The ChubbChubbs! is a Academy-Award winning 2002 computer-animated short by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was produced by Jacquie Barnbrook, directed by Eric Armstrong (animation supervisor of Stuart Little 1 and 2) and written by Jeff Wolverton.
Cast
- Bradford Simonsen as Meeper , a troll/turtle-like alien who finds the ChubbChubbs
- Jeff Wolverton as the ChubbChubbs
- Mortonette Jenkins as Singing Diva
- Peter Lurie as Zyzaks
- Rick Zieff as Bouncer
- Glorfs: Dustin Adair, Eric Armstrong, Yakov Baytler, Mary Biondo, Sumit Das, Layne Friedman, Robert Gordon, Sully Jacome-Wilkes, Franco Pietrantonio, Rick Richards, Chance Thomas, Julie Zackary
- Evan Wu as various aliens
Plot Summary
Meeper, the janitor of an alien pub, has higher aspirations - a karaoke performer. After an accident involving a bucket of water, an electric cord, and an electrocuted singer, Meeper is booted from the pub. Outside, he is told by a dying JarJar Binks that "THE CHUBBCHUBBS ARE COMING!!!" Meeper sees in the distance an aircraft landing, and huge, weapon bearing monsters exiting the craft. He assumes these are the chubbchubbs. He rushes to warn the pub, but before he can shout a warning, he has further injured the singer and is once again booted from the club. Outside, he finds a handful of cute chicks pecking at the ground. The monsters are getting closer. He tries to warn the pub a third time, once more trashing the singer, when someone bursts through the door and yells "THE CHUBBCHUBBS ARE COMING!!!". The pub is emptied, and everyone takes off into the night, leaving Meeper behind. The monsters are almost at the pub. Meeper hides the chicks under his pail in a hope to save them, and then launches into a rendition of Why Can't We Be Friends? until, so caught up in the song, he trips over the pail, revealing the chicks. The monsters all flee, screaming, "It's the ChubbChubbs!!!!" The chicks reveal razor sharp teeth and devour the monsters. They gather around Meeper, who says, "So... You guys into Karaoke?" As the credits roll, you hear Meeper and the ChubbChubbs singing a rewrite of Aretha Frankin's Respect in the pub. When the song is finished, there is dead silence. The ChubbChubbs glare and reveal their teeth, and the crowd hastily bursts into applause.
Release
The ChubbChubbs! was originally theatrically released along with Men in Black II, but the short was successful enough to be re-released in theaters attaching to Stuart Little 2, which the short's director Eric Armstrong also associated in. The ChubbChubbs eventually won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film and was released with the Men in Black II DVD release and had it's own stand-alone DVD in 2003.
On August 8, 2007, a sequel short film The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas was released, playing in theaters before TriStar Pictures' Daddy Day Camp. On October 9, 2007 both The ChubbChubbs! and The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas animated shorts were released on the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Surf's Up.
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