Itsy Bitsy Spider (film)

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Itsy Bitsy Spider
Directed by Matthew O'Callaghan
Written by Michael O'Donoghue
Jerry Rapp
Produced by Willard Carroll
Tom Wilhite
Starring Frank Welker
Thora Birch
Jim Carrey
Andrea Martin
Edited bySusan L. Vovsi
Music by David Newman
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • July 31, 1992 (1992-07-31)
(with Bebe's Kids)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Itsy Bitsy Spider is a 1992 American animated short film directed by Matthew O'Callaghan, written by Michael O'Donoghue and Jerry Rapp, and stars Frank Welker as the titular spider alongside Thora Birch, Jim Carrey and Andrea Martin. Based on the eponymous rhyme, the short film was released along with the film Bebe's Kids . It was rated PG by the MPAA for sci-fi cartoon violence. [1]

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Plot

A young country spider; the Itsy Bitsy Spider, befriends a perky young city girl taking piano lessons from a music teacher (incidentally learning to play the song) and her cat, Langston. When Itsy frightens the teacher, she calls the Exterminator, who tries to kill Itsy with a toxic machine blower, but it causes pain and destruction to the instructor's house. The Exterminator turns out to be a heavily armed android, who then uses more extreme weapons, escalating from poison and vacuums to guns and explosives, before destroying the instructor's house. Itsy reunites with the little girl (who senses to leave the house when the Exterminator uses the weapons) and heads home to the big city on her bicycle.

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