They’ve only ever done two other feature films, Planet 51, released in 2009, and Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission Implausible, released in 2014. Ilion was an interesting choice to handle the animation production. Instead, they’re co-producing this film with Nickelodeon Movies, and there’s going to be an animated TV series based on the film starting in 2019 shortly after the release of the film. Paramount isn’t known for their animation chops, and unlike Sony Pictures, does not have their own animation studio. Ilion Animation Studios of Spain is handling the animation, which explains part of why this whole thing just sort of flew under the radar. Perhaps that’s the purpose of framing the first trailer this way - to get us puzzling over it. ![]() The film looks like fantastic fun, but we have no idea. What if there’s something really horrible going on in her normal, mundane life for which the amusement park compensates? Is she being given the park to help her get her life in control back in the real world? Do the park and her real life have some kind of intimate connection? On the other hand, maybe there’s a lot more in play here that they haven’t told us about, and there almost certainly is. ![]() Which direction might things go? If you take the trailer at face value, it’s just a happy adventurous romp through a sugarcoated challenge that’s not a challenge. The movie looks like fantastic fun, but the trailer also shows us pretty much nothing of the plot, or the troubles she and the park might face on their way to victory. It turns out that the whole thing is being driven by her own imagination. Paramount Pictures brings us what looks like a delightful, fun romp through the fantasy life of a young girl named June (played by Brianna Denski) who discovers a magic flying ticket through a gateway at the edge of a forest and discovers the bones of an expansive amusement park hidden in the forest. Elton John was an executive producer on It's A Boy Girl Thing, and songs from his back catalog appear on the soundtrack.Where has this production been all this time? Out of the clear blue, beneath everyone’s radar, comes Wonder Park. Neither is comfortable with their sudden gender switch or having to assume the other's personalities, but they quickly realize that until they can find a way to reverse the spell, they have to work together if Nell is to go to Yale and Woody is to get his scholarship and move away from this loutish parents (Sharon Osborne and Maury Chaykin. Nell and Woody are not at all friendly and normally have nothing to say to one another, but one day during a class field trip to a historical museum, the two fall under the spell of an Incan icon and when they awake the next morning, Woody's mind is in Nell's body, and vice versa. Nell (Samaire Armstrong) is a pretty but hopelessly geeky teenage girl who loves Shakespeare and wants little more than to study literature at Yale when she graduates from high school in a few months Woody (Kevin Zegers), who lives next door, is the quarterback on the school's football team, and seems like a sure bet to land a lucrative football scholarship despite the fact he isn't especially bright. Two kids with nothing in common are brought together in a very unexpected way in this comedy.
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