A Ilha do Impy (2006)

On a magical tropical island, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people make a marvelous discovery.... a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times! Little Impy, as the call him, is... See full summary »

Directors:

Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe

Writers:

Oliver Huzly, Reinhard Klooss

Stars:

P.J. Battisti, Madeleine Blaustein, Wigald Boning

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Cast

Credited cast:
P.J. Battisti	...	Tim (voice)
Madeleine Blaustein	...	Shoe (voice)
Wigald Boning	...	Professor Habakuk Tibatong (voice)
Pete Bowlan	...	Sami (voice)
J. David Brimmer	...	Solomon (voice) (as Michael Alston Baley)
James Carter Cathcart	...	Monty (voice) (as Jimmy Zoppi)
Anke Engelke	...	Wutz (voice)
Mehmet Ali Erbil	...	(voice)
Florian Halm	...	Diener Sami (voice)
Christoph Maria Herbst	...	Doktor Zwengelmann (voice)
Kevin Iannotta	...	Tim Tintenklecks (voice)
Ulrike Johanssen	...	(voice)
Stefan Krause	...	Pinguin Ping (voice)
Lisa Ortiz	...	Impy (voice)
Oliver Pocher	...	Schuhschnabel Schusch (voice)

Storyline

On a magical tropical island, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people make a marvelous discovery.... a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times! Little Impy, as the call him, is loving his new family and ready to explore the strange new world. but when a king from a faraway country vows to capture the love able baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants of Impy's island must join together to save their new friend.

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Plot Keywords:

dinosaur | cartoon dinosaur | computer animation | based on novel | 

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Genres:

Animation | Family

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Certificate:

G

Details

Official Sites:

Océan Films [France]

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

22 April 2010 (Portugal)

Also Known As:

A Ilha do Impy

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$11,661,240

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ambient Entertainment GmbH, Bavaria Pictures, Bayerischer Banken-Fonds

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Movie Friends: Prashant Prabhakar (2013)

User Reviews

Wonderful adaptation of a wonderful book

No offense to anybody, but I think that it is very hard for anybody who didn’t grow up in Germany in the past forty years to appreciate the impact that this story has had on kids and adults here (Urmel is now the official mascot of Germany’s national ice-hockey team!). This is, after all, the third adaptation of the original book (not counting the 2-D cartoon series) and, I must say (being very skeptical about remakes), a very good one. It was good to see Max Kruse, the author of the book (1969), who is now 86 years old, commenting on the DVD how much he appreciated this version, and I understand why. In many aspects, it has been carefully (!) updated and adapted to current taste, but in other ways it is MORE faithful to the original book than the more famous TV puppet version from the 1960s. And the dialog is so faithful to the book that I could anticipate all the punch lines! Apart from that, I was also surprised (not having read the book or seen the older version for a while) to see how topical the theme still is. I certainly never watched it for its “message” when I was 8 years old, but it has one: It is the old theme of the conservationist (who wants just to preserve nature) vs. the scientist (who wants to analyze and dissect everything) vs. the trophy hunter (who is purely destructive for the sole purpose of achieving personal “glory”). It is in no way subtle – but it is told in a way that children understand. I can tell, because my daughter is now about the same age that I was when I saw it for the first time, and the impact hasn’t changed. And thanks to DVD, we can all watch the 1969 version alongside the new one – I think we have two wonderful version of one wonderful book. And tell your kids to read the book, too (the book is called “Urmal from the Ice Age” in English, “Plodoc” in French).