History WesternAnimation / Foodfight

''Foodfight!'' is a CGI-animated film. Its plot is essentially ''Franchise/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. It entailed, among other things, the alleged theft of the hard drives containing the animation, resulting in the production being started again from scratch. [[DevelopmentHell The process of licensing and negotiating with rights-holders for the many mascots took years]]. The film was completed in 2008. It had an unceremonious theatrical release in Europe in 2012, and a Video On Demand and DVD release in North America in 2013. With much of the budget being spent on an AllStarCast, and the do-over after the so-called "theft" of the footage, the film's animation uses a lot of poorly applied motion capture and questionable rendering.

''Foodfight!'' is a CGI-animated film. Its plot is essentially ''Franchise/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. It entailed, among other things, the theft of the disks containing the animation so 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 2008. It had an unceremonious theatrical release in Europe in 2012, 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.

* 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.

''Foodfight!'' is a CGI-animated film. Its plot is essentially ''Franchise/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. It entailed, among other things, the theft of the disks containing the animation so 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.

** Charlie Sheen infamously hated the movie and gave the bare minimum performance required to fulfill his contractual obligation. All of his dialogue is read in a monotone, as if reading it off cue cards. Sheen voices the film's ''main character.''

* ADogNamedCat: The film's StarterVillain is a rat named "Fat Cat".

* {{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.]]

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Foodfight!'' is stylized with an exclamation point.

* 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.

''Foodfight!'' is a CGI-animated film. Its plot is essentially ''Franchise/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 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 best friend, 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]].

Compare the animated short ''WesternAnimation/{{Logorama}}'', which used a similar conceit.

* 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 [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic]] besides.

** 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 {{funny animal}}s.

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

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Foodfight!'' is stylised with an exclamation point.

*** 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]]).
* 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]].

* {{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.]]

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

* GreaterScopeVillain: Mr. Clipboard, the guy who first sold Brand X to Marketropolis Market in the first place. [[spoiler: Subverted, he's a robot piloted by Lady X]].

* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The hero's blonde, blue-eyed LoveInterest named Sunshine Goodness is the Light and seductive, villainous FemmeFatale Lady X is the Dark (who is also dark-haired in contrast to Sunshine's HairOfGoldHeartOfGold).

%%* MookLieutenant: Lieutenant X.

%%* UsedToBeMoreSocial: Dex, after he loses Sunshine.

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

* PuttingOnTheReich: The Brand X army. Interestingly, though, the soldiers wear [[AnachronismStew World War I style helmets with spikes]] with more World War II-themed SS-like uniforms.

''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.

* 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 [[SizeableSemiticNose a big nose]].

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Strongly enforced. The main heroes are portrayed as attractive, while the villains are generally hideous.
** [[spoiler:Also played straight when femme fatale Lady X is revealed to have been an old, hideous, overweight woman the whole time.]]