Talk:Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

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there already is a page on this Xunflash 03:31, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Which software?

"The film was produced using off-the-shelf software" -- please elaborate.

Newtek's Lightwave (modeling,lighting,rendering), Messiah(Animation), Digital Fusion (Compositing) and a small spattering of Maya(animation)

Reason for date pushed?

This may sound like an incredibly stupid question (since the answer may be obvious), but what was the cause for the date to be pushed from November 11th to December 11th? My guesses say that it was perhaps because of the September 11th attacks, but it could have also been due to another issue. Is it possible someone can site the cause? Thanks. :) --DannyDaWriter 17:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

No, the movie was still being worked on Sept 11th. It wasn't a productive day since we were all watching the news, but it didn't stall the movie.

Yolkians have Ludicrous speed or faster? (only people who have seen SPACEBALLS can read this.)

Remember when the yolkians made the jump? But they can't have gotton to earth that fast, it would have taken years even from the closest system at light speed. Could the yolkians have technology of the Spaceballs and have gone into Ludicrous speed? Or could they be even more advanced and go faster? Darth Vader II 16:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

The Yolkians have admitted to being an advanced alien race, millions of years ahead of humans, so it's highly probable that they had invented a faster-than-light drive that could allow that type of travel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.41.36.2 (talk) 14:25, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Meaning?

What does this mean?

"By now, the shrink ray is working again, so Nick Dean also had the Golden Rule"

Rojomoke (talk) 10:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I think it should be removed. It has poor sentence structure and confused the pants off of me. 192.197.71.189 (talk) 15:33, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Cultural references

This is trivia and may be integrated back into the article in prose form with references.

In an early sequence, Jimmy rides his jetpack past a train labeled MJ12, coinciding with the extraterrestrial theme. When Jimmy crash lands on his house in the beginning of the film, three birds flying in a V-shaped pattern can be seen in the sky, several times. This may coincide with the extraterrestrial photographs taken by Billy Meier that featured three UFO's flying over a valley. This can also be observed in several of the TV episodes. In the beginning of the message Jimmy sends to the aliens, he salutes them using the Vulcan salute. When Sheen takes the Ultra Lord oath in the amusement park, his right hand is doing the Vulcan salute. The Egyptian-style ride "Show me the Mummy" is a parody of Jerry Maguire's catch-phrase "Show me the money". One of the rides has a scared kid's face with eyes wide open and his hands on his cheeks. That's the famous pose of Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. (Which itself is a parody of the Edvard Munch painting The Scream) The alien's YT program is a parody of ET. During the scene when the kids are camping on the asteroid, Nick's story is from the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project Look closely when Hugh Neutron is channel surfing on his TV set, the film open for Nick, called "Rhino", is seen, alongside one ident and the ping-ping-ping sound of Nick's sister channel TV Land. One ride in Retroland that is made into a spacecraft is called "Bat Outta Heck", an obvious reference to the common phrase Bat out of Hell. In the scene where all of the kids are in space and camping on an asteroid, they are able to survive despite having no protection against the freezing cold, lack of air pressure or oxygen. Their space ships aren't even sealed and most expose the children's bodies. Curiously, in the series that spawned from the film, in the episode "The Junkman", while on a trip to the moon, Sheen asks Jimmy about this, and Jimmy answers him, but his explanation goes unheard, as Carl's loud and terrible singing drowns it out. When the Yolkian planet is viewed from space, it seems to be based on Coruscant. The Yolkian Ooblar's name is perhaps a nod to The War of The Worlds where the martian's battlecry is 'Ulla' - pronounced Oolaa. During the chase through space Libby is the Communications Officer, a possible reference to Lt. Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series, as both Libby and Uhura are black females. On the scene when Cindy is on her room with Libby, there is a poster of a girlband, called Space Girls. This is an obvious parody of Spice Girls. The film currently has a 75% "Certified Fresh" rating on RottenTomatoes.com When Jimmy did the radar search for adults it said there were no adults found but in a few scenes later they showed Ms. Fowl, which may be because of Jimmy accidentally shrinking her earlier and being too small for the radar to pick up. Another poster of this film had Jimmy & Goddard on the front, looking through a hole from metal that they had blasted through. Next to the hole are the words I can fix that... and under the hole is the words Blasting into theaters this Christmas. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius was nominated for Best Animated Feature in 2001. It lost to the Dreamworks blockbuster, Shrek. The plot was based upon a failed Jimmy Neutron show pilot, Runaway Rocketboy, While most of the footage from the failed pilot was used on the original teaser trailer, but in the end Nickelodeon finally accepted to create a television series, which turned out to be a hit, turning into Nick's third highest rated show. Retroville's paper updates incredibly fast. The headline of the day of the satellite launch was that a UFO (Jimmy and Carl) had been spotted over the town. Of course, the boys could have done it before, seeing as there was no Goddard in the photo. There are ceramics that look like chickens, the shape of the ships and the god of the Yolkians. These are seen at the last scene of the film. The entire film was done with over the counter CGI software Some of the scenes from the film can be seen during the opening sequence of the TV series during the first season. When Carl Jimmy and Sheen are reading from the flyer, Carl mentions "Llamas and Capybaras", hinting at an obsession with capybaras, not just llamas. The song Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones appears in the film. However, the line "Shoot 'em in the back, now" is removed. Unlike in the show, Cindy's shirt is a pink blouse, her hair is in two pigtails and she wears black pants. On the show, her shirt is a green striped halter, her hair has one ponytail, and her pants are beige. The same goes for her friend Libby, who had one ponytail and a green dress in the film, but had a tropical-style hairdo and a pink tank top in the tv series. This happened after an episode where Jimmy and his friends redo Libby's hair to stop the mummies. Jimmy's name is believed to be originated from the scientist James Chadwick who discovered the Neutron. His full name, James Isaac Neutron, is also a reference to famous scientist Isaac Newton. This is the second film Patrick Stewart and Martin Short appeared in. Their first film together was the 1998 film The Prince of Egypt. This is also the only time we see Jimmy wear shorts, and Jimmy's voice is a lot deeper in the series presumably because a year had passed. There was a proposed sequel to the film entitled Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius 2: The Search for Carl, but the project was scrapped.

BOVINEBOY2008 14:21, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

3D Re-Release

Can someone provide a source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.229.74.125 (talk) 11:51, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Home Media Release/Edit Request 3//3/14

When did this movie get released onto VHS and DVD? I do remember the promotions for the VHS and DVD release on some of my Nick and Nick Jr VHS tapes back when they where new, and that was back in 2002. This probably means that the movie got its home media release in late 2001 or early 2002. Could someone add the home media release date to the artical? --24.147.1.197 (talk) 21:49, 3 March 2014 (UTC)Jacob Chesley

According to google it's July 2, 2002 Brownspoof Not vandailizm

Semi-protected edit request on 30 September 2021

The section headings "Voice talent cast", "Movie Theatrical release" and "Home video media" need to be changed back to "Voice cast", "Theatrical release" and "Home media" respectively. 156.195.130.103 (talk) 04:24, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

 Already done I fixed Movie Theatrical release to Theatrical release as requested. The other 2 sections either already were corrected (e.g Home media) or were renamed by another editor to something else (Cast). Cheers! —Sirdog (talk) 04:39, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 February 2025

About the sentence "In February 2025, it was reported that the sequel is in development by Paramount Animation", I think it would be better to say, "In February 2025, it was reported that A sequel is in development by Paramount Animation" because there was no prior news about the announced movie before. 2603:6010:8B00:44FF:F9D5:A67:D333:4618 (talk) 05:18, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: The section it is in establishes the concept, making "the sequel" grammatically correct. (3OpenEyes' communication receptacle) | (PS: Have a good day) (acer was here) 08:02, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Nickelodeon Movies is not a distribution label

Nickelodeon Movies is not a distributor, it is a production company. Just because the credits state "Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present" does not mean Nickelodeon served as a co-distributor with Paramount. It should not be included as distributor in the infobox. TPalkovitz (talk) 02:35, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

What "presents" as a credit means is that the company was not a production company for the film. The presents credit is given to the sponsoring studio which is usually the distributor of the film. The actual production company gets a "produced by" credit in the opening credits. Nickelodeon Movies is owned by Paramount Pictures and is the distribution label for Paramount family films. Geraldo Perez (talk) 02:46, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

It wasn't under Nick for Paramount, it was both (paramount and Nick Present). also there are many examples of films in which the studio making it has only a presents credit (The Road to El Dorado, early Aardman films, The Spongebob Movies 2-4, etc. and United INternational Pictures wasn't replacing Paramount and Nick in the states, it was simply through UIP Paramount handled worldwide rights (UIP doesn't steal their credits in foriegn market, their logo just appears before the movie's other logos) while some movies fit what your going for (paw patrol for example) ,the adventure of Tintin, Spongebob movie 1, and most Nick and Amazon MGM films do not work with it distributor credits on wikipedia if they also are credited foreignly but with an international partner helping. ~2026-25419-4 (talk) 21:10, 27 January 2026 (UTC)