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''The Wild Thornberrys Movie'' is a 2002 Animated Feature Film based on the Children's Television Program '' The Wild Thornberrys ''. It was subsequently nominated for an Academy Award For Best Song for "Father and Daughter" by Paul Simon (but not for Best Animated Feature, in spite of generally favorable reviews).

The film has Eliza being sent off to Madame Beatrice's, a British boarding school, by her grandmother Cordelia, who is appalled by the idea of her grandchild being raised in the jungle. Meanwhile, Debbie is not too pleased herself that Eliza's being sent off and not her, despite her constant desire to leave. Other subplots in the movie include:
  • the kidnapping of a Cheetah cub and Eliza's persistent efforts to rescue it, which results in the above

  • an attempt to kill Elephant s with an Electric fence, which is somehow linked not only to a Solar Eclipse , but also to the cheetah-napping, and

  • Eliza's loss of powers, which forms a significant portion of the latter segments of the elephant storyline, and is what the film's tagline, "You don't need extraordinary powers to do extraordinary things", refers to.


It opened in the US box office on December 21 , 2002 , finished #6 for the weekend, and grossed only a modest $40 million domestically, again in spite of generally favorable reviews.


VOICE ACTORS AND THEIR CHARACTERS


Besides the regulars (see main Thornberrys article), the cast also includes:
  • Obba Babatunde - Boko, some boy Deborah runs into later on

  • Brenda Blethyn - Mrs. Fairgood, a teacher at the boarding school

  • Rupert Everett and Marisa Tomei - Husband and wife Sloan and Bree Blackburn, wildlife conservationists, or so they say

  • Lynn Redgrave - Grandma Cordelia Thornberry (the voice of Nigel Tim Curry also does the voice of her husband Colonel Radcliffe)

  • Cree Summer - Phaedra, the elephant Eliza is riding at the start of the film

  • Alfre Woodard - Akela, mother of the kidnapped cub



TAGLINES

  • This Could Be The Beginning Of A Beautiful Adventure.

  • New Home. New Friends. No Powers.

  • You don't need extraordinary powers to do extraordinary things.

  • Go Wild!!!



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