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| name = The Tale of Despereaux | image = taledesperaux.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Sam Fell Robert Stevenhagen | producer = Gary Ross Allison Thomas | screenplay = Gary Ross | story = Will McRobb Chris Viscardi | based on = {{based on|The Tale of Despereaux|Kate DiCamillo}} | starring = Matthew Broderick Robbie Coltrane Dustin Hoffman Richard Jenkins Kevin Kline Frank Langella William H. Macy Tracey Ullman Emma Watson | narrator = Sigourney Weaver | music = William Ross | cinematography = Brad Blackbourn | editing = Mark Solomon | studio = Relativity Media Framestore Feature Animation Universal Animation Studios | distributor = Universal Pictures | released = {{Film date|2008|12|19}} | runtime = 94 minutes | country = United Kingdom United States[1] | language = English | budget = $60 million[2] | gross = $86.9 million[2] }} The Tale of Despereaux is a 2008 British-American computer-animated adventure fantasy family film directed by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen and produced by Gary Ross and Allison Thomas. Loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, the movie is narrated by Sigourney Weaver and stars Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Ciarán Hinds, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, William H. Macy, Charles Shaughnessy, Stanley Tucci, Tracey Ullman, and Emma Watson. It was released on December 19, 2008, by Universal Pictures. The movie is the second theatrically released computer-animated film distributed by Universal Studios. It was also produced by Universal Animation Studios, Framestore Feature Animation, and Relativity Media. The film grossed $86.9 million on a $60 million budget and received mixed reviews, where many critics praised the film for its excellent animation and the charming title character, but complained that it had an unoriginal and scrambled story. PlotThe sailor Pietro and his rat companion Roscuro dock in the kingdom of Dor, famous around the world for its delicious soups, during the "Royal Soup Day." The chief cook, Chef Andre, makes good soup due to Boldo, a magical genie that emerges from his pot and is made entirely out of food. On a banquet, when Roscuro slips away and ends up in the royal banquet hall, he slips and falls into the Queen's soup, giving her such a fright that she has a heart attack and dies. The entire hall goes into a panic, as the guards pursue Roscuro. He attempts to flee the castle but sees Pietro's ship has already sailed away. He narrowly escapes capture by falling down a sewer drain, which leads to the castle dungeons, where he's found and taken in by Botticelli, the leader of the dungeon's large rat population. Distraught over his wife's death, the king forbids any and all things related to soup and makes rats illegal. Without its soup, Dor becomes impoverished and dreary. Andre is banned from making any more soup and Boldo stops appearing. The king's daughter, Princess Pea, despairs over the sad state of the kingdom and how her father has shut out both her and the world in his grief. In a mouse village in the castle's abandoned kitchen storage room, a baby is born to the Tilling family. They name him Despereaux. As he grows up, it becomes clear Despereaux's not like other mice: he isn't meek and timid, but brave and curious, unnerving other mice around him. In an effort to teach him to behave like a proper mouse, his brother Furlough takes him to the castle library to show him how to chew books, but Despereaux is more interested in reading than eating them. He starts to become fascinated by fairytale books about daring knights and trapped princesses. One day while reading, he comes across Pea, and the two speak. She makes him promise to finish reading the story about a trapped princess so he may tell her how it ends. Upon discovering Despereaux has violated mouse law by talking to a human, his parents turn him in to the mouse council. The council banishes Despereaux to the dungeons, where he meets and tells the princess' story to the castle jailor, Gregory, but he doesn't listen and leaves Despereaux alone. There, he is captured by the rats and thrown into their arena with a cat. As Despereaux is about to be eaten, Roscuro saves his life by asking Botticelli to give Despereaux to him to eat. Having been unable to adjust to being a sewer rat, Roscuro is desperate to hear about the outside world. The two become friends, as every day Despereaux tells him the stories and of the princess and her sadness. Hoping to make amends for all the trouble he's caused, Roscuro sneaks up to Princess Pea's room and tries to apologize, only to be lashed out. Hurt by this, Roscuro decides he wants to hurt Pea. He enlists the help of Miggery "Mig" Sow, Princess Pea's slightly deaf young maid who longs to be a princess herself, by convincing her she can take Pea's place if she kidnaps her. After Mig drags Pea down to the dungeons, Roscuro double-crosses her and locks her in a cell. Meanwhile, Despereaux (who has been punished by the mouse council again for his bravery by learning to be afraid by the threadmaster, Hovis, but after being lost in a cave, the mice thought he was dead) realizes that the princess is in danger, he tries to tell the king but he was too despondent to listen. Despereaux tries to get help elsewhere; he tries to tell his people to help, but they are afraid to see him alive (thinking that he is a ghost.) So Despereaux decides to ring the town's bell to prove to his people that he is still alive. A sleeping Andre heard the bell and dreams of his days before soups were illegal. After dreaming, Andre decided that he had enough of this law and gets back to make some soup, which brings the enchanted smell back to the kingdom and brings back Boldo. Back in the rat colony, Roscuro sees the apologetic sincerity in Pea's eyes and regrets his actions, but is unable to stop the rats, to whom he has given her, from clambering over her. Roscuro tries to tell the rats that Pea is not bad, but Botticelli does not let him because he wants Pea dead, even going as far as allowing the rats to eat or trample over Pea. Back at the castle, Despereaux tried to get help from Andre and Boldo, but Andre doesn't listen. Boldo, wanting to help, turns into a knight by Despereaux. Roscoro figures out that Botticelli is a double-crossing traitor and that Pea is doomed. He refuses to allow the rats to hurt Pea, and a battle ensues. Despereaux arrives and lets loose a cat and brings sunshine to the rat world, and the rats run away. As the cat runs back to its cage, Roscuro then forces Botticelli into it, where he is then eaten by the cat. Mig is later reunited with her long-lost father Gregory, who recognizes the heart-shaped birthmark on the back of her neck. It finally stops raining and the sun shines after soup is made for the first time in years. The mice all then try to be braver like Despereaux. The king is able to overcome his grief and soup and rats are allowed back in the kingdom. Roscuro returns to a life at sea, where there is always light and a gentle breeze and Despereaux himself takes off on a journey to see the world as the film ends. Cast
ProductionThe film's production was marred by disagreements and malpractice, or accusations thereof, between the French, British and North American staff involved. Sylvain Chomet was employed by Gary Ross and Allison Thomas as director early on, before the film was approved for funding by Universal Pictures, with pre-production (including character design, the first drafts of the screenplay written by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi and the addition of the original character of Boldo the soup spirit) taking place at his studio Django Films in Edinburgh. Chomet came up against creative and ethical differences with the producers and was eventually fired from the project and thrown out of the studio space allocated to Despereaux.[3] Mike Johnson was also hired as director before the role eventually went to Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen, who, reportedly, had not read the original novel and directed the film, made at Framestore in London, via speakerphone and e-mail. {{citation needed|date=May 2013}} Music{{Infobox album| name = The Tale of Despereaux: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | type = Soundtrack | artist = William Ross | cover = | alt = | released = December 16, 2008 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = 58:51 | label = Intrada Records | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }} The score to The Tale of Despereaux was composed by William Ross, who recorded his score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.[4] {{Track listing| collapsed = | headline = | extra_column = | total_length = | all_writing = | all_lyrics = | all_music = | writing_credits = | lyrics_credits = | music_credits = | title1 = Soup | note1 = | writer1 = Glen Ballard, Gary Ross, and Dave Stewart | lyrics1 = | music1 = | extra1 = | length1 = 1:43 | title2 = It's Great to Be a Rat | note2 = | writer2 = Glen Ballard, Gary Ross, and Dave Stewart | lyrics2 = | music2 = | extra2 = | length2 = 1:23 | title3 = Main Title / Prologue | note3 = | writer3 = William Ross | lyrics3 = | music3 = | extra3 = | length3 = 2:38 | title4 = The Village of Dor | note4 = | writer4 = William Ross | lyrics4 = | music4 = | extra4 = | length4 = 2:17 | title5 = Andre & Boldo | note5 = | writer5 = William Ross | lyrics5 = | music5 = | extra5 = | length5 = 1:27 | title6 = The Soup Is Served | note6 = | writer6 = William Ross | lyrics6 = | music6 = | extra6 = | length6 = 1:11 | title7 = Roscuro's Fall | note7 = | writer7 = William Ross | lyrics7 = | music7 = | extra7 = | length7 = 2:42 | title8 = A King's Sadness | note8 = | writer8 = William Ross | lyrics8 = | music8 = | extra8 = | length8 = 2:00 | title9 = Mouse World / A Mouse Is Born | note9 = | writer9 = William Ross | lyrics9 = | music9 = | extra9 = | length9 = 3:11 | title10 = Lonely Roscuro | note10 = | writer10 = William Ross | lyrics10 = | music10 = | extra10 = | length10 = 1:15 | title11 = The Royal Library | note11 = | writer11 = William Ross | lyrics11 = | music11 = | extra11 = | length11 = 1:30 | title12 = Once Upon a Time | note12 = | writer12 = William Ross | lyrics12 = | music12 = | extra12 = | length12 = 2:30 | title13 = I Am a Gentleman / Mig's Story | note13 = | writer13 = William Ross | lyrics13 = | music13 = | extra13 = | length13 = 3:39 | title14 = Banishment | note14 = | writer14 = William Ross | lyrics14 = | music14 = | extra14 = | length14 = 3:08 | title15 = In the Dungeon | note15 = | writer15 = William Ross | lyrics15 = | music15 = | extra15 = | length15 = 1:02 | title16 = Cat and Mouse | note16 = | writer16 = William Ross | lyrics16 = | music16 = | extra16 = | length16 = 2:03 | title17 = Roscuro and Despereaux | note17 = | writer17 = William Ross | lyrics17 = | music17 = | extra17 = | length17 = 2:11 | title18 = Mig Steals the Crown | note18 = | writer18 = William Ross | lyrics18 = | music18 = | extra18 = | length18 = 1:20 | title19 = Roscuro's Apology | note19 = | writer19 = William Ross | lyrics19 = | music19 = | extra19 = | length19 = 3:45 | title20 = Gregory Gives Mig Away | note20 = | writer20 = William Ross | lyrics20 = | music20 = | extra20 = | length20 = 1:02 | title21 = The Quest | note21 = | writer21 = William Ross | lyrics21 = | music21 = | extra21 = | length21 = 3:56 | title22 = Despereaux Is Back | note22 = | writer22 = William Ross | lyrics22 = | music22 = | extra22 = | length22 = 3:15 | title23 = Boldo and Despereauz Charge! | note23 = | writer23 = William Ross | lyrics23 = | music23 = | extra23 = | length23 = 1:39 | title24 = A Change of Heart | note24 = | writer24 = William Ross | lyrics24 = | music24 = | extra24 = | length24 = 2:14 | title25 = Rescuing the Princess | note25 = | writer25 = William Ross | lyrics25 = | music25 = | extra25 = | length25 = 3:07 | title26 = Epilogue | note26 = | writer26 = William Ross | lyrics26 = | music26 = | extra26 = | length26 = 2:43 }} ReleaseThe Tale of Despereaux was theatrically released on December 19, 2008, by Universal Pictures. Home video releaseThe film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 7, 2009. One Blu-ray release also includes a standard-definition DVD of the film in addition to the Blu-ray Disc. The film brought in a revenue of $25,531,805 in the US DVD sales market.[5] Video gameA video game based on the film was released on December 2, 2008 for the PlayStation 2, Wii, Nintendo DS, and Microsoft Windows. All of those versions were developed by Brash Entertainment. An Xbox 360 version was originally announced, but it was cancelled.{{citation_needed|date=September 2018}} The few critics that reviewed the game have agreed that the Nintendo DS version, a 2.5D side-scrolling platformer, is superior to the three other versions,[6][7] which were otherwise panned.[8] ReceptionCritical responseRotten Tomatoes reported that 56% of critics gave positive reviews based on 109 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The website's consensus reads, "Despite its striking visuals, The Tale of Despereaux as a story feels familiar and unimaginative."[9] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave the film a 53/100 approval rating based on 25 reviews.[10] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded three stars and wrote in his review that "The Tale of Despereaux is one of the most beautifully drawn animated films I've seen", but he also wrote, "I am not quite so thrilled by the story".[11]Christy Lemire of the Associated Press was more critical, writing that the film "feels obvious, preachy and heavy-handed."[12] Box officeThe film opened at the third position behind Seven Pounds and Yes Man with $10,507,000 in 3,104 theaters with an $3,385 average;[13] on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the film was in second. The film closed in March 2009 after grossing $50 million domestically. The film grossed an additional $37 million overseas for a total of $87 million. Awards
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