Bigfoot Family

Bigfoot Family
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Directed by	Ben Stassen Jeremy Degruson
Screenplay by	Bob Barlen Cal Brunker
Story by	Ben Stassen
Based on	A character by Bob Barlen Cal Brunker
Produced by	Ben Stassen Caroline Van Iseghem Matthieu Zeller
Cinematography	Ben Stassen Jeremy Degruson
Music by	Puggy
Production companies	nWave Pictures Octopolis
Distributed by	Charades
Release date	August 5, 2020 (2020-08-05) (Belgium, France)
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	Belgium France
Languages	French English
Box office	$9,389,871[1]

Bigfoot Family is a 2020 computer-animated comedy film directed by Ben Stassen and Jeremy Degruson. It is the sequel to the 2017 film The Son of Bigfoot. The film was also released as Bigfoot Superstar.

Plot[]

Two months after convincing his father, Bigfoot, to return home, Adam becomes overwhelmed with the attention his father’s newfound fame has brought the family. He is also struggling to confess his feelings to his crush Emma.

Bigfoot wants to use his fame for a good cause and decides that protecting a large wildlife reserve from a dodgy oil company in Alaska is the perfect opportunity. Adam helps his father by uploading a promotional video to social media. Swathes of protestors arrive to support Bigfoot, who mysteriously disappears one night. Adam and his mother Shelly journey to find and rescue him along with their animal friends.

Arriving in Alaska, Adam and Shelly meet with the protestor who last saw Bigfoot, Arlo Woodstock. Shelly follows Arlo to the last location he saw Bigfoot, while Adam and his animal friends are ambushed by workers from the oil company. He escapes and encounters a wolf, whom he strikes a deal with. The wolf guides him to where the oil company is working before departing. Adam finds out that Arlo actually works for the company, and has taken Shelly; Adam evades capture from him.

Adam infiltrates the company grounds. Tycoon businessman and owner of the company, Connor Mandrake, is preparing to destroy the valley using a bomb, so that he can excavate the present oil easier. After freeing Shelly, as well as his father, who was also kidnapped by the company, Adam escapes the grounds with them. Turning back, they defuse the bomb. Connor confronts them, and Adam records him, exposing the scheme.

Adam uploads the recording of Connor’s confession. Conor and Arlo are arrested. Adam later meets with Emma and she reveals that he accidentally sent a video exposing his feelings to her. He asks Emma out, and she accepts, kissing Adam while his eavesdropping family congratulates him.

Voice cast[]

• Jules Wojciechowski as Adam, Bigfoot's son. He was previously voiced by Pappy Faulkner in the last film.
• Roger Craig Smith as Dr. Jim "Bigfoot" Harrison, Adam's father who had genetically mutated into the mythical creature of Bigfoot. He was previously voiced by Chris Parson in the last film.
  • Craig Smith also voices an arctic hare and an Xtract guard.
• Grant George as Conor Mandrake, a greedy oil tycoon who is determined to destroy Rocky Valley for oil.
• David Lodge as Arlo Woodstock, one of the environmental protesters Bigfoot meets in Alaska who is later revealed to be Conor Mandrake's second-in-command.
• Shyloh Oostwald as Emma, Adam's friend and love interest.
• Lindsey Alena as Shelly, Adam's mother and Bigfoot's wife. She was previously voiced by Marieve Herington in the last film.
• Sandy Fox as Tina the squirrel
• Joey Lotsko as Trapper the raccoon.
• Joe J. Thomas as Steve the woodpecker.
• Laila Berzins as Weecha the raccoon, Trapper's wife.
• Michael Sorich as Wilbur, the intimidating yet adorable Kodiak bear.
• Joey Camen as Principal Jones, the principal of Adams's school.
  • Camen also voices a moose and a wolf.
• Chris Niosi, Della Saba and Jessica Gee-George as a student at Adam's school.
• Dino Andrade as a drone operator for Xtract.
• Kyle Hebert as an Xtract guard.
• James Fredrick as an Xtract guard.
• Jeff Rector as the news anchor.
• Cyndia Scott as Doris, a feisty pilot who takes Bigfoot to Alaska.
• George Babbit as Cy Wheeler, Becky's agent who arranges cheaply-made merchandise for Bigfoot.

Production[]

Production for Bigfoot Family began shortly before the release of nWave's seventh animated feature film, The Queen's Corgi. The film follows The Son of Bigfoot, which came out in theaters in 2018.^[2] The animation studio teased the production of the movie at the 2020 Paris Images Digital Summit.^[3]

Music[]

After collaborating with nWave Pictures on the soundtrack of The Son of Bigfoot, Belgian music band Puggy agreed to score the soundtrack of Bigfoot Family. Puggy collaborated with  [fr] for the single "Out in the Open", with the authorization of Sony Music, which is featured in the film during Adam's roadtrip to Alaska.

Release[]

In June 2020, Bigfoot Family premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.^[4] At the festival, it was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.^[5] Bigfoot Family premiered on Netflix on February 26, 2021. It was the #1 movie on Netflix^[6] in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK on its opening weekend, and remained the #1 movie in the USA for 6 days in a row.^[7]

Controversy[]

In March 2021, the movie was targeted by the Canadian Energy Centre, an agency created and funded by the government of Alberta to promote the oil industry and defend it from critics including environmentalists.^[8] The Canadian Energy Centre, also called the "energy war room," published a website that accused the movie and its American distributor, Netflix, of "brainwashing" children with misinformation. The website, which was titled Support Canadian Energy, included a petition.

References[]

External links[]

• Bigfoot Family at IMDb
• Support Canadian Energy published by the Canadian Energy Centre