The Little Mole and the Lost Blue Dragon

The Little Mole and the Lost Blue Dragon (known as The Little Mole III) is a 2009 Czech animated fantasy adventure family film based on the characters The Little Mole and friends created by Zdeněk Miler. It was a third installment of the 2004 film.

It features the voices of Seth Green, Tara Strong, Richard Kind, Jim Cummings, Lara Jill Miller, Joe Alaskey, Mark Hamill, Rob Rackstraw, and Grey DeLisle. It was a sequel to The Little Mole II: The Adventures of The Hedgehog.

Plot
Baby Blue Dragon has been captured by the three angry knights, The Mole and his friends have to save the lost blue dragon from getting captured before the knights ceases them.

Cast

 * Seth Green as The Mole
 * Tara Strong as The Mouse
 * Richard Kind as The Hare
 * Jim Cummings as The Hedgehog
 * Lara Jill Miller as The Frog and The Three Leverets (speaking)
 * Joe Alaskey as The Bear and Angry Knight #1
 * Mark Hamill as Angry Knight #2 and Sir Chaplain
 * Rob Rackstraw as King Ronald
 * Grey DeLisle as Princess Midnight, a boastful female mole who is a friend of The Mole as she focuses on how she will save the dragon.
 * Kath Soucie as Princess Kate, a human female who is 21 year old to become a queen where she is a Midnight’s human sidekick.
 * Tom Kenny as Angry Knight #3 and The Frog’s husband
 * Clancy Brown as John D. Wells, a king who served the five animals who saved the baby blue dragon from the angry knights’ dungeon.
 * Carolyn Lawrence as Mrs. Hare and Queen Nelly
 * Zdeněk Miler's daughters as Mole and the other animals (archived recordings, sound only), the singing worms and three leverets (sounds)
 * Frank Welker as Baby Blue Dragon and his mother
 * Ken Sansom as King William, an antagonist who had three henchmens to stop the five animals from sneaking into the dungeon.
 * John Rhys-Davies as King John D. Well’s assistants, the five assistants who arrests William and his henchmens.
 * Vicki Lewis as Mrs. Hedgehog, The Hedgehog’s wife who had her three hedgehog babies that she can follow them.
 * Dee Bradley Baker as The Father Blue Dragon and The Mouse’s nephew

Development
On March 7, 2007, Phil Roman wanted to make a leisure of the third installment of the movie since the 2nd movie has been released on November of 2006. as he stands that the film was in development, then which is something that he would suggest the entire sequel. he wanted to make the third film about the Mole and his friends who is going to save the king from being kidnapped, but Roman left the film’s development and was replaced by Brandt. Kateřina Miler, a Czech female illustrator who is a daughter of Zdeněk Miler can usually make the part of the collaboration with Spike Brandt in the film’s recent joining production, she will illustrate and collaborate it into the third film’s screening which it will be a film about the mole and his friends who is going to save the baby dragon from the dungeon traps. the script was changed and was finished, and the animation was worked in the two headquarters that are in United States and Czech Republic to take place in. the film was recently doing great in each improvement, and the production was simple to be creative.

Releases
The Little Mole and the Lost Blue Dragon was planned to be released on February 6, 2009 by Warner Bros. Pictures, but the release date was delayed for the summer to avoid the competition with Focus Features’ Coraline. Columbia Pictures took over in North America as of again, and released on August 14, 2009. as the result, Warner Bros. Pictures will release the film internationally as of February 6 of the same year.

Marketing
The teaser trailer was released on July 24, 2008 which was attached to the Disney’s Bolt, the official trailer was released on December 12, 2008 as it was shown in front of certain films from 2008.

The merchandise has toys, puzzles, plush items, and other items.

Home Media
The Little Mole and the Lost Blue Dragon was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 24, 2009. the film was also released on DVD and Blu-ray by other companies in other countries, the film was released on Ultra 4K on July 2016.

In 2022, it was announced that Shout! Factory has acquired distribution rights to said film along with three films which will be available on DVD on November 15. as it was streamed on Shout! Factory TV.

Box Office
The Little Mole and the Lost Blue Dragon grossed $120.5 million in United States and Canada, and $236 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $356.5

Reception
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 74%, with an average score of 6.5/10, based on 440 reviews. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 60 out of 100, based on 65 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported 82% of audience members gave it a positive score, with 69% saying they would definitely recommend it.