Greenuts (film)


 * This article is about the first movie. For other uses, please see Greenuts (disambiguation).

Greenuts (also known as The Greenuts Movie) is a 1993 computer-animated comedy film based on the Original Short Film, the film made by Geo Animation Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Jake Sharratt and Seth MacFarlene and is the first installment in the series.

Characters
The characters are all prehistoric animals. The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous actors. Like many movies of prehistoric life, the rules of time periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown in the film never actually lived in the same areas, let alone the same time periods.

Soundtrack
The film score was composed by Randy Newman, this is the only Greenuts soundtrack that he composed, other ones were made by John Powell.

Box Office
The film made $46,312,454 on its opening weekend debuting at #1. It made $176,387,405 domestically and $206,869,731 elsewhere for a worldwide total of $383,257,136 worldwide. It became the 8th highest grossing film in 2002.

Awards
Greenuts received 28 nominations including an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film.

Goofs

 * When Blockhead forgots his Blet, it changes the color, yellow to blue.
 * Cube Runs his live, he disappears in the house.

Misc.

 * Jake Sharratt tried at least 30 different voices for BallCone.
 * The movie is rated PG for mild peril, which explains the lava in the film.
 * The character deaths were off-screen in this movie.