History WesternAnimation / Foodfight

* DamselInDistress: Sunshine is kidnapped by the villains and Sex has to rescue her.

''Foodfight!'' is a CGI-animated film which tried to do ''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 blown on the licensing, AllStarCast and the do-over, 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 club called the Copa-Banana where fellow advertising icons ("Ikes" for short, [[AllThereInTheManual not that this is ever directly addressed in the movie]]) can hang out such as Advertising/CharlieTheTuna, Mr. Clean and the California Raisins. After his beloved Sunshine Goodness (Music/HilaryDuff) vanishes without a trace, he ends up stepping out of the game only to be brought back in when a mysterious "Brand-X" has emerged in the grocery store by the machinations of a 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: An example of how [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this doesn't always work]]: [[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".

* AmbiguouslyGay: Actually a bit more than ambiguously in Vlad Chocul's case.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: The big-nosed nasal decongestant mascot Dr. Si Nustrix.
* AppealToTradition: The whole movie has an undercurrent of this, with the "new" Brand X threatening to overtake the established brand products, but it's probably best shown off in the scene where Leonard and Mr. Clipboard meet each other.

* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrREGsL2f2w You Got Me Believing]] sung by Joe Esposito, and written by ''Music/DonnaSummer'' (alongside her husband Bruce Sudano) of all people.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Strongly enforced. Not to mention the use of a name like Sunshine Goodness, in a kid's show no less, to evoke this trope.

** Arguably, considering the character designs, the movie more strongly enforces Ugliness Equals Evil.
%%* BigBad: Lady X
* BrandNamesAreBetter: The core axiom of the movie.
* BrandX: The main villains, weirdly enough. Specifically, Brand X is a detergent. [[FridgeBrilliance Maybe because they believe in]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything cleansing the undesirables?]]
%%* ButtMonkey: Cheasel T. Weasel

%%* CaptainCrash: Dan
* CatGirl: Sunshine Goodness, [[UncannyValley though this movie shows how not to design a catgirl.]]

* CoatFullOfContraband: Chelsea T. Weasel has this. His character design makes everything seem even dirtier.
* CoversAlwaysLie: 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]].

* DamselInDistress: Sunshine, who is very soon kidnapped by the villains.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Marketropolis Market.
%%* DepravedBisexual: Lieutenant X gives off this vibe.
* DepravedHomosexual: Vlad Chocul, who is constantly trying to sexually harass Dan.
* DesignatedGirlFight: Played annoyingly straight when [[spoiler:Dex is explicitly forbidden from physically fighting Lady X due to their difference in sex, forcing Sunshine Goodness to take up the job.]]

* DullSurprise: Thanks to the poor animation, 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.
* EldritchLocation: Marketropolis is an [[MindScrew unintentional]] example created through sloppy worldbuilding. 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 [[MindScrew 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.
* EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop: A particularly egregious case. During the scenes that take place at the Copa Banana (as well as pretty much all the scenes that involve large crowds), upon closer inspection three oddities are noticeable. One, most of the crowds consist of only a few generic human models which are sometimes not even [[PaletteSwap palette swapped]]. Two, the crowd only has about three or four "dancing" animation loops, most of which just involve flailing the arms and legs with no rhythm. Three, sometimes two or more individuals dance in perfect sync with the exact same movements, meaning that the "dancing" animation loop was copy-pasted onto multiple models without even adjusting the timings.

%%* ExcitedShowTitle
* {{Expy}}: Lieutenant X is reminiscent of [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Dr. Frank-N-Furter]], and General X brings to mind Napoleon Bonaparte. Dex Dogtective is an amalgamation of Franchise/IndianaJones, [=McGruff=] The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGruff_the_Crime_Dog Crime Dog]] and Creator/HumphreyBogart's character from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. His cereal seems to also be influenced by [[http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/04/from-cereal-aisle-undercover-bears.html Undercover Bears Oatmeal.]]

** Many other instances, such as Vlad Chocul, due in part to multiple backers dropping their support of the film.
*** The fact that a lot of said expies are unflattering caricatures makes one wonder if they doubled as a TakeThat as well.
*** 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]]).

%%* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Sunshine and Dex.

* {{Gonk}}: The absolutely hideous baby and mother Dex encounters when in the supermarket during the daytime.

* GratuitousSpanish: "Mi comprendo."

* HandWave: When asked how an "Ike" (icon) could interact that freely with the "Real World", Lady X just says IHaveBoobsYouMustObey. Of course, the "rules" of the universe are never clearly defined anyway.
** That was probably the whole purpose of [[spoiler:Mr. Clipboard]]

* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Apparently, Lady X, who was a prune mascot, wanted Dex to love her. That, and she wanted to TakeOverTheWorld.]]

* LaResistance: Stated directly by the overtly French character.

* MadeOfIron: Cheasel Weasel gets hit by a train, crushed by a wrecking ball, falls off buildings, yet never gets a scratch on his body.

* MagicPants: Zigzagged. [[spoiler: After Sunshine Goodness beats up Lady X enough, her plastic surgery comes undone and she bloats back up into her morbidly obese physique. Despite the massive change of mass, her catsuit is still intact, albiet with some visible tears in parts.]]

* MilkingTheGiantCow: Pretty much every character uses dramatic arm movements while talking, likely in an attempt to make up for the lack of quality facial animation. Particularly notable when Dex twirls around once like a ballerina during TheReveal for no apparent reason.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Then again, given the quality of this movie, and by extension its impressions of famous actors like Creator/HarrisonFord and Creator/HumphreyBogart, some would argue harm ''was'' done. Fans of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' will weep every time Dex is onscreen. And try to find one Creator/PeterLorre fan who doesn't fly into a rage when the Weasel utters "You despise me don't you?" revealing who he's supposed to be a parody of.
* NoFlowInCGI: A notoriously bad example. Any character that has hair is notoriously 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.

* ObviousBeta: A rare film example of this; this may be in part due to the original completed footage being ''stolen'' by an unknown party back in 2002, leaving the production team to restart with what they had left and hastily reconstructing what was lost in the theft; it '''really''' shows in the final product.

* ParentalBonus: Some of the most conspicuous and awkward in any film.

%%* PietaPlagiarism: Leonard and the bag of chips.
* PrecisionFStrike: The word "arse" is uttered at least once. In a film ''intended for small children.''
* ProductPlacement: Perhaps the biggest example there is. Apparently, though, Threshold wasn't paid by the brands; instead, the companies were expected to promote the movie when it was released, which backfired considering the movie never got a wide theatrical release.

* RecordNeedleScratch: Generated by a ''CD'' player, no less.
* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' IN A GROCERY STORE! complete with blatant ripoffs of some of Casablanca's most notable scenes such as the "La Marseillaise" sequence.

* TakeThat: Brands that refused to let the makers use their characters were replaced with offensive caricatures with barely-changed names.
** The film's version of the Chiquita Banana lady is a fat bartender named Lola Fruitola.

* ThisMeansWar: In response to the JoinOrDie ultimatum from General X, Dex leads the other Ikes in defying the Brand X army with a rendition of "La Marseillese". This in turn leads to General X bringing out an even bigger army for the inevitable war with the Ikes.
* TitleDrop: In the way that you'd expect.

* YouAllLookFamiliar: Related to the "Everybody Do The Endless Loop" case above. 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 severe during the climax; a crowd of Ikes are running away from Mr. Clipboard and most of them are running in absolutely frame-perfect sync.

* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrREGsL2f2w You Got Me Believing]] sung by Joe Esposito, and written by ''Music/DonnaSummer'' (alongside her husband Bruce Sadano) of all people.

* BigBad: Lady X
* BlatantLies / NonIndicativeName: Just by looking at him, you can clearly tell the Fat Cat Burglar is clearly a '''rat''', ''not'' a '''cat'''.

* ButtMonkey: Cheasel T. Weasel
* CampGay: Lieutenant X.
* CaptainCrash: Dan

* ChekhovsGun: Dan is a wannabe flyer, but there are some skills he just can't pull off...
* ChekhovsGunman: Mr. Clipboard.

* DepravedBisexual: Lieutenant X gives off this vibe.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Report the undesirables."
* TheDragon: General X.
* DrunkOnMilk[=/=]FrothyMugsOfWater: Dex [[DrowningMySorrows drowns his sorrows]] with milk.

* EvilIsHammy: Mr. Clipboard, Lieutenant X, and Lady X as the story progresses.
* ExcitedShowTitle

* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Sunshine and Dex.

* HeelFaceTurn: The four rodents.

* HurricaneOfPuns

* MookLieutenant: Lieutenant X.

* TheNapoleon: General X.

* ObviouslyEvil: Mr. Clipboard.

* PietaPlagiarism: Leonard and the bag of chips.

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

* UsedToBeMoreSocial: Dex, after he loses Sunshine.

* BlackBestFriend: Daredevil Dan.

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

** 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 attraction to chocolate people. And Vlad is an actual [[FunnyAnimal bat]] rather than a humanoid vampire.

* NoFlowInCGi: A notoriously bad example. Any character that has hair is notoriously 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.

'''Dan:''' Are those melons real?

* 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 move is it directly discussed or referenced.

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

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

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 club called the Copa-Banana where fellow advertising icons ("Ikes" for short) can hang out such as Advertising/CharlieTheTuna, Mr. Clean and the California Raisins. After his beloved Sunshine Goodness (Music/HilaryDuff) vanishes without a trace, he ends up stepping out of the game only to be brought back in when a mysterious "Brand-X" has emerged in the grocery store by the machinations of a 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]].

Not to be confused with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Fight_%28video_game%29 classic trak-ball arcade game]] ''Food Fight'', or the manga series ''[[Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma Food Wars]]''.

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 club called the Copa-Banana where fellow advertising icons ("Ikes" for short) can hang out such as Charlie the Tuna, Mr. Clean and the California Raisins. After his beloved Sunshine Goodness (Music/HilaryDuff) vanishes without a trace, he ends up stepping out of the game only to be brought back in when a mysterious "Brand-X" has emerged in the grocery store by the machinations of a 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]].

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Charlie the Tuna, the California Raisins, Mrs. Buttersworth, Mr. Clean, and Twinkie the Kid among others.

''Foodfight!'' is a CGI-animated film which tried to do ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' or ''Disney/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 blown on the licensing, AllStarCast and the do-over, the film's animation uses a lot of poorly applied motion capture and questionable rendering.

** The film's version of the Chiquita Banana lady is a fat bartender.

** 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 attraction to chocolate people.
*** And Vlad is an actual [[FunnyAnimal bat]] rather than a humanoid vampire.

* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: An example of how [[TropesAreTools this doesn't always work]]: [[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".

* ProductPlacement: Perhaps the biggest example there is.
** WebVideo/JonTron hazards a guess in his review that this is the main reason why the film was ever completed, so that they could at least cash in on all the rampant ProductPlacement. Apparently, though, Threshold wasn't paid by the brands; instead, the companies were expected to promote the movie when it was released, which backfired considering the movie never got a wide theatrical release.

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* ThisMeansWar: In response to the JoinOrDie ultimatum from General X, Dex leads the other Ikes in defying the Brand X army with a rendition of "La Marseillese". This in turn leads to the Brand X army to declare war on the Ikes and the big battle begins.

* InformedJudaism: Dex is said to be Jewish at the end. ''Right before the credits'' (apparently, all kosher foods have Jewish ikes).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Several times, mostly by Daredevil Dan. A few examples:
-->'''Dex:''' You cold-farted [[WitchWithACapitalB itch!]]\\\
'''Dan:''' How 'bout some chocolate frosting!\\\
'''Dan:''' What the [[LastSecondWordSwap fudge?]]\\\
'''Dan:''' Are those melons real?

* [[GratuitousGerman Gratuitous Spanish ]]: "Mi comprendo."

* NeverSayDie: Averted. For example:
-->'''Fat Cat Burglar:''' I'm gonna kill you!