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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a 2001 computer-animated movie. It was produced by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and its plotline concerns Jimmy and friends having a good time at a newly-opened amusement park and then on the town (after seeing that their parents have apparently gone to Florida), and later on (after finding out where they've really gone) having to rescue their parents from egg-shaped aliens voiced by Martin Short and Patrick Stewart. The film was produced using off-the-shelf software by DNA Productions of Dallas, Texas.

The Yokians (including King Goobot and Ooblar) don't appear again until The Egg-pire Strikes Back
.

The film grossed around $80m in North America, and was followed by the television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius the following fall on Nickelodeon.

Symbolism

The soundtrack features a cover of "Parents Just Don't Understand" originally by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, which may or may not be connected to the undertone of the film (and the later produced series). Perhaps the film (and spinoff series) was created in order to reassure the network's target audience that everyone involved with both the film, show and network "knows what it's like" to have (among other things) parents who are oblivious to some special talent the viewers have (Jimmy's parents reprimanding him despite seeing events involving their prodigy son that one would not normally see everyday, usually involving Jimmy's inventions), as well as peers who make fun, call names and tease because of said talent (Cindy referring to Jimmy as "Nerd-tron"). Hence, the network perhaps also wants to appeal to those viewers with special talents who just want to live a normal life, and/or who want to be accepted for who they are and not their special talents (an example of this is some of Jimmy's inventions failing on him). None of this can be confirmed, however.

Voice cast

Debi Derryberry
- Jimmy Neutron
Martin Short
- Ooblar
Patrick Stewart
- King Goobot
Rob Paulsen
- Carl Wheezer
Andrea Martin
- Mrs. Fowl
Jeff Garcia - Sheen
Megan Cavanagh
- Mrs. Judy Neutron
Carolyn Lawrence
- Cindy Vortex
Candi Milo
- Nick Dean
Mark DeCarlo - Mr. Hugh Neutron
Crystal Scales
- Libby
Frank Welker
- Goddard

Trivia

Cultural references

In the beginning of the message Jimmy sends to the aliens, he salutes them using the Vulcan salute.
When Sheen takes the Ultralord oath in the amusement park, his right hand is doing the Vulcan salute.
The Egyptian-style ride "Show me the mummy" is a parody of Jerry Maguire
's catch-phrase "Show me the money".
One of the rides has a scared kid's face with eyes wide open and his hands on his cheeks. That's the famous pose of Macaulay Culkin
in Home Alone
. (Which itself is a parody of the Edvard Munch painting The Scream
The alien's YT program is a parody of ET.

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