A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
Sammy's Adventures - The Search for the Secret Passage (Original Title: Sammy's avonturen: De secret door input) is a Belgian computer animated film by Ben Stassen from the year 2010.
In the original version can be heard among other things, Melanie Griffith, Anthony Anderson, Isabelle Fuhrman and Yuri Lowenthal. For the German dubbed version could, among other things Lena Meyer -Landrut, Matthias Schweighofer, Axel Stein, Thomas Fritsch and Achim Reichel be won.
From the German Film and Media Review (FBW ) of the film the title was particularly valuable.
After the Germany premiere in Berlin in the presence of Lena, Axel Stone and director Ben Stassen on 17 October 2010, the film was released on October 28, 2010 in a normal version and a 3D version in theaters.
Action
The film begins in the present, where the turtles friends Sammy and Ray wait joyfully waiting to be grandfathers. Meanwhile, telling old Sammy of his birth, 50 years ago took place on the same beach. After it has Sammy managed with difficulty, to hatch out of the egg, he is caught by a seagull. Sammy, the gull to spit sand in the eyes, and she zukneift eyes and let go of him succeed. In the air, the seagull collides with another, which in turn the turtle girl Shelly carries in its beak. After the collision, the gulls Sammy and Shelly covered in depth. While Shelly falls on the soft beach and reached with the other sea turtles, Sammy remains on the hard driftwood, where he falls asleep from exhaustion. When he wakes up, he drives in the open sea. Here he befriends the leatherback turtle Ray.
10 years walking the two by the Pacific Ocean, where they will meet for the first time on humans. During an encounter with the Kraken Slim they can get, like an oil tanker polluted their waters. Some time later, Ray and Sammy caught in the trawl nets of fishing trawlers. They are separated, and the greatly weakened Sammy is thrown back into the sea. From a friendly dolphin, he is brought to the coast of California, where he is nursed by Snow, a hippie woman and held together with the turtle Vera and the cat Fluffy as a pet. As the hippies notice that Sammy and Vera do not want to mate, they can freely Vera.
On Christmas Eve, Sammy gets from the hippies a peace sign painted on the tank. Snow reads from Jules Verne's Around the World in before 80 days and it gets Sammy with that you can go through a secret passage to the world. During a raid by the police, the hippie commune must escape and lets Sammy back. Sammy decides to return to the sea. In the ocean current Sammy tangled with the head in a plastic bag and suffocating. He but is saved by Vera, and both swim to a seaweed forest. Suddenly they notice how a young turtles girl is attacked by a shark and save his life. And we notice Sammy that it is the turtle girl to Shelly, his childhood sweetheart, is.
Together they decide to look for the secret passage. You can reach the Panama Canal, the Sammy holds the secret passage. After adventuring with a giant snake, a crocodile, piranha and a bird of prey they find the zone where the ships sail through the canal. Shelly, however, again separated by the wake of a propeller of Sammy and driven into the sea. Sammy desperately swims without Shelly on. Some time later, he encounters the older turtles pair Günther and Angelica, which tells him that it had met Shelly. Sammy has new hope and decides to continue the search for Shelly.
On his journey to the south Sammy finds a refrigerator, which was disposed of by a freighter, and uses it as locomotion opportunity. After a while, he meets a seagull, who tells him that she has Shelly saw on the way to the Arctic Ocean, and then click a fin whale, which is followed by whalers. Sammy and the Whale manage to escape the harpoon strikes in the fridge and destroyed him. Sammy is rescued by whaling opponents out of the ice cold water and brought to their boat, where he Shelly looks quite short.
Sammy and Shelly land in a shelter where they are nursed. While Shelly is discharged into the sea after a short time, Sammy Snow and Fluffy meets again. After Sammy is released, he meets two turtles girls who ask him for help. They swim to an old sea freight containers, which stands on a hill and crash is imminent. In this container Sammy's friend Ray is caught. Sammy to open the rear doors and to liberate shortly before the crash of the container, Ray manages. Then they swim to the wreck of a Spanish galley, where Ray's girlfriend Rita lives. When Sammy Rita asked about Shelly, she gives him the advice to look into the galley after her. But here he has to watch as Shelly is flirting with the male turtles Robbie. Sammy tells Rita and Ray from his disappointing encounter, then explain to him that Robbie is a playboy and already has a girlfriend. Along with Ray and Albert, a shark who has lost his teeth, pretend to attack Shelly. Sammy can save Shelly again and finally wins her heart. Shortly afterwards, the marriage takes place. In the final scene, Sammy helps his grandson to come out of the oviposition hole.
Synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in June 2010 in the studios of the Berliner Synchron in Lankwitz, the dialogue director Martin Schmitz was responsible.
Soundtrack and Radio Drama
In addition to the score by Ramin Djawadi include Touch a New Day by Lena, Is not No Sunshine by Michael Jackson and California Dreamin 'by The Mamas and the Papas heard. In addition, located on the soundtrack songs of Mika ( "Love Today" ), Donavon Frankenreiter ( "Free" ) Dry Spells ( " Happy People " ), Mishon ( " Love will find a way " ), Fibes, Oh Fibes! ( " Love Child " ), self ( " You're not alone " ), and VV Brown ( "Shark in the Water" ). On 29 October 2010 a radio play version was released on CD and MC with the German dubbing of the film and Thomas Karallus as narrator.
Criticism
" The Belgians Ben Stassen succeed with Sammy's Adventures a while extremely cheesy, but visually intoxicating animated film ever 3D technology exploits really impressive as one of the first films. [ ... ] Given the outstanding images can also be acceptable that the act of Sammy's Adventures is not the most original, they also sometimes interspersed with a slightly unsubtilen eco-message. "
"Without 3 -D nothing works. Meanwhile tried almost every computer-animated cartoon to overwhelm the viewer with spatial images. [ ... ] The 3 -D effects are so extreme that the audience stunned staggers out of the theater after about 90 minutes. [ ... ] Therefore, " Sammy's Adventures " Although a number of original episodes and characters, the story itself works but only conditionally. "
Others
An approximately 15-minute abridged version of the film in " 4D " is shown in Germany at Hansa - Park. Also in the Europa Park, this version was to be seen, but there was now replaced by another movie. In the Netherlands, this short film was shown in Attractiepark Slagharen. In the theme park version of the film other voice actors can be heard as in the long theatrical version. On 8 March 2011 Sammy's Adventure was released on DVD and on 7 April 2011 on Blu- ray Disc in 2012 a sequel to Sammy's Adventure was filmed in Detlev Buck, Axel Stone, Boss Burns, Hoss Power, The Earl and Paul Panzer speak the lead roles in the German dubbing. Theatrical release in Germany was the 20th December 2012.
Awards and nominations
2010 Sammy's Adventures was nominated for Best Animated film for the European Film Awards in the category. In addition, Ben Stassen received in February 2011, the Trophée du film européen the Belgian Film Festival in Aubel.