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Snowtime!
Film Poster
La Guerre des tuques 3D
Directed byJean-François Pouliot
Written byNormand Canac-Marquis
Roger Cantin
Danyèle Patenaude
Paul Risacher
Based onThe Dog Who Stopped the War
by Rock Demers
StarringFrench version:
English version:[1]
Production
companies
Haoliners Animation
3QU Media
Distributed byLes Films Séville
Entertainment One
Release date
  • November 13, 2015 (2015-11-13)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesFrench
English
Budget$12.5 million
Box office$3.36 million (Canada)[2]
CN¥31.5 million (China)[3]

Snowtime! (Template:Lang-fr), also released as La Bataille géante de boules de neige in France and Cleo in the United Kingdom,[4] is a Canadian computer-animated 3D film from Quebec, released in 2015.[5] Directed by Jean-François Pouliot, it is an animated remake of the 1984 film The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques).[6]

The film inspired the spinoff television series Snowsnaps (Les Mini-Tuques) that premiered in September 2018. A sequel film, Racetime (La Course des tuques), was released in December 2018.[7]

Premise

The film centres on a group of children, led by Luke (Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier / Angela Galuppo) and Sophie (Mariloup Wolfe / Lucinda Davis), who plan and stage a giant snowball fight during the Christmas holidays.[5]

Production

Having earned $3,359,425 in 2015, the film was the highest-grossing Canadian film at the domestic box office during the calendar year, thus winning the Cineplex Golden Screen Award conferred by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.[8][9] It had its American premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.[10] The film was released in English Canada on February 12, 2016 and the United States on February 19, 2016.[2]

The soundtrack features many songs by various artists, including two recordings of "L'hymne" by Celine Dion, one English rendition as a solo artist and one French rendition recorded as a duet with Fred Pellerin.

Characters

Characters Voiced by
Original English Original English
Luc Luke Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier Angela Galuppo
Sophie Mariloup Wolfe Lucinda Davis
François Les Lunettes Four-eyed Frankie Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc Sandra Oh[11]
Pierre Piers Sébastien Reding Ross Lynch[12][13]
Lucie Lucy Sophie Cadieux Angela Galuppo[14]
Maranda Manolo[15] Anne Casabonne Sonja Ball
Jacques Jack[16] Catherine Trudeau
Henri Leroux Henry André Sauvé Heidi Lynne Weeks
Georges Leroux George
Chabot Chuck Gildor Roy Don W. Shepherd[17]
Ti-Guy La Lune Nicky Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque[citation needed] or Aline Pinsonneault[citation needed] Elisabeth MacRae[18][19]
France Fran Aline Pinsonneault Jenna Wheeler[20]
Daniel Blanchette de Victoriaville Daniel Blanshire from Victoriaville Esther Poulin Holly Gauthier-Frankel[21]

Reception

The film has grossed over $13 million worldwide, including CN¥31.5 million in China.[7][3]

Reviews

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 70% based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10.[22] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score 52 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[23]

References

  1. ^ Linda Barnard (11 February 2016). "Snowtime! packs a message: review". Toronto Star. Retrieved 22 February 2016. With the voices of Sandra Oh, Angela Gallupo, Lucinda Davis and Ross Lynch.
  2. ^ a b Etan Vlessing (February 2, 2016). "Canadian Screen Awards to Honor 'Snowtime!' as Biggest Homegrown 2015 Box-Office Hit". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "冰雪大作战（2017）". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Cleo (2015)". British Board of Film Classification. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. ^ a b "La guerre des tuques 3D réussit son pari". Ici Radio-Canada, November 3, 2015.
  6. ^ "La Guerre des Tuques takes aim at a new generation". Q, December 16, 2015.
  7. ^ a b Cocherel, Par (June 6, 2018). "Le film "La course des tuques" est lancé". HuffPost. Verizon Communications. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  8. ^ Barry Hertz (4 February 2016). "A Canadian box-office battle between Snowtime! and Brooklyn". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  9. ^ "Brooklyn Tops Canadian Box Office". Northernstars. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  10. ^ "Animated La Guerre des Tuques 3D will screen at Sundance Film Festival". Montreal Gazette, September 9, 2015.
  11. ^ Linda Barnard (12 February 2016). "Snowtime! movie lets Sandra Oh get animated". Toronto Star. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  12. ^ Maxime Demers (4 November 2015). "À la conquête du monde". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  13. ^ Brendan Kelly (11 November 2015). "Movie review: La guerre des tuques 3D reanimates spirit of original". Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  14. ^ Scott Tobias (28 January 2016). "Sundance Film Review: 'Snowtime!'". Variety. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  15. ^ http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-manolo.html
  16. ^ http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-jack.html
  17. ^ http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-chuck.html
  18. ^ http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-nicky.html
  19. ^ Sheri Linden (19 January 2016). "'Snowtime!': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  20. ^ http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-fran.html
  21. ^ http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-daniel.html
  22. ^ "Snowtime! (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  23. ^ "Snowtime! reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
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