Foodfight! (2012) on Netflix
PG20121h 31mActionAdventureAnimation
At night, Marketropolis supermarket becomes a city of mascots. Cereal mascot Dex Dogtective plans to propose to Sunshine Goodness, a raisin mascot, when she goes missing. Brand X arrives.
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Plot summary
The supermarket Marketropolis turns into a city after closing time, and its food mascots, known as Ikes, come to life and mingle. Dex Dogtective, a cereal mascot, is on the verge of proposing to Sunshine Goodness, the raisin mascot he loves, but she disappears before he can. Six months on, a Brand X representative named Mr. Clipboard arrives in the store and pushes the company's generic products. In the Ikes' world, Lady X, the Brand X detergent mascot, causes a stir at the Copabanana, the club Dex runs. As Brand X items start replacing the old stock, Dex's friend Daredevil Dan, a chocolate squirrel, goes missing, and Dex opens an inquiry into what is happening to his city.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Foodfight! (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In December 2002, director Lawrence Kasanoff reported that hard drives containing most of the unfinished film had been stolen, calling it "industrial espionage"; an investigation involving the United States Secret Service never found the perpetrator.
- After the producers defaulted, investors invoked a contract clause that let Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, which had insured the film, finish it as cheaply and quickly as possible; the film was auctioned in 2011 for $2.5 million.
- When Foodfight! was announced in 2001, it was denounced for heavy product placement in a film aimed at children. Kasanoff answered that no money was paid for the brand inclusions, but the brands were expected to supply $100 million worth of cross-promotion.
- Foodfight! was planned as computer animation with an exaggerated Looney Tunes-style "squash and stretch", but when production resumed in 2004 Kasanoff switched to motion capture, leaving him and his animators "speaking two different languages".
- A tie-in game was developed at Cat Daddy Games for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Wii and Nintendo DS from 2004 to early 2008, with a playable demo at E3 2006, but it was canceled because of development difficulties and the constantly-changing deadlines caused by the film's delays.
