Tweety's High-Flying Adventure
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Directed by | Karl Torege Charles Visser James T. Walker Kyung Won Lim |
Produced by | Tom Minton James T. Walker |
Written by | Tom Minton Tim Cahill Julie McNally-Cahill |
Starring | Joe Alaskey June Foray Jeff Bennett Jim Cummings Tress MacNeille Frank Welker Rob Paulsen |
Music by | J. Eric Schmidt |
Cinematography | Amanda Atkinson |
Edited by | Rob Desales |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Family Entertainment |
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70 minutes |
Language | English |
Tweety's High-Flying Adventure is a 2000 direct-to-video musical comedy animated film produced by Tom Minton and James T. Walker, written by Tom Minton, Tim Cahill and Julie McNally, and directed by James T. Walker, Karl Toerge, Charles Visser, and Kyung Won Lim, starring Tweety. It also features other characters such as Sylvester (as the main antagonist), Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Lola Bunny (in a cameo as an anchorwoman), and Speedy Gonzales. The animation was made overseas by the animation company Koko Enterprises. The movie is an updated spoof of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. It was the first (and, so far, the only) long form animated film featuring Tweety in the lead role. Many of the key creative people from the 1995-2002 TV series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries also worked on "Tweety's High-Flying Adventure", which commenced shortly after the series wrapped production in May 1999. Co-producer Tom Minton instigated the project, which was only the second internally produced direct-to-video animated film done at the Warner Bros. Animation division in Sherman Oaks, California. It was adapted into a game for the Game Boy Color in 2001.
Plot[edit]
On the 2nd of October, when Colonel Rimfire, at the Looney Club in London, announces about his beliefs that cats are the most intelligent animals (after his many plans were foiled by Cool Cat), Granny, hoping to raise money for a nearby children's park, makes a wager that her Tweety can fly around the world in 80 days, collecting the pawprints of 80 cats in the process. Sylvester, still hoping to make Tweety his personal snack, is incensed at the thought of some other cat getting the little bird first and vows to follow Tweety around the world and catch the canary himself; unbeknownst to either one, a thief is also present.
Tweety sets a course to Paris, but is blown by a strong wind to the Swiss Alps, where he gets trapped, as does Daffy Duck, but Bugs Bunny saves them both. Tweety goes back to Paris, where he causes Pepe le Pew to mistake Sylvester for a female skunk. Tweety continues on to Venice, but grows overweight after eating too much bird seed. On a longboat, he faces a lot of cats, but he overpowers them and goes back to normal. While attempting to sleep in Egypt, he is chased into a tomb by Sylvester and several other cats, but escapes. In the African jungle, he outsmarts two lions with help from another bird.
In the Chinese Himalayas, he befriends another canary known as Aoogah (the name coming from her ability to imitate a horn), after rescuing her from a sacrifice. They are taken by more winds into Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Japan, and eventually make it onto a boat to the United States. However, Sylvester catches up with them, but Hubie and Bertie cause him to slide into the water. Tweety and Aoogah are able to save him, but end up on a beach in Australia. Sylvester meets the Tasmanian Devil and they chase the two canaries, resorting to a motorcycle, but end up in the ocean.
Tweety and Aoogah ride a windsurfer to San Francisco. Sylvester hijacks a tram to chase them, but ends up on Alcatraz, to the fury of Yosemite Sam, who appears as the tram's driver. The two canaries make it safely on a train to Las Vegas, where they escape more cats. Afterwards, they go through more cities across the US, finishing in New York City. There, they trick Sylvester into getting onto a concorde alone. The two canaries are caught up in an Atlantic hurricane and briefly washed up on an island, but outsmart more cats and escape back through the hurricane.
In a pub in the English countryside, they discover the thief and manage to outsmart him. Sylvester attempts to frame Tweety by passing his license to fly for a stolen passport. He almost succeeds, but the real passport is in his hand, thus getting himself arrested instead. Tweety and Aoogah believe they are a day late, until they discover that it's the 21st of December because they crossed the international date line. They are able to get back to London, complete their mission and save the park, and Tweety even gets knighted by the Queen, whilst Sylvester heads to prison.
Voices[edit]
Additional voices[edit]
- Julie Bernstein
- Steve Bernstein
- Elizabeth Lamers
- T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh
- Tress MacNeille
- Pat Musick
- Rob Paulsen
- Frank Welker
- Joe Alaskey
- Jeff Bennett
- Jim Cummings
- Stan Freberg
Music crew[edit]
- Music by: J. Eric Schmidt
- Songs by: Randy Rogel and Cindy Morrow
External links[edit]
- 2000 films
- English-language films
- 2000 direct-to-video films
- 2000 animated films
- Direct-to-video animated films
- Looney Tunes films
- American films
- Warner Bros. Animation animated films
- Warner Bros. direct-to-video animated films
- Animated films about birds
- Films featuring anthropomorphic characters
- Films set in Africa
- Films set in Australia
- Films set in Buenos Aires
- Films set in Chicago
- Films set in China
- Films set in Egypt
- Films set in Japan
- Films set in the Las Vegas Valley
- Films set in London
- Films set in Mexico City
- Films set in Nepal
- Films set in New York City
- Films set in Paris
- Films set in Pittsburgh
- Films set in Rio de Janeiro (city)
- Films set in San Francisco
- Films set in St. Louis
- Films set in Switzerland
- Films set in the Atlantic Ocean
- Films set in the Pacific Ocean
- Films set in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Films set in Venice
- 2000s American animated films
- American musical films
- Animated musical films
- Aviation films
- Aviation comics
- Films based on works by Jules Verne
- Yeti in fiction