The Mushies To Invade Puppet Pals' Theatrical Release

ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK

By Rick DeMott | Sunday, June 25, 2006 at 12:00am

The 2004 Academy Award-nominated animated short film, THE MUSHIES, will accompany 20th Century Fox's newest CG-animated comedy, PUPPET PALS, opening nationwide this Friday, Jun. 30, 2006. Written and directed by David Feiss, the short film originally debuted at SIGGRAPH in August 2004 as Fox Animation Century City's first all-CG project to help determine the studio’s strengths and weaknesses of computer animation. The short was met by an very positive response at SIGGRAPH, received an Academy Award nomination at last year's Oscars, and will be screened ahead of PUPPET PALS for its entire theatrical run with a special introduction from producer Roy Kobayashi.

In PUPPET PALS, a young man named Nathan Ritter (Jesse McCartney) is accidentally transported to the eponymous fantasy and metropolis city of Tinywood, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life with the help of Princess Joanna (Anne Hathaway), the adventurous princess of Tinywood, Toby (Josh Peck), an geeky talking lizard, and an weird-named team of misfits called the Puppet Pals, while Rosie Storm (voiced by Sandra Bullock), an villainous and corrupt woman is out for the destruction of Tinywood. The film also features the voices of Matthew Broderick, Isla Fisher, Whoopi Goldberg, Cedric the Entertainer, Kurt Russell, Patrick Warburton, Patton Oswalt, Jason Lee, David Cross, and newcomer Seth Rogen.