Jimmy Neutron: Win, Lose and Kaboom (2004) (TV)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Mike Gasaway

Writers:

Steven Banks (writer)
Gene Grillo (writer)
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Release Date:

9 July 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Game-Show | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Retroville becomes ground zero for a meteor engraved with a mysterious alien message, which only the best and brightest(naturally...

Plot Keywords:

Alien Civilizations | Alien | Boy Genius | Cable Television | Cartoon

Cast

Tim Allen	...	Meldar (voice)
Alyssa Milano	...	April (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jeff Bennett	...	Gorlock #2 / Brain #1 (voice)
Megan Cavanagh	...	Judy Neutron / Mrs. Vortex (voice)
Jim Cummings	...	Gen. Abercrombie / Brain #2 / Mayor Quadar (voice)
Mark DeCarlo	...	Hugh Neutron / Emergency System (voice)
Grey DeLisle	...	Vendanna (voice)
Debi Derryberry	...	James Isaac 'Jimmy' Neutron / Alien Actress / Alien Woman (voice)
Jeffrey Garcia	...	Sheen Juarerra Estevez / Army Guard (voice)
Jess Harnell	...	Meldar (singing voice)
Joe Lala	...	Sr. Estevez (voice)
Phil LaMarr	...	Bolbi Stroganovsky / British Tourist (voice)
Carolyn Lawrence	...	Cindy Vortex (voice)
Rob Paulsen	...	Carl Wheezer / Mr. Wheezer / Mrs. Wheezer / Test Pilot / Announcer (voice)
Crystal Scales	...	Libby Folfax (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Goddard (voice)
Billy West	...	Sam / Corky Shumatsu (voice)

Directed by
Mike Gasaway

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Steven Banks		writer
Gene Grillo		writer
Jed Spingarn		writer

Produced by
Keith Alcorn	....	co-executive producer
Steven Banks	....	co-producer
John A. Davis	....	producer
Benjamin Gilberg	....	line producer
Paul Marshal	....	producer
Steve Oedekerk	....	executive producer
Jed Spingarn	....	co-executive producer

Original Music by
Charlie Brissette

Cinematography by
Michael A. Wallace

Film Editing by
Joe E. Elwood

Casting by
Sarah Noonan

Production Management
Kim Benzine-Rowell	....	production manager

Art Department
John R. Carlson	....	storyboard coordinator
Chris Harmon	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Michael Petak	....	dialogue editor

Special Effects by
Wes Chilton	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Chris Browne	....	lighting artist
Andrew Burke	....	character animator
Juan Carlos Navarro Carrion	....	character animator
Pei Cheng	....	lighting artist
Jerod Chirico	....	character animator
Youngjae Choi	....	character animator
Andrea Davis	....	character animator
Ryan Davis	....	character animator
Sean Ermey	....	character animator
Alexander Fleisig	....	character animator
Christopher Lee Fowler	....	digital artist
Rena M. Fowler	....	character animator
Joe Gorski	....	character animator
Michelle Gorski	....	character animator
Todd Harper	....	texture & shading artist
Tim Hatcher	....	character animator
Sara Jane Kramer	....	texture & shading artist
Scott Lemmer	....	character animator
William Scott McCullough	....	lighting artist
Ian Megibben	....	head of lighting
Sarah Mensinga	....	character animator
Brian Menz	....	character animator
Aaron Thedford	....	texture artist
Tommy Wright	....	lighting artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Joseph P. Johnston	....	supervising director of photography
Roman Robbins	....	lighting technician
Shane L. Wapskineh	....	supervising director of photography

Animation Department
Ray Chase	....	character animator
Youngjae Choi	....	character animator
Tom Saville	....	character animator

Casting Department
Jennie Monica	....	casting supervisor

Editorial Department
Brent Hutchins	....	post-production coordinator
Jason Vigue	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Rena Archer	....	production coordinator
Gene Grillo	....	story editor
Ginny McSwain	....	voice director
Kim Saxon	....	vice president of production: DNA
Tuck Tucker	....	creative consultant: Nicktoons

Production Companies

• DNA Productions
• O Entertainment

Distributors

• Nickelodeon Network (2004) (worldwide) (TV)

Also Known As:

Jimmy Neutron: You Bet Your Life Form (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

USA:90 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:TV-Y

Company:

DNA Productions

Trivia:

Members of the audience for Intergalactic Showdown include the Yokians (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, "The Eggpire Strikes Back"), Mitochondria ("Journey to the Center of Carl"), Lima bean monsters ("I Dream of Jimmy"), the Junkman, Roxie, and Gortox the Irritable ("The Junkman Cometh"), Zia and Barbarino ("A Beautiful Mine"), and Captain Betty ("Monster Hunt").

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Jimmy saves more than just our world.

John A. Davis takes a direct attack on reality television in this made-for-television movie-version of "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron." Fortunatley the shows in the real world are usually just tasteless and revolting. None of them are as evil as "Intergalactic Showdown." Because of this, I can appreciate Davis a lot more, and if you'd rather watch preschool time slots like Nick Jr. or Playhouse Disney than another irritating hour of so-called "reality" television, this is the TV-movie for you.

When a meteor lands in Retroville, Jimmy Neutron finds out it's "message meteor," something Neutron is familiar with, and thus wants to translate. In fact, due to his scientific wizardry, Neutron has had more contact and more experience with aliens, but nobody is willing to listen to him, something our boy genius faces throughout much of the movie. Once he finally gets the chance to do so, he Cindy Vortex, Carl Wheezer, Sheen Esteban, and the rest of his friends are sucked into deep space onto another freaky alien world that claims to be superior to ours(Don't they all in these movies?). Upon arrival in this alien world, they meet an evil game show host named Meldar(Tim Allen) who slanders all earthlings as "jellybags," and tells Jimmy that they've been sending meteors with messages imprinted on them for 500 years and nobody from earth has bothered to read them until today. Somebody should've told Meldar that earth didn't have television until less than 100 years ago. The idea of "Intergalactic Showdown" is for numerous creatures from each planet to prove they're the dominant life forms. The winner gets a fantastic prize package(apparently), and the losers have their home planets blown to bits. Forefit, and your home planet is destroyed anyway, so Jimmy and his friends realize they have no choice but to play. Clearly, it's a good thing nobody was teleported to this game show until now, because nobody from earth would be able to grasp the concept of "reality" game shows, let alone normal ones. It also makes you wonder how many other worlds were destroyed prior to the arrival of Neutron, his team and his competitors.

After losing big to their alien opponents, one of them, specifically a Gorlock teenage girl named April(Alyssa Milano) offers a truce with Jimmy so she can plot do destroy the game show. This increases the tension between Jimmy & Cindy Vortex, and if you've seen enough episodes of the regular series, you'd realize that Cindy harbors a crush on Jimmy, but it's far more subtle than Helga Pataki's crush on Arnold, of which she agonizes relentlessly behind his back while tormenting him. But crush or no crush, Jimmy knows he has to win, because it's not just about team victory or even personal victory. It's about defeating evil. Jimmy is a scientist, and by nature a humanist. Therefore he knows that win or lose, the show must not go on.

Shamefully, while this is one of the better extended versions of the series, it's not available on DVD or VHS, unlike "Jet Fusion" and "Attack of the Twonkies." You'd think that Nickelodeon and it's parent company Viacom would have enough marketing sense to do so, but then again they don't have enough sense to put the complete "Daria" series on DVD either. So as of this writing, your only recourse is to wait until "Win, Lose and Kaboom" is rerun on Nick and tape it yourself.