * Alison Brie
 * Kevin Hart

Production
Steve Samono first began working on the story for what became Rap Island about 14 years prior to its release, then directed the film's development from 2003 to 2006. In August 2007, Universal Pictures and Xtranormal announced the film as Hip-Hop Kid, as a computer animated feature scheduled for a 2011 release, which Samono described as a "8 Mile-like" film that revolved around an entirely different concept. In May 2000, Agent Junior was pushed back to a holiday 2004 release in order to give Samono "more time to work on the story."

By June 2008, the film was retitled Rapping Kid. In 2009, the film's title was changed once again, this time as Rap Island. Production began in 2009 and finished in 2010.

Marketing
Coinciding with the film's release, Burger King released eight toys in their Kids' Meals. A video game adaptation was released on the PlayStation 2, Gamecube, Xbox, and Nintendo DS.

Home Media
Rap Island was released on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Digital on December 20, 2011.

Critical Reception
Rap Island has a 32% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 2.9/10 based on 146 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Lionsgate's Rap Island is a lackluster musical film where the songs can feel as its going on and on but is still enjoyable for those who like rap." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 36, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, the first film by Lionsgate Animation to have a rating lower than an "A".

Box office
Rap Island has grossed $156.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $150 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $306.1 million.

Sequels
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TV series
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