Computeropolis

Computeropolis is a 2005 Action and Adventure animated film animated and produced by Robert Animation Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Plot
Percy Anthony "Peri" Dazz is a 14-year-old computer designer living with his parents Heather and Earl Dazz. One weekend, Peri's parents leave town, leaving him with a list of house chores. For a while, Peri is bored of the work until he comes up with an idea for his own computer game called  Frenzy . Once he finishes making the game, Peri transfers the file into an "exe" file and opens up GameGenius.com to upload it. However, when he opens up the internet, he discovers a popup ad on a website called "Computeropolis.com" with a download link. When he clicks on the link, the laptop has a blinding white flash that begins to assimilate random things in the room. Peri tries to escape, but ends up getting sucked into his laptop

Peri discovers Computeropolis, an online city deep inside the realms of his laptop. However, he is caught by two internet officers named Paul and Frank, who take him to a lab where he is augmented by a PC Chip, which allows Peri to use the desktop menu from his point of view. After he is finished getting tested at the lab by using a mouse cursor, Peri meets Nick Kickzoo, an enterprising scavenger hunter who is the character Peri created for his Frenzy game. Nick initially dislikes Peri, who wants to get back home, but ends up taking him along.

The duo arrive at the Desktop Component League (DCL), an organization department company headed by CEO Manager Mark to fund his research; their duties as upholders of the law range from capturing and exterminating viruses to protecting the city of Computeropolis. There, Mark orders Peri and Nick to capture King Trojan, a virus that was inadvertently given access to Peri's laptop when he clicked the download link. During their mission, Peri and Nick meet Travis, a fat, video game-obsessed kid who knows Peri from GameGenius and joins the heroes to stop Trojan. However, they are captured by Trojan and his oafish and mean-spirited minion Milo and they transport them to Trojan's Lair.

At Trojan's Lair, they see how the viruses are created. Then, Peri, Nick, and Travis manage to escape while Trojan's minions chase them. The heroes succeed, but Peri forgets to upload  Frenzy  to GameGenius, as he already has an "exe." file of the game on his laptop. Nick convinces him to visit the GameGenius site, confident that Peri's game will get popular once it is published. When they arrive at the site, a GameGenius administrator learns that the  Frenzy  game will not be published due to negligent issues. Peri accuses Nick of attempting to lie without telling him about the issue. Then the rest of the DCL arrives, with Mark asking Peri and Nick if they caught Trojan; Trojan is still at large and announces his plan to initiate a full-scale assault on the hard drive.

Outraged, Mark accuses Peri and Nick of lying to him about capturing Trojan. Nick admits he thought that if Peri spent time with him, he would befriend him. Peri leaves to find his home so his parents will be home in no time by the end of the weekend. Then Clippit appears and Peri asks him which way is his house. Then Clippit takes Peri to a portal which leads him back home. Back home, Peri happens upon the screen saying that his game  Frenzy  has been successfully published to GameGenius. Meanwhile, the DCL offers to reinstate Nick, but he refuses, and instead, he confesses to Clippit that he cheated, just as he is alerted to Peri's break-in. Realizing what happened, Nick defies Clippit and enters the same portal. Nick finds Peri sitting outside of his house and brings him back to his room where he uses Peri's childhood photos and old projects to prompt him to rejoin the group on their mission. Peri opens up the Computeropolis file that Peri downloaded before, reopening the portal for the duo to jump back through.

Peri, Nick, Travis, and the rest of the DCL fight Trojan and his minions. Trojan returns for a final confrontation to kill the boy. But before he could finish the job, the DCL manages to download an antivirus program for Peri 's laptop, causing Trojan and his virus minions to disintegrate into digital pixel dust. Peri remembers that his parents are to arrive at the end of the weekend. Peri uses the portal to head back home in time for Heather and Earl's return. Peri explains to them what happened, but they do not believe Peri due to his "imagination during his childhood". Peri then starts to look around and begins to think it was all an illusion or dream. But by the next morning, Peri looks at his new game Frenzy, only to have Nick close to the screen and say hi. He then leads Peri to an email from the DCL with a link to an invitation to a party at DCL headquarters. He decides to attend the party, during which Mark assures Peri that averting major city destruction was only the beginning for him.

Cast

 * Haley Joel Osment as Percy A. "Peri" Dazz, a teenage computer game designer
 * Corey Feldman as Nick Kickzoo, a street-wise scavenger hunter and a video game character whom Peri created
 * Pierce Brosnan as King Trojan, a terminal virus who plans to destroy Peri’s computer and the entire internet
 * Dan Fogler as Travis, a hyperactive, happy-go-lucky, and overweight user from GameGenius who is one of Peri’s friends
 * Will Ferrell as Manager Marc, leader and founding member of the Desktop Component League
 * Leslie Mann as Commander Cindy, a DCL member and Marc’s wife who has a command-line interface laptop that interacts with her
 * Mario Cantone as Notepad Ned, a DCL member obsessed with writing on a notepad
 * Amy Poehler as Painting Paula, a DCL member and a talented painter and artist
 * Robert Nadal as Media Player Mike, a blind DCL member who only makes music and sound effects. Robert provides vocal sounds of the character. Clippit, an intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office who annoys Peri and Nick
 * Harland Williams as Milo, King Trojan’s henchman
 * Jon Lovitz & William Shatner as Paul and Frank, two internet officers who try to arrest Peri.
 * Jerry Rees as Earl Dazz, Peri’s father
 * Isa Winslow as Heather Dazz, Peri’s mother. Carol, a voice inside Peri’s computer from Computeropolis

Release
The film was released in theaters worldwide on June 18, 2005

Critical Response
The film was praised by audiences and critics alike for its world-building, characters, animation, and humor. Time Magazine called it “One of the Best COMPUTER Animated Film” and the film would receive an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus stating “Having enough colorful animation, brilliant humor and action-packed scenes to compete with the likes of Pixar, Computeropolis perfectly lives up to be a hit on its own”. The film would gross over $572 million dollars, not only becoming the highest grossing animated film of 2005, but also the studios highest grossing film since Arlene.

Accolades
The film received two Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature Film, but lost to Wallace and Grommet: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and Best Original Screenplay, but lost to Crash. The film would win an Annie Award for Best Animated Feature Film of 2005 and Corey Feldman & Will Ferrell would both be nominated for Best Voice Acting in a Feature Production for their performances as Nick and Marc respectively, but lost to Peter Sallis as Wallace. The film won a Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie of 2005 and would be nominated for Favorite Movie of 2005, but lost to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.