The Pier Pals Movie

The Pier Pals Movie is a 2009 American-Canadian animated friendship indie comedy movie produced by Klasky Csupo and Nickelodeon Movies and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Miles Simerlink and was written by Georgia Simerlink. It stars the voices of Johnathan Malen, Jackie Rosenbaum, Jess Harnell, and Janice Kawaye. The film centers around a young boy named Torrance Ferrarri (Malen) and his friends Isla Thomson (Rosenbaum), Terrell Rice (Harnell), and Naomi Katsufrakis (Kawaye) as they tackle their biggest conflict yet. Surviving the Alaskan Wilderness.

The film was released Februrary 3rd, 2009 and it received mostly positive reviews from critics and it was praised for its animation, characters and plot, and cast. On it's $20 million budget, it grossed $223.5 million, making it the second-highest grossed Nickelodeon film at the time until the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2014. It later spawned a second film Pier Pals Movie 2: The Case of the Lost Surfer in 2013.