The Big Trip
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 Theatrical Release Poster | |
| Directed by | Vasily Rovensky Natalya Nilova |
| Written by | Billy Frolick Vasily Ronevsky |
| Produced by | Roman Borisevich Maxim Rogalsky Vasily Ronevsky. |
| Cinematography | Fedor Mezentsev |
| Edited by | Eduard Nuritdinov |
| Music by | Igor Babaer Ivan Uryupin |
Production company | Licensing Brands |
| Distributed by | Lionsgate (United States) Karoprokat (Russia) |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Languages | Russian English |
| Budget | $2.90 million |
| Box office | $7.2 million[1] |
The Big Trip (
adventure comedy film directed by Vasily Rovensky (who also acted as a writer and producer) and Natalya Nilova.[3]
The plot concerns a bear and a hare who must return a baby panda to its rightful parents after a stork mistakenly delivers it to them instead. The film was released in Russia on 27 April 2019, and was a commercial “success”, but received negative reviews saying that they “wish to give it zero stars” worldwide.
Premise
When a stork accidentally delivers a panda cub to the wrong parents, which leads bear Mic-Mic and hare Oscar to take the panda to its rightful parents. Along their journey, they meet several animals.[citation needed]
Voice cast
- Asiatic black bear
- Maxim Galkin as Oscar the talkative hare
- Vasily Rovensky Jr. as baby panda
- Philip Kirkorov as Duke the clumsy pelican
- Diomid Vinogradov as Janus the cowardly wolf, Father panda, and a trio of Golden snub-nosed monkeys
- Alexey Vorobyov as Amur the poetic Siberian tiger
- Tatiana Navka as Mother panda
- Irina Kireeva as the red squirrel and duck #1
- Anastasia Reshetnikova as duck #2
- Sergey Smirnov as Carl the Reticulated Python
- Vasily Rovensky as the storks and Houston the insane moose
English dub cast
- Daniel Medvedev as Mic-Mic, Janus, Janus' Fear
- Pauly Shore as Mic-Mic (redub)
- Stephen Thomas Ochsner as Oscar, Duke
- Drake Bell as Oscar (redub)
- Timothy John Joseph Sell as Amur
- Bernard Carl Jacobsen as Mr. Panda
- Katherine Marie Rommel as Mrs. Panda
- Brodey Evan Milburn as Python and Houston
- David Andrew Grout as Mole Stevie Rai, Carl
- Jonathan Salway as Cameo Role Characters
Release
The film had its
world premiere in Turkey on 12 April 2019,[citation needed] and was released theatrically in Russia on 27 April. It was a commercial success, grossing $2.2 million in Russia and $7.1 million worldwide.[1] The top earning European country was the Netherlands with $1.8 million.[4] The film was released on DVD in the United States by Lionsgate on January 14, 2020, with an English dub featuring Pauly Shore and Drake Bell
in the main roles.
Sequel
A sequel, titled Big Trip 2: Special Delivery (also known as Little Bear's Big Trip), was released on 13 October 2021 in Russia. Lionsgate has acquired US distribution rights, and plans to release the film in American theatres in 2022.[5] Pauly Shore reprises his role as Mic-Mic in the Lionsgate dub, while Jesse McCartney replaces Drake Bell as Oscar.
References
- ^ a b The Big Trip at Box Office Mojo, an IMDb company. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- Screen Daily. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ Tizard, Will (28 May 2018) Russian Animation Proves to Be an International Draw. Variety. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ Российский мультфильм "Большое путешествие" получил рекордные сборы в Европе, 10 November 2020. (in Russian). TASS. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ Lionsgate купит права на показ сиквела российского мультфильма «Большое путешествие», 23 April 2020. (in Russian). KinoMetro.ru. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
External links
- The Big Trip at IMDb
- The Big Trip at Film.ru, a Russian film database (in Russian)
