Kirby the Adventure: The Movie

Kirby the Adventure: The Movie is an American animated film based on the series of the same name. It was announced for the first time in November 2004 and premiered in January 2005, it was made to give an end to the series, and to give it a definitive closure, and at first they did not plan to release more series or movies related to this series, but al later this changed, when they released The Kirbys series in 2007.

Plot
The children of the city are excited about a cartoon for adults that will be released the next day, at first everything seems to be going well, but in one of the chapters a controversial joke is made about the religion and culture of Shita, this makes the terrorists of that country launch a threat to the city if they did not cancel the series, but apparently the producers did not like the idea, and that is why the terrorists tell them that there will be war, now the Irrings will have to seek a trip outside their city ​​to look for a way to stop the war, something that they will achieve when the war is already at a very serious and high point.

Production
The production began in November 2003, this was known thanks to a production documentary in 2006 along with the DVD of the film. According to the documentary, the process of the script, storyboard and other general things took between November 2003 and March 2004, while the animation process took from April 2004 to November 2004, the last changes were made in December 2004. Patrick Sawyer, was not very present in the normal series during seasons 10 and 11, because he was more focused on the production of the movie, and that is why here the series took a somewhat different course than he was used to do from season 9 onwards. Patrick returned for the penultimate chapter of the series, until the last.

Animation
The animation was produced by Nintendo Animation Studios in Glendale, and some of it was also produced by Rough Draft Korea in Seoul, South Korea. The animation process took 7 months to complete, the film was animated with PowerAnimator, running on Silicon Graphics and Octane workstations, animation stands out for being much more detailed than that of the series, with quite detailed backgrounds, more detailed sky, more shadow details and even 3D animation (which was partially produced by DreamWorks), this animation was used when Nintendo Studios changed to the 16:9 aspect ratio, with some improvements of course. Animation costs were $70 million dollars (plus production costs which cost $17 million dollars, would be $87 million in budget).

Critical Reception
The film received critical acclaim from fans and critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 91% based on 321 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10. The site's consensus reads:  Despite the fact that the plot doesn't feel that good, it becomes good in several aspects, the musicalization is used at exact moments, the animation is also something to highlight, as well as the ending, which was perfect to end a series who was already in his last days , Metacritic, another review aggregator, gives the film a score of 89 out of 100 from 92 critics, indicating "positive reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave Kirby the Adventure the Movie a grade of "A" on a scale from A+ to F scale.

Box Office
Kirby the Adventure Movie grossed $315.6 million in North America and $575.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $891.4 million, becoming one of the highest grossing animated films of all, and one of the highest grossing of 2005, and also one of the highest grossing with a PG-13 rating.

Original R-rated cut
During the production of the film, it obtained an R rating, that is, for people over 17 years of age, Patrick said that the film would be edited to reduce it to a PG-13 rating, several scenes, dialogues and various things that came in the film were eliminated. storyboard, in total 1 hour of film was removed, but with the deleted scenes removed before it was submitted to the MPAA, it gives a total of 3 hours of film removed, and in the end the film obtained a PG-13 rating, making it the original cut remains in the hands of the creator and Nintendo Studios (currently Warner Bros. retains the copy) only a few scenes were placed in the bonus material on the 2006 DVD, other scenes were also leaked on the internet, while the complete original cut you have nothing beyond the two remaining copies. According to Patrick Sawyer in 2019, the entire cut was animated, that is, the entire original cut was animated, including the deleted scenes, this implies that not only do the original animatic scenes exist, but also their animated versions, which To date, none have leaked.