Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a 2001 computer-animated film based on a few three-minute animated shorts shown on Nickelodeon between the years 1999-2002, and a pilot in 1998. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies with O Entertainment and DNA Productions. It was produced using off-the-shelf software by O Entertainment. A first spin-off TV series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, premiered July 20, 2002, and a second spin-off TV series Planet Sheen also premiered on October 2nd, 2010 on Nickelodeon. It was nominated for the very first Academy Award for... Best Animated Feature, but lost to Shrek. It was the only animated Nickelodeon film to ever be nominated in that category until Rango was nominated in 2012 and won. At an Air Force base, the military discover a UFO and they send up some F-14s to investigate. The pilots are surprised to find that it is a rocket carrying two boys and a robotic dog: Jimmy Neutron, Carl Wheezer, and Goddard. Jimmy is attempting to launch a communications satellite made out of a toaster, hoping to communicate with an alien species he believes exists somewhere out in the universe.
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| Release date: | December 21, 2001 |
| Directed by: | John A. Davis |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 82 Minutes |
| Producer: | John A. Davis, Steve Oedekerk, Albie Hecht |
| Music by: | John Debney |
| Screenplay by: | Steve Oedekerk, John A. Davis, David N. Weiss |
| Estimated budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Genre: | Adventure, Fantasy |