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4	TheMovie of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', naturally enough. It was released in 1990, following the 1980s revival of the series, and [[BoxOfficeBomb bombed at the box office]], [[FranchiseKiller killing the franchise for the next twenty-seven years]]. The franchise was ultimately revived (again) with ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsAndWWERoboWrestlemania'' in 2017.
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6	The plot of ''Jetsons: The Movie'' basically involves George Jetson uprooting his family to take a job on Mr. Spacely's new [[AsteroidMiners asteroid mining colony]], where the mining plant keeps malfunctioning for some mysterious reason. Meanwhile, the two Jetson kids have their own subplots. Judy is heartbroken over having lost her terrestrial musician boyfriend Cosmic Cosmo, but soon replaces him with her new extraterrestrial musician boyfriend Apollo Blue. Elroy develops a rivalry and then a friendship with a RobotKid named Teddy-2.
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8	''Jetsons: The Movie'' reunited nearly all of the original cast members save for '80s pop starlet Tiffany voicing Judy Jetson thanks to ExecutiveMeddling and Patric Zimmerman taking over for the late Creator/DawsButler as Elroy. The film also marked the last performance ever of noted voice artist Creator/MelBlanc (Mr. Spacely), who was still recording while in the hospital (as he had years before then), as well as George O' Hanlon (George), who by that point had to have the lines read and acted to him before recording (both passed away before completing the film and sound-alike Creator/JeffBergman filled in the few remaining scenes). The film was dedicated in memory of both men. And although she lived until 2003, Penny Singleton (Jane) also ended her acting career with this movie. Meanwhile, prolific Hollywood composer Music/JohnDebney made his feature debut here.
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12	* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: An early example too, predating the famous ballroom scene from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Here, it's used for exterior shots of the asteroid mining complex, the Jetsons' apartment building, and the like. As a result, the CGI is mostly limited to {{Establishing Shot}}s and the 2-D characters never quite interact with it. The only aversion to this is the vehicle animation, which is also in 3D, but blends in a bit better with the 2D to the point of actually interacting with the characters.
13	* TwoDSpace: Even in a future with flying cars there are still roads and traffic jams.
14	%%* TheAce: Apollo Blue and Teddy-2.
15	* AdaptationalVillainy: Mr. Spacely. In the series he is usually a MeanBoss toward George, but in the end he is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. In this movie he is a straight-up CorruptCorporateExecutive, without almost any of his redeeming qualities of the series. (He does seem to be basically redeemed at the end of the film, however, so this might also be counted as a CompressedVice.)
16	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: George refers to Mr. Spacely as the company's "penny-pinching peaheaded president" in one scene. Also, the middle part of "Spacely's Orbiting Ore Asteroid".
17	* AdultsAreUseless: Elroy, Teddy-2, and Furgie are the only characters who display anything resembling competence when it comes to dealing with the mystery. And after they've set out to solve the mystery, they succeed fairly quickly and with rather little effort too.
18	* AdvertisedExtra: Cosmic Cosmo appears on the poster even though he's in the movie for literally one minute.
19	* AlliterativeName: In addition to the regular ''Jetsons'' characters, Furgie Furbalow.
20	* AmbiguousGender: Furgie. If her father had never stated she was a girl, most viewers might not have known.[[note]]even if she WAS voiced by Russi Taylor...[[/note]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Rosie after Bertie explains his daughter's gender: "How can ya tell?" Her gender gets another confirmation at the end when Astro hands her back to her parents, saying "Here she is!"
21	* AnimationBump: Watch an earlier episode of the first season of the show (or even of the second or third season (which were done more than twenty years later!)), then look at this movie and see how much the animation quality improved.
22	* AsteroidMiners: Most of the movie takes place on an asteroid mining colony, known as "Spacely's Orbiting Ore Asteroid". However, the plant is fully automated, so there aren't any actual miners.
23	* BigDamnMovie: The original show = basically ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' [[RecycledInSpace in space]]. The Movie = taking down a corrupt corporation from within, with the survival of an entire species hanging in the balance.
24	* BavarianFireDrill: George uses a blow-up traffic cop to get through a traffic jam.
25	-->'''George:''' Hahaha! My siren gets better every day!
26	** Too bad it only works for a short while before a real Skyway Patrol trooper pulls George over for his little stunt and hands him a pin to deflate his phony trooper.
27	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Jetsons manage to convince Mr. Spacely to cooperate with the Grungies without destroying their home. But with the Grungies working at the plant, George is no longer needed there, so the family has to say goodbye to all their new friends and move back to Earth.]]
28	* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Spacely claims he may have heard there might be aliens living in the asteroid but didn't know for sure]]. George immediately calls him a liar and says he knew all along.
29	-->'''George:''' All you care about is money!\
30	'''Astro:''' Yeah!
31	* CallingTheOldManOut: George finally gets to tell his boss off for something - namely, [[spoiler:for his plant endangering the Grungie colony, '''''and''''' his own family!]]
32	-->'''Mr. Spacely:''' What do you think you're doing?!\
33	'''George:''' Turning off the plant before you do any more damage! ''[starts to move his finger towards the activation button]''\
34	'''Mr. Spacely:''' ''[quickly runs over and blocks George's path]'' Stay away from this button! That's an order!\
35	'''George:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis No...SIR...Mr....Spacely!!!]]...\
36	'''Mr. Spacely:''' '''''[[BigWhat WHAT?!]]'''''\
37	'''George:''' ''[pushing his nose into Spacely's face]'' I said "No, sir, Mr. Spacely!"\
38	''[The rest of the Jetson family cheer for him]''\
39	'''George:'''[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat ...Man, that felt good!]]
40	* CantYouReadTheSign: When George gets into the inner workings of the plant to sabotage it and shut it off, when he gets to the end, there is a sign that says "WARNING! DO NOT STICK YOUR FINGER IN THIS HOLE!". No points for guessing what exactly George does next. (Bonus points to the producers, though, for including George doing a mischievous EyebrowWaggle [[AsideGlance to the audience]], as if to say, "Yeah, you know EXACTLY what I'm going to do!")
41	* CerebusRetcon: It wasn't really explained in the original series (or the 80s revival) why all the buildings are high up in the sky, other than it's futuristic (there were a couple of rare occasions where the ground was seen and it looked fine). Here, it's implied everyone's living high up because of thick, choking smog clouds the buildings are raised above, presumably stemming from humanity's pollution of Earth (tying in with the GreenAesop).
42	* ChainOfPeople: [[spoiler: The Grungies do this in order to pull Elroy and Squeep from a landslide.]]
43	* ChewToy: George ''really'' takes a lot of damage in this movie, yet it's mainly for laughs.
44	* CrashIntoHello: Judy and Apollo Blue meet when they crash into each other on their scooters at the mall.
45	* DisneyAcidSequence: Judy and Apollo's song, "You and Me". Justified in that it was in a simulation room.[[note]]It's also the only part of the movie not done by Creator/HannaBarbera themselves. It was done by Kurtz and Friends, a company that usually only does commercials.[[/note]]
46	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Elroy, sort of.]]
47	* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:George is sent to the plant to prevent any more sabotage; yet when Spacely's gambit is up, George is the one to sabotage one critical part the plant needs to even ''run'', during the climax, to protect the Grungees.]]
48	* EyebrowWaggle: [[spoiler:Again, George does this towards the viewer(s) before sabotaging the one part that deactivates the plant.]]
49	* FireForgedFriends: When Elroy and Teddy 2 first met in gym class, they started off as rivals, but when the plant opening ceremony is ruined by sabotage and Teddy 2 is in danger of getting hit by flying sprockets, Elroy protects him, resulting in the pair becoming best friends.
50	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Happens for a couple of gags.
51	** On his first day as Vice President, on the ride to the plant, Astro calls George on the videophone to say, "Ri ruv roo, Reorge!" and then pops out of the screen to lick him.
52	** Mr. Spacely pops out of the giant video screen to berate George after the "glitch", warning him that any further "glitches", as Mr. Spacely believes George is causing them, will result in George losing his Vice President position as punishment for costing Spacely Sprockets its profits.
53	--->'''Spacely:''' ''(sternly)'' Get it?\
54	''(George swallows hard)''
55	* FutureSlang: As always, Judy is an ever-reliable source of it. ("This is orbital!", etc.)
56	%%* GentleGiant: The Furbalows.
57	* TheGraphShowsTheTrend: Occurs when Spacely Sprockets is showing how the profits of the new asteroid mine. It goes up, until the arrow suddenly nosedives off the chart and straight down, shattering a hole in the floor.
58	* GreenAesop: A very popular message in early '90s animation, of course. ''Jetsons: The Movie'' came out of the same period as ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'', ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'', and ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest''. The ''Jetsons'' version delivers its environmentalist message with all the subtlety of those other examples, ie. explaining why all the buildings are high in the sky (namely, they have to be raised above a thick layer of smog that wasn't in the original show or the 80s revivals). It's a bit of a SpaceWhaleAesop as well.
59	* HighTurnoverRate: The vice-president position on the Orbiting Ore Asteroid.
60	* ImStandingRightHere / IronicEcho: Apparently, George must have really good ears to overhear what Mr. Spacely said about him.
61	-->'''Mr. Spacely:''' I never should've put that dummy Jetson in charge of an operation this important. When I get home, I'll have to get me a ''new'' vice president.\
62	'''George:''' You already ''have'' a vice president!\
63	'''Mr. Spacely:''' Jetson?!\
64	'''George:''' That's right, Mr. Spacely, "that dummy, George Jetson"!
65	* InkSuitActor: Radio DJ Rick Dees is caricatured as Rocket Rick Ragnarok. It's really jarring since he is drawn more realistically than the other characters.
66	* LogoJoke: The Hanna-Barbera Swirling Star appears at the end of the movie, albeit with its "swirling" sound effects replaced with a majestic-sounding rendition of the first four notes from the ''Jetsons'' theme song (a.k.a. "the Jetsons' doorbell"). [[labelnote:Logo trivia]]Oddly enough, instead of the then-current CGI version, the 1979-86 version was used, albeit with "Hanna-Barbera" rendered in the trademark "script" font and the byline "A Great American Broadcasting Company" -- the only time that byline was ever used.[[/labelnote]]
67	* MediumAwareness: During the opening titles, the characters are introduced with the caption of "[Actor] as [Character]". When the text introducing Rosie appears ("Jean Vander Pyl as Rosie the Robot"), Rosie wipes away the text with a cloth.
68	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: George saves an entire species and leads to the plant becoming drastically more efficient, sending profits through the roof. He's "rewarded" by being effectively demoted (keeping the title of Vice President but not the raise) and forced to go back to his old job, including moving his family back out of their ultra-modern new home and away from their new friends.
69	* NonstandardCharacterDesign: The DJ, Rocket Rick, is drawn a lot more realistically than any of the other characters.
70	* ObligatorySwearing: Despite the movie made for all ages, George says "Oh my God" when he found out about the Grungees. Using "God" is rarely used in children's media.
71	* OffTheChart: During Spacely's meeting with the board of directors, it's shown that Spacely Sprocket's profit margin is so low that the bar has broken through the floor.
72	* OhNoNotAgain: Rudy 2 says this word-for-word when the plant is sabotaged for the firth time during George's ceremony.
73	* OneDimensionalThinking: It's especially strong if you can't think of jumping off a ConveyorBeltOfDoom .
74	* PreemptiveShutUp: After George accidentally gets stuffed into a box full of sprockets, he returns home to his family, who look at him in surprise, but he angrily tells them, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Don't. Say. A word."]]
75	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: George does this twice. The first time, he does this to his family when they see him stuff in a box of sprockets: [[PreemptiveShutUp "Don't. Say. A word."]]
76	** The second comes when he confronts Spacely over shutting down the plant.
77	--->'''Spacely:''' Stay away from this button, Jetson! That's an order!\
78	'''George:''' No, sir, Mr. Spacely!\
79	'''Spacely:''' [[BigWhat WHAT?!]]\
80	'''George:''' I said, "No! SIR! Mr. Spacely!"
81	%%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Furgie. [[spoiler:Also the Grungies.]]
82	%%* TheRival: Teddy-2 for Elroy, at first.
83	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The first four Vice Presidents before George got scared off by the sabotages occurring at the plant. George, however, refuses to leave, not being scared so easily, and wanting to prove to Mr. Spacely that he is not going to let the company's profits go belly-up on his watch.
84	* {{Skybox}}: In {{Tracking Shot}}s of Spacely's Orbiting Ore Asteroid, it [[SpecialEffectFailure becomes obvious]] that the CGI artists used this technique to create the star backdrop.
85	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The Spacely Sprockets board of directors has only one woman on it. {{Lampshaded}} (possibly) when Mr. Spacely addresses them as "gentlemen and woman".
86	* SoapWithinAShow: Jane, Rosie and Astro are watching ''All My Androids'' (a parody of ''Series/AllMyChildren''). All three are in tears as "Galaxina threatens to pull the plug on her romance", with Jane having to tell Rosie to stop in case she rusts again.
87	* {{Squee}}: How Judy and her friends react to her getting a date with Cosmic Cosmo.
88	* StrongFamilyResemblance: Teddy-2 looks just like his father. Also Furgie looks a lot like a smaller version of her dad.
89	* StockAudioClip:
90	** Judy cheering "Yay Daddy!"[[note]]One of only a couple lines Janet Waldo recorded that actually remained in the movie. Another is before the "You and Me" sequence, after Judy falls through the hologram tree. She says she's alright, in Janet's voice.[[/note]]
91	** The same clip of Jane saying "how nice" is heard twice.
92	%%* TagalongKid: Furgie Furbelow.
93	* TodayXTomorrowTheWorld: A variation: Mr. Spacely says, "Today, Spacely Sprockets, tomorrow, the universe!"
94	* TongueTwister: Quite a few courtesy of Rudy-2 involving the "sprocket locker", but comes to a head with this:
95	-->'''Rudy-2''': There's something going on here, George. The two sprocket lockers were unscrewed from the lock sprocket sockets.
96	-->'''George''': Say that again?
97	-->'''Rudy-2''': I can't!
98	* TrailerSpoof: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nuo5QfemCE official trailer]] starts off pretending to be a trailer for the next ''Franchise/StarTrek'' film, with StreamingStars set to music that resembles the ''Star Trek'' soundtrack while a voice-over says, "Twenty-five years ago, they brought us a startling vision of the future." Note that the next ''Trek'' film, ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', was released to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of ''Star Trek'' whereas it would take some creative rounding to make ''The Jetsons'' twenty-five years old in 1990.
99	* UnexplainedRecovery: Mr. Spacely rips out Rudy 2's wires, disabling him. He's seen at the end of the film functioning just fine, and no mention is made of it. He was presumably repaired by Lucy-2 and Teddy-2 with the Jetsons' help before the final montage of the factory working full throttle under the Grungees.
100	* VocalEvolution: In the original series, Creator/MelBlanc's voice for Mr. Spacely was much smoother and only sounded like WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam whenever he raised his voice (usually [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity whenever he fires George]]). Here, his voice is unmistakable from Yosemite Sam's.
101	* WhamShot: [[spoiler:The Grungies' home, partially destroyed by a mining drill. This is the moment the Jetsons finally realize just how much harm Spacely's Sprockets has been doing there.]]
102	* WholePlotReference: The main plot is often said to be a variation on the classic ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E25TheDevilInTheDark The Devil in the Dark]]"
103	%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:The Grungies.]]
104	* ZeerustCanon: Being made in 1990, this movie is loaded with 1980s pop culture, from music to hairstyles, yet it's still set in the same 1960s RaygunGothic future, which sometimes gives a weird combination.

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