| The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! | |
| Director: | Greg Franklin |
| Music: | Eban Schletter |
| Editing: | Tony Christopherson |
| Distributor: | Paramount Home Entertainment |
| Runtime: | 71 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $1 million[1] |
The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! (also known as The Drawn Together Movie or Drawn Together: The Movie) is a 2010 American adult animated parody musical black comedy film based on the Comedy Central animated sitcom Drawn Together written and executive produced by creators Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, produced by Richard Quan, and directed by Greg Franklin. The film is the first Drawn Together release since the TV show's cancellation, and the film itself deals with the subject. It is the second animated film from Comedy Central, after .
The original cast returned to voice their characters and features the guest voice of Seth MacFarlane as "I.S.R.A.E.L." (Intelligent Smart Robot Animation Eraser Lady), and Vernon Wells as the villainous Network Head. While the television series was produced and animated by Rough Draft Studios using digital ink and paint, the film was instead produced and animated by 6 Point Harness and done entirely in flash animation using Toon Boom and Adobe Flash Professional due to budget cuts.
Foxxy Love discovers that she can swear without being censored and realizes that the TV show Drawn Together has been canceled in favor of The Suck My Taint Show (a parody of South Park). Foxxy calls the network to find out why they were canceled. The Network Head, upon hearing from Foxxy, learns that the housemates are still alive and summons I.S.R.A.E.L. (Intelligent Smart Robot Animation Eraser Lady), a robot designed specifically to erase cartoon characters.
Once they escape from I.S.R.A.E.L., Foxxy insists that the way for them to survive is to get their TV show back on the air. Princess Clara, refusing to believe that she is not a real princess, claims that her father can protect them. Captain Hero, Xandir and Ling-Ling decide to go with Clara, while Spanky Ham and Wooldoor Sockbat decide to go with Foxxy to try to get their show back on the air. While the others are arguing, Toot Braunstein steals Foxxy's van and drives off alone.
Clara, Hero, Molly (a corpse Hero believes to be his girlfriend), Xandir and Ling-Ling arrive at Clara's kingdom, expecting to find refuge. Clara encounters the king of the land, who is not her father, having only been hired to 'portray' the role for the show. The guards dismember and eventually kill Clara, while the other three manage to escape.
Meanwhile, Foxxy, Spanky and Wooldoor visit the Suck My Taint Girl, who reveals herself to be a fan of the housemates' show. She tells the group that they were canceled because vulgar and offensive content is only acceptable when your show "makes a point", and that if they want to get Drawn Together back on the air, they will need to get a point, which they can do by making a visit to Make-A-Point Land.
The wizard of Make-A-Point Land agrees to give the group a point and presents them with a box containing the previously mentioned point. Wooldoor opens the box to find out it contains an eraser bomb which permanently kills him. The Network Head, Jew Producer, and I.S.R.A.E.L. show up to erase the remaining cast. The Suck My Taint Girl reveals that she is the Network Head's wife and that she told him about the group's whereabouts.
The Jew Producer manages to convince I.S.R.A.E.L. to spare the housemates, and she then impales the Network Head on a spike. The Network Head opens his coat to reveal that he had enough eraser bombs strapped to his waist to destroy all of Make-A-Point Land. The Jew Producer and Suck My Taint Girl struggle for possession of the detonator, in the process dropping it, permanently killing them and deleting all of Make-A-Point Land (and everyone in it). The housemates make it out just in time with the help of The Giant Who Shits Into His Own Mouth (a parody of a South Park metaphor for political bipartisanship).
The housemates visit the remains of the erased Drawn Together house. The Jew Producer's son shows up to inform them that he might be able to help them by giving them a direct-to-DVD movie. I.S.R.A.E.L. arrives at the scene and she and the giant become smitten with each other. Everyone laughs happily until Spanky accidentally steps on an eraser bomb caught in the ground, and it permanently kills him and everyone else, therefore completing the Network Head's plan as the franchise as a whole abruptly ends.
See also: List of Drawn Together characters.
While the series was animated by Rough Draft Studios in South Korea and Glendale, California using digital ink and paint, the movie was animated by 6 Point Harness in Los Angeles, California using Flash animation and Toon Boom. This was because the movie had to be done under half the cost of the series. While the movie had a new crew of animators and artists, the director of the film, Greg Franklin, had actually worked on the original pilot for Drawn Together, which was originally done in flash.[2]
When the series was animated by Rough Draft, the creators, Dave Jeser & Matt Silverstein, weren't that much involved with the animation process. In the movie however, the creators were more involved, even as far as to tweak-out jokes. The animation in the film also proved to be quicker than the show.[2]
Though originally announced for a November 2009 release,[3] the film's release date was pushed to March 23, 2010, then released on April 20, 2010.[4] The film premiered at the 2010 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, on March 18, 2010.[5] The film was released on April 20, 2010 on DVD, and on Blu-ray exclusively at Best Buy.[6] The film was released on DVD in Australia later that year on October 6, 2010.[7]
The film received negative reviews from critics. Common Sense Media, panned the movie and gave it one star, criticizing its vulgarity, stating that the film is "filled to the brim with lewd sexual acts, language, and violence. The cartoon parody is meant to push the boundaries of taste, but amidst violence against women, the violation of corpses, kids asking to be sexually abused, heads blown off at close range, the drinking of baby blood ... who -- and especially what child -- is going to be thinking of this as a parody?"[8]
IGN also gave the movie a critical review, writing that a "great comedic opportunity was wasted on cheap one-dimensional gags and boring sex jokes."[9]
In contrast DVD Verdict was more favorable, commenting that the movie was "first and foremost a goodbye gift to fans of the series and they should have no problem enjoying the myriad references and in-jokes scattered about, as well as all of the crude humor."[10]
The film was criticized for its supposed antisemitism, even though the producers said that "it was supposed to make fun of bigotry".[11] Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, who created the show and wrote the movie, are both Jewish.