The original cast returned to voice their characters and features the guest voice of Seth MacFarlane as "I.S.R.A.E.L." (Intelligent Smart Robot Animation Eraser Lady), and Vernon Wells as the villainous Network Head. While the television series was produced and animated by Rough Draft Studios using digital ink and paint, the film was instead produced and animated by 6 Point Harness and done entirely in flash animation using Toon Boom and Adobe Flash Professional due to budget cuts.
The film received a generally negative reception.
Plot
Foxxy Love discovers she can swear without being censored, and calls the network to find out why the TV show Drawn Together has been canceled in favor of The Suck My Taint Show (a parody of South Park). The Network Head learns that the Drawn Together housemates are still alive - their survival having been concealed from him by the Jew Producer - and summons I.S.R.A.E.L. (Intelligent Smart Robot Animation Eraser Lady) a robot designed to erase cartoon characters. As the Jew Producer attempts to warn the housemates, I.S.R.A.E.L. arrives and erases the Drawn Together house; the housemates escape in Foxxy's van.
The housemates learn that they are not originals but are cheap knock-offs created specifically for the show. Foxxy insists that their survival lies in getting their TV show back on air. Princess Clara refuses to believe she is not a real princess and claims her father can protect them. Captain Hero, Xandir and Ling-Ling go with Clara, while Spanky Ham and Wooldoor Sockbat go with Foxxy. While they argue, Toot Braunstein steals Foxxy's van.
Clara, Hero, Molly (a corpse Hero believes to be his girlfriend), Xandir and Ling-Ling arrive at Clara's kingdom, expecting refuge. Clara encounters the king, who is not her father, having only been hired to portray the role. The group are thrown in the dungeons for impersonating royalty, and the guards dismember and kill Clara. The other three hijack a carriage and escape.
Foxxy, Spanky and Wooldoor visit the Suck My Taint Girl, who it transpires is a fan of the Drawn Together show. She says they were canceled because vulgar and offensive content is only acceptable when it "makes a point", and they can "get a point" by visiting Make-A-Point Land. Foxxy, Spanky and Wooldoor reunite with Hero, Xandir, Ling-Ling and Molly when their carriage - following an attack by I.S.R.A.E.L. - collides with the trio. They and their carriage fall into a river. They escape drowning when film director's commentary informs them that Ling-Ling can inflate into a life raft when his tail is pulled.
After Foxxy retrieves a drunk, heavily pregnant Toot from Bedrock, the housemates travel to Make-A-Point Land with the Suck My Taint Girl. The wizard there gives the group a box, saying it contains a point. Spanky persuades most of the housemates to reject the point in favor of continuing with vulgar and offensive behavior for their own pleasure, but Wooldoor opens the box whereupon the eraser bomb inside explodes, killing him. The Network Head, I.S.R.A.E.L. and the Jew Producer show up to erase the remaining cast. The Suck My Taint Girl reveals that she is the Network Head's wife and that she alerted him to the group's whereabouts.
The Jew Producer convinces I.S.R.A.E.L. to spare the housemates, and I.S.R.A.E.L. impales the Network Head on a spike. The Network Head reveals he has enough eraser bombs strapped to his waist to destroy all of Make-A-Point Land. The Jew Producer and Suck My Taint Girl struggle for the detonator and drop it, killing them and deleting Make-A-Point Land and everyone in it. The housemates escape with the help of The Giant Who Shits Into His Own Mouth (a parody of a South Park metaphor for political bipartisanship).
The Giant and surviving housemates visit the remains of the Drawn Together house. The Jew Producer's son tells them that he might be able to give them a direct-to-DVD movie. I.S.R.A.E.L. arrives, and she and the giant are smitten with each other. Everyone laughs until Spanky steps on an unexploded eraser bomb, erasing the group and ending the series.
In an interview with Animation World Network, the series creators, Dave Jester and Matt Silverstein, expressed dissatisfaction with ending Drawn Together's original run on a clip show. The duo approached the film with the intention of creating a more "dynamic" conclusion to the series. Silverstein and Jester also intended for the film's content to be more tame compared to the series, which Jester commented that they "failed miserably on that."[2]
When the series was animated by Rough Draft, the creators, Dave Jeser & Matt Silverstein, weren't that much involved with the animation process. In the movie however, the creators were more involved, even as far as to tweak-out jokes. The animation in the film also proved to be quicker than the show.[3]
Release
Though originally announced for a November 2009 release,[4] the film's release date was pushed to March 23, 2010, then released on April 20, 2010.[2] The film premiered at the 2010 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, on March 18, 2010.[5]
The film was released on April 20, 2010 on DVD, and on Blu-ray exclusively at Best Buy.[6] The film was released on DVD in Australia later that year on October 6, 2010.[7]
Reception
The film received negative reviews from critics. Common Sense Media, panned the movie and gave it one star, criticizing its vulgarity, stating that the film is "filled to the brim with lewd sexual acts, language, and violence. The cartoon parody is meant to push the boundaries of taste, but amidst violence against women, the violation of corpses, kids asking to be sexually abused, heads blown off at close range, the drinking of baby blood... who -- and especially what child -- is going to be thinking of this as a parody?"[8]
IGN also gave the movie a critical review, writing that a "great comedic opportunity was wasted on cheap one-dimensional gags and boring sex jokes."[9]
In contrast DVD Verdict was more favorable, commenting that the movie was "first and foremost a goodbye gift to fans of the series and they should have no problem enjoying the myriad references and in-jokes scattered about, as well as all of the crude humor."[10]
Controversy
The film was criticized for its supposed antisemitism, even though the producers said that "it was supposed to make fun of bigotry".[11] Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, who created the show and wrote the movie, are both Jewish.
1 2 The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!: Re-Animating Drawn Together: From The Small Screen To The Slightly Bigger Screen. DVD. Paramount Home Entertainment, 2010.
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