The Chubbchubbs! (2002)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Eric Armstrong

Writer:

Jeff Wolverton (writer)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Short | Family

Tagline:

Deciding to be an hero is the easy part...

Plot:

A janitor at an alien night-club gets his wish to be a singer.

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Planet | Singer | Janitor | Nightclub

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations

Cast

Bradford Simonsen	...	Meeper (voice)
Jeff Wolverton	...	ChubbChubbs (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dustin Adair	...	Glorf (voice)
Eric Armstrong	...	Glorf (voice)
Yakov Baytler	...	Glorf (voice)
Mary Biondo	...	Glorf (voice)
Sumit Das	...	Glorf (voice)
Layne Friedman	...	Glorf (voice)
Robert Gordon	...	Glorf (voice)
Sully Jacome-Wilkes	...	Glorf (voice)
Mortonette Jenkins	...	Singing Diva (voice)
Peter Lurie	...	Zyzaks (voice)
Franco Pietrantonio	...	Glorf (voice)
Rick Richards	...	Glorf (voice)
Chance Thomas	...	Glorf (voice)
Julie Zackary	...	Glorf (voice)
Rick Zieff	...	Bouncer (voice)

Also Known As:

The Chubb Chubbs! (USA) (alternative spelling)

Runtime:

6 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Australia:G | Germany:o.Al. | Spain:T | UK:U | USA:G | Poland:(Banned) (TV rating)

Company:

Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI)

Trivia:

The credits say: "How Many Babies were born whilst making this movie? None". This is a little jab at the animation colleagues/competitors at Pixar and their habit of listing "Production babies" in their credits.

Goofs:

Continuity: After Meeper gets thrown out of the inn for the second time, we can hear a distinctive sound of the door being locked. However, a minute later, when Meeper gets inside again through the roof, a messenger comes in opening the door from the outside without any problems.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Meeper: Excuse me. Coming through.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "Lost in Space" (1965)

Soundtrack:

Respect

the bad part is you have to rent Men in Black 2 to see it

This 5 minute, 41 second computer-animated short can be found on the second disc of the 2-DVD special edition of "Men in Black 2". And at such a short running time manages to be much more enjoyable then the main feature. The cartoon deals with an alien janitor named Mupps, and his dreams of singing in the intergalactic bar that he works at. A bar inhabited by a great many recognizable patrons. When he find out the Chubbchubbs are coming, he tries to warn everyone with comical consequences. I won't give away any more except to say this cute short deserved the two awards that it won from the Academy.

My Grade: B+