History WesternAnimation / Foodfight

* AmbiguouslyJewish: The big-nosed nasal decongestant mascot Dr. Si Nustrix speaks with a stereotypically Jewish Mid-Atlantic accent and exhibits the Jewish stereotypes of neuroticism, being sickly, [[JewishAndNerdy intelligence]], and having a big nose.

* CanineConfusion: Dex Dogtective loves to eat raisins and chocolate, both of which are toxic to dogs (especially the former). Though it could be justified since he's an "ike" (a food mascot) and he's [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic]].

%%* ShoutOut: To practically everything, which pretty much hammers it to the audience.

** Chiquita Banana is listed as one of the many advertising mascots featured in the movie on the poster but is replaced by an {{Expy}} in the film. Chef Boyardee is also listed, despite only being mentioned once and never appearing.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: A cure for Lady X's poison is found that revives the dead Icons]].

** By sheer coincidence, Mr. Clipboard's design is almost identical to that of the character VideoGame/{{IM Meen}}, although his personality is completely different.

*** The fact that a lot of said expies are unflattering caricatures makes it likely they doubled as a TakeThat, with the exception of Sunshine Goodness who, if you look at her name and the fact that she shills raisins, is likely supposed to be an expy of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-Maid ''Sun-Maid Raisins'']] girl (despite looking nothing like her and being [[LittleBitBeastly vaguely feline]]).

* InkSuitActor: Mr. Clipboard looks very much like his voice actor with the UncannyValley at play.

* UglyAllAlong: Madam X is introduced as a sexy FemmeFatale, trying to use her looks and wiles to seduce protagonist Dex Dogtective. By the end of the movie it's revealed that her true form is that of a [[spoiler:wrinkled old woman befitting the mascot of a prune company and she had gone to Brazil for plastic surgery... which somehow is undone by getting punched by the female lead.]]

* DullSurprise: Thanks to the motion-capture animation's use of gestures rather than facial expressions, characters rarely change expression. Near the end of the movie [[spoiler: Sunshine Goodness and Lady X]] get in a fight, and the latter doesn't even react when she's being repeatedly punched in the face.

* FauxActionGirl: Sunshine is built up to be an ActionGirl, [[spoiler:then spends all but the last ten minutes of the film being held hostage though we don't know she's still alive. Though she did give a pretty good beat down to Lady X,]] which subverts it a bit.

* MagicPlasticSurgery: Taken UpToEleven with [[spoiler:Lady X]], who through the magic of plastic surgery has managed to squeeze [[spoiler:several hundred pounds of fat into a super slim physique. Once Sunshine Goodness beats her up enough, it all comes undone.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Those tiny characters chasing the cart in the background [[BillingDisplacement are the actual leads]]. Also, the film looks ''nothing'' like this.]]

The story concerns a grocery store that comes to life at night when people are not around. Dex Dogtective (Creator/CharlieSheen) is a top agent of the [[FunWithAcronyms United Supermarket Defense Association]], which keeps the aisles safe from crime, as well as running a nightclub called the Copa-Banana where fellow advertising icons, such as Advertising/CharlieTheTuna, Mr. Clean and the California Raisins can hang out. The mascots are called "Ikes" for short, [[AllThereInTheManual although this term is never directly clarified in the movie]]. After his beloved girlfriend, Sunshine Goodness (Music/HilaryDuff), vanishes without a trace, he ends up stepping out of the detective game. Six months later, he's drawn back in when a mysterious line of products, "Brand-X", has emerged in the grocery store by the machinations of Mr. Clipboard (Creator/ChristopherLloyd), and Icons are disappearing or being murdered. With the help of his sidekick, Daredevil Dan (Creator/WayneBrady), Dex must uncover the truth behind Brand-X and its FemmeFatale leader Lady X (Creator/EvaLongoria) and rally a resistance in order to prepare for, well, a [[TitleDrop Food Fight]].

* AdvertisedExtra: Harvey Fierstein is often listed as part of the starring cast, even though his character Fat Cat Burglar only appears in the opening scene.

[[caption-width-right:300:Be warned, the film looks '''''absolutely nothing''''' like this.[[note]]Also, those tiny characters chasing the cart in the background [[BillingDisplacement are the actual leads]].[[/note]]]]

** Vlad Chocul is an obvious stand-in for Count Chocula, both of them being chocolate cereal vampires. However, Vlad is also AmbiguouslyGay and has a serious and somewhat rapey attraction to chocolate people. And Vlad is an actual [[FunnyAnimal bat]] rather than a humanoid vampire.

* AllThereInTheManual: As WebVideo/JonTron points out, the fact that the inhabitants of the supermarket call themselves "Ikes" (as in, "icons" of the brands they represent) is something you have to figure out for yourself because ''nowhere'' in the movie is it directly discussed or referenced.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Lady X herself may have a tragic excuse, but it does not excuse[[spoiler: all the deaths of all the mascots and while, while mascots are fortunately revived, her actions are still negative]]

%%* ObviouslyEvil: Mr. Clipboard.

[[caption-width-right:300:Be warned, the film looks '''''absolutely nothing''''' like this.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:The main characters are [[CoversAlwaysLie the ones in the corner of the poster]], by the way.]]

''Foodfight!'' is a CGI-animated film. Its plot is essentially ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' or ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' with advertising mascots. Like ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'', it barely had a release at all. It is notorious for its long and TroubledProduction, which started way back in 2002, which entailed, among other things, the theft of the disks containing the animation, so that the production had to start again from scratch. [[DevelopmentHell The process of licensing and negotiating with rights-holders for the many mascots took years]]. The film was completed in 2009. It had an unceremonious limited release in Europe in 2011, and a Video On Demand and DVD release in North America in 2013. With much of the budget being spent on licensing real-world mascots, AllStarCast, and the do-over after the theft of the footage, the film's animation uses a lot of poorly applied motion capture and questionable rendering.

The story concerns a grocery store that comes to life at night when people are not around. Dex Dogtective (Creator/CharlieSheen) is a top agent of the [[FunWithAcronyms United Supermarket Defense Association]], which keeps the aisles safe from crime, as well as running a nightclub called the Copa-Banana where fellow advertising icons, such as such as Advertising/CharlieTheTuna, Mr. Clean and the California Raisins can hang out. The mascots are called "Ikes" for short, [[AllThereInTheManual although this term is never directly clarified in the movie]]. After his beloved girlfriend, Sunshine Goodness (Music/HilaryDuff), vanishes without a trace, he ends up stepping out of the detective game. Six months later, he's drawn back in when a mysterious line of products, "Brand-X", has emerged in the grocery store by the machinations of Mr. Clipboard (Creator/ChristopherLloyd), and Icons are disappearing or being murdered. With the help of his sidekick, Daredevil Dan (Creator/WayneBrady), Dex must uncover the truth behind Brand-X and its FemmeFatale leader Lady X (Creator/EvaLongoria) and rally a resistance in order to prepare for, well, a [[TitleDrop Food Fight]].

* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: [[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/movies/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-computer-animated-foodfight.html?src=dayp Apparently]] in the re-do, Producer/Director Larry Kasanoff wanted to take a more hands-on approach to management, but didn't quite understand how the animation process works. He would wander around the animation floor requesting that things be "more awesome" or "30 percent better".

* AllThereInTheManual: As WebVideo/JonTron points out, the fact that the inhabitants of the supermarket call themselves "Ikes" (as in, "icons" of the brands they represent) is something you have to figure out for yourself, because ''nowhere'' in the movie is it directly discussed or referenced.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Actually a bit more than ambiguously in Vlad Chocul's case. He constantly flirts with Daredevil Dan, but whether he's attracted to him or just wants to eat him since Dan is made of chocolate and Vlad is a chocolate-vampire is unclear.

* BigBad: Lady X is the leader of Brand X, who try to take over the grocery store and the world by committing genocide against brand-name mascots. [[spoiler: It's also revealed she was controlling Mr. Clipboard, who turned out to be a robot.]]

* ButtMonkey: Cheasel T. Weasel is on the recieving end of much slapstick, including being hit by a train.

** Chiquita Banana is listed as one of the many advertising mascots featured in the movie on the poster, but is replaced by an {{Expy}} in the film. Chef Boyardee is also listed, despite only being mentioned once and never appearing.

* EldritchLocation: Marketropolis is an unintentional example. The boundaries between the human world and the Ikes' world are not clearly established. When the lights go off in the Supermarket at night, the Ikes come to life - but their world itself seems to occupy another dimension, including having its own ''sky'' and weather (despite seemingly taking place within the real supermarket). And characters seem to be able to transition between the two locations at will - [[spoiler: like when Mr. Clipboard invades the Ike realm, and turns out to be a robot piloted by Lady X]] - with the method of doing so never properly explained.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Mr. Clipboard's strange mannerisms and movements toward Leonard in the supermarket, especially the bit where he stutters trying to say ''customers'' plainly (to the point of only being able to say the word after [[PercussiveMaintenance a knock to his own head]]), should tip off that he's actually a robot.]]

* HurricaneOfPuns: There are donzens of food related puns in this movie.

* NoFlowInCGI: Any character that has hair is stiff and plasticky-looking, and the FunnyAnimal characters like Dex and Dan are just given a fur-like texture with no actual hairs on their skin. Most of the particle effects are either 2-D sprites or the same thick, viscuous "sludge" effect being used over and over again in a number of different ways.

* YouAllLookFamiliar: Whenever there is a large crowd, it becomes fairly noticeable that there are only a handful of "generic crowd model" designs and most of them have the same animation loops copy-pasted on to them. This is probably at it's most noticable during the climax; a crowd of Ikes are running away from Mr. Clipboard, and most of them are running in absolutely frame-perfect sync.

''Foodfight!'' is a CGI-animated film. It's plot is essentially ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' or ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' with advertising mascots. Like ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'', it barely had a release at all. It is notorious for its long and TroubledProduction, which started way back in 2002, which entailed, among other things, the theft of the disks containing the animation, so that the production had to start again from scratch. [[DevelopmentHell The process of licensing and negotiating with rights-holders for the many mascots took years]]. The film was completed in 2009. It had an unceremonious limited release in Europe in 2011, and a Video On Demand and DVD release in North America in 2013. With much of the budget being spent on licensing real-world mascots, AllStarCast, and the do-over after the theft of the footage, the film's animation uses a lot of poorly applied motion capture and questionable rendering.

[[caption-width-right:300: The main characters are [[CoversAlwaysLie the ones in the corner of the poster]], by the way. And believe us, the film would have been at least twenty times better if it looked anything like the cover.]]

** The poster actually pushes the protagonists to the corner while spotlighting a group of ikes that only show up as extras -- undoubtedly to call the audience's attention to characters they'll actually recognize instead of generic [[FunnyAnimal funny animals]].
** Chiquita Banana is listed as one of the many advertising mascots featured in the movie on the poster, but is replaced by an {{Expy}} in the film.

* CoatFullOfContraband: Cheasel T. Weasel has a coat full of various products as seen in his first scene. It's never elaborated on what they are, but they're likely some sort of contraband since he's selling them on the street at night.

%%* TheDragon: General X.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Before [[spoiler:Brand X's higher-ups kill a toothpaste mascot with a ''[[ThisIsADrill giant dentist's drill.]]'']]

%%* HeelFaceTurn: The four rodents.

%%* HurricaneOfPuns
* InformedJudaism: Dex is said to be Jewish at the very end, ''after the credits have started to roll'' (apparently, all kosher foods have Jewish ikes).
* InkSuitActor: Mr. Clipboard looks very much like his voice actor with the UncannyValley at play.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Mr. Clipboard's strange mannerisms and movements toward Leonard in the supermarket, especially the bit where he stutters trying to say ''customers'' plainly, should tip off that he's actually a robot.]]