Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) on Netflix
PG20141h 32mAdventureAnimationComedy
Mr. Peabody, a genius dog, raises his adopted human son Sherman and teaches him history aboard the WABAC time machine. On Sherman's first day at school, he clashes with classmate Penny Peterson.
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Plot summary
Mr. Peabody: Scientist, 2 time Olympian, Business Titan, Inventor, and genius, wins the right to adopt Sherman; an eight year old boy who on his first day in school bites fellow student Penny Peterson during History Class over an argument about George Washington's life. After things get out of hand, Mr. Peabody invites Penny and her parents to his penthouse in New York for a dinner party. After an awkward 10 minutes or so Sherman reluctantly shows Penny 'The Wayback' a time machine Mr. Peabody himself invented. Penny and Sherman end up in Ancient Egypt where King Tut wants to marry Penny! Sherman goes to back to get Mr. Peabody to save them and together the trio have to get back to the present day with limited power and before Penny's parents realize they are gone!
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Robert Downey Jr. originally signed on in 2011 to voice Mr. Peabody but was replaced in March 2012 by Ty Burrell, reportedly because his commitments to The Avengers and other franchises left him no time to record his lines.
- Animators built a system letting characters temporarily sprout extra limbs during fast movement, a technique designed to echo the exaggerated "smears" of traditional hand-drawn animation while keeping the 3D action clear.
- Tiffany Ward and others at the studio initially opposed Ty Burrell, who was then relatively unknown, for Mr. Peabody, but he managed to convince them with a successful audition.
- To keep Mr. Peabody's and Sherman's eyes readable behind their glasses, animators built refraction effects into the software to simulate the way lenses distort the eyes, letting them pose the characters accurately without lengthy manual lighting fixes.
