'Channel Chasers' is the best 'Fairly Oddparents' TV movie that Butch Hartman and his team have cranked out.
What I really like about this movie is its epic scale. It opens in a Terminatoresque dystopian future where Vicky, Timmy's evil babysitter and eternal nemesis, has taken over the world. She sends a ninja back in time to destroy Timmy (sound familiar?). In the present, Timmy has a particularly bad day, his parents are mad at him, and Vickey frames him for stuff he didn't do. Bitter and cynical, Timmy wishes for a magic remote that he can use to escape into television. It's here where the story takes off. The masked ninja from the future is revealed to be... Timmy! Yes, it's Timmy Turner, 20 years from now, with the voice of Alec Baldwin! I'm surprised Baldwin did this; I didn't know he had it in him. Now Adult Timmy and 10 year-old Timmy must team up to stop Vicky, who also has a magic remote, from reaching this movie's version of the History Channel, where 'Dictator Week' is playing.
The TV show parodies are hilarious; EVERYTHING that either I or (more likely) Butch Hartman watched as a kid are mercilessly ribbed. There is also some real poignancy when Cosmo and Wanda tell Timmy that when he grows up, he will not only lose them, his memory of them will be erased! And there's a touching scene near the end when Adult Timmy Turner is about to "fade" back into the future. It all adds up to a spectacular and hilarious finale where the fate of the world is in Timmy's hands.
Channel Chasers ROCKS! I loved it.
What I really like about this movie is its epic scale. It opens in a Terminatoresque dystopian future where Vicky, Timmy's evil babysitter and eternal nemesis, has taken over the world. She sends a ninja back in time to destroy Timmy (sound familiar?). In the present, Timmy has a particularly bad day, his parents are mad at him, and Vickey frames him for stuff he didn't do. Bitter and cynical, Timmy wishes for a magic remote that he can use to escape into television. It's here where the story takes off. The masked ninja from the future is revealed to be... Timmy! Yes, it's Timmy Turner, 20 years from now, with the voice of Alec Baldwin! I'm surprised Baldwin did this; I didn't know he had it in him. Now Adult Timmy and 10 year-old Timmy must team up to stop Vicky, who also has a magic remote, from reaching this movie's version of the History Channel, where 'Dictator Week' is playing.
The TV show parodies are hilarious; EVERYTHING that either I or (more likely) Butch Hartman watched as a kid are mercilessly ribbed. There is also some real poignancy when Cosmo and Wanda tell Timmy that when he grows up, he will not only lose them, his memory of them will be erased! And there's a touching scene near the end when Adult Timmy Turner is about to "fade" back into the future. It all adds up to a spectacular and hilarious finale where the fate of the world is in Timmy's hands.
Channel Chasers ROCKS! I loved it.