Thumbtanic (2002)

Director:

Todd Portugal

Writer:

Steve Oedekerk

Stars:

Steve Oedekerk, Mary Jo Keenen, Paul Greenberg

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Steve Oedekerk	...	Jake / Designer / Stevine Odion / 'We've Been Hit' (voice)
Mary Jo Keenen	...	Geranium / Old Geranium (voice)
Paul Greenberg	...	The Captain / 'Lovely Ship' Steward / Lice Checker #1 (voice)
Rob Paulsen	...	Mr. Prickle / Bartender / Lice Checker #2 (voice)
Mark DeCarlo	...	The Interviewer / TV Anchor / Elvis / Lookout #2 / Rich Man at Dinner / 'Shuffle Board Finals?' (voice)
Tony Pyle	...	Submarine Pilot / Excited One-Eyed Thumb / Lookout #3 (voice)
Eric Trueheart	...	'All Aboard' Steward / 'Good Gravy, What a Ship!' / 'Lovely Ship' Balloon Head (voice)
Jenny Rose	...	What a Lovely Big Ship!' / 'We're Going Down! (voice)
Joe Liss	...	It's a Big Ship!' / Bedwetter / 'I Wet Myself (voice)
Heidi Fugeman	...	Ship Must go on for Miles (voice)
Tim Tarkinan	...	It's a Big Ship (voice)
David Floyd	...	Baldie the Thumb Wrestler / Lookout #1 / Boiler Room Guy #2 / 'Next' Steward / Boiler Room Guy #2 / Lookout #1 / Sex Change Buyer / 'It's a Gigantic Spider!' / Budget Saving Man (voice)
Megan Cavanagh	...	Geranium's Servant / Rich Woman at Dinner / Budget Saving Man's Wife (voice)
Jim Jackman	...	Dentist / Boiler Room Guy #1 / Baby and Sex Change Barker / 'I Can't Swim!' (voice)
Jim Hope	...	I'm Really a Woman / Lookout #4 / Life Jacket Guy (voice)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

thumb | eiffel tower paris | surrealism | giant spider | paris france | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Short

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 April 2002 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

O Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

26 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Jake: When we hit the water, swim for the surface and breathe above the water! Breathe the air, not the water! Don't breath the air! Or any mixture of air and water you know like...
[speech bubbles as the ship sinks]

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Connections

Spoofs Titanic (1997)

User Reviews

THUMBTANIC is a delightfully manicured spoof

I saw this on a double-bill with THUMB WARS:THE PHANTOM CUTICLE and it was one of the funniest hours I've spent at the movies in quite a while. THUMBTANIC spoofs "that movie" with hilarious insights about its silly and anachronistic use of class conflict and its basic corniness. It also had me rolling with an outrageous spoof of "that song," which in this version is apparently called, "my heart is a thumb." Oh yes, and there is also the small factor that this was a movie acted entirely by thumbs. mouths and eyes are apparently digitally projected onto the thumbs, but thumbs they are. There are some great little bits here, too. Such as a guy selling babies on deck (to help you get into the lifeboats) and also performing impromptu sex-change operations (for the same purpose). There's an absurd giant-insect subplot that adds much to the proceedings and a modern-day TV journalist modeled on either Geraldo Rivera or Rod Serling, I can't tell which. Basically its 26 minutes of clever and inventive comic delight, for fans of irreverent satire everywhere.