Mr. Men (film)

Mr. Men is a 1967 comedy film written, co-produced and directed by and starring the ensemble cast of, , ,  and others. The film follows the skits of Mr. Men and the Little Misses on their lives.

Produced by Hargreaves' production company Gidney/Blanko Productions, the film premiered at the on 21 January 1967 and in the United States on 25 January, and was released in the United Kingdom on 3 February, to critical and commercial success. Grossing $93 million against a $21 million budget in the box office, its success has prompted the film to spawn a series of children's books and animated television series. At the, Mr. Men was nominated for a but won the first.

Plot
The Mr. Men and the Little Misses participate with mercenary assassins Aiden Hunt and in a charity skydive for the  in Greenwich. Mr. Bump survives by stealing a parachute from Hunt, while Jaws misses the target landing zone and lands on a trapeze net within a circus tent. The Mr. Men and the Little Misses land safely in the observatory and greeting, leading to the opening sequence.

Mr. Tickle's story begins in his bedroom, waking up in his bed and having a quick bite to eat, using his extraordinarily long arms to get a biscuit from the kitchen and go back to eat it. He then decides that it looks like a tickling sort of a day, so he goes out to town tickling people - a teacher, a policeman, a greengrocer, a station guard, a doctor, a butcher, and a postman named Mr. Stamp. He causes a lot of chaos in the process of doing this. Mr. Tickle goes back to his home at the end of his day to reflect upon and laugh about all of the people that he tickled.

Meanwhile in Happyland, Mr. Happy is seen going for a walk, when he discovers a small door at the bottom of a tree trunk. He then goes through the door, and down a small staircase, where he finds a room at the bottom. Inside the room, Mr. Miserable (Joe Dunne) resides there, who looks exactly like Mr. Happy, except with a big frown instead of a big smile. Mr. Happy takes Mr. Miserable out with him and invites him to stay in Happyland for a while. Overtime, Mr. Miserable starts becoming less sad and more happy, when he eventually becomes just as happy as Mr. Happy, and laughing a lot with him.

Mr. Small lives under a daisy in Mr. Robinson 's garden. He eats very enormous meals with little food, and talks to Walter the Worm about getting a job. He meets Mr. Robinson who tries to get him a job. They try putting mustard in mustard jars in a restaurant, which is not good because Mr. Small keeps falling into the jars. They try putting matches into matchboxes, no good either since he keeps getting shut in the boxes. The best job for somebody so small is writing children's books, and Mr. Small meets a friend of Mr. Robinson who writes children's books (Hargreaves), and writes a book all about himself.

Mr. Bump attempts to fix a loose chimney pot on the roof of his house, which goes horribly wrong when he tries to use a long ladder and ends up smashing all of the windows of his house. On account of his accident-proneness, he has been costed many jobs. He goes on holiday to a seaside and several things happen to him, such as getting his foot stuck in a bucket and falling into a hole shortly afterwards. While on holiday, he has a great idea of an ideal job to do, which was being an apple picker in Mr. Barley's apple orchard. Instead of using a ladder to pick the apples, he just wanders around the orchard and bumps into the trees, which knocks apples off the trees that he catches. Little Miss Whoops goes and visits Mr. Bump. Unfortunately, disaster happens during her visit.

In Austria, Mr. Tickle and Miss Chatterbox are attending an aerobics class, ran by Mr. Lazy. Miss Helpful tries to teach Mr. Bump how to ski, but she isn't being very helpful. On the way to their briefing, Miss Helpful and Mr. Bump escape an ambush by a squad of Terror Intelligence Agency agents, mowing one out during a downhill ski chase and evading the others. Mr. Fussy, Mr. Nervous and Mr. Quiet judge an Olympic-like sport but they aren't too impressed about the contestants as the Little Miss on a loudspeaker (possibly Miss Calamity) announces that the Mr. Men and Little Misses are doing their effort on the Olympic rings. Mr. Bounce tries to find ways to prevent him from bouncing while playing tetherball. Later, the viewer hears Mr. Noisy in golf where Miss Scary and Mr. Rude play and the Mr. Noisy said that Mr. Bounce scored a goal. Mr. Nervous imagines that he's slaying a dragon but he's really playing a dragon-course in mini-golf with Miss Scary and Mr. Rude.

In the lake in Scotland, Mr. Rude is trying to blow up a rubber dinghy, but blows up like a balloon and soon comes down. Mr. Strong offers to help but accidentally destroys it. Mr. Stubborn is rowing the wrong way to the stream and refuses to listen to Mr. Happy saying that he's going towards some dangerous currents. Mr. Bump is water skiing on Miss Daredevil's boat with Miss Helpful unsteadily. Mr. Nervous imagines that he's in the Desert and a cannon fires at him. It is really shown that he is playing Beach Volleyball with Mr. Grumpy, Mr. Bounce, Mr. Strong, Miss Scary and Miss Chatterbox. The ball then gets knocked into the lake and eaten by a big fish and they then use Mr. Bounce as the ball instead. Mr. Scatterbrain gives his pet named Sunscreen to Mr. Fussy and annoys people at the lake with his musical monkeys and penguins. Then the Mr. Men and the Little Misses are chased through the lake by the TIA's henchmen.

En route to Scotland, Mr. Bump returns the now-deceased Aiden Hunt's remains to his grieving daughter, Felicity Hunt. However, the real Felicity Hunt has been replaced by agent Anastasia Morris. The rest of the household have been likewise replaced, with MI6's aim to discredit Mr. Bump by destroying his "celibate image". Attempts by a bevy of beauties to seduce Mr. Bump fail, but Anastasia/Felicity becomes so impressed with Mr. Bump that she changes loyalties and helps Mr. Bump to foil the plot against him.

The Mr. Men and the Little Misses are on Good Morning Dillydale and they talk about the safties of sailing but Miss Whoops accidentally unties the knots for the main sail and spinnaker. While she continues to speak, she bumps Mr. Quiet out of the boat twice. Sick of being with Miss Whoops, Mr. Quiet walks from the ocean to the studio and gives Mr. Happy and Miss Sunshine the life preserver. Mr. Nervous imagines he's lost in the middle of the ocean surrounded by sharks, but he is really in a pool with Miss Naughty wearing a shark fin. Mr. Lazy goes for a short ride in Mr. Scatterbrain's boat but ends up in the South Pole with musical penguins, seals and polar bears (that don't live in the South Pole). The Mr. Men and Little Misses are having a good time until a storm makes them presumably and exactly sick. (probably caused by Mr. Tickle, though he says "Don't look at me!") Mr. Stubborn (Captain Stubborn) and Miss Calamity an iceberg hits and sinks the ship (S.S Stubborn), but then Mr. Scatterbrain saves her life by offering her a spot in his and Mr. Lazy's boat. Everyone from Mr. Scatterbrain and Mr. Lazy's plot continues their singing with Mr. Stubborn (who escaped the sinking on a floating chair) telling them to stop singing.

En route to England, Mr. Nervous imagines that he's an astronaut in a rocket and gets stuck in space. It's really shown that he's holding on a 2 minute ride that looks like a rocket. Mr. Grumpy is a flight attendant but gets bugged with Mr. Rude pressing the buzzer, Mr. Fussy asking for a new pillow that's clean, and Mr. Bounce bouncing all over the place. In the end, Mr. Grumpy gives Mr. Fussy a new pillow, Mr. Bounce. Mr. Tickle and Mr. Quiet go for a crazy ride in Miss Whoops' helicopter. Miss Calamity goes on a balloon trip to her bonnet back with a ride with pigs, a train, a fishing rod and mud. Mr. Stubborn takes Mr. Quiet on a crazy plane ride. Mr. Bump goes skydiving. Miss Helpful accidentally forgets to tie his parachute on. Mr. Bump hits a plane and then lands on a trapeze net within a circus tent (a call-back to the beginning of the film).

A month later, Mr. Fussy takes Mr. Rude out to a restaurant and they sit at a bad table. He tells Mr. Rude to use good manners or they'll be asked to leave. Mr. Rude's antics eventually get Mr. Fussy asked to leave the restaurant and not Mr. Rude probably because Miss Helpful is one of the characters who don't care about Mr. Rude's manners, although she is part of the Angry Heads who shout "Mr. Rude!" Mr. Strong has asked Mr. Bump to wash the dishes. He soon gets knocked into the machine. Miss Calamity causes a calamity while trying to make buns (to the point of thinking the dough is alive) but Mr. Small and Mr. Nosey, who were passing by, blatantly ignore her pleas for help. Mr. Grumpy gets the wrong orders from Mr. Scatterbrain.

Mr. Bump is painting windows with Mr. Strong. Mr. Strong pulls to fast. Mr. Strong soon sends Mr. Bump off the edge and into a paint can which Mr. Scatterbrain picks up. Mr. Rude is trying to paint Miss Chatterbox and her canary Featherhead. Mr. Quiet ruins it with a fan. Miss Whoops was asked by Mr. Noisy to paint lines on a road with a paint machine on Happy Drive and makes Mr. Grumpy follow her and she gets the machine out of control and gets Mr. Grumpy into a wig shop, a turkey pen, a groove shop and even skirting Mr. Bump. They then get hit by the crusher. Mr. Grumpy replies "Next time, I'm taking the bus." Miss Calamity gets knocked into Mr. Lazy's paint machine after mixing 3 colors which were purple, blue and fuchsia, then Miss Calamity changes her own mind and finally leaves the paint store after getting splatted in the machine. Mr. Fussy's house inside gets covered by Mr. Messy's purple paint. The next morning it's white again and Mr. Fussy thinks that it was all just a dream but when he walks outside he finds his shoes covered in paint.

Three weeks later, Miss Helpful has asked Mr. Bump to fix a satellite. Mr. Tickle was there to give him a tickle. Mr. Tickle tickles Miss Helpful while reading him the instructions. Asteroids smash the cord and the ship leaves without him. He reaches Ground Control but Mr. Stubborn thinks that he's not lost. Miss Helpful soon comes to save him and gets a tickle. Mr. Nervous imagines he's lost in a haunted maze with colourful ghosts. In reality he's just playing some arcade game. Mr. Strong, Mr. Grumpy, Mr. Nervous, and Mr. Quiet attack the TIA's guards, and a laser battle ensues between the TIA's forces and Mr. Strong, Mr. Grumpy, Mr. Nervous, Mr. Quiet, Jaws, and the Marines (attacking on MMUs). Miss Naughty tells news about a UFO landing in Dillydale. Miss Scary is being the alien. Mr. Fussy tells them to stop and tell the real news. Soon two real giant aliens attack the studio and Miss Scary scares them off with her mask.

The Mr. Mens and the Little Misses use the TIA's laser-armed Execution Defense Force 6 to destroy the three launched globes and return to Earth. It is revealed that Jaws and Dolly, who ejected themselves in one of Perry's escape pods, after toasting with a bottle of champagne, are being recovered by the Marines. Hargreaves and his friends get a video feed of Execution Defense Force 6 and are bemused to see the Mr. Mens and the Little Misses making love in zero gravity while returning back to Earth.

Mr. Men

 * as Mr. Tickle and Mr. Happy
 * as Mr. Bump and Mr. Fussy
 * as Mr. Nosy
 * as Mr. Small
 * Gidney Scott as Mr. Messy
 * as Mr. Nervous
 * as Mr. Noisy
 * Keith Alexander as Mr. Lazy
 * as Mr. Funny
 * as Mr. Bounce
 * as Mr. Strong
 * as Mr. Grumpy
 * as Mr. Quiet
 * as Mr. Tall
 * as Mr. Rude
 * as Mr. Scatterbrain
 * as Mr. Stubborn

Little Misses

 * as Little Miss Bossy
 * as Little Miss Naughty and Little Miss Sunshine
 * as Little Miss Helpful
 * as Little Miss Magic
 * as Little Miss Giggles
 * as Little Miss Chatterbox
 * as Little Miss Curious
 * as Little Miss Scary
 * Olivia-Rose Simpson as Little Miss Whoops
 * as Little Miss Calamity
 * as Little Miss Daredevil
 * as Little Miss Scatterbrain

Miscellaneous

 * as Aiden Hunt
 * as Anastasia Morris/Felicity Hunt
 * as
 * as Dolly
 * as the Airplane Pilot and Mr. Robinson
 * as himself
 * as Mr. Stamp
 * Joe Dunne as Mr. Miserable
 * as Mr. Barley

Release
Mr. Men premiered at the on 21 January 1967 and was released in the United States on 25 January by. It was released by - in the United Kingdom on 3 February.

Mr. Men saw a theatrical re-release in the United States and the United Kingdom on 25 January 2008. On 1 February 2008, to promote, the film aired on Cartoon Network in the United States.