Brothers Kirbys the Movie

Brothers Kirby The Movie is an American adult animated film directed by Patrick Sawyer and Erick Hopkins, and distributed by 20th Century Fox, and is also based on the series of the same name created by Patrick Sawyer. It was released on April 27, 2016 in theaters in the United States, receiving generally positive reviews.

Plot
Kired Lendel, after being accidentally kicked out of the cinema for yelling profanities, he makes a propaganda to support Freedom of Expression, but after being sent to take out the garbage, he gets distracted by going to a small store and leave the mountain of bags on his bike and let them fall into a small pond, which actually connects to all the waters of Dreamland, this causes the city to become polluted and to prevent the spread, the city is taken off the maps and Well, under a capsule that prevents any citizen from leaving, this causes a lack of oxygen in the city. Upon discovering that Kired Lendel was the cause of all this, people turn against him, to the point of wanting to kill him, to avoid risks, the Lendel escape from the city, while the other brothers go in an helicopter, Kired, Kirama and Kirver have to run on foot, reaching a snowy town where they take refuge, but what they do not know is that another danger stalk him to the city, which could cause its disappearance forever, and the Kired will have to deal with everything, and recover their good reputation with the citizens of City Kirby.

Development
During the idea of ​​reviving Sawyer 's old canceled project  Brothers Kirbys  in 2012, Sawyer wanted to release the series with a theatrical movie, and was managing his time so that he could make the series while working on the movie, in the end in 2013, Sawyer decided to premiere the series with a normal episode, but the idea of ​​a movie was not ruled out, since he still wanted it to have a movie for theaters, during a conversation at a lunch in Los Angeles with Hopkins, they were developing some concepts for the film, one of them was about some beings kidnapping Kired and his brothers had to rescue him, in an adventure with gunshots and blood, but Sawyer considered it somewhat boring, so they discarded it, another was that the brothers they entered a parallel dimension, where a war would originate, and the brothers with their alternative versions had to save that world, so that they would not find the entrance to their world, Sawyer preferred They laughed much more about this idea, so they decided to continue developing concepts, this happened during January of April 2013, when Brothers Kirbys had not yet officially started their production.

Production
The film officially started production in May 2013, with the second parallel world script, during which time Sawyer had to split his time, as he was working on other projects by then (such as Blue Sky Studios' Epic and Two Boys on Action also from Nintendo Movies) and Hopkins was more in charge of production, this script was used for several months, and during those months conceptual arts, storyboards and even part of the animation had been done, Sawyer felt that this It was going to work out, since the executives seemed to like the idea, but in February 2014 (3 months before the release of Brothers Kirbys) Sawyer had developed another story for the film, which involved contamination, and the comparing the two versions, it was decided on the other, and therefore the other script had to be discarded, which was already 61% complete, in order not to spend more costs, the production used resources that had already been created o, but the script was not completely removed or discarded, since Sawyer still wanted to adapt this script in a future film, most likely for television, since as we know, Brothers Kirbys will not release more movies for theaters.

Animation
The animation was produced at Nintendo Animation Studios in Glendale, California, the animation began in July 2014, and was completed in March 2015, using the same detailed animation style used in Kirby the Adventure The Movie in 2005, but obviously improved, 3D animation was used in the backgrounds, so that in specific movements of the camera, it would look nice, the characters instead of being animated frame by frame, rigging was used, in order to speed up production more (somewhat which the company has used since 1990). Being the film in a 2.35 aspect ratio, the animators had to do the animation in open matte, so that in post production they would cut it, and so it would not feel so closed. Also because the series had already been released, some resources were used, and also characters that had appeared up to that point in order to save time.

Casting
The casting was chosen in March 2014, who would be the ones who would repeat their roles in the series, Jonathan Stone joined as the main voice of the protagonists because Kevin Miller had given up voice acting for a while in 2013, also Old actors in other Sawyer series such as Michael Black, Tara Strong, Axel Rivers, among others, returned.

Box Office
The film, during its opening week in the United States, managed to collect $76.2 million, but as the weeks went by it managed to collect even more, since during the entire month that it was in theaters, it achieved a total of $110.6 million in the United States, while which internationally made a total of $205.7 million, that gives a total of $316.3 million in total, being a success at the box office.

Critical Reception
The film received positive reviews from fans and critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 82% based on 122 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The consensus of the site says:  Brothers Kirbys was a series that was becoming very famous by this year 2016, therefore a movie was not expected, it has that characteristic vulgar language that all fans love, also the situations are perfectly fit with the series, but the plot could have been developed better, but that did not prevent it from being a good movie, not a marvel or a great movie, but an enjoyable one for the most grown-ups , Metacritic, another review aggregator, gives the film a score of 75 out of 100 from 54 critics, indicating "positive reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave Brothers Kirbys the Movie a grade of "A" on a scale of A+ to F.