Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers (2010)

Director:

Howard E. Baker

Writers:

Tom Rogers (written by)
Joshua Wexler (story) ...
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Release Date:

10 June 2010 (South Korea)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Family

Cast

Ryan McPartlin	...	Clutch Powers (voice)
Yvonne Strahovski	...	Peg Mooring (voice)
Paul Michael Glaser	...	Kjeld Playwell (voice)
Roger Rose	...	Brick Masterson (voice)
Jeff Bennett	...	Bernie von Beam / Artie Fol (voice) (as Jeff Glen Bennett)
Gregg Berger	...	Watch Commander / Rock Powers (voice)
Stephan Cox	...	Mallock the Malign (voice)
Alex Désert	...	Skelly (voice) (as Alex Desert)
Chris Hardwick	...	Bones (voice)
Christopher Emerson	...	Prince Varen (voice) (as Chris Emerson)
Richard Doyle	...	Hogar the Troll (voice)
John Di Crosta	...	Lofar the Dwarf (voice) (as John DiCrosta)
Scott Weil	...	Villagers and Knights (voice)
Matt Kasanoff	...	Cub Scout (voice)
Jake Barton	...	Cub Scout (voice)
Cody Taylor	...	Cub Scout (voice)

Directed by
Howard E. Baker

Writing credits
Tom Rogers		(written by)
Joshua Wexler		(story) (as Joshua R. Wexler) &
Tom Rogers		(story)

Produced by
Howard E. Baker	....	co-producer
David Cragnotti	....	executive producer
Dennis Edwards	....	line producer
Patrick Gunn	....	executive producer
Jimmy Ienner	....	executive producer
Lawrence Kasanoff	....	executive producer
Kristy Scanlan	....	producer
Joshua Wexler	....	producer (as Joshua R. Wexler)
Jill Wilfert	....	executive producer

Original Music by
David Wurst		(music by)
Eric Wurst		(music by)

Film Editing by
Michael D. Black

Casting by
Heidi Klein		(casting)

Art Direction by
John Calmette

Production Management
Leslie Barker	....	production manager

Art Department
Derek Carter	....	set designer

Sound Department
John Chalfant	....	supervising sound editor (as John Morse Chalfant)
Howard London	....	adr and voice recording mixer
David Mann	....	sound editor
Kevin Nanaumi	....	sound assistant
Mark Peterson	....	editorial
Mark Peterson	....	foley creation
Mark Peterson	....	sound editor
Brian Smith	....	adr and voice recording mixer
Kevin Wahrman	....	sound editor
David Weisberg	....	adr and voice recording mixer

Visual Effects by
Nandish Domlur	....	executive producer: Paprikaas Animation Studio
Bryan Gauna	....	director of technology
Darpan Kataria	....	compositor
Mary Poplin	....	matte painter
Koushik Routh	....	texturing artist
Mohan Sangeeth	....	production coordinator: Paprikaas Interactive
Rajiv Sharma	....	visual effects artist
Steve Tavernia	....	cg supervisor (as Steven Tavernia)

Animation Department
Howard E. Baker	....	character designer
Jay Baker	....	storyboard artist
Gary Clair	....	studio artist
Aaron Clark	....	storyboard artist
Maggie Langley	....	head of virtual production (as Margaret Langley)
Will Meugniot	....	storyboard artist (as Will Meugnoit)
Brian Moyer	....	designer: prop
Bikrampreet Singh	....	lighter
Yashovid Tiwari	....	lighter
Erica Volk	....	animator
Rich Wilkie	....	storyboard artist

Editorial Department
Tony Dustin	....	digital colorist

Music Department
Matt LaPoint	....	score mixer
Michael Lloyd	....	assistant to music supervisor
Michael Lloyd	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Howard E. Baker	....	extra (voice) (as Howard Baker)
Jasper Boyd	....	production intern
Michelle Chan	....	production intern
William Chen	....	production intern
Amy Cheong	....	assistant: Mr. Kasanoff
Thomas DaSilva	....	production intern
William Douglas	....	production intern
Hayley Dox	....	production intern
Napoleon Fulinara Jr.	....	production intern
Moni Harrion	....	production intern (as Monica 'Moni' Harrion)
Mandy Malzberg	....	production intern
Alyessa Ornelas	....	production coordinator
Jackie Poko	....	office production assistant (as Jaclyn Poko)
Andre Rivera	....	production intern
Vincent Ventola	....	production intern
Rebecca Wolcott	....	accountant
Yang Liu	....	production intern (uncredited)

Thanks
Benjamin Bloch	....	special thanks: at IBM
Steve Canepa	....	special thanks: at IBM
Don Griffin	....	special thanks: West LA Music
Declan Gunn	....	special thanks
Matt Kasanoff	....	special thanks: professional kid
Bob Kearney	....	special thanks
George Leger III	....	special thanks (as George Leger)
Paige Lewis	....	special thanks
Amy Lipton	....	special thanks: at IBM
Vijay Lund	....	special thanks: at IBM
Jeff Marquez	....	special thanks
Clinton McCallum	....	special thanks: at IBM
Tracey Moore	....	special thanks
Todd Myrick	....	special thanks: at IBM
John Nemoy	....	special thanks
Vaughn Nybakken	....	special thanks: at IBM
Greg O'Connor	....	special thanks
Glenn Ross	....	special thanks
Juli Smith	....	special thanks: at IBM
Bob Yacenda	....	special thanks: at IBM
Bill Zeitler	....	special thanks: at IBM

Distributors

• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (2010) (worldwide) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Paprikaas Animation Studios
• Studio C

Other Companies

• LEGO Group, The  based on concepts and themes created by
• LEGO  based on concepts and themes created by
• Threshold Animation Studios  animation by
• International Business Machines (IBM)  technical innovations provided by (as The IBM Corporation)
• Sony Pictures Studios  sound services provided by

Also Known As:

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:G | South Korea:All | Singapore:G | Portugal:M/4

Trivia:

Ryan McPartlin (Clutch Powers) and Yvonne Strahovski (Peg Mooring) are also co-stars in Chuck.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Star Wars (1977)

Soundtrack:

I Work Alone

Fun, but definitely a straight to video release

Firstly this is a kids movie and has to be reviewed as such. If you're an adult and even an adult fan of Lego you won't get a huge amount out of this. The movie has some nice touches such as a scene inspired by the alien movies and the post-opening intro song is actually pretty good.

However it really does seem the main aim of this movie is to sell more Lego than to entertain, they have tried to cram in just about every current Lego range in (rock monsters, space police, city and castle) before rather strangely deciding to base the rest of the movie in the Castle universe.

The animation is OK, but not really much better than any of the cut-scenes in a Lego game and the whole movie did have the feel of an extended computer game scene. I couldn't help feeling this would be better suited to a 15-20 minute episode format on kids TV.

The voice cast is actually not bad, Ryan McPartlin and Yvonne Strahovski (sic?) are well known for their work together on Chuck and are well cast.

Overall a fun kids film to kill an hour or so for a young Lego collector, but ultimately too shallow and lacking lots of the humorous touches that featured in other Lego offerings such as the Lego Star Wars games that made them fun for adults too. Worth picking up when it inevitably appears in the £5 section of your local supermarket, but still a million miles better than the Bionicle movie.