"Hello and welcome." "I am Christopher Miller, one of the writers and directors of the movie." "Hi, I'm Bill Hader." "I play Flint Lockwood." "And I'm Phil Lord, another writer and director of the movie." "This is the Columbia Lady." "That's super informative." "There you go." "Why did you do that to her?" "It was actually a lot of meetings to be allowed to deface the Columbia Lady with a giant banana." "We had precedent." "It happened on Cat Ballou and The Mouse That Roared." "Oh, you had to, like, go through them all?" "Oh, yeah." "We had to establish precedent." "If Howard Stringer sees this, we're all gonna be fired." "I like that, "A film by a lot of people." That was in the screenplay." "Yeah, it was...." "You know, there were 500 people working on this movie." "And it's kind of silly to have, like, a real "Film by" credit." "I will just say this opening" "How many times did I record the opening?" "I would say 800." "We knew when we wrote it that it would be" "Rewritten." "Rewritten a hundred times." "And re-analyzed." "And is the teacher here played by Liz Cackowski?" "Yes." "It sure is." "Liz Cackowski, amazing writer very good" " Played my wife in Forgetting Sarah Marshall." "And is my wife's" "Writes scripts with my wife." "And has a cool show called The Jeannie Tate Show." "And has, I think, one word off-screen..." "She's awesome." "...in this film." "He wants to be smart, but that's lame." "ls that Andy?" "That is Andy Samberg." "Who will have...." "This line here was another one that we wrote 40 times." "But you can't run away from your own feet." "We had...." "Yeah." "I recorded that line in Santa Fe while doing the movie Paul, I remember that." "That's right." "And the earlier versions were like" "The last time." "The last time." "That was the last time I did this." "A little sound booth." "Nostalgic." "Very nostalgic." "And the first one I wanna say" "When was the first recording?" "When was my first session for this?" "I remember doing one long session for this movie right before Tropic Thunder premiere." "You could tell on all the red carpet pictures that I'm completely out of it." "And I fell asleep during the movie." "Oh, great." "It was the most exhausting" "I mean, in a good way." "Yes." "ln a good way, I fall asleep." "I was so entertained that I fell right asleep." "No, no." "I was so out of it from...." "Because, yeah, you think:" ""You know, I'll do a, you know, voice in an animated movie." "How awesome that will be."" "But it is insanely hard work." "Anna and I when" "When she hosted SNL, she was like, "lsn't it hard work?"" "And I'm like, "Yeah, it's like one of the hardest jobs I've ever had."" "This is Lauren Graham, plays the mom and she was amazing." "Yeah, we wanted to get somebody who was really warm but also had a little smart, sassy side to her." "She did a great job." "She's great." "And the kid is Max Neuwirth, who was not an actor before this but just had a really natural, non-actory sounding voice with that little bit of a lisp, that was adorable." "And that tree house was supposed to be like the origins of what Flint's lab ended up becoming." "All these inventions here." "We had a bunch of others that didn't make the cut." "Like, what was there?" "lnvisible coffee table that really opens up the space but you keep hitting your shins on it." "There was the reversible cat that's head and tail switch places." "I'm not sure why Steve likes moustaches." "That is a running theme." "That was just a" "I think that's a scientific fact about monkeys." "They do like moustaches." "That kind of monkey." ""A " in "Atlantic" called Swallow Falls." "Yeah, I did this, maybe a hundred times." "I'm so sorry, dude." "No, no, not you." "That was the learning experience of doing this." "I was so naive, like, "Oh, yeah, you do it once and then you're done."" "And then you're finished." "Oh, no, animation you do it over." "We changed it ever so slightly." "That was why it was, you know..." "...really good." "It's also voiceover like that especially the beginning that establishes a lot of stuff." "It's something that the execs know they can change up until the very last minute." "So nobody signs off on it." "Yeah." "This shot comes back later in the movie and that line originally he said again at the end of the movie in a very bad joke where we can. and that line originally he said again at the end of the movie in a very bad joke where we can. and that line originally he said again at the end of the movie in a very bad joke where we can...." "Just remember that line." "This is the establishment of Flint's theme written by Mark Mothersbaugh." "It's really awesome." "And Mark did a great job of marrying this kind of big, brawny orchestral feel with his kind of signature Devo tone." "When Flint turns here in a second there's, like, wind blowing on him because the idea was there's an off-screen fan that he likes to keep by there so that he looks super awesome." "If you listen carefully in the mix, I think it's in there." "Yeah, the fan turns on and off." "This lab was, you know, designed by Justin Thompson our production designer and...." "And the color and feel of it was colored by Mike Kurinsky our art director." "The idea of it was it's supposed to be like what Flint or we thought was cool when we were kids which is, like, Tron and Fantastic Voyage and Star Wars and all that type of" "And the Commodore 64." "Yes." "Which was the most sophisticated computer." "And there's a pet computer in there also." "But he had all this sort of '80s technology and stuff." "And it's supposed to look really cool in his fantasy world." "But then when the lights come on, we see how homemade it is." "I like this machine." "It's made out of a microwave and blender buttons." "I think there's a coffee espresso maker on the side." "There's like a colander and that's just a garbage disposal thing." "Like the idea is that all of his stuff is super homemade out of found objects." "And the voice of the machine played also by Bill Hader." "Yeah, that's me." "Talented guy." "This area has some of the coolest sound in the movie outside of maybe the inside of the spaghetti tornado." "You should rewind it and listen to it without us talking over it." "Turn it up super loud." "Oh, it" "Hopefully, you watched the movie before you listen to this commentary." "This is" " Yeah." "If you're watching this for the first time, maybe go back." "But, like, Jeff Rubay was the sound designer." "But, like, Jeff Rubay was the sound designer." "Jeff and his team did an awesome job on the whole movie." "And how does that work with you guys what you're just saying, like, the actual machine?" "Like, do you just say, "This is kind of what I want" and then they bring in a bunch of different--?" "They're like, "Does this sound too awesome?"" "We wanted to be on an awesome and homemade scale." "And this area here is like where we get to see that Flint...." "Like, that was a lab, that hallway was made out of egg cartons and the shower curtain." "And this is where we, you know Flint's sort of humming this Mark Mothersbaugh theme." "We realize it's sort of been in his head." "He's kind of a little kid." "And this is one of my favorite parts where you do all your own sound effects." "Yeah, that was in Santa Fe." "That was the last session, I remember." "Oh, yeah, because we had to play you Mark's score." "Yeah, you guys just did it, I was like:" "And for you to copy." "Yeah, but...." "There's James Caan." "That's right." "The man, the myth." "Jimmy Caan." "Jimmy Caan." "We thought he did a great job with-- He really brought a whole character to this piece." "I love him in this." "He came in with a really specific idea." "Flint, you don't keep throwing your net where there aren't any fish." "He's a very intimidating man too." "He's" "Yeah, he scared us, probably." "He's worked with Howard Hawks." "You know, Francis Ford Coppola, Walter Hill." "I mean, the guy's had a storied career." "And now the pinnacle is working with us." "Wes Anderson and now you guys." "Yep." "That's right." "Yeah, well, there's a scene coming up way later in the movie where I did get to work with James Caan over the phone." "That was kind of a crazy experience." "Yes." "Like a great kind of like:" ""l can't believe I'm in an argument with Sonny Corleone."" "Unbelievable." "This is so weird." "He's a legend." "I know, he's a legend." "And he really brought, I think, a level of realism to the role that I think was really important for the emotional core of the movie." "...that I think was really important for the emotional core of the movie." "And it was really hard to balance like, trying to make him seem clear that he loved his son but couldn't express it." "Like, this little scene helps you know that like, he's not just a jerk." "Like, he really wants to bond with his son." "I love this." "And deliberately crappy animation designed by Justin Thompson." "And making the bad matte here on the edge of the mayor...." "The executive thought it was a mistake." "But it took several rounds for it to get to be that bad." "And they" "It was really difficult for them to make it that bad." "Sony Imageworks did all of the visual effects for this movie." "They pride themselves on doing beautiful mattes that cannot be seen." "So it was very counterintuitive for them." "And knock, knock in comes the weirdo." "Here's Samberg." "Andy Samberg." "He played his character the worst person in the world." "Yeah." "We wrote this part specifically for Andy because the cocky character that he sometimes plays in some stuff that we'd done with him before." "We knew exactly how he would do it." "And so it was really easy to write for him." "We wanted him to be pretty hateable at the beginning and you come around to love him." "Yeah." "And this tackle shop has got all sorts of crazy details in it that, you know, we spent a lot of time making, modeling each of the different props there and all the different lures and everything." "And having overhead bad fluorescent lighting and stuff." "And off he goes." "Now, this was the guy that-- I freaked out when you guys told me he was in the movie, Bruce Campbell." "I...." "What was one of the first things I asked you guys?" "I was like, "Do I get to work with Bruce Campbell?"" "And you're like, "No."" "And I was like:" "He's in Miami." "Yeah, man." "But I mean, the Evil Dead movies." "Oh, yeah." "Brisco County Jr." "I mean-- lf we were nerds and not busy being popular and hooking up with attractive women we would also be super fans." "...we would also be super fans." "Yeah, we'd also know who Bruce Campbell was." "But he was great." "He has that great bombastic and yet somewhat sketchy voice that was perfect for the mayor." "We wanted him" " We kind of modeled him after the mayor from Jaws." "Oh, yeah, Murray Hamilton." "Yeah." ""It was my kids too."" "Exactly." "And then" "Oh, my God." "Mr. T." "Oh, man." "We could make the whole rest of the movie about Mr. T and how awesome he is." "He gave us so much good advice about how to live life." "It is true." "Did he give you advice--?" "All the time." "Constantly." "About how to be good and how to do people right and, you know...." "Did he ever say, "Stay in school"?" "Always." "Always telling us to stay in school." "And you're like, "We've been out of school for years."" "Yeah, he was always-- He'd always say things like" "Show up early and be like:" ""I'm always on time because T stands for time."" "The T always stands for anything." ""l'll do lot of takes because T stand for takes."" "The T stands for everything." "It doesn't even have to start with the letter T." "Oh, just send the intern." "She's cute...." "Neil Flynn." "The janitor from Scrubs who has two lines in the movie but he has a super great comedic, comedy voice." "in the middle of the ocean as a favor to my cousin?" "And this is our intro to Anna." "Anna." "Who is adorable and amazing." "Yeah." "She's so good in this." "Yeah, she really is." "Very appealing and so funny and perfect for the part of someone who is much smarter than you would think." "Or plays ditzier than she actually is." "And that's her sort of setting up her relationship with Manny there." "And this is a great idea." "This is a great idea." "Weather News Network." "This is Al Roker, making his appearance." "I can't believe he did this." "Because when we wanted Al Roker to do it like, "he's never gonna do it."" "The character's a total jerk the whole time." "But he was totally game to be mean and nasty." "Playing against type." "Thank you and welcome, national television audience." "You are about to witness...." "These are some of the first shots we finished." "Yeah." "Yeah." "This shot here" "The effects artists literally went frame by frame and drew a cartoon skeleton in on him." "An awesome surprise." "You could freeze-frame it." "We're going to like, to see the shot and like...." "You really gave us the double stitch." "That was great." "Andy really does that in the SNL offices." "Yes." "He'll rip off his" "Rip off his track suit." "And reveal his hairy chest." "It's taken from real life." "That's why we wrote that in there for him." "We designed that character to be as least appealing as possible." "The last person you'd want to be wearing a diaper." "Mr. T, we wanted him to be just shy of being a superhero because that's how we feel about him." "Now, this Sardine Land idea" "The idea was sort of taken.... lnspiration from Auto World, from Roger  Me in Flint, Michigan." "Where, you know, this is a town where sardines are terrible." "Sardines are ruining the economy." "No one's interested in sardines." "Sardines are ruining the economy." "No one's interested in sardines." "And so they decide to spend all their money making a sardine theme park." "We thought it'd be funny if there was such an ineffectual town, that they needed Flint to save them." "Flint flopping around here like a Muppet was a direction we gave to animators to make him just like he was just a floppy puppet hanging on." "Falls are sardine to get better." "For" "That guy looks like Sonny Bono who is sort of staring down at him." "The animators kept always putting him in all of the shots." "Because they really liked him for some reason." "The guy who animated this shot here" "Like, for one frame all the leaves pop off the tree and you would never see it." "It has so much detail." "The animation team was really incredible on this film." "And once they realized that every time they put something interesting in the background we would let them keep it in." "It was open season." "Everyone kept trying to outdo each other with silly stuff." "They added so much great stuff." "That guy, Joe Towne, was played by Will Forte." "That's our ninth Saturday Night Live cast member in the film." "Star of Clone High." "Oh, yeah, Clone High." "And many other wonderful things." "And the monkey, played by Neil Patrick Harris." "Well, we decided, "Hey, you know, why not get a super talented guy..." "...who can do anything and not" "Have him say four words." "Not have him use any of his actual talents." "The rat birds." "We really wanted to show the nest where the rat birds had taken all the children and the animals." "But it seemed a little morbid at the time." "That was a mistake." "We should have." "There's lots of great" "That should be your TV special." "Like when they did, like the Ewok TV special." "The Ewok." "Yeah, yeah." "The Land of the Rat Birds." "The Land of the Rat Birds or, Rat Bird Nest." "It's A Very Special Rat Bird Christmas." "Oh, there's lots of debate on how to break the glass." "It was gonna be the fish skeleton, right?" "The rat bird is gonna drop the skeleton on top of the bowl and have it all crack." "This is an awesome-looking shot." "I can say that because I had nothing to do with why it looks so awesome." "Imageworks is really great at water." "Which they sort of perfected on Surf's Up." "Look how" " That looks so good." "We really wanted this this scene, especially, to have a really muted tone so that when the" "I remember this was one of the first scenes that I recorded." "I remember you guys saying, I just did a scream take." "And you said, "No, it's more like a scream like when you get like, a heel in your eye."" "That's some great direction, right there." "Yeah, that thing right there, like I did one scream." ""No, no, it's kind of more like, you know when you get a heel in your eye."" ""Imagine you had huge, bulbous eyes."" ""Imagine you have huge, bulbous eyes and you're" "You know how your monkey friend's hanging out with you."" "Yeah." "We really have to paint the picture." "No, that was" "It was funny because you guys...." "I mean, you guys would try to explain stuff you know, and you could read it, then you go, "Okay so basically, what's happening is--"" "That was the preface of the" ""Picture it." "You're inside a giant spaghetti tornado."" "Yeah, exactly." "Wow, they're shiny." "I'm Sam." "Flint." "Steve." "ls that a Monkey Thought Translator?" "Steve." "Yeah, we thought that Neil would be the only guy who would" "That we could think of who would be able to take one word and make it funny." "Yeah, he's a genius." "You kicked me in the face." "I said I was sorry." "He's a world-class magician." "Like a world-class, on the board at the Magic Castle." "Neil Patrick Harris?" "Yeah." "And so the idea of this scene was, you know in a lot of these movies, disaster movies like Jurassic Park they really like to tease out the reveal of the big...." "Big event." "You know, like everyone sees the dinosaurs and they" "That walk right there makes me laugh so much." "They take off their glasses" "Taken off my actual walk." "That's based on the way Bill walks." "I actually walk." "So this came from a suggestion that came out of the Story Department to make." "To tease out the arrival of the food weather a little bit more." "And so we, like all things, we take it over the top and try to tease it out as long as we possibly could." "And as sarcastic" "He'd take his own beard off." "Yes." "He did take his beard off." "And I wish that that had been the rat bird holding the sardine who also would gasp." "And I actually did this." "I actually did a huge gasp." "Thanks, guys." "We made you do five super long gasps." "Five, like, super long gasps but I almost passed out." "Well, look, it's still going." "Yeah." "But I actually did this." "It wasn't like anything, like, you couldn't like splice them together." "Or you splice them together to make one long gasp." "It was like" "It's really you." "And I think it's a tiny bit in under the big wide shot of those clouds." "Now, these burgers that break apart was a huge software development thing." "To have them break apart and have the buns react like buns and the lettuce flop like lettuce." "And not have it bounce like chew toys that just sort of stay together." "This was a great day because I think it was the day that me and Anna worked together." "And we showed up and there was just ln-N-Out burgers." "I think they may have actually been Burger King burgers." "No, they were ln-N-Out." "No, I'm pretty sure they were Burger King, who was our corporate partner." "Burger King." "Right." "They were" "Yes." "But they were delicious burgers." "Burger King." "But, yeah, you did the whole scene" "They were Whoppers, of course." "Animal-style Whoppers." "Yup, yup." "You did that scene with your mouth full." "They kept making you do many takes." "Yeah, and then we ran out of burgers and then we switched to bananas." "This tastes" "Well, it's probably for the best." "It's a good chaser." "It was a good chaser." "There's nothing like after" "No, a very refreshing banana." "We didn't eat all the burgers." "We had a big, nice spit bucket." "Yeah, a big" "Spittoon." "Yeah, spittoon that you would" "That meteor shower joke, probably the worst pun in the movie." "But hopefully it was clear that we know that it was bad." "And also the best." "I have that T-shirt." "Didn't all you guys have the T-shirts?" "The Science is Awesome T-shirt." "Science is Awesome." "And I wear it a lot and" "And people say, "Science is awesome."" "I have people come up to me and say it, they go:" ""Man, you know what?" "Science is awesome."" "You're teaching people." "That's good." "This is one shot that we learned looks really awesome in 3-D when you go to low angles like this." "You get a lot of good sense of the depth in the scene and it really feels cool." "And we're trying to set up..." "So imagine that..." "...how awesome this would be in 3-D." "...at home." "Yes." "No." "One of the great things about the Tim design was" "We knew that one of our great inspirations for all the designs was The Muppets, who worked super well in 3-D." "And there's a lot of Muppets where you can't see their eyes at all like the Swedish Chef and Bunsen Honeydew." "And we thought it'd be perfect for a character who is sort of emotionally inexpressive." "I remember doing this a bunch too." "This was fun." "This?" "This was that" "Always ask me what was the hardest thing to do and it was doing this line really fast." "I think might've been the hardest thing to make sure all the words you can kind of understand them." "This little scene here was a great example of where we let the animator" "The idea was like, okay, have him not be able to put his eyes together." "And then just go to town and try and make us laugh." "Make us laugh, funny boy." "And then-- And they did an amazing job." "this is where the magic happens." "Super cool classy joke." "Joke number one." "We did this with our faces smooshed together." "Yes, and, you know, we ended up cutting most of it for pace." "Yes, and, you know, we ended up cutting most of it for pace." "But it's on the deleted scenes because it's so awesome." "The bit you guys did together." "And was animated by Pete Nash." "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah." "And great job on it." "The color in the lab sort of changes based on the moods that he's in." "Mike Kurinsky, our art director, really" "He felt strongly that we should switch it up every time we're in there." "So this has this warm, pink light that represents Sam coming in and warming up the environment." "Yeah." "This is another bit that you guys did together and played off of each other." "Here your little laughs off each other." "right." "That's why I did that." "On purpose." "Right." "Yeah." "Right." "Of course." "Okay." "Always cracks me up, that little "Okay."" "And this is all bogus science that, you know, every scene in Armageddon has to explain what the rules of the machine are." "Yes." "Mashed potatoes?" "This-- She was funny in this." "Yeah." "We did this together." "Yeah." "This was is in a room together." "Yeah." "It's so much better." "I wish I could do the whole movie that way." "Anna was really making me laugh in this because she" "I mean, this animation is exactly the way she did it." "Like, she was so, like" "She got really excited." "It was very sweet." "I am severely allergic to peanuts." "Hey, me too." "What's it called?" "Peanut allergy." "And so, of course, we had to set up the peanut allergy." "And so, of course, we had to set up the peanut allergy." "And now this idea was" "This machine had this terrible name all the time and they were always trying to get us to call it the Foodster." "But we were like, "No, it's gotta be called the:"" "Fliminubahdibferer?" "And this was your joke you added." "This is Bill's joke." "And it was super funny and always gets a good laugh." "I don't remember that." "That's you, yeah." "You're like-- -lmprovising during the session." "You're like, "What if we do this?" And we're like:" ""That's so much better than what we have."" "Oh, thanks." "This was our choice too." "Yes." "We tried to think of what's the worst thing you could do to the great song, "Fight The Power" by Public Enemy?" "To have a kitty and ducklings with oversized sunglasses singing it, so...." "Placing button." "I can't believe I've been watching this..." "...for three hours." "I know." "Strange joke." "A three-hour clip." "Yeah." "It's a very" "It's mesmerizing." "And this is us very not elegantly setting up" "That Steve likes gummy bears." "That's not gonna come back, you guys." "Don't worry." "It's called" "It's called the "setup," for all you Syd Field fans." "He's doing the other commentary, I'm pretty sure." "Yeah." "This is the hero's journey as Joseph Campbell had laid it out." "This is another good for bor" "For boring, for boring." "It's for boring." "The Dangeometer which right now" "Wish we had just called it the Dangerometer is in clear Rastafarian color-coded" "For easy understanding of when it gets dangerous." "This shot was really difficult to do." "Making the crazy" "Bacon." "Bacon." "Those were funny when you say:" ""All right, now say this three times in that voice."" "And I go, "Bacon." "Bacon." "Bacon."" "That's a shot from the book." "That is actually a bunch of little quotes from the book in here." "This is one" "Like, that's one." "This is not one." "But that is another one." "And...." "We're trying to set up that the mayor..." "Bruce Campbell does good..." "...is going to get fat." "...gobbling-bacon noises for future reference for" "Anybody who needs a bacon-gobbler." "Need to cast somebody for that..." "He's your man." "...he's very good." "This was trying to explain to the audience that it was gonna be" "Hang on, we're going somewhere, you guys." "Hang on for the ride." "every day for the foreseeable future and in 30 days we hold a grand reopening of the island as a must-see...." "These drawings of these cars were drawn by Justin Thompson." "Yeah, they were supposed to be crude and yet kind of cool-looking." "It's like" "It's a good description of the entire movie." "Yes." "There's the Lesley Gore hit, "Sunshine, Lollipops."" "Which was famously used in a great Simpsons episode." "Well, great." "Well, that's just great." "The town of Swallow Falls was sort of modeled after Flint, Michigan and Astoria, Oregon, my mom's hometown." "And like, all these towns that were really supposed to be, you know on hard times but trying to resurrect themselves." "We were not shy from putting lots of telephone poles and air conditioning ducts and all the stuff that they try to take out of most animated movies." "That Outtasighter thing is like a twist on the clean-up thing in the book also." ""Just Ham" and "Your Name Engraved On A Banana" is what that one storefront said." "BLT." "Doughnuts." "3-D, you guys." ""Game called on account of pie" was one of the things I remembered most vividly from the book as a kid." "A pizza stuffed inside a turkey...." "I love" "This, Pete Nash animated the Flint side of this." "And he's our animation director." "He insisted on Flint being completely still in that one shot, just blinking." "I remember coming to Sony and getting to" "You guys were like, "Wanna meet the animators?"" "You guys were like, "Wanna meet the animators?"" "And I was like, "Sure."" "And it was just this giant room of people working insanely hard." "And they just had to listen to my voice all day." "You could tell by the look on their face." "When I'm like, "Hi, I'm Bill." They were like:" "It was so weird." "They'd been like listening to your disembodied voice forever." ""Hi."" "They did an amaz" "They're the" "They should have their own commentary track." "Okay." "They do, it's track five." "They were actually so excited that you came." "They were unbelievably touched that you came into that room that day." "They talked about it for weeks." "They don't get visited in there." "ln the cave." "Oh, man." "Yeah, it was." "It was like a cave." "Because they have to be able to see this stuff so it was really dark in the room." "I really like the lighting in this scene." "Sort of that magic hour dusk time." "Mike Kurinsky did an awesome job." "The Terrence Malick look." "Yeah." "Oh, yeah." "Yup." "It'll be just one time...." "I remember that." "You got" "I did this a couple of times and you're like:" ""Oh, wait." "What's wrong with this?" "Oh, yeah, Bill, you gotta yell."" "He was, like, really far away." "You're 100 yards away." "You gotta yell louder." "That's a big part of our job is knowing what distance characters are from one another." "This line always cracks me up." "You know how fathers always trying to express their love and appreciation for their sons." "How arch it is." "Earl, wait." "This is what we call plot point two." "Yes." "Your reminder." "Oh, here it is, look." "If you're following along in your color-coded journey journal" "With your copy of Screenplay by Syd Field you will know what this is." "Here we go." "Here we go." "What's the sound of the rat birds?" "That's me." "Really?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "That's good." "Chris combined, right, with some weird pterodactyl thing?" "We got a real pterodactyl for it." "Bobb'e J. Thompson is Cal and is" "Yeah." "We will all be working for him someday." "Yes." "For sure." "He's the king of show biz." "He is the king of show biz." "I worked with him on Human Giant." "He was really great." "This was the very first thing, like, when you guys were at, you know." "I went to this room and it's Sony in New York." "When I got the call of possibly doing this they showed me a reel and it was this whole sequence in storyboards." "Oh, yeah." "With" "I think you guys just doing all the voices, right?" "Yeah." "Probably, yeah." "This whole thing" "Cody Cameron our storyboard artist, was Earl." "Yeah, yeah, but it was in these drawings of the characters." "And l" "I was like, "I'm in."" "It was that and then a shot of Sam Sparks walking on Jell-O." "Oh, yeah, an early test of that." "And then I was like, I'm in." ""I'm in."" "What faith you have to have in that." "You know, like" "That's the thing." "That's how you get into it." "You get a call and they say:" ""Remember the book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs?"" "You're like, yeah, and they go:" ""They're making it a movie." "Wanna be in it?"" "Then you're like, yeah." "It was in that meeting where I was like" "Do you guys remember that?" "We were like, over the phone." "You were like so" ""Am I gonna be the--?"" "Am I the lead guy?" "You're the lead?" ""l didn't realize you wanted me to be the lead."" "You're like, "Yeah, you're the lead because you're--"" "Yeah." "And that right there was the first publicity still from the movie that was in every single magazine." "And" "This bit where" "It was just a poop reaction." "Yes." "Yeah." "But l" "One of my favorite things about this movie is Bill's performance in it." "It's like" "It's, like, warm and funny and really human." "It's kind of everything we wanted." "Sincere." "We cast Bill off of an interview that he did for the EPK for Superbad." "Oh, that's what it was." "Yeah, we, like, showed that" "His natural voice is like the geeky guy that we totally weren't because we're super popular and stuff." "Right on." "Right, right, right." "But that shot in the house is a great example of how they used this awesome hand-held camera technology to make it actually feel like it was shot documentary-style where they had the scene in" "What do you call that?" "Wait, my favorite" "My favorite joke of the whole movie" "Coming right up." "Here it comes." "A town that is truly topped with ice cream." "Favorite joke of the whole movie." "There it was." "That the English refused to say any French words." "The" " Yeah." "This next thing coming up..." "This next thing coming up was added very, very late in production." "Almost couldn't be completed." "Researching." "Role-playing." "That was Steve with a wig on, in case you missed it." "A Sam wig." "Maybe a little bit creepy." "Here he goes again." "Saying what I'm doing." ""Saying what I'm doing."" ""--how are you?" "I was wondering if you would like...."" "This shot was animated by David Stodolny." "Okay." "Great, bye." "Meet me in the forest." "Nailed it." "Gotta go, Steve." "He's not good with girls, you guys." "No, he doesn't know." "That was something that I knew nothing about." "Syd Field moment number three." "The dial's turned to yellow." "And that was the first of many TV callbacks." "Oh, nowhere." "I just thought it'd be nice...." "So this is a signature picture from the book that we wanted to realize in 3-D." "It was always a big part of the pitch, even six years ago when we started." "I think this was almost a direct quote." "And it was our editor, Bob Fisher, whose idea it was to go inside." "And we had this whole scene with them talking to each other having, like, a romantic scene but outside, he's like:" ""Why don't you go in there, man?"" "And we're like, "Of course."" "That was probably a $ 10-million suggestion." "That little hand-talking thing was a total animator pitch that was not something that we were expecting." "And this is the very, very, very first thing that I saw animated with our voices." "Remember, you showed it to me and Anna" "Oh, yeah, that's right." "On a laptop." "On a laptop." "Yes." "You guys had it on a laptop and showed it to me and Anna and we were like, "Whoa."" "Yeah, this set in here is, lmageworks claims the most complicated set they've ever had to build because it warbles and the light refracts and reflects and bounces off of itself." "And they're using this ray tracer software called Arnold that calculates how the light bounces off of everything." "And so almost blew up all their servers." "There's a Jell-O exit sign." "The natural thing you would put in." "That's code, you know." "You have to do that." "Like that stuff." "Like, you jump up and you go between two pillars." "What would that sound like?" "Yeah, I know." "Oh, yeah, Jeff Rubay did an amazing job." "And the mixers, Greg Russell and Michael Semanick, were amazing." "Creating this whole" "A Jell-O universe." "We get so many comments from people who are concerned" "We get so many comments from people who are concerned" "Yeah, that she drowned in the Jell-O." "Really?" "Yeah." ""She was lodged in there." "How'd she get out?"" "That would have been the craziest move of all time if you followed that." "I guess, yeah, Sam has got to drown." "Maybe there's a draft like that." "Yeah." "It's very different." "It would take a very dark turn." "Very different." "I really liked the two of you guys in this scene." "Did we do this together?" "Yes, you did." "We did this scene together, yeah." "Can you keep a secret?" "No." "That's one of my favorite jokes." "That always gets a laugh." "Sure, yeah." "Okay." "Well, it was a really long time ago, but I...." "Rob Greenberg helped us with the script for a while and this joke here too." "That was his joke and it always makes me think of him every time I hear it." "Who to--?" "Wait a minute, I'm a nerd?" "and I was totally obsessed with the science of weather." "I wouldn't know what it feels like to be nerdy like that though." "Sam's room is actually Cal's bedroom also but with different wallpaper." "Four-eyes, four-eyes" "A lot of little cheats like that." "That song" "That's a great song." "Original composition." "Yeah, you guys, some major" "Major bucks." "Major cash." "Major ducats." "Oh, man." "These glasses are actually" "Considerably smaller than the first draft." "The actual glasses are enormous to fit on her giant, round head." "Yes, I love that joke." "Wait." "Yeah, this is a" "When you just think that Flint can do anything..." "Right." "...he shows you a" "Once more, by making a Jell-O scrunchie." "It's also like a direction on cooking:" ""Now eat a bunch of Jell-O really fast."" "It also makes me think of" "That must be how he built the entire Jell-O castle." "The spoons on the right that are still lodged in from him eating away." "This is finally the chance to explain that." "This was like a half-finished room, you can't really tell." "They're used to be a line like, "Sorry, I didn't finish up here."" "The color in this scene is absurd and awesome." "Yeah, thanks to our crackerjack lighting team that really made this look beautiful." "Obviously, Flint has never kissed a girl before." "Or been in a snowball fight before." "Or done anything that humans do." "So he gets everything wrong." "You know, here's the dorkiest cell phone ring in the world." "I got to sing this, I remember that." "They gave this out, "Flint, you have a call" as a cell phone ring to the crew." "And a lot of them still have it on their cell phones." "I apologize." "I'm just gonna step outside." "This is another scene that you guys did together." "We just kept it all, talking over each other." "This is Bibs' store." "I love this, Bibs" "Modeled" "After the Abercrombie  Fitch at the Third Street Promenade downtown Santa Monica." "So in the book, there's the Roofless Restaurant scene." "And we wanted to sort of envision it as, like, a cool club." "Groucho Marx kid, here, lower right." "The kid with Groucho Marx glasses." "Like in the book, there's a kid with Groucho Marx glasses in the Roofless Restaurant." "Because Ron Barrett made a joke to himself." "That's the illustrator of the original book." "That's Will Forte again." "Forte's the guy with the fake beard." "He's an insane person." "Yeah, he's" "The idea was like anytime someone from the town had something to say it would always be Forte." "He was the voice of the crowd." "The name of the character is Joe Towne, with an E." "Forte is a genius." "Yeah, I know." "Making these steaks look appealing and having them glisten in the way that steaks do turned out to be very, very difficult to get them to look tasty." "And all of the modeling of the food was a real challenge but they did a great job on it." "Oh, I remember doing this a lot." "Oh, yeah." "I did this a lot." "And there's another scene coming up that I did a lot of too and" "Later in the movie they'll point out." "No, I don't mean that in any way like I was annoyed." "I just remember, "Oh, I could recite this."" "And there's probably, like, three minutely different versions." "every steak is not exactly the same size." "But it was good kind of doing it again because you'd" "It taught me a lot because I'd go, "Oh, yeah, we got that, right?"" "And hear, "Yeah, we got it," and we'd do it again." "I'd go, "Oh, no, actually it was better." You know?" "Oh, that's good." "That is a great relief to me." "No, it was" "Trended upward." "Now I'm all Stanley Kubrick about stuff." "I do 80 takes" "I know, we ruined your relationship with every future director." "That light on his face is good." "Oh, yeah, that's all up-lit." "It was kind of scary because the tables have their own lighting." "But we wanted it to be kind of like the cheesiest pseudo-hip L.A or New York restaurant ever, where the chairs are uncomfortable." "Like a Philippe Starck, lan Schrager looking place." "A place where Tim would feel out of place." "But more happy grinding chum." "I love" " This, like, is pitch perfect for me." "It's like" "It works on an emotional level but it's also like, incredibly tongue-in-cheek when you think about it." "And the flickering of the fluorescent lights was really fun." "And this scream of yours really cracks me up." "and just smoosh it." "You can't write that, folks." "I remember saying, "These are big hot dogs."" "Now, that's a clever line." "We wrote like 20 lines." "Now, that's a clever line." "We wrote like 20 lines." "I remember going, "These are big hot dogs." "Or like, "These hot dogs are big." "These are big hot dogs?"" "Yeah, you do that, like, exceptionally." "How many different ways?" "ls it, Steve?" "Yellow." "You're right, Steve." "We love the idea that Flint always thinks that Steve is smarter than he is." "And misinterprets everything he says as being really clever." "Oh, man." "Oh, man." "Here he comes." "I remember doing that like going:" "Yeah." "This was a scene where we really went hog-wild with the 3-D effect." "This was the sequence that was in editorial at the moment when we learned the movie was in 3-D." "And we got the call they were gonna spend the money and do it." "And it was like, "Hot-dog-in-your-face shots!"" "Everything was coming right at you." "They're like, "Okay."" "Now, this is kind of weird." "These look like whip pans." "But they actually" "Exist in real space." "Yeah, they did this in real space which just comes out as a blur." "But it's kind of fun to know that we really moved the camera around the set this way." "over-mutate." "I think that's why the food is getting bigger." "Here's what I heard:" ""Science, science, science, bigger."" "He's like" " The jacket rips there." "Everyone's gonna love these new portion sizes." "You say when you just move the camera around, does that mean--?" "It" " What does that mean?" "There's an imaginary camera on our imaginary set." "And you could have just kind of built those as like" "Just do a random blurry thing." "And you could've cheated all those jumps to different locations." "You guys actually moved it." "Yeah." "Pointlessly, I might add." "Believe it or not, that's very analogous to like a regular live action movie where they build the set with like" "Like, this is 40 feet by 45 feet." "And the characters-- Like, Flint is like 5'8"." "I'd say, "We need to know the doors are this high." And so" "And so then when they put the camera in this, it's all analogous." "So we pick the lens that you would use and...." "It's just like a regular movie except for the cranes are really cheap." "And the dollies are really cheap." "I really like" "I really like this performance." "no one will ever like you." "It's your choice." "Oh, yeah, Bruce." "When you tell him to literally chew the scenery, he'll go for it." "And that's why I love that guy." "He's so great." "I mean" "He's so great." "I watch the Evil Dead films at least" "All three, at least twice a year since 1990." "Do you watch them--?" "Really?" "Do you watch them in a row?" "Yeah." "I saw Army of Darkness nine times in the theater and it was in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a week." "You're like, "This is the greatest."" "I was 15 and I would leave school and I would go watch Army of Darkness with my friends." "That is so awesome." "That's unbelievable." "I love that movie." "You still haven't met him, right?" "No." "Meet him at the premiere." "Yeah." "You'll see me-- It'll be like the Beatles." "l'll just be like-- l'll be crying." "Screaming." "It's like you are seeing Robert Pattinson for the first time and you're a 14-year-old girl." "He could" "Yeah, Robert Pattinson could come up to me and I would push him out of the way and start kissing Bruce Campbell's feet." "I read his book, I own his book in hardcover." "If Chins Could Kill." "That is awesome." "More Robert Pattinson for me." "Yeah." "There was a lot of design work here." ""Copyright 1984."" "Yeah, exactly, like went into this" "Design of the old" "It's old computers and avionics." "It'd be funny if you guys really went 100 percent with that because it'd" "It'd be funny if you guys really went 100 percent with that because it'd" "It would be five minutes of her just waiting for it to load up." "Chew And Swallow." "That is one big mayor." "That's a callback, Syd Field fans." "Yeah, callback." "The nacho cheese hot springs." "Oh, yeah." "Extra gross." "Wait, what is this from?" "This music?" "This is" "This is the" "This is The Alan Parsons Project, I believe." ""Sirius."" "Yup, it's called "Sirius."" "They use it in the Chicago Bulls" "You may recognize it from that." "You know what, you've seen the movie Safe Men?" "Yes." "Yeah." "I think they have it in a bar mitzvah scene in the movie." "Oh, that's great." "It's an oldie but a goody." "People think that Flint looks like Adrien Brody or Jason Schwartzman in this scene with his hair" "Oh, yeah, he does look like Adrien Brody a little bit." "I just love that" "The tuxedo T-shirt is my favorite part about this." "And that bit comes from" "Like we really wanted him to dress up but having hi" "To afford a whole new outfit was gonna be really pricy and not worth it." "We were gonna have to lose some awesome effects." "So we're like:" ""Okay, we'll just change his T-shirt to a tuxedo T-shirt."" "Flint looks pretty hip right there." "Yeah, he does." "He looks really hip." "He looks really cool." "He's got a great haircut." "Yeah." "There's lots of details like that." "Women holding two giant sushis like pom-poms in the background." "hand over the ceremonial scissors." "And this is Samberg's low point." "That was Will Forte pulling giant scissors away from Andy Samberg." "And Andy just throwing a tantrum." "He's like semi-drunk here." "I just thought that that scene went well, it was really funny." ""Put your clothes back on." "We don't need this, come on."" "And this woman here is whispering, "l love you."" "And you can see the mayor escaping to the right there." "Oh, yeah." "The Bellagio-style cheese fountains were surprisingly hard to get to look awesome." "And there's poor Tim, grinding away." "The lighting's so good on that." "Oh, man, we had such an incredible team." "Rob Bredow is our visual-effects supervisor for the film." "And he put together just an unbelievable team." "We got a lot of production value in this movie that we" "We had a huge debate as to whether or not Flint should actually cut the scissors." "...Flint should actually cut the scissors." "I mean, cut the ribbon or not." "And whether that meant he had gone too far." "I know, that's like our biggest fight on the movie probably." "This is a" " This was a big" "When I see it, that was" "Remember that was a big-- That was a big line." ""Mamma mia," that line?" "Yes." "The" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "I remember doing that and you guys laughing really hard at the end of every take." "You're like, "l guess these guys love this joke."" "Like, "That's not going anywhere."" "Yeah." "That's better than, "Chef, boy, are we in trouble."" "Oh, I remember this, I did this with the picture, remember?" "They had a mock-up of this and I was like, whoa, move, watch, whoa." "The" "Making this spaghetti tornado had, like, 75 different elements to it." "Like shooting out the different meatballs the, like, spray of tomato sauce." "Not to mention the" "That Zach's, like, animation, right?" "Oh, yeah, Zach Torok did that." "Yeah, just like" "That guy in the tub and the guy knocking on the door were in the book." "And the tornado in the book." "And this is all based on the Jack Hsu board here." "And animated by Matt Munn, right?" "Yup, super" "A very talented man." "Now the boats are backing up." "Hard to tell what's going on there." "There's Sonny Bono again, he's in, like, every scene." "That spaghetti looks great." "I know, they did a great job." "Amazing, amazing job." "That's great camera work here." "Yeah." "That was one of my favorite shots." "It goes, like, through the wall really fast." "You can't even tell." "we love a good storm over here, but you look like...." "Yes, I love Roker here because he's being like the most friendly version of a jerk." "Yeah." "And this is sort of our letting you know that eating too much junk food and excessive consumption is not really the world's best idea." "Well, we'll get right back to that storm and hopefully Sam'll look a little more appealing." "There's more to that spaghetti twister that you can see in the deleted scene." "Yeah, I recommend you stop the movie go back and watch that version." "lncluding the food fight here also and then we'll wait for you guys and you can come back." "It makes way more sense." "And we're back, okay." "Did you like it, was it awesome?" "Was it as awesome as we said?" "Did you notice that in the--?" "That time when that thing happened?" "When the tortilla chips were hanging by fishing line?" "That comment doesn't make sense for the one person" "Who actually did pause, yeah." "Yeah." "The most obedient person in the world." "There's a lot of bad puns there with the shrimp." "Where he was going like, "The choke's on you, shrimp."" "That's a radish." "This is of one the" "Another great sound design moment." "A crazy explosion." "We definitely wanted you to feel that" "That's when you can tell that the guy who mixed the Transformers movies mixed this film." "That was the only way to communicate with the machine." "It's funny that you and Bruce Campbell still haven't met." "I know, we've never met and" "That will all be over very soon at the premiere." "That will all be over very soon at the premiere." "Oh, this is Bill all" "Yes, Jason George, our dialogue editor cut this thing together." "Oh, is this me?" "Yeah, that's you, that's you." "That's the scariest reading of strawberry I've heard in my whole life." ""Strawberry." -"Strawberry."" "Oh, the clouds, they had to develop a way to make the clouds roll like clouds but stay in the shape of food." "Look how the water looked from-- I mean, a really, really good job." "It's my son." "We need a doctor." "This is a very serious part of the movie." "Anyone?" "I am a doctor." "Manny is like marginalized." "Not even the cameraman cares about him." "Benjamin Bratt was amazing." "Yeah." "The one heartthrob in the entire cast." "So many ladies showed up" "Short man with a freakish head." "So many ladies showed up on the days that he was recording." "He was hilarious and was pitching all sorts of ad-lib stuff." "And had really great comic timing." "He was a great surprise, I thought, and really understood the joke." "And kind of figured out that the smaller he played it the funnier it was." "And the more like he was really understated but super awesome, the better it was." "That gross-out kiss barf is-- ls one of the classier moments in the film." "And it was followed up by an amuse-bouche reference." "So you really don't know what" "It's high and low in the same place." "That's the whole point, right?" ""Otters get wet." -"Otters get wet."" "We are about to be in the epicenter of a perfect food storm." "A lot of Sam's dialogue actually does make sense." "I mean, she's talking about Jell-O and how it's a viscoelastic biopolymer." "Yeah, that's true, actually." "It's the only correct science in the movie." "The Coriolis acceleration and all that stuff was" "Those people have never moved." "I know." "They've just stayed in the same place the whole time." "They're just stunned by the phenomenon." "That looks so good." "That giant meatball." "Making meat look good was really hard." "Oh, yeah." "It's a lot easier to make, like, a waxy candy corn look believable." "You see how expressive he" "Probably whoever worked on that is like, "No, it wasn't easy at all."" "Yeah, these are" " Okay." "Oh, I remember seeing this shot animated." "It was one of the other shots, the first shots that I saw animated." "The lighting design in here is so beautiful." "Yes, there are these particles of dust in the light that this guy, Karl Herbst, developed." "We call them Herbst particles that actually were in 3-D space." "So in the 3-D version, you could feel the dust in the air." "This...." "We had a little screening of the movie a while ago." "Maybe like, what, like, six months before the movie came out?" "And this scene was animated and it made my wife cry." "Oh, wow, really?" "I knew that." "My wife got very sad." "You are, I think" "I think you're awesome in this." "She was like, "Oh, honey."" "I know this" " You are" "I just feel like this shows off a lot of range for you." "It's really" "Yeah." "You did a really, really nice job with this scene." "Oh, thanks." "It's very sweet and sincere." "What I like about your performance in the film is that it's got all of the, like, really big, broad, comedy moments and then these, like, really human, warm, small moments in it." "I don't know if it's my acting as much as just the image of me in a trash can, I think, which made her sad." "It just made her bummed out." "It is stacking the deck a little bit." "Yeah." "And then just like Mama did." "We're trying to recreate the same shots that we did in the bedroom with the mom there." "And you can see how little tiny moments like that with Tim even though you can't see his eyes, are really expressive." "Yeah." "This is an- "Do what you gotta do."" "That's right." "Awesome reprise of the theme by Mark and his team." "Running down the egg carton hallway." "And so" "Yeah, we said, "Make them run as dorky as possible."" "And then we go like, "No, dorkier." And they" "Here comes my favorite shot in the movie." "The one, this one?" "Right there." "He's, like, dangling." "Yeah." "He's dangling like a Muppet, that was the animator's choice." "I thought that was so smart." "Flying Car 2." ""Now with the wings."" "Wings are the" "He clearly has no regard for how destructive that vehicle is." "Yeah." "That's cool." "Oh, yeah, so a lot of these shots are in the book too." "The doughnuts." "The macaroni guy is in the book." "And the pancake on the school." "A signature moment here." "This got a big laugh in the trailer, I remember." "Oh, yeah." "Yes." "That's a very kid-friendly joke." "I love this joke because it just reminds me of what was in the script." "ln the script it said, "A man steals a TV" period." ""A TV steals a man."" "Yeah." "Everyone." "Now, this scene is all crazy because the food is just conveniently falling where it's not gonna, anybody is gonna get hurt, ever." "But the whole scene is filled with these big:" "He did a great job with it." "He stays on the TV." "I love watching Steve in this sequence too." "There's a moment when, in the stuff we just finished where he literally falls asleep during the exposition." "And then he wakes up." "Yeah." "Now, Earl" "Another classy joke." "Earl wears these shorts because when we first created the character he was also a gym teacher, a gym coach." "And really only a volunteer cop." "And in fact, the thing on his hat actually says "P.E. coach."" "lf not" "Or "Phys Ed," I think it says." "It just confused so many people that we finally just felt like we had to simplify it." "Okay, we'll just keep him a cop but we'll keep the short shorts for some reason." "It just feels right." "And I liked his haircut." "Oh, yeah, the reverse mohawk." "The reverse mohawk?" "I know, that was like a bugaboo we had about giving him a mohawk." "And everybody wanted it and we said" "It's too much like the real Mr. T." "So we just" "Did the opposite." "I guess that means we're contrary." "I'm coming with you." "We did not shy away from 3-D effects in this movie." "Or cartoony sound effects." "I love that little noise, yeah, when she touches his nose." "It's so silly." "You're a pilot too?" "Yes." "I am also...." "This running gag where Manny can do anything" "There was like nine other things that he could do in his" "So he's not a particle physicist but he is a comedian." "That is true and it's clear." "He knows German." "The way the car rocks while he gets up and the whole camera is great." "This is Brent's turnaround." "This is where we start to hopefully like Brent a little bit." "This is his arc." "That's right." "He's coming along." "The car's pretty full, so...." "Yeah." "Brent." "There is a whole bit here that we cut." "That's a Samberg ad-lib, I think." "Brent." "Had a bit that we cut out." "Saying his name." "Where Joe Towne was also in the car and he left." "Oh, yeah, that's right." "Cut out for pacing, was pretty funny." "Right, they were like:" ""You guys, this is gonna be a crazy trip." "So anybody who's not ready, say so now."" "And then Forte just shows like" "And then Forte just shows like" "Forte says, "All right, guys, I'll see you."" ""Yeah, this is not good for me."" "That's our editor." "That is a picture of our editor." "Bob Fisher." "We hid that from him for a year." "And did all this stealthy stuff so they wouldn't find out." "And we found out that he already knew about it." "And he's, to this day, is protecting the name of whoever revealed it to him." "Although I'm fairly sure that she's in the booth listening to us right now." "Water goes in the top...." "So the giant meatball was a real challenge." "Glad I'm wearing a diaper." "And right" " There's another classy" "It wound up looking great." "Yeah." "And having the smoke" "There's something very Dune-like about it." "Oh, you mean the book and not the movie?" "ln a good way, though, right?" "Yeah, in a great way." "ln a good way." "Anybody order pizza?" "We wanted to have a dogfight with these pizza slices." "This is one of the things that we really wanted from the beginning was to, like, take it one step farther than the book." "Like start earlier than the book and go even farther than the book." "And we're like, what--?" "What is it--?" "How can you take this even farther?" "And then the idea of pizzas shooting their toppings." "I mean, can you imagine if we lost this kill code?" "That's a complication, right?" "Yes." "Oh, for the Syd Field--?" "Yeah." "Things were going great." "Now, this was based on a conversation that I had with my own dad where he was trying to send me an e-mail." "And took 45 minutes before I could get him to copy and paste something into an e-mail." "And we realized that that was perfect for Tim." "Yeah, this is this" "No, it's coming up late-- It's coming up a little later, yeah." "Want me to drive?" "I love Andy just flopping around in the back there." "And then" "Suddenly, Manny is an awesome pilot." "Some legitimate awesomeness here, yeah." "Retracts the wings, they pop back out." "You're a lot better than me." "That was good lighting." "Oh, yeah." "We wanted this intake thing to be awesome and scary." "enter the meateroid through the intake here...." "And now he explains the plan with a very handy map." "And we set up" "Oh, that's a setup for later, gang." "You guessed it." "The western blowhole." "They keep saying western blowhole." "This whole thing was something I do a lot." "What do I do?" "You can be president of the back seat." "That's Brent's theme there." "That is kind of like a demeaning thing Chris and I say to each other if we're having an argument and somebody cares more about it." "You can be president of that idea." "Oh, you're president of the joke." "for me." "Great." "Okay, I'm good." "It's a way of giving in while also making the other person feel bad." "The lighting in this is crazy." "Awesome." "Oh, that's really good." "And then the eyeballs" "Kind of a" "Kind of a" "I can't tell if that's a Pee-wee's Big Adventure homage." "Or a like, yeah, Warner Bros. thing." "Classic Warner Bros." "I think it's gotta be Warner Bros." "Yeah, I think the Pee-wee's Big Adventure thing was an homage." "Common source." "Yeah." "If we go this way, the Flamidabager should be right down this air shaft." "Brent, get out of that pie." "It is very sweet, very-- Even when she says it, it's very cute." "I know, right?" "She's just very cute." "She can't not sound cute." "Yeah, I know." "The secret to her success and a lot of her characters do horrible things in movies but they" "She kind of comes off Teflon." "So a few times we've seen Flint's-- I mean, we've seen Tim's eyes." "But this is the first time where we get him to lift his eyebrows and his moustache." "And it always makes Phil and I laugh but it makes nobody else laugh." "There it is." "The moustache goes:" "It made me laugh again." "Oh, yeah, here's your-- Here's the scene." "This scene you did with Jimmy." "This is the scene with" "Yeah." "This is-- Yeah, me and James Caan." "Sorry, I can say Jimmy when he's not here." "This is me and James Caan, you know on the phone together." "Actually on the phone, right?" "Actually on the phone together." "He was here in L.A., you were in New York." "And we had studios in both places." "And I'm pretty sure some of these like, "Huh?" and those kinds of things from him are just legitimate, coming from being on the phone with you." "You were actually literally getting frustrated." "Yeah." "Like that, that part was you going" "That was real." "That was real, yeah." "That was like, "No!"" "No, I would never get frustrated at James Caan." "Are you kidding?" "He'd come after me." "He will murder us with his eyes." "Yeah, I know." "And the chest hair's a-tingling." "These bread boats are another signature part of the book that we wanted to make sure be a big part of the story." "And in comes Billy Zane to push out the old ladies out of the way and get off the Titanic." "See you, suckers." "Bon voyage." "And bon appétit." "Yeah, look, he's" "We used to have several cutbacks to the mayor as his boat was getting smaller and smaller." "He's eating away at it." "But for pace, we ended up cutting most of those." "Now this food-alanche." "I just love that" "It's like the most cartoony timing it could possibly be followed by a really sophisticated simulation of the food smashing through buildings." "Yeah, that was not easy, as you might imagine." "And each food sort of has a property of its actual food." "This is a lot of math at work right there." "And the idea that the family works together." "And they throw Cal like a football.... ...and she catches him like Terrell Owens in the end zone." "And then also a baseball player." "They're a very athletic family." "They're like a super team." "That's from the gym coach thing." "This scene is just an homage to how much we love Mr. T." "And how awesome he is, what an inspiration he is." "That's amazing." "The T" "That's not our joke, right?" "That was Mike Lester." "That's Mike Lester, our storyboard artist, that's his joke." "By the way the" "Every once in a while, he'll call and be like, "ls the T joke still in?"" "I'm like, "It's still there."" "It lived." "Now what?" "Just click "send."" "Flint, the Fliminadifiserser's...." "I love the lighting in these tunnels." "It's all based on, like, Carlsbad Caverns and Fantastic Voyage." "Dad?" "Dad?" "Can you hear me?" "Dad?" "And then the movie gets extra weird." "We showed this clip at Comic-Con without any setup beforehand." "And they just all scratched their heads in confusion." "It literally takes 70 minutes of movie to understand it." "Explain." "Okay, so the food has gone sentient because it's like genetically engineered" "You gotta heighten." "You gotta heighten." "That's right." "You can't just have one thing." "Yes, man-eating roast chicken is the natural place you would go in this." "I remember that because you recorded Anna saying, "They ate Brent."" "And you guys wanted us to say it simultaneously." "The same time, that one" "So you played it to me." "Yes, over headphones." "I remember doing this a lot." "This is the line that changed a lot." "It was like the emotional" "Yeah, so they're like big story moments with lots of emotion that don't have lip synch will not be completed until the last possible second." "ln fact, that might be the very last line that was ever recorded." "That was." "That was the last thing I ever did for the mo" "I remember because I did it to picture and this was fully animated." "I remember because I did it to picture and this was fully animated." "We were mixing." "Yeah, I did it like two" "We were like halfway" "We had two days left in the mix when we rewrote that." "Yes." "Yeah, I came in and did it." "The animation on the spastic chicken was really one of my favorite parts." "I like these guys." "Nevertheless" "They were like, "Huh, what's going on with Larry?" "'" "Oh, yeah, Pete animated that." "And this is Brent's triumph and it's the same theme as the Baby Brent commercial but the triumphant version." "That is poop joke like two and a half, right?" "That's not really a poop joke." "It's sort of lateral too." "It's a very classy joke." "Yeah." "It's close-to-the-vest poop joke." "And then crotch kick, now that's a classy joke." "Now he slowly caresses Flint's face there with his chicken wing." "Go, go, go." "See, Brent's redeemed himself from being such a jerk at the beginning." "You love him now." "And our" " Hey, I think we set up that there was a peanut allergy earlier." "It's funny because I am actually allergic to peanuts." "Like very dangerously, right?" " I actually do" "And Anna is not." "Yeah, Anna is not." "So it's funny that" "That the opposite" "It must have been hard for you to play it." "To play not allergic." "You had to be like, "Relax."" "To play not allergic." "You had to be like, "Relax."" ""Hey, it's fine."" "Yeah." "Another" " He just loves moustaches." "Because it's the most painful thing to eat." "This New York set, I believe, is like a modified-- lsn't it a modified version of the Spider-Man set that lmageworks built?" "That's you, Chris." "Oh, yes, that is." "I think it's my groan." "What was the Will Smith zombie movie?" "Oh, yeah, I Am Legend?" "I Am Legend." "Yup." "And we-- ln Clone High, we would do mean things to Lincoln." "And in this, we did mean things to Lincoln." "I think we have it out for Abe Lincoln." ""--about to be crushed by a giant corn."" "Whose voice is that?" "That is Melissa." "Melissa Sturm from marketing." "Oh, right, Melissa." "She has a couple of roles in this film." "She did the scratch voice for Sam all the way through the film." "And is a very talented actress." "Yeah, take that, Roker." "Yeah, Roker." "That Roker's ad-lib actually, "What, the what?"" "Yeah." ""What, the what?"" "This scene in 3-D is almost crazily distracting." "It becomes a scene about the licorice rope." "The licorice rope is so in your face." "We're like, "We want it more and more in your face."" "And then he's all like:" ""Maybe we overdid it there a little bit."" "I still don't know how this sequence plays." "Because when we played it back for press in New York a week ago the trivia cards that come on before the movie were on like an automatic timer." "And they popped on in the middle of the press screening" "For about 30 seconds." "Wow, Chris is having a hard time." "That one chicken is really going at it for his chicken crotch there." "Oh, yeah." "So as" "Yeah, like those weird, like, you know trivia questions before you see the movie." "Robin Williams says, "Comedy is hard."" "Here's Sandra Bullock in The Proposal." "It's literally all throughout this sequence there were like these weird factoids, superimposed" "What Martin Lawrence movie is he a knight in?" "Making a" " We made Anna do stuff with her mouth full." "We made her do a whole scene where she's got this horrible allergy." "We made her say things like "the Jiayuguan Pass in eastern China" and all these crazy complicated signs." "We really" " We really had her do some crazy stuff in this movie." ""Goodbye, Sam."" "I remember that" "You had to do it like 400 times." "No, but I remember you guys gave me a full-on line reading for that and it was really funny." "I remember Chris doing a line reading and I started laughing really hard." "I remember Chris doing a line reading and I started laughing really hard." "I was like, "Oh, that's what you were going for."" "And then sometimes-- -"Goodbye, Sam."" "Exactly." "Yeah, I don't know what the action verb is to give you to elicit that." "That was the only line we gave you." "No." "It was not." "Probably not." "Now, this crazy belly-of-the-beast scene I'm still not quite sure what the" "We never had quite terms like "the tonsil" and "the flowering base."" "We did not know." "Or the extruded plastic dingus." "Yeah." "And now we gotta have Steve's great payoff." "These gummy bears the way that they refract the light is super awesome." "And here comes his big hero moment." "They went to town, we're like, "Make that as trippy as possible."" "Like something in the film needed to be trippier." "This is also" "I should say that there's a lot of lens flares especially in this last third of the film." "And it's no coincidence that the Star Trek reboot that J.J. Abrams did had just come out and we thought it was so funny how many lens flares were in it." "Yeah, Steve just ripped the heart out of the yellow gummy bear right there." "Oh, yeah." "This scene was animated by Dave Hardin a really funny animator." "Brent trying to fly, we thought that was hilarious." "We" " It was his idea." "Those" "That makes it look like the gummy bears are made of magic." "Yeah, the sparkles." "Yeah, yeah." "They're made of magic." "And so even in the face of danger he's still humming his own theme song." "I love how scary everybody made this" "The dingus sound." "Where did he go?" "But I just love, like, I love like that" "That sheen sounds so cool and then the cartoon noise sounds so dorky." "I love that those are in the same movie." "Grabbing." "Tying." "Throwing." "I like that." "The thing you guys came up with where he lists the things that he's doing." "He's like narrating himself." "Yeah." "Sorry, old friend." "This is-- "Kitchen's closed."" "Kitchen's closed and then he shoves the thing into the Welcome To Moose Port." "Dad." "No." "That was hopefully one of the very few actual pop culture references and I wouldn't even call it a pop culture reference because that was" "Was like" " Was that 10, 12 years ago already?" "That's like an old, like, writer's room thing, right?" "Like somebody" "Was like, "Oh, welcome to Mooseport."" "Yeah, like, somebody had a bit where that was their catch phrase." "Well, you know how it is here." "Welcome to Mooseport." "It's one of those days." "There was a bunch of that, like, those food words" "This is the callback to when he said:" ""When all seemed lost, I stared at defeat and found hope."" "Yeah." "And at one point, we call that back, it was a big groaner because he was staring at his feet" ""De-feet."" "And then there" "We loved it, we thought it was so funny and then when we finally saw it there it just took away from the" "Yeah, funny, you wanna, like, put as many jokes in a lot of times and you realize like you actually do get caught up..." "...in the emotion of the thing." "You wanna feel" "Yeah, it just messes it up." "They were like, "That's a real groaner."" "Now, is Flint dead, you guys?" "I sure hope not." "Where's Flint?" "This explosion was worked on for many, many weeks by a team of" "I love the request from us is like, "Can you make a rainbow explosion?"" "And they did." "They did it." "And they really did." "I love this part of Mark's score." "The TV is dancing in happiness." "He's very excited that he's not gonna die." "And then I love how it's undercut by the worst landing in the whole world." "Hey, Manny is a great pilot." "I mean, considering the factors, they came back intact, yeah." "I mean, considering the factors, they came back intact, yeah." "How Brent got out of that door is not physically possible." "Yeah, but you buy it." "You buy it." "You know, they'll always buy stuff at the end of a movie." "This is a great scene where you can see how the animators were able to give Tim a lot of expressiveness without having to see his eyes." "Flint?" "I'm sorry." "Still makes me a little sad, you guys." "Pass the tissue." "It would be crazy if it just went from here to, like:" ""Directed by Chris--"" "Just like, "Chris Miller, Phil Lord."" "Jam it on there?" "Yeah." "It was great." "You know, he gave up himself for the cause." "It was noble of him." "It's like the ending of Earthquake." "Yeah, just like that." "When we saw this in a recent screening there was a little girl sitting in front of me going:" ""It's the rat birds."" "I thought that was pretty cute." "Kevin Freeman was the guy who animated all of those birds." "And also did this..." "Oh, poor dude." "...the shot where all of the chickens were on the ceiling." "It was like, "You have to do a lot of birds all the time."" "I love that you don't recognize that guy." "I think that's your ad-lib." "This name's...." "This came from John Norton's storyboard." "Yes, we realized there was a lot of names" "There was a lot of names and instead of taking some of the names out we just decided to put a lot more in." "He did an awesome job with that." "Oh, for crying out loud." "This moment was a great payoff." "I can't remember where it came from..." "I can't remember." "...putting the Monkey Thought Translator on the dad." "It was there for a while." "It was there from when I came on." "I'm gonna attribute it to Rob for the purposes of this DVD." "But it was, like, the perfect fit for, you know getting the guy who can't express himself to express himself and I think it's pretty funny and touching at the same time which is really hard to do." "Now, look, when I take this thing off and you hear me make a fishing...." "I like the couple over his left shoulder, yeah." "I think there's a couple that starts making out, like a French couple." "That's when Flint and Sam started getting together." "It was a guy who goes, "Ah, I'amour. "" "Did you see the macaroni guy's looking the wrong way?" "Oh, yeah, throughout the movie the macaroni guy is always facing backwards." "You can see him, in like, the corners of shots and stuff." "Like there, he's facing the wrong way." "We should talk about this kiss for one second." "Oh, yes." "So in the original version of this kiss Flint's kissing style was to stick his tongue out very, very small out of that balloon shape and when we tested it, moms freaked out so much that we were depicting tongue kissing that we had to go with this way." "I mean, I thought they were gonna burn the theater down." "We took it out and then they loved it." "And then?" "These titles are based on I Love Lucy." "Naturally." "Of course." "This was not well thought out." "Our joke here was" "This was not well thought-out and then written and directed..." "...by Chris Miller and Phil Lord." "We would cut to us." "I don't think anybody ever gets that bit." "No, but I laugh at it." "This whole credit thing was designed by" "Pam." "That's our producer, Pam Marsden." "Who kept the ship afloat." "Who-- ls the most level-headed person I've ever met in my life." "And still manages to be really fun." "Judi and Ron." "Judi and Ron, obviously, were the super inspiration." "Could not have been more gracious about allowing us to have free reign with their baby." "And they couldn't love the movie more." "And they couldn't be nicer people." "This whole sequence was designed by Justin Thompson and Paul Rudish." "And they did an amazing job making it fun and cartoony." "Executed by the good folks at Duck Studios." "We originally had this to the song "Xanadu" by ELO." "From the movie of the same name." "The non-hit film, Xanadu." "I am a not-very-closeted ELO fan." "When we're trying to get the rights for that song" "ELO is fantastic." "We're trying to get the rights nobody wanted to take credit for the rights of that song." "Like, no one will lay claim to it like, Universal claims they don't own it the music label claims they don't own it like, everyone is so embarrassed by it." "I don't think they should be." "I think it's kind of a great song." "But at some point, it was decided that we should write something original and Miranda Cosgrove, TV's iCarly was gracious enough to record this." "Oh, wow, she's a ghost in the thing." "Oh, yeah, I love that thing." "And there's a question mark wipe." "It's like, "What the heck was that?"" "Yeah." "Lydia and Chris were real superstars putting the whole thing together." "That is huge." "God, he's an absolute hero of ours." "Yeah, Mark Mothersbaugh." "God." "That choice alone should expose us for the nerds that we are." "Rob Bredow who did a lot of the effects on Independence Day who was our original effects supervisor was a super genius." "I love that London doesn't get" "Changed." "Cheered up." "Even in the earlier part, all the skies go blue except for London, that goes gray." "Carey Yost, who designed all the character we worked with on Clone High and he was a really, really talented guy and he had a whole team of great people." "Dave Morehead, who helped us with our awesome camera angles and all the crazy whooshes and swoops that we tried to do." "And we cannot stress enough the contribution of the animation team and the lighting team and all of the incredible technicians." "Everybody that worked on this movie just did an amazing job." "This credit roll is also designed by Justin to be sort of Flint's lab and it's extra cool in tres demensiones." "That's Spanish for 3-D." "Chris knows a lot of languages." "Listen, I am very worldly, you guys." "He knows tons." "He's very smart." "I don't" " You guys." "Get out of here." "Wow, this is a" "But, yeah, that's the thing." "It's like you watch one of these movies and it's like so many people work on these animated movies." "It's 500 people." "It's ridiculous." "You watch, like, the" " I mean...." "You know, the credits sequences on these movies alone are" "Oh, yeah, that's why we wanted it to say, "A film by a lot of people" because this wasn't like Buffalo '66 or our student films where we like edited and did our own sound and everything." "Yeah, it's not Dogme or whatever, it's not a Lars Von Trier movie." "This is, like, a lot of people a lot of artists and filmmakers contributed a lot of thought and passion into this thing." "And the whole process is so collaborative and if you don't embrace that, you'll drive yourself crazy so it really was a huge team effort." "Marvin and Moon and the modeling team were able to take these drawings that Carey and Justin and other people did and make them just as cartoony and crazy and there are no right angles in the movie there are no perfectly straight lines and there are no perfectly round circles." "The biggest compliment to them, is that Chris Reccardi who designed a lot of the vehicles in the movie came in and a year after he did all the designs and said:" ""l can't believe it looks like my drawing." "That's never happened in my whole career."" ""That's exactly the way I drew it." They were really, really amazing." "Wow, what is character pipeline?" "What is it?" "That is the" "This thing that we're looking at?" "That thing that we're looking, I'm like, "Oh."" "Yeah, that's right." "That is Justin's depiction of the character pipeline in the back there." "No, they're just so man-- Like, that's the thing" "Oh, the infrastructure of getting the characters into the set and modeled and rigged and all that type of stuff." "Yeah, that's the thing that blew my mind when I went into the offices that I went in." "I saw all these people working, all these graphs everywhere all this stuff that was so much insane work." "And then you were like:" ""Oh, this is the one wing we have." "There's like three more."" "And you go, it was like, three other huge areas just like that." "With just people at their computers just working really, really hard." "And there's a machine room that runs the length of the building" "It's a city block long that is, like" "Just has servers." "Whirring, trying to process this movie." "All this stuff." "This music that you're hearing is like the suite of the score from Mark Mothersbaugh." "Yeah, Andy, our music editor, cut this and it's actually a beautiful suite, I think." "It really shows off Mark's score in a great way." "I will say personally, thank you, guys, for including me on this." "My God, thank you for doing this." "This is like the coolest thing" "You know, my first, kind of, big animated thing like this." "I'm" " I feel very, very lucky." "We felt really, really lucky to have you around." "And you really did a great job and really made the character funny and lovable, so" "Oh, thanks, guys." "Let's do it again." "Yeah, let's do it again." "Awesome." "Well" "Thank you, everybody, for watching and making it through this whole commentary." "I'm really impressed with you at home or wherever you're watching this." "Yeah." "Way to go." "And" " I don't know." "Go watch the deleted scenes now." "Yeah." "Yeah." "I recommend those." "Those are cool." "Yeah." "Admire the beautiful menus that were created for it." "Buy some more Sony products." "Yeah, buy some Sony products." "Yeah." "If it's in another language, listen to it in that language." "Maybe learn a new language." "It's a good way to go." "Be cooler people." "Yeah, branch out, guys." "Branch out." "Show them your stuff, kid." "All right, thanks a lot." "Bye." "Bye."