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My name is Cody Cameron.
I'm one of the directors.
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I'm Kris Pearn. I'm the other director
of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2.
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- Two.
- Two.
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We work for Sony Pictures Animation.
Really funny logo.
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- That was dancing letters.
- And they work for Columbia Pictures.
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These titles were done by Chad Stewart
and Todd Pilger, right?
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Going back to, like, the first test we did at
the very beginning of the process, right?
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We had those letters
kind of in our style, right?
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Yeah.
Justin Thompson designed them.
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Now here's a little flashback to remind
the audience who Flint was as a little kid.
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And we're gonna meet the new character
that's gonna turn the whole story.
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With your host, Chester V.
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That's Chester V.
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Welcome back, science friends.
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You know, I have devoted my life
to inventing the future.
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But every dream has a beginning.
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I still remember my first invention:
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And this little photo here reminds me
of Matt Taylor, one of our voice talent.
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Yeah, he's actually, I think,
getting younger as he gets older.
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But not to reference a movie
about someone who gets younger.
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Now here's Chester's Food Bar...
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...which was kind of like our food version
of the iPod in this movie.
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Yes, yeah.
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This whole opening
was sort of inspired...
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...by some of the stuff we watched
when we were kids.
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Those science shows
and what have you in the '80s.
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Yeah, and a certain program
that was on Sunday nights.
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And here's where we meet Barb,
voiced by Kristen Schaal.
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--Change the world?
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And sort of the mythology, the idea
was that, you know, he saw Barb on TV...
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...and that's what drew him
to making Steve.
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- Kind of our revisionist history.
- Here's some footage from the first film.
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This was some free footage
for our animators.
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Yeah. And the images
in these flashbacks...
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...are at 1.5K and our film was at 4K.
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So if you look really close...
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...it's just a little less good-looking
than our film.
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- It looks old.
- Yeah.
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It's old technology.
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Like an old shoe,
it's comfortable to wear, though.
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Yes. And it keeps your feet warm.
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Me and Cody worked on the first movie
for a while.
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Yeah, you were the head of story.
Yeah, four and a half years.
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That was my scene right there,
the burger rain.
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How does it feel going back in time?
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-It's exciting.
- Yeah.
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You remember
the Gummi Bear obsession with Steve.
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We don't really do much of that
this movie.
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We have some dancing Gummi Bears
in the finale.
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He's cool with the Gummi Bears now.
He's come to terms.
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This is the reverse of the shot
we had in the first film...
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...where we saw the clouds clear.
We wanted to shoot it from underneath.
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There's a lot more food on this food pile
than we originally had.
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That's a little revisionist history.
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So if you put two DVDs back to back,
you can get us on that.
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- Here's all the gang. Noodle Man.
- Yeah.
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Also, the glass dome to Flint's car
was here in this shot.
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- I think it actually blew off in the first film.
- Yeah, it did. And they were dirtier.
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If you remember the first film,
half of Flint's head was torched off.
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- Scorched, yeah.
- Scorched.
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And Sam doesn't have any dirt
on her face.
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She's got dirt on her shirt,
but not on her face.
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- Dirt on her shirt.
- Dirt shirt.
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Dirty shirt.
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So here's Flint kind of proposing to her,
but he's doing it in kind of a nerd way...
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...where he's actually asking her
to work with him.
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- I think that was my stomach.
- Was that your stomach?
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It's hard when you're working
on a movie about food.
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Food! In my stomach, food.
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So here's where they come up
with sort of the MacGuffin of the movie...
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...the Sparkswood.
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- Not ever.
- Never, ever, ever!
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I gave away the name
before they gave away the name.
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- Hopefully, you've seen the movie.
- That's okay.
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Because if you're starting here,
your entertainment value is less.
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We're doing this commentary
before the film has been released.
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So, hey, hope it's a hit.
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And there's Chicken Brent
in his chicken suit.
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Manny One-Stroke. Amazing drawing.
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All of these drawings on this piece
of paper were drawn by kids...
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from our vis-dev crew.
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- So-- Except for the little poop smear.
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That was created by Justin,
our production designer.
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Or was that Dave Bletch
that did that little smear?
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- Maybe it was both of them.
- Okay. It took two fingers.
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Two people.
There's a rat-bird off the head.
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Now, Remote Control TV, one of our
favorite characters from the first film.
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And here Chester V
shows back up again.
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- He's got a white beard this time, though.
- He's a lot older.
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- That's proof that time has passed.
- Yes.
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So we have him throwing out
some humanitarian aid.
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- Bandages, pants, water, things like that.
- Things like that.
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And we wanted to kind of call attention
to the vest...
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...because it's become something
that Flint wants the whole movie.
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It's like a literal carrot
that he's kind of chasing.
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- Yeah. Look. Look. It looks like a carrot.
-It's a carrot.
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You'll notice that Chester
kind of is shaped like a lightbulb.
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It's sort of like his design language runs
through everything he touches, right?
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- Good ideas. Lightbulbs.
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And we've just revealed
the hologram thing.
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We've got the-- You know,
kind of once we get that into the movie...
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...Chester can create
these holograms...
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...and these storytelling whiteboard
devices can pop up out of them.
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Which is kind of helpful.
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What? You need us to leave?
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- I see bandages. Manny's got bandages.
- And pants. See Joe Town's pants?
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Joe Town's got pants.
Why he's got pants?
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- He's got some pants.
- Why's he got pants?
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Noodle Man's facing the wrong way.
That's a joke from the animators.
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In the right-hand corner, there's four guys
wearing the same blue plaid shirt.
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One of the things we updated
was our crowd rigs on this movie, so...
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We were using the old ones
for this bit...
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...so you can see a lot more
repetitive characters.
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- That's a lovely piece of corn, isn't it?
- It looks real.
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--Return home before you know it.
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Except for you, Flint Lockwood.
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Me? Why?
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That's the other thing we could do,
is we could just recite the dialogue.
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- Hey, this guy is a good--
- Yeah. Who did that voice?
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I think this is a good guy.
Really talented. Hard to get.
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Hologram technology. Awesome.
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We have a lot of fun with,
like, holograms touching things.
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- Or not touching...
- Not touching things.
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He can be slightly creepy.
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I mean, he does a little bit
of a chin grab here in two minutes.
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I understand, Lockwood.
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But if you become a...
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Right here.
You've been touched by a hologram.
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Of course, Sam is, like, super supportive,
and we wanted to make sure that...
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...Flint was honorable
to what they were just dreaming about.
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- Blue crayon.
- But orange vest.
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- How'd that happen?
- Yeah, magic. Magic crayon.
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A little continuity here.
There's Joe Town. Hey, Joe Town.
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And then they're going away.
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This is the best day ever!
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It was the best day ever. But wait.
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We had a lot of debate
as to when to pop the Chester balloon...
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...and tell the audience
that this guy is a bad guy.
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Turned out that clarity
was the best thing for us.
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Now we just do it right here.
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I like the way the hologram is really
subservient to the real Chester.
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--No idea of our real plan.
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What's your real plan?
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- Capture the Invention?
- I'm the only one that laughs at that.
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It makes me laugh that Chester's
got obvious names for his plans.
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And that kind of came from--
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It's like everything he touches
is really easy to use.
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You'll see later on in the movie...
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...that the food can break out
of cages pretty easy.
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Now here's our opening titles
from Todd Pilger.
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- And actually--
-3D.
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Originally, Glenn Harmon
did the 2-D version of this.
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Then Todd kind of picked it up
and made a 3D version.
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Good folks.
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So now we're gonna jump
to San Franjose, California.
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- And it looks like he's back in his lab.
- Yeah, look, it's full of 3D.
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- Why's he back in his lab?
- Look at the depth.
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It's just a joke. It was a magic curtain.
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The idea here is that Flint and Tim
are living together...
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...in this one-bedroom apartment
in San Franjose...
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...and, you know, Flint is more going
on the adolescent journey.
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- And his girlfriend lives across the hall.
- Of course.
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So they can hold hands and stuff.
But it's all very friendly.
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There she is.
The brightest weather girl.
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And all of our gang is there
with them...
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...and they're gonna go off
to their new futures.
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- Three guys in blue.
- There's a Live Corp bus.
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- Sasquash.
- Sasquash.
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There's a-- So the Live Corp--
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- Noodle Guy.
- Noodle Guy.
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- That was exciting.
- Yeah.
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- Joe Town.
- Joe Town.
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The bus is going to beautiful-- Nice.
--San Franjose, California.
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And here we have Live Corp.
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Like, they paved over Alcatraz
and built this giant lightbulb.
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Notice the colors orange and green
on a white background.
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- You'll see a lot of that.
- Yeah, it's kind of Chester's signature.
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So if you notice the crowds
in this section...
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...there's a lot more diversity
than we had in the first film.
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This was a combination of Craig Kellman
working with our lmageworks team...
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...the amazing guys there
and their problem-solving ability...
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...in terms of coming up
with five characters...
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...that you can make
a thousand characters.
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Morph in between.
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We have Barb showing up again.
This is adult Barb.
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Notice that the coffee cup
is also a hexagon?
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This is probably the first time
Flint's ever had coffee.
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So the idea here is that he's gonna get
a little more hyper through the scene.
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Barb's really sensitive
about being called a monkey...
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-...because she's obviously an ape.
- Yeah.
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By the way, in that last shot
where Barb scoots off frame...
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...she sticks for a moment,
for one frame.
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Don't know if they'll fix that
by the time the DVD--
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- I bet you they will.
- Yeah. Yeah.
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And so, you know, here, now,
Flint's in the big world.
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- Hot.
- Not too bad yourself, monkey.
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That was designed after one
of our story artists, Jenny.
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I'm sorry, Jenny.
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--Are offered in beginner or grande.
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Over here, indoor sports.
Those are encouraged.
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We were just having fun with the idea
of like, you know, a haven for nerds.
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- And I mean that with the lovingest...
- Yes. Pointing the fingers back at us.
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As we are in an animation studio,
it's very similar.
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The idea here is that, you know,
this is a place...
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...where everybody can get everything
they need, so they never have to leave.
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Yeah, like the coolest company
on the coolest campus ever.
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There's a few companies like that
in California.
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Here's Craig Kellman,
our character designer...
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...showing us his idea pants.
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That was one of the earliest gags
we had in the movie.
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Sort of stuck in
through all of the screenings and stuff.
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Magic hexagons.
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- That was Theo Vandernoot.
- More hexagons.
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That's where we belong, Steve.
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Great thing about Steve is you can just
drop in lines here and there.
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The idea is he's overly caffeinated.
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We don't point too big a finger at it,
but Steve's freaking out.
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His heart rate's going through the roof.
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If you go back and watch,
you can watch his eyes start to dilate...
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...and twitch,
and it's a gradual process.
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It's one of our ways
to hide the exposition...
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...with a caffeinated monkey.
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This nose gag keeps coming up.
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We have a lot of repeat gags
in this movie.
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- The running gag.
- The running gag.
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I think Brandon Jeffords added
the coffee coming out of the thing there.
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- I believe so.
- That was our head of story.
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Delightful man. Good father.
Snappy dresser.
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- One of my favorite shots in the movie.
- Yeah. A little Flintly McCallahan.
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Flintly McCallahan
you're gonna meet in a bit.
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He's hammering a cat into a car
subliminally.
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- No real cats were harmed in this film.
- No, no, no.
234
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- Nor no CG.
- Yeah. No CG cats.
235
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So there's like nine arms
going on here.
236
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--To ice cubes
with the Re-Freeze-a-Fan!
237
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The idea here is that Flint
is kind of making all of these inventions...
238
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...and he experiments on his dad
as sort of who he uses.
239
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So just sort of stretching out
that idea that Tim and Flint...
240
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...are living together in this apartment,
on top of each other.
241
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And he'll never get to finish
that copy of Moby Dick.
242
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He's been working on that book
for a long time.
243
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This is a joke from the first film
that never made it in.
244
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We brought the invisible coffee table back.
It always made us laugh.
245
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- Delicious leftovers.
- The tiny, tiny Tim.
246
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- Hairless Tim.
- Yeah.
247
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Notice the painting in the background
of Flint and Tim fishing.
248
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He's got no hat in this shot.
249
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Later you'll see this portrait in the boat,
and he's got a hat.
250
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- He's got a hat.
-It's a magic hat.
251
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This shot always makes me laugh.
252
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The previous one where Flint's doing
the bad acting, that was Claudio.
253
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Claudio animated that,
which makes me laugh.
254
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Flint's looking at the camera
and acting badly.
255
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This celebration here keeps coming back.
It's a party in a box.
256
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We were gonna make one,
but we didn't know how.
257
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There used to be a theme song for it
that Flint and Sam had.
258
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"A party in a box for any occasion."
259
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- Like they used it all the time.
- Yeah.
260
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So here we are
at the Live Corp vesting ceremony...
261
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...which is like one of those keynote
things they do up in Silicon Valley.
262
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Of course, Steve has been trained to hit
that button any time he hears the word.
263
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You called it a Pavlovian...?
264
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- A Pavlovian response, yeah.
- Yeah.
265
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--Vesting ceremony!
266
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That makes us sound smart.
267
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As directors,
we have to always sound smart.
268
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- I have no idea what that means.
- But that's part of the job.
269
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Pretending we know
what we're talking about.
270
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- Yeah.
-It's like herding cats, you know.
271
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They just pat us on the back and say,
"Good job. Good job."
272
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I mean, most of what we do
is try to be open to ideas.
273
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We have a team of, what,
like 300 people...
274
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...and they're all really funny,
awesome people.
275
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It's like trying
to get everybody motivated...
276
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-...to do the best work they can do.
- And be collaborators, you know?
277
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Just like Chester V here at Live Corp.
You see how they love him?
278
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So right here,
we're gonna see the carrot.
279
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Here's the carrot Flint is after.
That everybody in this company is after.
280
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- That orange vest, you know.
- Yeah.
281
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So I always love watching
the background characters here...
282
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...and how happy they are.
283
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Look at that lady to the right.
Wow, she's excited.
284
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- They're so happy.
- Yeah.
285
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So here's a little bit
of a drum-roll moment.
286
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He's got a memorable mop
of unruly hair.
287
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- You watching the movie?
- Yeah, that's what happens.
288
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Just is a little exciting.
289
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Our newest Live Corp
Thinkquanaut is:
290
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Notice how Chester actually never looks
at the card that has the name printed.
291
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This the old "You got it! No"
bait and switch.
292
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So this is Craig Kellman,
our lead character designer...
293
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...doing the voice of Flintly McCallahan.
And the car that runs on cute.
294
00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:42,529
So the idea
with Flintly McCallahan...
295
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...is he would be a mimic of Flint's design
but sort of the opposite.
296
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So he's got like a crazy hairstyle,
but instead of being black...
297
00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,362
...it's kind of orange,
or, as they say, ginger.
298
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And I think they actually used the Flint rig
and just swapped out...
299
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-...or changed the head and stuff.
- His nose.
300
00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:01,121
And, of course, the Celebrationator.
We loaded the gun and it's gonna go off.
301
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Go:
302
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- There's a Wilhelm scream in there.
- Yeah, classic Wilhelm scream.
303
00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,844
So the idea here is that
we were mimicking the moment...
304
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...that we reminded the audience about
where everybody's laughing at Flint.
305
00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:17,163
So we wanted to kind of have that
same sense of humiliation and shame.
306
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That Spray-On Shoes moment.
307
00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:21,883
You know,
poor Flint is gonna walk home.
308
00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:23,280
Yeah.
309
00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,490
- So we got "The Inventor Song" here.
- Yeah.
310
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Sad, rainy walk.
311
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And, you know, we got this--
The trail of failure.
312
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The shame sparkle trail.
313
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Yeah. In our town of San Franjose,
we have a Chinatown...
314
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...much like San Francisco has,
but ours, I think, is only a block long.
315
00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:46,287
- Right.
- Yeah.
316
00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:50,001
Well, early on, one of the things we did,
we took our production designer...
317
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...went up to San Francisco and spent
a weekend photographing there...
318
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...and walking around
and getting a feel for the place.
319
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We were trying to pack all that knowledge
into one street.
320
00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,806
That's one of my favorite transitions,
the old sparkle-to-sparkle transition.
321
00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:06,610
We had to fight our editor on that.
322
00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,206
It was-- Claudio won.
We never did cross-dissolves.
323
00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,010
It was kind of a conscious choice.
324
00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,766
But, you know,
now we're in a different world.
325
00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,083
I like the janitor lighting here
and this kind of internal moment...
326
00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:18,566
...between Barb and Chester.
327
00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,604
This is one of the later-boarded
sequences that we had, right?
328
00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,730
- One of the last, right?
- Yeah, I think we had a test screening.
329
00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,242
It seemed like the audience wanted
to understand Chester's plan clearer.
330
00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:33,566
And the idea of, like, clarifying it,
we gave this to our head of story...
331
00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,569
-...and he came up with this idea.
- Yeah.
332
00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,604
This was actually-- Alan Hawkins
animated the hand gag here...
333
00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,001
...which is something
that always makes me laugh.
334
00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,004
One of the opportunities
that Chester provides for our guys...
335
00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,003
...is a new way
to move these characters.
336
00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,607
Because we have a Muppety style,
he's a little bit more fluid and fun.
337
00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,524
- He's so fun to watch, I find.
- Yeah.
338
00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,644
Even with the sound off,
I could just watch Chester all day.
339
00:16:54,840 --> 00:17:00,085
Poor Flint, having that adolescent
moment where you flop down on the bed.
340
00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,684
Steve is gonna have a relationship
with this candle coming up.
341
00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:08,721
That's a vest cake, which, you know,
is sort of like to celebrate him...
342
00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:10,729
...getting that vest that he didn't get.
343
00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,366
And, of course,
Sam comes in with the same one.
344
00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:18,441
The R and D on this cake, Pete Travers--
What's Pete's title, official title again?
345
00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,768
- VFX supervisor?
- The VFX supe.
346
00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,009
That was his favorite shot right there.
The close-up on the cake.
347
00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,891
And actually, it almost--
Wasn't that a live-action shot?
348
00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,122
I think it could have been
a live-action cake.
349
00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:33,729
We had a live-action cake inserted here.
Steve was green screened. He had a--
350
00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,724
- The cake had a Ping-Pong suit on.
- Yeah.
351
00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,891
Neil Patrick Harris in the mo-cap suit.
352
00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:42,202
- Jumping on a cake.
- Yeah.
353
00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,051
That's how we do all of our animation.
It's all mo-cap.
354
00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:48,806
- No.
- He's kidding.
355
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,287
- We have how many animators?
- Like 80-plus.
356
00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,762
- Yeah. And they were fantastic.
- Yeah. Really, really good work.
357
00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,082
Great team.
And they brought a lot to the table.
358
00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:01,290
I mean, that gag we have with Steve's tail
lighting up, that was Toby, right?
359
00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:02,811
Yeah.
360
00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,244
And, of course, we have some--
361
00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,483
You know, Tim's decorating there behind,
we have in that sardine.
362
00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,326
If you watch, continuity-wise, it's not
always in that part of the wall, is it?
363
00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:13,686
It moves around, yeah,
364
00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,242
Now, a lot of people told us
you gotta have Tim fielded properly.
365
00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,370
And we like the fact that Tim
was sort of awkward in this case.
366
00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:22,921
We always said he was like
a Saint Bernard, you know.
367
00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:24,400
In a one-bedroom apartment.
368
00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,602
We deliberately cut off
the top of his head.
369
00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:28,125
That was a director's choice.
370
00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,760
So if you hate it,
you can hate the director.
371
00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,009
James Williams, our head of Layout,
he went with it...
372
00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,527
-...because he's a good man.
- Yeah. Yeah.
373
00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,569
I don't know how many beds
Tim breaks a year.
374
00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,725
But I think this sort of loving-father
kind of thing is a new thing for Tim.
375
00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,602
You know, to sit there
and kind of be a good listener.
376
00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,171
- Of course--
- Fancy nails.
377
00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,448
When everything seems
like it's going wrong...
378
00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,529
...something shows up
to steer the story.
379
00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,049
Here comes Barb.
380
00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,886
Originally, this is where
we were gonna meet Barb, right?
381
00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:02,769
- Yeah.
- She hadn't shown up yet and--
382
00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,888
There used to be a character
named Cathy...
383
00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,242
-...who brought Flint through Live Corp.
- Right.
384
00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,371
And I can't remember when we decided
to make Barb that character.
385
00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,171
But I think it really blesses
the beginning of the film.
386
00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,403
It was pretty far along. That was one
our animation team went with.
387
00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,325
We try to avoid story changes
when we're deep in production.
388
00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,882
That seemed like it made sense.
That's why Barb ended up on the scooter.
389
00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,048
So we could keep Flint's
eyelines the same.
390
00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,567
It would keep all our layout shots
the same, yeah.
391
00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,963
Barb walks on these little feet.
That's gonna come into play later on.
392
00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:35,647
Like, one of the fun things that
the animators had to play with, with her...
393
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,282
-...is that she'd try to move like a human.
- She'd never walk on her arms.
394
00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,886
Yeah, she doesn't move like a monkey
or an ape.
395
00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,725
So here we have
Chester's inner sanctum.
396
00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,288
The idea, like, it's like a log cabin
in the middle of the woods.
397
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:50,726
Yeah, if you freeze-frame...
398
00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,009
...you can see all the great portraits
of Chester on the back wall.
399
00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,128
The idea here
is that Chester is sort of--
400
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,442
You know,
his best advice comes from himself...
401
00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,568
...so he's surrounded himself
with himself.
402
00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:02,842
That's the meta thing
with these holograms.
403
00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:04,087
He can be everywhere.
404
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,443
Now watch the eyes on the cat
on the mantel.
405
00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:09,611
Yeah.
406
00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:16,290
- Why don't we bring the coffee back?
- Sip.
407
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:17,606
This is a photograph...
408
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:19,330
This is a big expositional scene.
409
00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,403
We wanted some business
with the coffee...
410
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,848
...to give us some sense of the tension,
the ticking clock ratcheting through.
411
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,964
Here's our Thinkquanauts
that were at the beginning.
412
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,447
That's the two directors.
413
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,810
One of the things that these directors do
sometimes is stupid voices on the...
414
00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:37,249
That was Cody screaming.
415
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,408
It appears to be
a living cheeseburger...
416
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,210
I always loved this shot.
417
00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:44,603
And I love the way
that the CG team lit this.
418
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,006
- Yeah.
- Over at lmageworks.
419
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,605
Like, it's really dramatic.
420
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,889
Feels like a warm cabin on the inside
and cold on the outside.
421
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:52,963
So when you're shooting back
on Chester...
422
00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:57,364
...he's got that kind of dramatic kind of,
you know, uplit thing.
423
00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,124
- Dramatic light.
- Dramatic lighting.
424
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,891
- Dramatic, dramatic lighting.
- That dramatical lighting.
425
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,408
This is extreme. This is great in 3D.
That nose comes right out at you.
426
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,211
The whole coffee thing was set up
for the dumb spit-take.
427
00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:11,091
Yeah, we used to have
the Forkenknifenspooninator...
428
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,006
...that you saw in the earlier montage
strapped to his neck in this scene...
429
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,322
...and it was some funny business.
430
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,005
We took it out for some reason--
431
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,482
- I think it was to simplify, right?
- Then we needed some funny business.
432
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,608
We thought,
why not have him sip coffee?
433
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,964
This is where we meet the weapon
of choice for Chester, the BSUSB.
434
00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:31,361
A Bifurcating Systematic
Universal Stop Button!
435
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,166
The idea here is Flint and Chester
kind of communicate...
436
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,244
...in the same kind of, you know,
science speak.
437
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,364
So Flint's able
to pick up his acronyms and...
438
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,568
- Watch the buffalo.
- Watch the buffaloaf.
439
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,364
- Oh, buffalo, not buffaloaf.
- Yeah.
440
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,682
No food yet.
441
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:48,086
Brilliant!
442
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:52,490
So the idea here is that, you know,
Chester needs to manage the situation.
443
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,326
So Chester's alternative plan,
or ulterior plan, here is to, you know...
444
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,926
...get this done quietly
so he can get what he wants.
445
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,527
So he's manipulating Flint into thinking
he has to do this for his respect.
446
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,250
- Right?
- Yeah.
447
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,609
- I like those little pauses that he has.
- Yeah.
448
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,641
Outside that window there,
that's a 2D live-action set, right?
449
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,081
- Yeah, the snowfall?
- That's somebody's backyard.
450
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,811
- Wasn't that Mike Ford's backyard?
- I think so. Yeah.
451
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,769
We all know Flint can't keep a secret.
452
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,611
So that was a little nod
to the homage of the first film.
453
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,206
Right.
Yeah, when they're in the Jell-O mold.
454
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,370
Sam was like, "Can you keep a secret?"
And he went, "No."
455
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,244
- But this time...
- And, of course...
456
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,842
...because we're two dudes, we think
that this is what ladies do at night.
457
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,163
- They all put blue cream on their face.
- That mud mask stuff.
458
00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:41,081
- But she does work in the movie. Yeah.
- Sure. Yeah.
459
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,681
Little note on Tim's forehead there.
460
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,771
There was a montage of him packing,
so that was a little vestigial thing there.
461
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,686
We left it in because I thought
it was kind of funny. Left his dad a note.
462
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,968
Steve's always fun to watch
in these scenes.
463
00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:57,169
Yeah. It seems like he's, you know...
464
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,164
...always distracted
by something else around him.
465
00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:04,126
So here's Terry Crews
coming in as Earl.
466
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,291
You know, the fun thing here is we get
to sort of see him in his "day in the life"...
467
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,926
...for what he's been doing
in San Franjose.
468
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,243
The idea is I think everybody's been
diminished from their home.
469
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:18,166
- Their roles.
-They have a lesser job.
470
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,243
- But you can't keep a good man down.
- No.
471
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,684
- You can't keep a good beard down.
- He's got beard just waiting to blow out.
472
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,048
Son, you are my beautiful...
473
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,044
So we had to recast Cal this time
because...
474
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,642
- The original actor is probably 25 now.
- Yeah. I think, you know...
475
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,731
...with the time of animation,
you have to kind of hit the same cusp.
476
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,325
Adolescence.
477
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,484
That's not a chest hair.
478
00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,406
That's cupcake frosting.
479
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,448
- So yeah.
- Yeah. But Khamani did a great job.
480
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:47,886
Khamani was great.
481
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,646
Little bit of chest-hair fudge there,
you know.
482
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,001
Cal's got the confidence.
483
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,409
That's the first step towards
getting chest hair, the self-confidence.
484
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,085
- Don't you think?
- Definitely.
485
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,164
Definitely. And this is--
H. Lee Pearson came up with this gag.
486
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:04,325
The Cal hanging out
of the big side of a cow.
487
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,608
- And everybody loves Brent.
- Yeah.
488
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,168
So early days-- Was it Kellman came up
with the idea of the chicken suit?
489
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,607
- I think so.
- So that was our character designer.
490
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,406
I mean, going back to what we do
early on in the movie...
491
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,127
...we spend a lot of time kind of working
story and vis dev at the same time.
492
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,284
The two things feed each other.
"Vis dev" is visual development.
493
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:28,526
That's where we design everything
and come up with the ideas visually.
494
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,725
So here's one of the inventions from
earlier in the movie coming back...
495
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,366
...the Grocery Deliverator.
496
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,406
That is gonna be scary, and he's gonna
expect his friends to jump through it.
497
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,524
Is that you doing that kind of
backwards Latin?
498
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,529
That faux backwards Latin?
499
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,523
Yes, Steve, hungry for adventure.
500
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,684
I always wanted-- I think Geoff Rubay,
our sound guy, tweaked it.
501
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,211
Tweaked it quite a bit. Yeah.
502
00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:55,887
I always wanted to do a short of Steve's
adventure through time and space...
503
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,731
...for what happens
when he gets tossed into that thing.
504
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,843
You'll notice the banana sandwich
is gone.
505
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,281
The banana sandwich shows up
back on the islands.
506
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,484
- Couple spots. Yeah.
-It's a pretty subtle bit.
507
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,887
I think once is when Flint
gets knocked over...
508
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,169
...by Chester,
and all his inventions fall out of his jacket.
509
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,880
- And at the very end after the credits.
- Yeah.
510
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,881
So there's the, you know, the old stealing
the power from his dad again.
511
00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:21,804
The island's gonna be
very dangerous--
512
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,771
I was born on the island, and I wanna
die on that island...
513
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,610
This line always makes me laugh.
514
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,690
- Oh, Mom. "Just like your mom."
- Yeah.
515
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,770
So when we designed Tim's boat,
we wanted it to feel like Tim.
516
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,322
Tim's a big guy, and he's got, like--
He's sort of too big for this world.
517
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,687
We wanted the boat
to feel top heavy like Tim...
518
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,850
...and have, like,
a lot of the same color language, right?
519
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,169
Yeah, a lot of the tackle-shop colors
come into play.
520
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,769
So the idea here is that, you know--
521
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,242
In the first film we never saw Tim's boat,
but we knew he loved fishing.
522
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,331
It was really fun to sort of imagine that he
packed that up and brought it with him.
523
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,289
There's a bit of sleight of hand here.
524
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,286
They're in California, and we've set up
that the island is under the Atlantic.
525
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,171
So somehow they got
from the West Coast to the East Coast.
526
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,004
- Panama Canal.
- Yeah. Around the top.
527
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,369
Actually, global warming. It's great.
They just...scoot around.
528
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:10,681
Here's our whiteboarding.
529
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:11,927
In the first film...
530
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,244
...we had a rhythm where Flint would
whiteboard what was gonna happen.
531
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,246
And it was a really quick way to unpack
sort of the strange events of the story...
532
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,483
...so you could be comfortable
with the action that was gonna come.
533
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,763
So we were just using some
of the same technology...
534
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,649
...I guess, in terms of storytelling.
535
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,006
What if you don't find it?
536
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,731
I have to. It's my machine.
537
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,090
Of course, Flint would draw out
the things that were worrying him.
538
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,762
I mean, we kind of use Flint
like he's one of us, right? We kind of...
539
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,888
- Everyman?
- Everyman.
540
00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:46,726
And here's where we start
to do some punning.
541
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,482
Now, the puns were controversial,
weren't they?
542
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,962
They were in and they were out,
and they were in and they were out.
543
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,640
I don't know what they're gonna do
in foreign markets.
544
00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:00,801
They'll have two other directors
in those languages telling you what...
545
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,088
Vegetable in the car.
546
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,165
This shot's an amazing shot.
You know, the CG team...
547
00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:09,840
Was this a Mike Ford, or was this...?
548
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,202
Oh, I can't remember.
Yeah. Shouldn't even...
549
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,051
- Don't hate us, guys.
- Yeah. We love you all.
550
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,928
Anyways, the way
that they pulled the color into that...
551
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,448
...just made that look awesome.
I love the moodiness of this whole part.
552
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,929
- That was a late shot too that we added.
- The underwater shot?
553
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,811
Yeah. This shot looks great in 3D
as it pulls out.
554
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,806
So the idea here is that, you know,
their expectations of the island...
555
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,970
...are completely wrong
in terms of what they're confronting.
556
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,088
This wall of jungle is gonna be...
557
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,886
- Sasquash.
-...something that they're up against.
558
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,889
The jungle's no place for a monkey.
559
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:47,283
"The jungle's no place for a monkey."
That's a Chris Miller line.
560
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:48,851
Manny, are you getting this?
561
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,047
I certainly am.
562
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,601
- From our comedy pass.
- From our comedy pass, folks.
563
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,888
- Comedy.
- We're doing a comedy pass.
564
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,725
- Everybody's invited to the comedy pass.
- Pitch.
565
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,850
What's that?
Oh, no. Is it a cheespider?
566
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:06,242
- Kind of it looks like it.
- Nope. It's a 3D joke for some rat-birds.
567
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,920
Wanted to remind the audience
what the rat-birds were.
568
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,960
We love the rat-birds.
Did you do that "beware"?
569
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,721
Either myself or Craig Kellman.
I can't remember. I thought Craig did it.
570
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,645
Might have been Craig Kellman.
"Beware! Beware!"
571
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,611
Tim's duffle bag,
which we only see in this scene.
572
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,366
There was a lot of conversation
about that duffle bag.
573
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,045
Yeah.
574
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:31,522
Yeah. So the idea here is that, you know,
towards the adolescent story...
575
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,563
...Flint doesn't want his dad with him.
576
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,041
In the first movie,
his dad didn't really help him.
577
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,124
Emotionally, he kind of gave him
the courage to finish the job.
578
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,449
He sent him the cat video
instead of the right thing, so...
579
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,246
So Tim gets left behind.
580
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,841
We're bringing back the idea
that Earl believes...
581
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,925
...that finger guns will actually help.
Which was from the first film, right?
582
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,963
- Did we do...?
- Yeah. Finger guns. Yeah.
583
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,361
Finger guns.
There's a little near-far gag there.
584
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,090
Look what's happened to our town.
585
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,125
Earl's so fun, the way he moves.
586
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,250
In animation terms,
he doesn't have a lot of in-betweens.
587
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,489
- He kind of bounces from pose to pose.
- Hops from pose to pose.
588
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,082
Here we remind the audience
that Manny had a van on the island...
589
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,328
...and he has no hair
on the top of his head.
590
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,211
Look! An old thing
that I've never seen before!
591
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,809
So this bunker is a callback to what
we established in Chester's office...
592
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,885
...the idea that we wanted to have
sort of a geographical pinning...
593
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,451
...to connect the two stories.
594
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,683
The idea that these people were eaten
by the cheeseburger, and so--
595
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,684
To put, like, some danger
into this part of the film.
596
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,569
Stand back, everybody.
597
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,447
I'm gonna cut the cheese.
598
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,446
- Our most controversial joke.
- Yeah. It was out for a while and back in.
599
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,080
We found that we kept goosing
that fart, right?
600
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,402
If you're gonna do it,
you might as well do it.
601
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,769
- Go for it.
- Go all the way in.
602
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,368
Always fun to play with
the chicken jokes with Brent.
603
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,170
What was that sound?
Do you remember?
604
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,005
- It was a zipper, wasn't it?
- I think so. Like a:
605
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,801
Yeah. Where did you find that rubber
chicken that made that horrible sound?
606
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,526
I found the rubber chicken
in downtown Santa Monica...
607
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,241
...and I brought it into the studio,
and our editor at the time, he hated it.
608
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,562
And so we--
The fact that we knew he hated it...
609
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,769
...meant we would bring it to meetings
and just squeak that thing.
610
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,521
- We should have brought it with us.
- We should have, because it's unreal.
611
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,808
Like, it didn't really sound
like a chicken.
612
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,407
- It sounded extraterrestrial.
- So this is where we meet Barry.
613
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,321
This was an early sequence boarded
by one of our board artists, Liz Ito.
614
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:33,811
Every now and then--
615
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,531
We tend to work off scripts,
but sometimes you feel...
616
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,728
...the script isn't giving you
what you need.
617
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,168
So Liz kind of broke into this one,
and she wrote a lot of this.
618
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,482
In terms of the dynamics
of how we meet Barry.
619
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,802
"You got a little someone
stuck on your pants."
620
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,361
And so, you know,
the first time she pitched it...
621
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,002
...I remember just laughing almost till,
you know, we had tears in our eyes.
622
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,726
- Did you cry?
- I think I cried. Yeah.
623
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,406
This was one of the first sequences
that latched on...
624
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,046
...in terms of kind of giving us the tone.
625
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,404
Couldn't make that scream
long enough.
626
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,846
I'm hoping on the DVD menu
they just loop that scream.
627
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,129
Yeah, that scream.
This was Alan Hawkins, right?
628
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:13,845
The animator who animated this?
629
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,646
He's one of our leads.
He came back from the first film.
630
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,571
I believe this might be the longest shot
in the film.
631
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,125
- I think it is.
- Yeah.
632
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,482
- Hawkins.
- Hawkins.
633
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,762
This moment's always been really fun.
634
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,241
Interestingly,
we pulled the music out of this...
635
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,290
...when we were doing our final mix
and it sort of brought it--
636
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,727
Made it funnier in a weird way.
It's always weird.
637
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,360
I never understand the chemistry
of that stuff.
638
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,530
It's so amazing working with great guys
like Michael and Torn...
639
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:44,408
...Michael Semanick and Tom Johnson,
watching their thought process...
640
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,924
...and how they can build sound
and make moments really happen.
641
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,002
- Sparkle.
- More sparkles.
642
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,969
One of the things that was important
to us was color in this film.
643
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,926
We've gone from a blue space into
a more kind of yellow-green space here.
644
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,448
This is the idea-- Actually, they burst
through the roofless restaurant.
645
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,331
That was a transition
in terms of the color transition.
646
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,087
And we also used to have a short scene
where they run though the restaurant...
647
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,602
...where we set up the giant spoon
that Earl would be using as a paddle.
648
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,888
Only you people
listening to the commentary...
649
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,725
...are gonna understand
where that spoon paddle came from.
650
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,087
Or people
who really remember the first film...
651
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,005
...remember that as a decoration
in the roofless restaurant.
652
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,321
This here, this was--
653
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,482
When we showed this shot
in storyboards...
654
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,565
...to our digital team,
their faces went white.
655
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,610
But then they really got excited
about this dynamic camera...
656
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,725
...and revealing the food through, like,
a live kind of camera space...
657
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,689
...where we're pulling through it all.
658
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,969
- That's a lot of characters.
- And it was like--
659
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,522
That was a big shot.
A ton of animators.
660
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,967
This joke I've seen a billion times.
661
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,009
Get back in there, tear.
662
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,321
The little pop.
663
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,646
Wow, I can't believe...
664
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,724
Also, I think in these shots, Barry--
665
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,601
This was maybe the first shot
that Barry was in that got rendered.
666
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,122
And he's actually a bit bigger
than he is in the rest of the film.
667
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,926
- His size kind of pops up and down.
- Sasquash.
668
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,048
Just a little bit closer.
I can get him.
669
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:11,486
Come on, Earl, faster.
670
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,605
So this is where we kind of name
all of our food creatures.
671
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,844
We do it at the beginning here
and kind of drop it for a while...
672
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,129
...hoping that kids will pick it up
and sort of find the names...
673
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,243
...as we have other creatures
popping in.
674
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:28,725
- Also for fear of pun fatigue.
- Pun fatigue. It's a problem.
675
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,251
- However--
- I got pun elbow.
676
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,250
- Oh, man.
- I don't know if we ever really got that.
677
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,767
I think we were delighted
every time we heard a pun.
678
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,684
Oh, I love puns.
679
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,285
Shove.
680
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,441
Steve.
681
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:47,564
This was Melissa Sturm,
our marketing lady, doing the leek.
682
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,768
- Yeah. What's your title, Melissa?
- Yeah.
683
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,604
Marketing lady.
684
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:59,130
This milk was a big problem
for our effects team.
685
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,966
This was one of the most difficult sets,
I think, for Theo and his team, right?
686
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,647
Yeah. And getting the milk to mix
with the water down below here.
687
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,525
- You'll see it kind of...
- And have it feel like milk.
688
00:34:09,720 --> 00:34:11,484
- But it looks awesome.
- Yeah.
689
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,842
They succeeded.
690
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,522
There's a little leek in the boat as the car
was coming towards the camera.
691
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,481
The idea here is Flint's freaked out
by the food...
692
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,921
...and doesn't wanna touch it
or anything, right?
693
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,329
- Susheep and cantalope.
- More puns. More puns.
694
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,086
This was one of--
This was a late addition in our story.
695
00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:30,685
We did it in the first movie...
696
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,646
...where a character's looked at the camera
and told you that this isn't possible.
697
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,127
And this--
Also Pete Travers' other favorite shot.
698
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,244
Yeah, Pete-- Yeah.
We like making Pete Travers happy.
699
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,802
So the spoon-- You all know that spoon
came from the roofless restaurant.
700
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,527
If not, go back and watch Cloudy 1.
701
00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:50,769
You can see it in the shot
where the spaghetti lands on everyone.
702
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,649
Interesting. Chester's in a pose,
but it's not the pose being painted.
703
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,286
- What was the painting? It was the--
- Birth of Venus.
704
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:02,606
It was The Birth of Venus.
And it was a little bit risqué for the movie.
705
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,843
- So we switched it to Whistler's mother.
- Whistler's Chester.
706
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:07,923
- Whistler's Chester.
- Chester's mother.
707
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,771
We didn't change the pose,
because the pose made us laugh.
708
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,726
It seems like that's a pose that's pretty
good for almost any painting, right?
709
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,566
I think we were too far along
in anim to switch it out.
710
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:18,841
Consider it done, sir.
711
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,651
What's your favorite Chester?
I like the lunging Chester.
712
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,280
Bearskin-rug Chester is my favorite.
713
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:26,208
Oh, Earl.
714
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,009
So here's another pun.
715
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,204
- But this is going to introduce our--
- Delicious.
716
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,448
Our delicious batty in the woods.
717
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:39,770
This sound effect that Geoff found...for
the cheeseburger makes me laugh.
718
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:45,364
That cheespider vision
sort of is pinpointing the color orange...
719
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,170
...you'll notice.
720
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,250
Which becomes significant later on
in the story.
721
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,408
Scooby-Doo shot.
722
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,401
Cheesy. Cheesy. Cheesy.
723
00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:58,571
Manny!
724
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:01,845
Wait for me!
725
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,921
We had a bit of a challenge
to get Brent out of the chicken suit...
726
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,407
...so you didn't get chicken-suit fatigue.
727
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,889
This became a story opportunity to sort of
get the cheeseburger really close, so...
728
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,880
And, of course,
this funny cork-in-the-bottle pop sound.
729
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,082
That's gonna be in 3D
when you see it in 3D.
730
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,760
It doesn't make sense,
because it's in Manny's camera.
731
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,969
In the camera it's not 3D,
but having a half-naked man...
732
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,406
...come towards you is...
733
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,131
- You wanna have that in 3D.
- You wanna have that in 3D.
734
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,965
Another good 3D gag.
The Swallow Falls Alley.
735
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,011
My favorite sound effect
in the movie, the...
736
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,686
Yeah. Part cow, part roar.
737
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,562
But, of course, they're going to be saved
by what they think is a good thing.
738
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,726
But we all know this is the real predator
in the woods.
739
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,729
But Chester always has a presentation.
740
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,645
So the idea is that, you know,
whenever Chester shows up...
741
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,043
...he kind of has an affectation
that gives him a moment, right?
742
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,930
Green smoke.
743
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,407
--Young Lockwood.
And by the looks of things...
744
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:05,289
...just in time.
745
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,524
One minute later, and we
would have been food for that food.
746
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,049
There's Jenny back there in the suit.
747
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,441
You'll notice they're actually parked
on oatmeal.
748
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,728
There was a gag
we didn't have room for...
749
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,571
...where the helicopter sunk
into a quicksand oatmeal pit.
750
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:22,361
And the guy that sinks is in this next shot,
and it's the only shot he's in.
751
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,727
Right back there
behind Chester's left hand.
752
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,003
That is our Carey Yost,
the character designer from the first film.
753
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:29,286
A little nod to him.
754
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,126
If you'll notice, actually, the heads
kind of pop around a bit in those suits.
755
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:34,685
Yeah.
756
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,286
I've been carrying him
and he hasn't hurt anyone.
757
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,849
So here's the idea that, you know,
Barb is going to be sparring with Sam...
758
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,970
...you know, and she's challenging Sam
on the science front.
759
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,441
You know,
Flint, as a good significant other...
760
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,204
...steps in and tries to help her.
761
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:55,447
But Chester is gonna steer it and make it
into an awkward situation for Flint.
762
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,284
I'm sure we can all agree that...
763
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,206
Because we know that Chester's trying
to steer Flint away from his friend.
764
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:02,168
Young Lockwood...
765
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,325
...why was your lady friend carrying this
rabid little strawberry in her backpack?
766
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,567
This is Raoul's shot.
767
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,088
-It's also a very long shot in the film.
- It always made me laugh.
768
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,408
I really love these proscenium shots...
769
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,922
...where the animators just get to,
you know, milk a scene...
770
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,208
...like, get to play every character.
771
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:22,720
She's got a knife!
772
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,530
If you touch a leaf on his head...
773
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,569
It's almost like from the first film...
774
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:30,486
...how we had that kind of
old vaudeville setup, right?
775
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,523
- Just let the comedy role.
- Yeah.
776
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,245
And there's another poop joke.
777
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,522
You'll also notice that Steve does a lot
of licking in the film.
778
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:43,167
You know? I think, yeah,
after Earl kisses him, he licks Flint.
779
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:44,606
- Right.
- On the boat...
780
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,723
...he was licking
Brent's chicken eyeball.
781
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,530
- He does. He does.
- Yeah.
782
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,091
Licking monkey, always funny.
783
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,443
Yeah. Made me laugh
every single time.
784
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,082
This little run of the little goatee.
785
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,443
JQ did a few of these shots
near the...at the end?
786
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,443
Yeah, and then also,
I think, Pete Nash.
787
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,530
At least Pete-- I know he took
the first pass at those shots.
788
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,967
- Was it JQ that took them over?
- I think so.
789
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,322
- Okay, yeah.
- I could be wrong.
790
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,369
So here we have Earl being replaced
by the Sentinels of Safety...
791
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,450
...otherwise known as the SOS. Right?
792
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,524
I never thought of that acronym before.
That's pretty awesome.
793
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:24,848
- When you're in trouble...
- Call the SOS.
794
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,610
- Yup.
- SOS. SOS.
795
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,802
And we have little Barry
gonna follow them.
796
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,844
Now, meanwhile,
you leave the old man back on the boat.
797
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,771
- Sasquash.
- He's not gonna stay on that boat, is he?
798
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,129
- No, sir. Goes off a-wandering.
- No, sirree. He's home.
799
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,881
But he did bring a harpoon gun.
That's important.
800
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:43,889
Our famous bait-and-tackle shop.
801
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,601
If you remember the first movie,
he taped the windows of the shop...
802
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:48,847
...and that worked.
803
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,442
It stopped the tackle shop from
getting smashed by the food hurricane.
804
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,406
So it's pretty much intact,
except it's been looted, it seems.
805
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,369
What are those footprints in the dust?
806
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,967
If you remember in the first movie,
Tim couldn't give away these sardines.
807
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,168
He has a vintage Baby Brent sardines.
808
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,204
We asked the team
to make them look really old and gross.
809
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:14,201
Here we have the introduction
of one of our key foodimals in this movie.
810
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,563
In the background through the window,
it's nighttime out there...
811
00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:20,405
...because this scene used to take place
later in the film.
812
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,365
- It slid forward.
- Oh, look. Nighttime outside.
813
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,604
It's hard to tell. In the store,
you don't always look out the window.
814
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,128
-It's sort of tinted or something.
- Sure.
815
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,684
So my co-director here invented
the language of the pickles.
816
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,605
Do you wanna talk about that,
how you go about that process?
817
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,565
Yeah. I'll demonstrate
with my cup of coffee.
818
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:43,166
- Hopefully not get it on myself.
- I'll do play--
819
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,681
He's drinking the coffee right now.
820
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,201
- I did not die.
- Yeah.
821
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,362
And that was hot coffee. So he gargled.
822
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,047
Yeah. Actually, it's kind of lukewarm
verging on cold coffee now.
823
00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:56,766
It saved your gullet.
I'm not sure where the gullet is.
824
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,605
- I think it's back there.
- Gullet's somewhere inside.
825
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,730
So another little-known design fact,
anybody who knows Cody...
826
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,531
...I would say the dill
has a bit of a resemblance.
827
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,763
Yeah. And I think sour
might look like you a little bit.
828
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,007
Yeah, a little bit.
829
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,647
It's hard to make a pickle walleyed,
because we only have the little dots.
830
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,446
Coleman did that on purpose,
which was nice.
831
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,404
I guess I was always in a bad mood.
832
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,483
- Purple feet.
-It's awesome.
833
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,523
It makes me laugh.
834
00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:25,610
Was that an improv, or was that written?
I can't remember.
835
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,491
- That was one of our list of lines.
- Got it.
836
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,883
We kind of had about four or five
different punch lines for that.
837
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,323
- Andy Samberg always makes me laugh.
- Yeah.
838
00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:37,844
Banana!Banana!Banana!
839
00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:39,287
Funny banana jokes.
840
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,562
The banana is kind of
a confused creature...
841
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,287
...because he's called a bananostrich,
but he sounds like a dolphin.
842
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,124
Right. And we were told...
843
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,802
...that there's a certain TV show
that had a dolphin...
844
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,128
...that didn't actually use
a dolphin sound.
845
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:58,042
It's a bird sound, so we'd always refer to it
as the name of that TV show...
846
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,965
-...which we can't name, but...
- Right.
847
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:02,607
Oh, my gosh.
848
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,560
But if you're old like us, you might
remember that certain TV show.
849
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:09,371
So the idea here
is that they've come back to the lab...
850
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,729
...and Flint can use the technology
in the lab to find the FLDSMDFR...
851
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,002
...because he could do that
in the first film.
852
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,131
Unfortunately, the lab is upside down,
so it's gonna complicate things.
853
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,322
Chester just popped out of Sam there.
854
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,010
So we see, you know, obviously,
there's no power in the place...
855
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,522
...so Flint's gonna have to manually climb
up that tube.
856
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:33,883
A little dig on Barb to Sam there.
857
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,366
I love Sam's acting here...
858
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,928
...when the big chubby man
is kind of coming towards him.
859
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,687
We've all had that moment where we've
had to get out of the way of something.
860
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:45,882
So here's Flint coming back
into his home.
861
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:47,531
It's really dark and spooky...
862
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:51,406
...because he hasn't been there since
the first movie ended six months ago.
863
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,530
Who knows
what might be inside that thing?
864
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,608
So one of the things
we wanted to do here...
865
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,566
...with the Chester-Flint relationship
is to show, you know, their bonding...
866
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,848
...and get a sense of them
coming together.
867
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,522
So this whole part of the film was really
to help us solve this problem...
868
00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:10,291
...of seeing why Flint was still in love
with Chester.
869
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,642
So we wanted
to kind of really give a sense...
870
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:17,084
...that they actually probably did
have a very similar childhood, right?
871
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,606
Here's some coat continuity.
Flint takes off his coat.
872
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,643
And the reason he takes off his coat...
873
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,842
...is we wanted
to introduce his underwear.
874
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,407
- And the coat was gonna get in the way.
- No coat.
875
00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:33,610
Thank you, sir. They're
my Wedgie-proof underwear.
876
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,644
I invented them when I was 6.
877
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:38,368
Another continuity thing.
878
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,848
Chester says he invented
his first underwear when he was 3.
879
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,408
But earlier in the movie, he said
his first invention was the Food Bar.
880
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,722
- And he was obviously a teenager.
- A teenager.
881
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,882
- So there you go.
- Yeah. We failed.
882
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:51,923
- One for the Internets.
- Yeah.
883
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,691
- Go get them, trolls.
- Go get them.
884
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,282
Nothing more fun
than seeing a sardine can...
885
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,485
...toasted to set up the ticking clock
of this sequence towards the problem.
886
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,284
"Give the monkey your underpants."
887
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,090
- So we want-- Yeah.
- No coat.
888
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:08,891
Wanted to have Sam be in the room...
889
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,801
...when she witnesses Chester
calling Barb a monkey, so...
890
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,609
- That'll come into play later. No coat.
- That'll come into play later.
891
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:21,049
This is one of my favorite shots.
I believe it was Billy Tai in Layout...
892
00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:24,801
...that kind of came up with the camera
language in this whole sequence...
893
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,367
...which really kind of made it
come to life, right?
894
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:34,601
The kind of moving camera against,
you know, still camera is, you know...
895
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,446
...a real tool for comedy
in terms of pacing, right?
896
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,650
-"Bullied."
-"Bullied." I like those wide shots.
897
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,888
"Bullies."
898
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:45,888
Really?
899
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,731
So right here you get a little glimpse
that Chester has got a lot of resentment...
900
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,446
...for the people of his childhood
that picked on him.
901
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,250
--But he's my friend now.
902
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:56,208
Friend?
903
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,887
I always--
When we were directing Will Forte here...
904
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,761
...we always told him to kind of play it
straight, like he's telling the truth.
905
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,962
Even though Chester
is manipulating Flint...
906
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:10,563
...and Chester probably has an agenda
that is not in Flint's interest...
907
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:13,371
...he's telling the truth.
He was really bullied as a kid.
908
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,005
He was really beat up a lot...
909
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,561
...and he believes
that you can never trust anybody.
910
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,240
- That's why he has these holograms.
- There's the coat.
911
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:21,930
- There's the coat.
- Sorry.
912
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,971
It's almost as if, like,
if Chester hadn't become evil, you know...
913
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,487
...he and Flint might have been
the same person...
914
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,371
...and like Flint went to the dark
and,yeah"“
915
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,285
Sorry. Chester went to the dark
and Flint went to the light.
916
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,966
Part of that's owning what happened
in the first film.
917
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,043
Flint was socialized
and he had success...
918
00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:42,608
...and he was able to gain acceptance
by the people of his community.
919
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,561
But let's just say that didn't happen,
down the road with his ability to think...
920
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,411
...and create things,
he might have turned into Chester.
921
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,450
One of our rules of Flint
is Flint always invents out of love.
922
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,281
And I think the idea is that Chester
kind of is motivated by greed and spite.
923
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,922
And, you know,
you'll kind of see that through the movie.
924
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:01,849
- One of my favorite shots.
- Scallions.
925
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,241
Wild scallions.
926
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:05,680
- That song.
- That's pretty.
927
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,360
- Wild scallion.
- That's bright, bright moonlight.
928
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,369
- Day for night.
- Yeah.
929
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,923
We always wanted to make sure
that the world was really colorful...
930
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,561
...and we wanted to play this night scene
in a way...
931
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,127
...that even though Flint and Chester
are saying:
932
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:24,046
"We might not survive the night," this is
a place I think any kid would wanna go.
933
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,726
I'd wanna go there,
with the lights and the tree house.
934
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,962
Looks like the holidays at night.
935
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:30,606
Killer stew.
936
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,561
Oh, here we go.
The stew thing pays off.
937
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,491
- That's a big bowl of stew.
- Look at the size of that bowl.
938
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:39,563
Everyone's got smaller bowls.
939
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,764
That stew's the size of Manny's head.
940
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,291
The jerky makes me laugh here.
941
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,006
Just watch the continuity
of the jerky thing.
942
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:50,163
It goes in and it comes back out again.
943
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,567
He swallows it and he brings it
back out again.
944
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:54,324
There we go. Magic trick.
945
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:56,929
- Monkey's got a magic trick.
- Pretty shot.
946
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:58,441
Is something wrong?
947
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,362
This is another little nod
to the first film.
948
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,166
You remember that there was a lot
of fuse-box action?
949
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,569
And also Flint making sound effects
when he did things.
950
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,282
So there was a scene that was after this
where Flint was going to--
951
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,081
We were gonna show Flint invent
the invention, and we lost it for time...
952
00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:19,325
...and continuity-wise, we didn't need it,
because in the morning you introduce it.
953
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:23,286
The idea here is that he's trying
to get power to his bedroom...
954
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,682
...so that he can invent
the tracking device...
955
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,248
...that he needs to use
to find the FLDSMDFR.
956
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:30,965
And Sam shows up to say:
957
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,528
"Hey, why are you being
such a bad guy...
958
00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:36,529
...to the people who love you?"
959
00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:40,088
Of course, Flint's not a bad guy.
He's a good guy. So this lands on him.
960
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,329
So he actually responds
to Sam here, right?
961
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,761
I do love this scene.
I love the Sam acting in this scene.
962
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,401
And of course,
he's reflecting on Sparkswood.
963
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,405
They're not very good at hiding.
964
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,087
- In plain sight there, I guess.
- Yeah.
965
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,721
I love how the vest kind of gives off
a glow in any of these night scenes.
966
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,451
It kind of creates this--
One of the ideas that--
967
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,207
On the design side, we wanted Chester
and Barb to stand out from the world...
968
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,011
...so they didn't feel they could fit in
with the jungle.
969
00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:16,765
Any time they're in that jungle--
970
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,002
Orange is not really natural
to our jungle...
971
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,084
...so it sort of becomes like
that Live Corp standout thing.
972
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,284
- Portrait. It's got a hat on it.
- Got a hat on it.
973
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,721
Little rat-bird cock-a-doodle-doo
in the morning.
974
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:29,291
Yeah.
975
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:30,487
That's not for you!
976
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:34,964
So the touchstone for the pickles here
was kind of like the Three Stooges, right?
977
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,164
This was our first sequence
that went into production, wasn't it?
978
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:39,646
- I think so.
- The animation?
979
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:41,729
It was the first one that finished.
980
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,247
And Tim Pixton
was the anim lead on this sequence...
981
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,131
...and, you know,
they really embraced the idea...
982
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,642
...that these guys are kind of like brothers
in the backseat of a car...
983
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,610
...and so all the slapping and stuff
was kind of like...
984
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:55,848
...you know, they're like three little kids.
985
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,800
They're just sort of not paying attention
to anything Tim's saying...
986
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,281
...until he successfully
pulls up a sardine.
987
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,245
Then you kind of see their focus shift.
988
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,404
You see they're not really paying
any attention until right here.
989
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,562
Pulls up the sardine and:
990
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:14,731
What's great for Tim is in the first film,
he was the only guy that liked sardines...
991
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:19,005
...and now he's finally met someone else
who loves sardines as much as he does.
992
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:20,281
Right. Right.
993
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:24,326
So it's kind of like a
grandfather-grandson relationship, right?
994
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,211
Not sure where the harmonica
came from.
995
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,722
- Came from the Bugs Bunny plot.
- Sure, yeah, exactly.
996
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:35,087
Yeah, when James Caan
first sang this sea shanty...
997
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,203
...he did it with an Irish accent and...
998
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,284
Because you sing what you know,
where you're from, right?
999
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:44,530
And it sounded great, but it no longer
sounded like Tim, and so...
1000
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,889
He's a really good singer,
by the way, which I didn't know.
1001
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,560
He always says,
"Lee Strasberg's gonna strike me down."
1002
00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:52,131
Yes, yeah, yeah.
1003
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,806
It took a couple sessions
to get him out of the Irish.
1004
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:56,007
Right, yeah.
1005
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:57,446
Stay put. We'll find...
1006
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,087
There's Melissa Sturm again.
That's the voice of Louise, yeah?
1007
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:03,366
Barry!
1008
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:04,926
You can't be here.
1009
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,567
So this scene was always
sort of a problematic story juncture.
1010
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,240
It was in and it was out,
and it was in and it was out.
1011
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:15,485
We wanted to have, you know,
a moment where Sam and Barry...
1012
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,728
...had kind of a private moment, right?
1013
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:19,928
- And so this was a setup towards that.
- Yeah.
1014
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:25,370
Also, you know, Sam is
Flint's conscience throughout this...
1015
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,530
...and, you know,
her kind of bonding with Barry...
1016
00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:31,690
...helps kind of sway her opinion
about the food creatures.
1017
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,206
Yeah.
1018
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,846
And we wanted to pay off
what Chester said to Barb...
1019
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:40,528
...so we have Chester colliding with Sam,
in a distinct way, and he's taking over--
1020
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:45,243
- Physically butts her out of the way.
- Yeah. --Barb's job.
1021
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,083
So this invention right here
is sort of like a tracking device...
1022
00:50:49,240 --> 00:50:51,447
...and it's gonna pull him towards
the FLDSMDFR.
1023
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,924
You see it's got like kind of a tension
when the laser makes a tether.
1024
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,848
And as any good girlfriend
will do here...
1025
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,402
...she's gonna make sure he doesn't
look dumb walking out of the house.
1026
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,211
- Of course.
-"Fly's down."
1027
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:06,361
Great idea, Sam.
1028
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,561
Chester does not like that revision.
1029
00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:12,087
Your friends are distracting you
from our mission.
1030
00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:12,889
Distracting?
1031
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:15,930
I love the awkwardness of this.
It's the idea that, you know...
1032
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,771
...it's like you're being talked about
in the room.
1033
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,490
Yeah.
1034
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:24,289
- That's never happened to us before.
- No.
1035
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,605
- I love the-- What's that called, a zolly?
- Yes.
1036
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,205
- A zoom dolly.
- Yeah.
1037
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,249
Be a hero.
1038
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:34,530
Okay. You're right, sir.
1039
00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:35,881
Excellent! Let's go!
1040
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,010
So here we have-- You know,
Sam has a sidebar moment with Barry.
1041
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:40,725
--Time to go home now.
1042
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:45,841
The story point here is we needed Barry
to begin to communicate to our gang.
1043
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,884
We have this running translation joke
we do with the Chinese...
1044
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,686
...and we wanted
to also do it with the food creatures--
1045
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:53,001
We also needed to give--
1046
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:56,562
Let Barry know what her name was
because that'll come into play later on.
1047
00:51:56,720 --> 00:52:00,202
So in terms-- It became a major plot point
to have this sort of moment.
1048
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,768
You'll notice he doesn't get very close
to saying the word "Sam Sparks."
1049
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,890
She's very forgiving as a linguist.
1050
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:08,650
"Sam Sparks."
1051
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:12,771
Oh, I should mention that Barry is voiced
by my co-director too, right?
1052
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,088
Well, hi there, Kris.
1053
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,851
- Noodle men.
- Yeah.
1054
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,089
Craig Kellman doing the voice of pizza.
1055
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,931
Which is not Italian.
I think it's Italian-ish.
1056
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,481
Yes. It's just kind of gibberish.
1057
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,287
And "hot dog, hot dog."
1058
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,441
We know who that is.
1059
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,970
That hot-dog gag was controversial too,
hopping off the thing?
1060
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:38,201
Yeah.
1061
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,284
"This is the land of meat,
where I wanna live."
1062
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:42,487
Awe Nathan.
1063
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:44,921
- Awesome.
- We're not naming these food creatures.
1064
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,924
We're back to buffaloaf, apple piethon.
1065
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,284
- Well, hot dog is just a hot dog, right?
- Yeah.
1066
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,364
As they've been going,
they've been picking up more berries.
1067
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:57,846
That's gonna come into play.
1068
00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,843
- Justin Thompson.
- Yeah, little baldy.
1069
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:01,604
- Little pink tinkle.
- Yeah.
1070
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,283
He's our production designer.
You'll notice the bald, you know--
1071
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:07,766
Little bald safety nut.
1072
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:13,410
Here's a little bit of a reference to,
you know, some sort of...
1073
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:17,241
-...you know, the monster movies.
- The monster movies of the early '90s.
1074
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,968
The tacodile was actually in the movie
and out of the movie...
1075
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:27,045
...and then was in the trailer,
and then that sort of earned it a spot...
1076
00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:29,925
...you know,
to find a home in the movie and--
1077
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,090
That's why we used to have
the salsa river going around Flint's.
1078
00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:36,084
- The tacodile used to emerge there.
- During the lab sequence.
1079
00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:37,969
- This is better.
- This is a fun scene.
1080
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,930
One of my favorite shots,
Barb running with her lady legs.
1081
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:44,084
If she'd used her ape arms,
she could get out of that taco's way.
1082
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,284
- Totally.
- I really like the idea that Flint saves her.
1083
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,523
- There's a story arc to Barb...
- My favorite shot in the film.
1084
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:55,242
...which I love, is like having Barb
kind of become more empathetic.
1085
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,966
- Yeah.
- So this is an important scene for that...
1086
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:02,290
...to kind of see that she begins to feel
what it's like to have real friends.
1087
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:03,965
You know, real friends save you.
1088
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,930
They don't run away
when danger comes.
1089
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,801
And, of course, Sam sticks around.
She sees that there's more to the story.
1090
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,804
This isn't a mindless creature.
It's not a mindless tacodile.
1091
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,123
-It's a mother.
- That sounds like a Wookiee.
1092
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:20,170
- Yeah. A what-iee?
- I don't know.
1093
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,004
- Bet that'll get cut out.
- Yeah.
1094
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,324
We wanted to change audibly
the feeling of the taco...
1095
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,091
...like she's a little bit
more mellow there.
1096
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:33,211
Yeah, the little baby tacos
are ducklings following her.
1097
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,330
- What did we use, goats?
- I think there was some goat in there.
1098
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,729
- Some little goats.
- Yeah, goat tacos are delicious.
1099
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:41,285
Barry's gathering a following.
1100
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,165
As you can see, like,
there's more berries every time he--
1101
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,204
It's almost like the myth
of N-woo is kind of growing.
1102
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,846
Or the myth of Saspa.
1103
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,650
Say that a bunch of times fast.
1104
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,609
- Myth of Saspa.
- This makes me laugh.
1105
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,001
Brent's been walking in the syrup
for 20 minutes.
1106
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,083
He just realizes, "This is syrup?"
1107
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,726
The way Andy said that line
always cracks me up.
1108
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:02,649
"Don't worry, man-baby."
1109
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:07,641
So this sequence is really--
This began in the first film, right?
1110
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,522
Yeah. Didn't you board the sequence
where Sam was walking away in syrup?
1111
00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:15,611
We had a breakup scene with Sam
and Flint at the old school...
1112
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:17,728
...where it was this kind of syrup land...
1113
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,247
...and Cal was gonna get stoked out
on the syrup...
1114
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,563
...and kind of lead a kid riot.
So the whole "land of sugar" thing...
1115
00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:26,166
...and all the gags about being stuck
in the syrup.
1116
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,483
So that was something that
we didn't have time for in the first film.
1117
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:34,288
This was one of our earliest sequences
in terms of like the set and the idea.
1118
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,050
Went through a lot of rewrites...
1119
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:38,726
...as it was sort of the emotional crux
of the film...
1120
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,443
...but the idea was fairly early
in our development.
1121
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:44,762
- At one point it was a peanut-butter bog.
- Yes.
1122
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:47,526
Then we were gonna play
the peanut-butter allergy gag...
1123
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,650
...and we pulled off of that
because there wasn't much payoff...
1124
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,041
...and we figured
that we did it the first film.
1125
00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:56,722
It might be that we'll get called out
for not honoring her peanut allergy...
1126
00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:00,043
...but I kind of feel like we did it
and used it in the first film.
1127
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,123
We didn't have a good payoff
for it here.
1128
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:03,645
- The syrup felt funnier.
- Yeah.
1129
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,201
Food that cannot love!
1130
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:10,206
I love, like, that leveling that Will Forte
put out there, you know.
1131
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,442
They cannot love.
That's gonna come back...
1132
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,967
...in the next scene
with Flint and Chester.
1133
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:16,724
Live up to your full potential...
1134
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:18,689
The little mosquitoasts are funny too.
1135
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:20,046
- The whole slapfest.
- Yeah.
1136
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,089
--Destroy Lady Liberty.
1137
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,002
Physical comedy.
1138
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,485
That syrup is slowly oozing back there.
1139
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,843
This always makes me hungry.
I love breakfast. It's my favorite meal.
1140
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:35,169
- I haven't eaten yet.
- I could go for some bacon right now.
1141
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,362
You said it.
1142
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:39,804
Yeah.
1143
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,922
This is like Flint walking into a punch,
that, you know...
1144
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:49,045
The married guy in the room there,
Earl, knows he's made a mistake.
1145
00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:51,891
But the whole time,
Flint doesn't know why she's leaving.
1146
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,487
He doesn't quite get it. He's always been
naive when it comes to dealing...
1147
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:59,571
- A little clueless, socially awkward.
-...with people, let alone lady people.
1148
00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:02,087
This gag was lifted directly
from the first film...
1149
00:57:02,240 --> 00:57:05,084
...so it was one of those jokes
that we hated to lose.
1150
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,523
- We found a way to bring it back.
- Leftovers, ladies and gentlemens.
1151
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,842
It's one of the ones
we don't usually laugh at.
1152
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:14,891
We've seen it like about a billion times
over the course of the last seven years.
1153
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:18,243
It's good when other people see it
and laugh. It's like, "Oh, yeah."
1154
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,289
Here's licking again. Steve licking.
1155
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,528
And you notice
that Manny walks on the syrup?
1156
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:27,487
That was an animation solve, I guess,
in terms of, like, dealing with the...
1157
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:29,523
So he wouldn't have to wade
in the syrup.
1158
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,969
- He walks on it like a little water bug.
- Like a little water bug.
1159
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:38,842
That poor Sparkswood drawing
gets beat up a bit.
1160
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,844
Now it's got some syrup stuck on it.
1161
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:47,845
We wanted to redeem the buttoad.
He gets his shot at the mosquitoasts.
1162
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:49,206
Butter.
1163
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,210
So this little scenelet here,
there's the jelly bees.
1164
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:55,091
They live in a donut hive,
as you would expect.
1165
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,561
That looks delicious. Donuts.
1166
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:02,800
And we find the big rock candy mountain
which happens to look a lot like...
1167
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:05,646
His machine. Oh, look at that.
1168
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,127
Where'd the third arm come from?
1169
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:09,930
- What?
- What?
1170
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,966
- Can't believe that gag stayed in.
- Yeah.
1171
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,407
When we screen it,
it doesn't get a big response.
1172
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,484
- I don't know if they see it.
- I don't know if they notice it.
1173
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:22,765
It's like the second or third time through,
you kind of notice that third arm point.
1174
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:24,968
So, what's funny for me
in this sequence...
1175
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:29,603
...is that Sam is, like, really mad at Flint,
and the way Anna did it...
1176
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:34,362
...like the way she jumps
down Manny's grill, just makes me laugh.
1177
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:35,567
What's that back there?
1178
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:39,520
Anna is such a funny comedic actor.
Actress, sorry.
1179
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:43,088
- I like Brent's hiding behind that.
- Yeah.
1180
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:48,802
You know, the last time we saw
the cheespider, it tried to eat them.
1181
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:51,964
So, of course, you know,
there's some drama happening here.
1182
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,288
What's gonna happen?
1183
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,125
Of course, Earl wouldn't let that happen.
He's gonna step.
1184
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:02,080
You'll notice the food is always delicious,
so even though the cheeseburger is--
1185
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,447
He's like a big monster in the woods...
1186
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:06,210
...he's lit perfectly, right?
1187
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,204
Yeah, like he just jumped off
of a billboard or out of a menu.
1188
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,681
You wanna eat him
even though he wants to eat you.
1189
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:16,442
That's our inside-the-mouth camera
that we've used a couple times in the film.
1190
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,764
Our cinematic contribution
to children's films.
1191
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:26,521
Notice she's covered in yellow mustard.
How'd she get clean so quick?
1192
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:30,162
- The logic is that Steve licked it off.
- He's still licking the boot.
1193
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,408
In the first movie, he likes yellow, right?
1194
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,844
He ate the mustard
in that lab scene, right?
1195
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:40,408
The animation on the old cheeseburger
here makes me laugh every time.
1196
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,444
We told the animators to take her
from being like a spider...
1197
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:47,008
...to being like a giant kind of mastiff.
1198
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:52,001
We referenced, you know,
a couple of giant-dog movies...
1199
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:53,531
- The '80s.
-...from the '80s.
1200
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:55,728
All our movie references
are from the '80s.
1201
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:59,925
- Yes.
- I love living in the '80s.
1202
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:03,442
So here's our big reveal and the reason
why Manny's camera's here.
1203
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:05,722
The prop pays off right here.
1204
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,446
- Evil.
- Look at that.
1205
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:09,448
Gasp!
1206
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:10,647
Who's Evel?
1207
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,929
"Who's Evel?"
You know, Brent can read.
1208
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:17,689
Just not well.
1209
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:21,327
That was a Chris Miller joke and one of
the first things we talked about...
1210
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:25,610
...way back at the very, very, very
beginning of our filmmaking process.
1211
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:29,401
- Poor Manny and his camera.
- And Brent was up there.
1212
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:32,524
We were hoping to put Brent
back in the chicken suit...
1213
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,729
...but we were told no one
would take him seriously in the suit.
1214
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,042
Then I think skinny jeans
and a tight T-shirt...
1215
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:40,851
...I'm like,
"I'm not sure I take him seriously in that."
1216
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,002
- It always makes me laugh, though.
- Yeah.
1217
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,926
If you watch the "you're not warning
anybody about anything"...
1218
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:50,124
...Louise's yellow teeth
always makes me laugh.
1219
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,690
- A little design choice.
- Yeah.
1220
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:57,720
- This is a--
- My eyes!
1221
01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,604
--Beautiful set.
1222
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:03,202
So the idea is that we wanted
to make the interior of this cave...
1223
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,887
-...feel like a rock candy display.
- Yeah.
1224
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:09,924
With all the stalagmites looking
like rock candy...
1225
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:14,244
...with light kind of representing the string
through the middle of them.
1226
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,364
This was one of the most difficult scenes,
I think...
1227
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:21,286
...for our lmageworks team,
in terms of, like...
1228
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:25,565
...the amount of rendering and stuff
and how light works in here.
1229
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:28,127
They did an incredible job.
1230
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:34,568
So the logic why the FLDSMDFR
would be in a cavern of candy is...
1231
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:39,044
...I believe one of us read early on
that the basic building blocks of life...
1232
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:40,565
...are sugar and salt, right?
1233
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:44,361
The earliest memory is that Justin had
said that, our production designer.
1234
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,166
I think he saw it in National Geographic
or something.
1235
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:51,769
So we believe everything that we're told,
so that became the backbone of this--
1236
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:54,850
- Tell me I'm a millionaire.
- You're a millionaire.
1237
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:58,447
- Tell me there's bacon in my mouth now.
- There's bacon in your mouth now.
1238
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,649
- Wait a minute.
- False.
1239
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:03,126
So here's the confrontation.
1240
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,766
Last time he saw the machine,
it tried to kill him...
1241
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:09,561
-...in the meat cave in the first film.
- Yeah.
1242
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:13,042
But of course, the machine has gone
through a transformation.
1243
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:17,046
The machine representing Flint's id
is always a bit ahead of him emotionally.
1244
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:19,726
When Flint was heading to hubris
in the first film...
1245
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,605
...the machine was already there.
We're gonna learn here...
1246
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:26,168
...that the machine has actually
become accepting of its creativity...
1247
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,129
...and has owned it now.
1248
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,170
Like, it creates life
without feeling bad about it.
1249
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:34,722
- Like, it sort of is at peace, I guess, right?
- Yeah.
1250
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,281
Then we meet
these little marshmallows, which--
1251
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,680
During the loop group, we came up
with the idea of trying to purr like--
1252
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:43,046
What was it, like kittens?
1253
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,851
Originally, you had done the voice
of the marshmallows...
1254
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,685
...and it was that high-pitched kind of--
Yeah, exactly.
1255
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:53,249
And I think Melissa, our marketing lady,
she did a little bit of the...
1256
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:57,530
Marketing lady. Marketing lady.
1257
01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:00,206
I love the little marshmallow
that wants to be petted.
1258
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:01,850
When Flint stops petting him...
1259
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,685
...he gets a little upset
and sort of bangs into his hand.
1260
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,963
How cute is that?
That's Ryan Page, I think, did...
1261
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,289
This shot always makes me laugh.
Barb's hand on Chester's bottom.
1262
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:14,211
Got caught with something.
Oh, it's a marshmallow.
1263
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:15,970
Hide your marshmallows.
1264
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:19,841
Now, here is, you know, where we're
gonna pop Chester's balloon.
1265
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:23,442
The audience already knows Chester's
a bad guy, so Flint's gonna learn.
1266
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:27,442
That's one of my favorite jokes,
you know, stepping into the hands.
1267
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:32,806
I believe Avner did this shot right here,
which is another one that surprised us.
1268
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:35,327
- The nose battle?
- Yeah.
1269
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:37,761
No! No! No!
1270
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,163
He's a good shot with that there thing.
Right in the slot.
1271
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,569
Now, here's where we reveal to
the audience what the BSUSB really did.
1272
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:47,610
It reprogrammed it.
1273
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:50,127
I'm just doing dialogue
from the movie now.
1274
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:53,483
-"A BS-USB? Hello."
-"Hello."
1275
01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:55,250
Your machine is what I wanted...
1276
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:57,528
So emotionally,
what we wanted to have here...
1277
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,451
...and Kevin Webb did a couple
of these close-up shots...
1278
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:04,964
...with the idea that, you know,
his world is collapsing, you know...
1279
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:08,562
...like, the belief of Chester is all false,
and so I really--
1280
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:10,722
I mean,
in a very broad movie like Cloudy...
1281
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:13,611
...I like the little subtle acting
that we have in Flint...
1282
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,889
...in terms of how he's responding
to Chester.
1283
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,003
Yeah, he looks
like his feelings are hurt.
1284
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:21,731
One of the things we wanted to play with
with Chester...
1285
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:25,681
...is even though he is an evil villain,
he doesn't change how he talks to Flint.
1286
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:27,530
He's still sweet about everything...
1287
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:30,570
...and he's, like, jovial and genial
and a pleasant old man...
1288
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:33,883
...even though he's saying horrible things
and he's now going to...
1289
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:36,805
...basically murder our hero, you know.
1290
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:40,129
"Enjoy the sharp rocks, Lockwood.
Bye-bye."
1291
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:42,808
- That's a long fall.
- Yeah.
1292
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:44,604
- Keep falling.
- Keep falling.
1293
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:47,682
- That's a beautiful shot.
- Yeah.
1294
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:50,690
We saw the lighting on that,
and it just sort of made us go:
1295
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:54,611
The song here always makes me laugh,
the pickle tune.
1296
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,001
That little harmonica.
1297
01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:00,562
And this line always kills me.
He says, "This isn't natural."
1298
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:04,367
- I mean the pods guy.
- He's surrounded by all these pickles.
1299
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:07,450
He's sitting on a couch in a land
of cheese, toasting sardines.
1300
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,967
But shriveling plants,
yeah, that's not natural.
1301
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:11,565
Tom Bruno, our layout artist...
1302
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:15,401
...came up with the cinematography
for this shot, one of my favorite shots...
1303
01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:17,847
...where the lights shut off
on the island.
1304
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:20,771
And here is our "why we fight" scene,
you know...
1305
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,725
...where we see the victimization
of all the food creatures.
1306
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:26,406
Hopefully, by now
we've switched Flint's allegiance...
1307
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:29,080
...to the food creatures
and the audience is with us...
1308
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:32,961
...in terms of being empathetic
for these little guys.
1309
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:35,646
That leek take always makes me laugh.
1310
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:38,571
Look at the carrots
trying to hide their heads in the sand.
1311
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:41,690
There's lots of gags. That shot
could be watched in slow motion.
1312
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:43,888
There's a meatballrus
getting sucked into...
1313
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:46,924
Getting stuck in the tube right there.
Yeah. There it went.
1314
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:51,888
We used to have a longer version
of this...
1315
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:54,725
...where we saw Barb pull over the truck
and take it over.
1316
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:58,168
Just for time, we decided to kind of treat it
more efficiently...
1317
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,163
...and have Barb
already there driving...
1318
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,403
...and let her reveal
kind of be in response to all this.
1319
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:07,122
Yeah, there was that line that Chris said.
What was it? "Out! Out! Get out!"
1320
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:10,329
That little carrot head shake
always makes me laugh there.
1321
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:12,204
I love the gag here. Manny, you know.
1322
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,607
- Now you see him, now you don't.
- Yeah.
1323
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:16,888
Chester thinks you're a monkey.
1324
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:19,771
Well, I'm an ape. Chester knows that.
1325
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:24,045
This is where we start to see Barb
and Sam begin to kind of come together.
1326
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:26,402
There he is. Pop up, pop down.
1327
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:29,729
That little cockatiel is really excited.
1328
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:31,410
- Yeah.
- That's a fruit cockatiel.
1329
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:34,484
- Yes.
- And this is a blueberry.
1330
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:38,403
- Which I believe, Cody, you did a little:
- That was my voice there.
1331
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:41,450
Later, the blueberry,
when he gets his chest hair, that is you.
1332
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:43,529
We don't wanna give that away yet,
do we?
1333
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:46,160
Yeah, by this time,
hopefully, they've seen the movie.
1334
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:48,402
Every blueberry gets their chest hair.
1335
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:50,642
This DVD is gonna come out
six months from...
1336
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:54,043
What could be
in that marshmallow pile?
1337
01:06:54,920 --> 01:07:00,290
This is our nod to another movie
from the '80s.
1338
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:03,689
- Not a comedy but still a funny movie...
- It took place in the Amazon.
1339
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:05,842
...If you watch it with the right attitude.
1340
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:09,169
We love that the pickles
are really serious here...
1341
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,284
...like the little airplane controller.
1342
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:14,363
The guy with the toothpick
makes me laugh.
1343
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:17,808
-"Yeah, put it there, put it there."
- Yeah.
1344
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:21,726
And, you know,
Flint's got some marshmallow slobber...
1345
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:23,041
...on his head there.
1346
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:26,921
I love the way that Tim and Flint
kind of respond to each other here...
1347
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:30,290
...like they're not really surprised
they've found each other.
1348
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:33,006
- Yeah.
- Which was always a story issue...
1349
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:37,444
...until we made the marshmallows
bring him there, so somebody has intent.
1350
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:41,286
The other thing, the big meta idea,
that the food's gonna pull together...
1351
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,681
...and what we're gonna learn
is that the food...
1352
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:47,123
...is actually more than just
kind of mindless creatures in the woods.
1353
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:50,250
There is a society here,
and they actually, you know...
1354
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,801
...kind of work together,
and the food is people too.
1355
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:55,606
- Yeah.
- Barry's a little smaller in this shot.
1356
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,286
He is. Notice? A lot smaller.
1357
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:00,801
He's excited about the word "Saspa,"
though.
1358
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:03,285
So here's-- Barry charades.
1359
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:07,565
I like the actor berry
who gets replaced by the fruit cockatiel.
1360
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,331
He's really upset.
He wants to be in the scene.
1361
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:11,641
He keeps poking in.
1362
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:13,211
Sam and the gang?
1363
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,728
Sassy pants,
I don't know where that comes from.
1364
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:20,002
Was that John and Jonathan,
our writers?
1365
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:23,409
- Yeah.
- One of their gags.
1366
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:25,002
Sassy pants.
1367
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:28,205
One of the ideas
was that Tim was drinking pickle juice...
1368
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:31,131
...and maybe he's a little bit
happy here.
1369
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:34,642
- Yes.
- What's he saying here? He goes:
1370
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:38,202
Yeah, it's basically
"This lightbulb represents this lightbulb."
1371
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:41,330
"See? We're communicating.
1372
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:45,366
There's only two of us and 800 pickles
and a pile of strawberries."
1373
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:50,128
So when our design team
created those little waves coming out...
1374
01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:53,602
...they were like, "Something like this?"
We go, "Just like that. Stop.
1375
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:56,684
That's as far as we wanna go."
They could make it look awesome.
1376
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:58,842
Yeah, do it literal.
1377
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:02,247
I love this shot.
1378
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:09,247
You sort of get the sense
that all the food is coming together here.
1379
01:09:09,440 --> 01:09:11,044
Sasquash.
1380
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:14,529
Water goes in the top...
1381
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,490
And here's the payoff
for the big old N-woo thing.
1382
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:22,049
So the idea is that it's a corrupted,
like, VHS tape, right?
1383
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,931
Going back to the stuff we saw
in the prologue of the film.
1384
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:29,808
If you didn't get it from the TV,
we're hammering it into your head here.
1385
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:31,927
N-woo.
1386
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:35,687
-It's saying that I'm N-woo.
- N-woo.
1387
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:39,606
N-woo. N-woo.
1388
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:43,322
It's like that looks like the play set
that you would buy at the toy store.
1389
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:46,000
- The toy store.
-"I'd like the pickle village tea set."
1390
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:49,130
The lettuce, that was one of
the last gags we came up with.
1391
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:52,204
We stole the lettuce tongue
from the cheespider to...
1392
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:54,727
And the animators just, like,
designed him, right?
1393
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,486
Yeah. Yeah.
I think they stuck the eyes on...
1394
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:01,366
...and used an additional eye for
the mouth but made it concave somehow.
1395
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:03,005
Yeah.
1396
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:06,329
So here's our payoff
to the translation joke.
1397
01:10:06,480 --> 01:10:09,211
And now my friends are in
a lot of trouble, thanks to me.
1398
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:13,046
So, Cody, you boarded this sequence
way back, fairly early on in our process.
1399
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:14,406
A long time ago.
1400
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:18,810
It was one of the things that always got,
like, top-shelf laughs in the screenings.
1401
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:20,689
Yeah.
1402
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:23,847
The idea came from watching TV
late at night...
1403
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,731
...where you get the guy
doing sign language in the corner.
1404
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:30,202
- So the idea is that--
- Sasquash. Sorry.
1405
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:33,204
It's staged so it's like Barry
is kind of up in the corner...
1406
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:35,681
...doing the very obvious translating...
1407
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,047
...and we start to learn
that Barry language...
1408
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:42,006
...is very similar to human English
or whatever.
1409
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:46,887
- Human English.
- You just enunciate it less, you know.
1410
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:48,969
- I like the Shatner acting there.
- Yeah.
1411
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:50,406
--I could cast you up...
1412
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,204
...into that unfinished part
of the factory.
1413
01:10:52,440 --> 01:10:57,287
In case you didn't get the plan,
we're kind of point right at it.
1414
01:10:57,480 --> 01:10:59,960
This is funny because Flint
doesn't know about sports.
1415
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:01,531
- Yeah.
- A little French...
1416
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,848
Little basketball motion for fishing.
1417
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,522
I always called that a French mustache
where Tim's mustache comes up...
1418
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:09,523
...but it's probably
a European mustache.
1419
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:13,810
- Yeah, or L.A. hipster.
- Turn of the century.
1420
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:15,842
Wildebeets!
1421
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:20,601
So, yeah, it takes a long time to kind
of get the song to sit in here...
1422
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:23,525
...but I kind of like the tune.
This little ditty.
1423
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:25,648
Yeah.
1424
01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:27,649
Sasquash.
1425
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:31,723
These blueberries
are an oppressed people.
1426
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:33,803
I think maybe
if there is another movie...
1427
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,440
...they could tell the story
of the blueberry uprising.
1428
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:38,648
Yeah.
"We're not getting squished anymore."
1429
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:41,007
I don't know
where that cheese helmet came from.
1430
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:43,811
- The sky.
- The sky.
1431
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,409
- Winding the reel.
- Some eggplanatee spit.
1432
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,490
- Yeah.
- That pickle is really important.
1433
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:53,847
And the "And Son's" sign
from the first film.
1434
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:56,480
I love this sound effect.
That's a wolf pitched up.
1435
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:58,449
That's what the lemming sound--
1436
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:00,443
Was it a wolf or a coyote? A wolf pup?
1437
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:05,208
I think it was a wolf, but maybe that's just
because that's what I have on a rug.
1438
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:07,840
My wolf rug. Be scared of the wolf.
1439
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:10,691
I've got it painted on the back
of my leather jacket.
1440
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:14,851
I'm going to get a tattoo
with the revenue from this movie.
1441
01:12:16,480 --> 01:12:17,891
A full-body tattoo.
1442
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:20,526
For some reason
our sandwiches all live in the water.
1443
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:22,802
We have
a peanut-butter-and-jellyfish...
1444
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:25,446
...and then we have subwhales
that live in water.
1445
01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:28,371
- And I'm really sensitive to soggy bread...
- Sasquash.
1446
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:31,649
...so it was a weird creative choice.
1447
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:33,683
- Yeah. Sasquash.
- But dramatic.
1448
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,530
Here's a little nod
to another movie from the '80s.
1449
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:46,490
A story, you would say.
1450
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:49,763
- Yeah, one that never ends.
- Yeah.
1451
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:54,847
- This guy kind of states it.
- Yeah.
1452
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:58,685
N-woo, in here.
1453
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,810
See, I mean Flint and Barry
are just completely communicating...
1454
01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:05,009
...seamlessly, you know.
"N-woo, down here."
1455
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:13,330
So here's the product
of Chester's evil works.
1456
01:13:13,480 --> 01:13:16,768
- That was a messy sentence I just...
- Yeah. I understood it totally.
1457
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:20,648
Here we go. Chester's technology
is really easy to use, like an iPod.
1458
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:23,610
- Press one button.
- Press one button, it opens, you know.
1459
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:24,807
Good cheespider.
1460
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:26,766
SaSpa?
1461
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:29,327
That's Cody talking to Cody.
1462
01:13:29,480 --> 01:13:32,802
Yeah, most of the cheespiter sounds
were cows and things like that...
1463
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:37,010
...but I think there was just
that little bit of cheespiter that I did.
1464
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:39,970
We wanted to make sure
you really enunciated. It's like:
1465
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:42,889
And then Barry went:
1466
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:51,926
But of course, you know,
there's a convenient crappy plug from--
1467
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:53,127
How'd that get there?
1468
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:57,086
From like the 1970s, a taupe.
Those taupe plugs.
1469
01:13:57,320 --> 01:14:00,688
And, of course, our favorite nose gag...
1470
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:03,281
...that if we don't get laughs
from the first two...
1471
01:14:03,440 --> 01:14:05,966
-...we probably won't on the third.
- Yeah.
1472
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:09,084
So, you know,
we're gonna get the food escaping.
1473
01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:14,083
Yeah. Another "leek in the boat" gag.
If it works once...
1474
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:16,681
- Do it nine times.
- Yeah.
1475
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:19,448
That was a comedy lesson
from Chris and Phil.
1476
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:21,210
Yeah. Do it again.
1477
01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:23,323
Do it again
and again and again and again.
1478
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:26,603
This is--
Coming up is one of my favorite shots.
1479
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:28,285
Boarded by Brandon Jeffords...
1480
01:14:28,480 --> 01:14:31,609
-...and animated by Kevin Jackson.
- Yep.
1481
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:33,922
Crab cakes!
1482
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,731
We all know bananas are slippery.
1483
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:41,765
The piethons here
were never rigged to do that...
1484
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:45,362
...so they used Steve's tail rig
to calibrate that, right?
1485
01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:50,282
- To get the piethons to do their forming.
-Ingenuity.
1486
01:14:50,480 --> 01:14:53,211
I also love the music in there,
Mark Mothersbaugh's score.
1487
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:56,131
It makes me laugh because
it reminds me of Lonesome Dove.
1488
01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:58,846
-It's sort of that kind of lyrical...
- Right.
1489
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:02,169
And this is where heads explode
because...
1490
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,682
- We used every color inside of that suit.
- Yes. Yeah.
1491
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:10,164
One of the ideas is that Barry
is really good at fighting...
1492
01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:12,402
...once he gets the suit.
1493
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:17,090
A little reference to a TV show
from the 2000s here.
1494
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:19,442
And he just murdered a lady.
1495
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:22,041
- Well, he froze her.
- Froze her, right, right, right.
1496
01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:24,567
- But he doesn't know that.
- There's no murder.
1497
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:27,286
That's right. Hands up.
Give me back my friends.
1498
01:15:27,440 --> 01:15:29,602
So Tom Bruno
did all the cinematography...
1499
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:33,122
...I think, in most of this sequence here,
this back end...
1500
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:34,930
...so the dynamic camera...
1501
01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:38,482
...in terms of things whipping around,
which always makes it fun to watch.
1502
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:41,211
Don't worry, Lockwood,
I'll let them go.
1503
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:45,886
So here's where the Food Bar plotline
comes back into the film.
1504
01:15:46,040 --> 01:15:47,371
Food Bars?
1505
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:50,211
Hopefully, we were obvious enough
that it's not a shock.
1506
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:53,967
We're overacting the characters here
to kind of play it as a joke.
1507
01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:57,607
Some expositional whiteboarding here
to tell the audience why he wanted--
1508
01:15:57,760 --> 01:15:59,364
- First Cloudy shot.
- Yeah.
1509
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:01,363
So using your foodimals
as ingredients...
1510
01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:03,249
...would make my products
super-delicious!
1511
01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:06,449
Is that the first time we said
the word "foodimals" in this movie?
1512
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:09,080
- No, I think Flint said it earlier.
- Oh, did he?
1513
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:13,006
- He's gonna round up all the foodimals.
- Wipe out all the foodimals or something.
1514
01:16:13,440 --> 01:16:15,807
And then we see now
the FLDSMDFR has been co-opted.
1515
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:17,405
Now it's a Live Corp product...
1516
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:21,400
...so it's very accommodating
to whatever Chester wants.
1517
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:24,843
That's a lot of watermelons.
Their sound always makes me laugh.
1518
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:29,608
Yeah, it sounds like
also they get dropped in a toilet bowl.
1519
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:31,006
- That's Geoff Rubay.
- Yeah.
1520
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:32,525
--They want to live.
1521
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:35,160
- That line always makes me laugh.
-"That want to live."
1522
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:39,803
I also love the way Will
kind of explodes here.
1523
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:41,965
Live Corp will remain...
1524
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:43,804
...the coolest, hippest company...
1525
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:47,009
It's almost like,
"Let's see if we can break the rig."
1526
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:50,001
- Shaofu animated that shot, right?
- Yeah.
1527
01:16:50,720 --> 01:16:53,690
So the idea is that, you know,
Chester's eyes are green.
1528
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:56,127
The meta idea is that Chester's eyes
are green...
1529
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,051
...and the whole movie
he's been driven by greed, right?
1530
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:00,526
As we get into this world...
1531
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:03,405
...and as the story goes more
towards Chester's endgame...
1532
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:07,082
...you see more green used through here,
coming through the floor of the--
1533
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:09,004
- The green light.
- The grinder there.
1534
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:11,128
Oh, no, Flint. This is embarrassing.
1535
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:13,123
I love Barb's performance in here too...
1536
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:16,881
...that she's relieved that they know
she's not gonna kill everybody.
1537
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:18,650
And there's our little...
1538
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:22,130
The scream.
1539
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:23,202
Monkey!
1540
01:17:23,440 --> 01:17:25,044
You are dismissed.
1541
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:27,843
- Sad.
- Another Alan Hawkins shot.
1542
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:29,411
--Further ado...
1543
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:32,240
Flint, hurry!
1544
01:17:32,480 --> 01:17:34,005
Why won't this go faster?
1545
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:35,366
Give me that controller!
1546
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:37,443
So here we pay off the hologram...
1547
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:41,366
...the idea of, you know,
"Where's the peanut?" gag.
1548
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:43,369
The great game of keep-away.
1549
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:46,530
So it's not that Chester's just gonna,
you know, kill everybody.
1550
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:51,766
He's gonna do it in
a very torturously slow, entertaining way.
1551
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:54,241
Oh, there's nothing
to Earl's acting there.
1552
01:17:54,440 --> 01:17:56,966
-It's like the yellow tape is like kryptonite.
- Yeah.
1553
01:17:57,160 --> 01:18:00,164
-It's sort of draining his strength.
- Takes his power.
1554
01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:01,925
Invisible coffee table!
1555
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:04,890
There's a--
I don't know how we got that in there.
1556
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:06,570
It fit in his coat.
1557
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:08,728
--But now may not be the time!
1558
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:13,045
So there's-- Like, Flint's trying to find
who has the real thing.
1559
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,686
At the same time,
he's apologizing to Sam, so...
1560
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:17,885
That shot always makes me laugh.
1561
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:20,970
Yeah. I think there are multiple arms
there as well, maybe.
1562
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:22,963
- Yeah.
- Six or seven arms flying at once.
1563
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:25,282
Note to self:
put that on their tombstones.
1564
01:18:25,440 --> 01:18:27,761
Bring the underwear back.
1565
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:29,610
Dan Z. animated this, didn't he?
1566
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:32,161
These friends are the reason
you keep losing.
1567
01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:34,527
Well, it's better than ending up
alone like you.
1568
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:36,330
Really?
1569
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:40,489
Here we see the banana sandwich
come back and the Deliverator.
1570
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:43,484
Flint! Why don't you throw him
a party?
1571
01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:47,281
So the idea here plot-wise is that we
wanted Sam to be part of the solution...
1572
01:18:47,480 --> 01:18:49,289
...and that she sort of helps him out.
1573
01:18:49,440 --> 01:18:51,283
Flint doesn't defeat Chester
on his own.
1574
01:18:51,440 --> 01:18:54,330
Chester believes he can defeat Flint
with only himself.
1575
01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:56,761
But Flint has to use his friends
to win the day.
1576
01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:58,650
He's got the power of friendship.
1577
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:01,963
Having apologized,
Sam is now helping him find the idea...
1578
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:05,607
...and at the end,
Steve is going to be...
1579
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:08,969
- That's awesome.
- Yeah, because it's just yellow tape.
1580
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:11,970
Some major 3D action here.
1581
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:14,682
Freeze that frame.
1582
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:17,611
Mark Mothersbaugh wrote this song.
Who did the--?
1583
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:21,890
Thelma. I don't remember her last name,
but, yeah, Thelma was the singer.
1584
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:24,731
That karate chop to the neck
was a Josh Beveridge idea...
1585
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:27,611
...because Flint's bad at sports
and fighting.
1586
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:29,726
Guys, I'm...
1587
01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:31,849
So, yeah,
so Flint's once again covered--
1588
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:34,526
Somehow Steve doesn't get hit
with that thing.
1589
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:38,247
Animals know how to get out of the way
of hurricanes and paint explosions.
1590
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:42,041
Flint might have sprayed him with,
like, an anti-paint...
1591
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:44,931
Keep your monkey clean.
First rule of inventing.
1592
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:47,242
Enjoy your friends, Lockwood.
1593
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:50,802
But of course,
Chester's gonna get away with this.
1594
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:53,651
No.
1595
01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:56,366
This is where our food comes back
into the movie.
1596
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:57,402
Food!
1597
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:01,002
- Look at those creepy chickens.
- Whirly beet.
1598
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:03,288
How many food creatures
did we have, Cody?
1599
01:20:03,480 --> 01:20:04,641
Something like over 80.
1600
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:07,690
You will see there's a wild knish there
in the background.
1601
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:11,930
That was hard to kind of identify,
but he shows up.
1602
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:13,844
--Supreme.
1603
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:16,484
I like that music through there.
1604
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:19,081
There's the knish over there
in the distance.
1605
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:22,682
That's a buffaloaf. They don't have legs,
so how they get around is...
1606
01:20:22,880 --> 01:20:24,644
- Like a slug almost.
- Like--
1607
01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:26,405
--there's nowhere to go.
1608
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:28,206
That's what you think.
1609
01:20:28,360 --> 01:20:30,089
You've gotta treat your friends well.
1610
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:33,369
The lesson here
is if you don't treat people well...
1611
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:36,609
...they're gonna one day wake up
and take your FLDSMDFR.
1612
01:20:38,800 --> 01:20:42,247
Of course, Chester thinks
he's gonna be saved by his holograms.
1613
01:20:42,480 --> 01:20:44,926
-"I can always rely on myself."
- Yeah.
1614
01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:49,444
But we've seen the movie,
so we know what's gonna happen.
1615
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:52,007
And actually, he should have been
smarter than that.
1616
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:55,010
- Come on, dude. Chester.
- But those vests are pretty amazing.
1617
01:20:55,240 --> 01:20:58,130
He kind of turtled into the vest
and then he cleans himself up.
1618
01:20:58,280 --> 01:20:59,327
"I saved myself."
1619
01:20:59,480 --> 01:21:01,721
That was a callback to a gag
in the first film...
1620
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,690
...where Sam had a choice
to exit the Jell-O mold.
1621
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:06,723
- We like exit jokes.
- Yeah.
1622
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:09,406
And this is the best transition ever.
1623
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:11,967
Sasquash.
1624
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:14,327
I got that one. I busted on that one.
1625
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:18,684
Oh, I love-- Go back to that one too,
the little strawberry-carrot high five.
1626
01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:20,444
- Yeah.
- Always makes me laugh.
1627
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:25,490
Oh, she blushes. Awesome.
1628
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:26,806
- I love Barb.
- I do too.
1629
01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:29,162
She's a great character.
I love Kristen Schaal.
1630
01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:31,362
She's awesome.
Your name is Kristen as well.
1631
01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:34,410
- It is. My name is Kristen Pearn.
- You bonded over the Kristen.
1632
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:36,722
And I got to work with Kristen Schaal.
1633
01:21:37,480 --> 01:21:38,641
But we're both married...
1634
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:43,442
...so it can only go as far
as this professional relationship.
1635
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:48,488
Oh, no, the FLDSMDFR's
not gonna come back.
1636
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:50,887
- This is how the movie ends. Yeah.
- The end.
1637
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:52,923
But wait.
1638
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:56,407
I love the way we pop the drama here.
1639
01:21:56,560 --> 01:21:58,927
The first word out of its mouth is...
1640
01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:01,327
.-."pickle!ll
1641
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:03,247
"Leek."
1642
01:22:03,480 --> 01:22:08,361
And then we told the team at lmageworks
to use every color you have.
1643
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:11,526
Little baby pickle.
1644
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:15,327
- Cheesy afterbirth.
- This is gross but cute.
1645
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:18,729
I love the little uncoordinated
cheeseburger there.
1646
01:22:18,920 --> 01:22:21,651
And too late in the game...
1647
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:25,322
It would have been nice if maybe
he was holding onions, but oh, well.
1648
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:29,127
Oh, well.
Yeah, the cry. Little pearl onions.
1649
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:32,690
Because onions make you cry,
and this, of course, makes sense...
1650
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:36,367
-...because a little drop of man tear...
- Gives you Tom Selleck chest hair.
1651
01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:38,841
...will bring the hair
in the oppressed blueberry.
1652
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:40,161
Guys...
1653
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:42,405
...do you think we...?
1654
01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:45,570
There's the dirty Sparkswood drawing.
1655
01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:46,807
Sam is super cute here.
1656
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:49,201
Yeah. We used to have a close-up
of that drawing.
1657
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:52,244
It actually has, like,
a squashed mosquitoast stuck in it.
1658
01:22:52,480 --> 01:22:53,845
- Still alive, of course.
- Yeah.
1659
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:58,322
They're gonna let Barb back into
the friendship. Of course. Even Barry.
1660
01:22:58,840 --> 01:22:59,921
Come on.
1661
01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:04,648
And then we got the colorful reveal
of Barb's inner beauty.
1662
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:05,881
Yes.
1663
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,206
That groom, that hair groom,
took a long time...
1664
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:11,767
...you know, to get that sheen.
1665
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:15,609
Here's where we pay off
the monkey/ape thing.
1666
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:17,126
Beautiful.
1667
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:18,606
There's a bond there.
1668
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:22,202
Yeah. I think, you know, they could go on
to be domesticated lab partners.
1669
01:23:22,400 --> 01:23:25,722
Little bit of romance
coming down the line.
1670
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:29,091
Sasquash on Tim's head.
1671
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,081
It's fun playing Flint
where he's not good at sports.
1672
01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:36,049
- Yeah.
-It's something I can relate to.
1673
01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:38,766
If that Flint-Sam-Barry shot
wasn't the longest shot...
1674
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:40,922
...this would be the longest shot, I think.
1675
01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:43,441
This might be the longest shot, yeah.
1676
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:45,847
- Was this Claudio?
- Claudio did this one? Yeah.
1677
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:51,001
One of the last things finished
in our Animation Department.
1678
01:23:52,280 --> 01:23:57,889
The old, you know, "reel in the big fish
that turns out to be a small fish" gag.
1679
01:23:58,080 --> 01:23:59,684
Look, there it is.
1680
01:23:59,880 --> 01:24:04,124
I love the inner story
of the sardine here.
1681
01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:07,411
-"I give my life for you."
-"Can I go fishing all the time?"
1682
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:10,206
"You betcha, skipper."
And somebody goes, "Crap."
1683
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:15,605
Because they were having a great time
without any people on the island.
1684
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:20,402
And this is another shot where
we asked the team to use every color.
1685
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:21,806
Yes.
1686
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:24,367
Rainbows.
1687
01:24:26,080 --> 01:24:29,402
And pearl onion turns on the TV,
and we go into our coda.
1688
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:32,450
- Yeah, which was brilliantly directed by...
- Craig Kellman.
1689
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:35,604
...our lead character designer,
Craig Kellman, and Pete Oswald...
1690
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,286
...one of the most amazing designers
I've worked with.
1691
01:24:38,440 --> 01:24:40,283
He was a key designer on the first film.
1692
01:24:40,440 --> 01:24:44,081
- Did he not design Sam Sparks?
- I believe he finished off her design.
1693
01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:47,568
Yeah, the final design of Sam is,
yeah, Pete Oswald.
1694
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:50,200
So much like the spirit of the first film...
1695
01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:55,167
...where we kind of switched
into a different style for the coda...
1696
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:56,725
...we did the same thing here.
1697
01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:59,690
It allowed us to kind of get
a bit more story into the film.
1698
01:24:59,840 --> 01:25:02,320
What is it like when people
and food live together...
1699
01:25:02,480 --> 01:25:04,050
...on the island of Swallow Falls?
1700
01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:07,363
On the rebuilt island of Swallow Falls.
1701
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:10,165
Phil Lord and Chris Miller...
1702
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:13,051
...the guys who started the whole thing
way back when.
1703
01:25:15,520 --> 01:25:17,249
You'll notice in this coda, though...
1704
01:25:17,400 --> 01:25:21,007
...like, Pete and Craig are switched
in between different styles...
1705
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:24,846
...so it's not just like a 2D animation,
but you're going through stop-motion...
1706
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:26,968
...there's a bit of live-action coming up.
1707
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:28,963
-Puppetry.
-Some puppetry.
1708
01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:31,888
Which is kind of cool.
1709
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:34,762
Love this style.
1710
01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:38,444
The Wilde-Beets.
1711
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:41,769
- That would be stop-motion there, right?
- I believe so.
1712
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:43,883
Anna Faris. Love our cast, you know.
1713
01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:47,123
Bill and Anna and James Caan
and everybody.
1714
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:49,681
- Terry.
- Terry, Benjamin Bratt.
1715
01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:52,281
- Andy.
- So much fun to work with those guys.
1716
01:25:52,480 --> 01:25:56,451
Neil Patrick Harris, who was always
game to come read the dictionary for us.
1717
01:25:56,600 --> 01:26:01,208
Here's a list of one-word sentences.
That's not a sentence. That's one word.
1718
01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:03,647
That creature there
was the tyrannosmores mess...
1719
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:07,128
...which, we had a whole scene
with that guy in the movie that got cut.
1720
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:09,123
Yeah, it used to be
the crème brûglacier.
1721
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:13,524
- Crème brûglacier. The crème-
- Come on, kids, watch crème brûglacier.
1722
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:15,563
The crème brûlée glacier.
1723
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:19,401
The kids are still confused because
no one knows what a creme brûlée is.
1724
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:21,851
-It's tasty.
- Yeah.
1725
01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:23,849
You get it at the fancier restaurants.
1726
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:25,769
Yeah, but it was that moment where...
1727
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:29,169
...yeah, Chester, Barb and Flint
were on their way to the mountain...
1728
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:31,482
...and it used to--
The crème brûlée broke up...
1729
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:33,051
Corn dog. Sasquash.
1730
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:36,124
...and, yeah, Flint got sucked in.
1731
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:38,243
- A raisin in the sun.
- Yeah.
1732
01:26:39,160 --> 01:26:42,687
Benjamin Bratt. He's a cool man.
1733
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:46,606
That there is the eggplanatee.
I guess that's a sea horse.
1734
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:49,684
- Horse radish? A sea horse radish?
- A sea horse radish. Good.
1735
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:50,887
Thanks.
1736
01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:53,964
See, it's a game you can--
Hammerhead shark.
1737
01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:55,321
- Yeah.
- Hammerbread shark.
1738
01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:57,568
- Hammerbread shark.
- Yes.
1739
01:26:58,440 --> 01:27:00,727
Puppets. We got some puppets here.
1740
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:06,646
- And they're having a birthday party.
- Yeah. Brent's back in his chicken suit.
1741
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:12,131
This is the matzo bull right there.
1742
01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:14,800
- He's got carrot horns.
- Carrot horns.
1743
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:19,205
Chris Juen did an amazing job
keeping us sane...
1744
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:21,203
...and, you know, getting the job done.
1745
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:24,404
There are some characters
of Justin and Kevin and Dave...
1746
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:26,841
- And the rest of the vis-dev team?
- Yep.
1747
01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:28,081
It goes by so fast.
1748
01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:32,370
- Pete Oswald with his family there.
- Manny, also a painter.
1749
01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:35,762
When the food doesn't run away.
Justin Thompson.
1750
01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:39,129
That's our production designer,
who we love. Little pink guy.
1751
01:27:39,320 --> 01:27:42,961
The blueberries,
they don't get any respect, do they?
1752
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:44,849
No, just get tossed around like--
1753
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:47,810
I believe that's Craig Kellman
in the big strawberry suit.
1754
01:27:47,960 --> 01:27:51,009
- Yes.
- So he's got lovely legs in those tights.
1755
01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:56,164
There he is. And Brandon Jeffords.
1756
01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:59,688
Cannot say enough nice things
about that tall man.
1757
01:27:59,920 --> 01:28:02,002
- He is tall, isn't he?
- He is a very tall man.
1758
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:06,649
And a really good head of story.
Now, that's Cornan.
1759
01:28:07,240 --> 01:28:09,527
James Williams,
another delightful human being...
1760
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,649
...from the country of Wales.
1761
01:28:11,840 --> 01:28:13,888
He speaks eloquently.
1762
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:16,845
Pete Nash from the country of Canada.
1763
01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:21,048
A mosquitoast.
And then our amazing animation leads.
1764
01:28:21,240 --> 01:28:23,891
- We love you all.
- Good job, guys.
1765
01:28:24,080 --> 01:28:25,161
What's happening?
1766
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:30,884
We've swapped styles,
but it's because it's a horror movie.
1767
01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:34,368
- Mandy and Christina go screaming out.
- No, run!
1768
01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:37,447
Our CG supes.
1769
01:28:38,120 --> 01:28:40,168
And a beautiful happy ending.
There's a kiss.
1770
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:42,971
- We start with a kiss and end with a kiss.
-It's awesome.
1771
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:44,963
- Love.
- Love and dancing.
1772
01:28:45,160 --> 01:28:46,810
- Love and dancing.
- Manny's dancing.
1773
01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:50,282
- That's a memoir, Love and Dancing.
- The Story of Cloudy.
1774
01:28:50,480 --> 01:28:52,369
Oh, wait, wait, there's more.
1775
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:55,040
And what's that there?
1776
01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:58,926
I believe that's the banana sandwich that
went through the Grocery Deliverator.
1777
01:28:59,080 --> 01:29:01,606
Steve is gonna finally get to eat
his banana sandwich.
1778
01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:03,250
--Do you wanna go get coffee...?
1779
01:29:03,440 --> 01:29:05,488
The moment
everyone's been waiting for and...
1780
01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:07,722
:53:
1781
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:10,764
She thought he meant dinner now.
And he was gonna eat dinner.
1782
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:13,082
Maybe he isn't--
I think Steve's just a monkey.
1783
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:14,327
I think he is too.
1784
01:29:14,480 --> 01:29:16,642
- All right, so--
- Thanks for watching our film.
1785
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:19,610
And thanks for listening to us babble,
and thank you.
1786
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:22,491
- Good day.
- Good day.