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Hedgehogs: Slow your roll

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Welcome to Yummy Fruit Mountain, where Bobby (Anthony Padilla) and the other hedgehogs live. They all eat, obviously, yummy fruit (which to me look like pomegranates, for the record) and every season when the fruit ripens, all the hedgehogs race and vie against each-other to get to the very top of the tallest fruit and pluck that very first, finest fresh fruit of the season for himself. Almost always, in his pride and daring, is Bobby, the hero of our story.

Bobby seems to think he’s Sonic the Hedgehog or something, he loves to race around and strut and be the fastest and the best, but not so much contributing to the hedgehog community at large or being, well, kind and generous to others. When a wolverine named Maddox (Ian Hecox) who simply won’t take “no!” and “That’s mine!” for an answer when it comes to that yummy fruit, Bobby finds himself lost far from his mountain home, and with memory loss to top it off.

Essentially the rest of the movie is what you’d more or less expect – Bobby goes on a whirlwind adventure through the nearby city, helped along the way by cheerfully vague friends like Hubert the bird (Jon Heder), who initially swears no-name Bobby is a bird too, you know, his feathers just fell off when he fell off the choo-choo. Hubert actually makes Bobby some wings, which I thought was darned impressive.

Anyway, a whole bunch of other stuff happens, the animal gang gets captured because the humans nearby are having a virus issue, and of course, the Thinkman (Chevy Chase) of the lab just wants to murder all the critter carriers, while the little animal activist Scott (Max Mittelman) wants to check the animals out for the presence of the virus first.

Bobby encounters a whole other tribe of hedgehogs, even falling for their princess Rose (Jenn McAllister), but unfortunately these guys are pacifists, meaning no “spines up”, ever. The two opposing forces are about to come to a head, and perhaps a bunch of spines too, if only Bobby can convince them to act!

Bobby the hedgehog learns a great many good life lessons in his travels, not the least of which is that it’s perfectly welcome to ask others for help when you need it. To be brave and the first to the yummy fruit at the highest point of yummy fruit mountain’s tallest tree means little, if you have no-one to share your spoils with. And hey, an assault of bees, hedgehogs, birds, and even dogs against construction loggers and their machines always looks cool, no matter how improbable it might be.

Spending an hour and a half or so watching Bobby learn to be not quite so prideful isn’t bad. All the hedgehogs have weirdly colored spines; you get used to it. It is a movie translated from another language and sometimes the translation gets a bit fuzzy, but the general idea always comes across. Give Hedgehogs a roll!

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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