Disco ormene (2008)

Two lowly earthworms, Gloria and Barry, decide to make the world's greatest disco band which helps them rise from the bottom of the food chain to stardom proving that earthworms can boogie too.

Director:

Thomas Borch Nielsen

Writer:

Morten Dragsted

Stars:

Peter Frödin, Trine Dyrholm, Lars Hjortshøj

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Peter Frödin	...	Bjarne (voice)
Trine Dyrholm	...	Gloria (voice)
Lars Hjortshøj	...	Niller (voice)
Troels Lyby	...	Jimmy (voice)
Helle Dolleris	...	Donna (voice)
Birthe Neumann	...	Mor (voice)
Peter Hesse Overgaard	...	Far (voice)
Henning Jensen	...	Tonni Dennis (voice)
Olaf Nielsen	...	Naturspeaker (voice)
Kim Hagen Jensen	...	Promotor (voice) (as Kim Hagen)
Tonni Zinck	...	Skolopender (voice)
Casper Byriel Svane	...	Flue (voice)
Kirsten Skytte	...	Døgnflue 1 og Slimeline Stemme (voice)
Margit Rosenaa	...	Døgnflue 2 (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Bateson	...	(voice)

Storyline

A lonely worm helps his girlfriend and friends to make the world's greatest disco band. So they can prove other worms that they can do better than others. But Dennis: there archnemesis is most known for being sexy with the worms. But Bjarne now must beat Dennis at being good. But his friend isn't up to a boogie band he just want piece. But when they continue theyr'e practicing they need more work to beat Dennis and his friends.

---

Plot Keywords:

worm | disco | office clerk | music band | rehearsal | 

---

Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Music

---

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for some mild rude humor and brief language

Details

Country:

Denmark Germany

Language:

Danish English

Release Date:

10 October 2008 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Sunshine Barry en de Disco Wormen

Company Credits

Production Co:

Disco Ormene

Technical Specs

Runtime:

75 min 79 min (European Film Market)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #40.8 (2008)

User Reviews

Nothing new under the dirt

Bjarne is coming of age. His mother is immensely frightened that her little worm will be unable to drop his childhood follies and focus on his new work at a waste processing plant. Unfortunately for her she is right as Bjarne indulges into his new passion: creating a disco band and scooping up a huge prize at the talent competition. This leads him to create Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms. On bass: his best friend the extremely overweight Jimmy. On guitar: metal-head Niller: On backup vocals: pretty-worm Gloria. On drums: secretary music-extraordinaire Donna.

A mildly entertaining affair, which starts of a bit tedious and uninspiring, but actually manages to hit the funk somewhere towards the end with a couple of nicely sold gags plus surprisingly well-scripted (albeit extremely predictable) plotting. Even though the characters are mostly unsympathetic (save for maybe the characters of Niller and Donna) the movie manages to hit home with the boogie. I really must say that I was taken slightly by surprise, as I was expecting a semi-digested turd, but instead actually found myself enjoying the final third of the movie.

The movie will never get applauds for innovative script or spectacular jokes, while the charm is all over the place, but the essential question is whether the disco fever will channel through your body by the end. In my case I would have to say yes.