Re-Animated
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| Created by | Adam Pava Tim McKeon |
| Written by | Adam Pava Tim McKeon |
| Directed by | Bruce Hurwit |
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| Theme music composer | Johnny Colt |
| Opening theme | "Re-Animated", performed by Johnny Colt |
| Ending theme | "Re-Animated" (Extended) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Cinematography | Collin W. Davis |
| Editor(s) | Michael Kelly, ACE |
| Running time | 78 minutes |
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Renegade Animation Appleday Pictures |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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| Original network | Cartoon Network |
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| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Out of Jimmy's Head |
Re-Animated is a live-action/animated television film that aired on Cartoon Network on December 8, 2006. It was the first original production on the genre for the network. The movie was released on DVD September 11, 2007, and serves as pilot for the follow-up series Out of Jimmy's Head, which premiered on September 14, 2007.
Finally, the animation part was produced by Renegade Animation, who was well known for the series Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, instead the live-action part by the company Appleday Pictures.
Jimmy Roberts (Dominic Janes) is a 12-year-old boy who can't seem to say "no" to anybody, and as a result, ends up getting taken advantage of on a regular basis, even by his best friend Craig (Micah Karns). This problem continues during his class trip to Gollyworld, where he misses out on many of the rides because Craig tells the popular kids that Jimmy will hold their items for them. The popular kids then, on Craig's suggestion, tell Jimmy to go try to find Milt Appleday's frozen brain, which supposedly is hidden somewhere in Tux's Arctic Adventure. As usual, Jimmy unwillingly gives in, and once there, bumps into Milt's middle-age clumsy son Sonny (Matt Knudsen), who is attempting to retrieve the brain from underneath the ice. After being spotted by Sonny, Jimmy quickly flees and during his escape, accidentally runs onto the path of an oncoming train and is sent to the hospital, where Milt's brain (which one of the doctors keeps in his lunch cooler) is transplanted into his head. He makes it out of the operation just fine with his personality intact (explained by the doctors salvaging his "personality gland") but, he can now see all of Appleday's characters in real life, while no one else can.
With the help of his crush, Robin (Eunice Cho), who is also Craig's sister, Jimmy and the characters learn that the reason they've lost their popularity is thanks to Sonny, who unwittingly ruined their cartoons through his own ideas, especially Golly who is crushed to learn that his top spot as most popular cartoon character in the world has been reduced to nothing, but he figures with Jimmy now at the helm, he can quickly make him a star again. Now that he's president of Appleday Pictures. Sonny was fired by the Chairman of the Board, Jimmy is immensely popular, but no longer has time for school or his friends.
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