Capture the Flag (film)
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| Directed by | Enrique Gato |
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| Written by | Patxi Amezcua |
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| Music by | Diego Navarro |
| Edited by | Alexander Adams |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 94 minutes[1] |
| Country | Spain |
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| Budget | $12.5 million[2] |
| Box office | $16.66 million[3] |
Capture the Flag (Spanish: Atrapa la bandera) is a Spanish 2015 computer-animated science fiction adventure comedy film directed by Enrique Gato and written by Patxi Amezcua. Produced by 4 Cats Pictures and animated by Lightbox Entertainment, the film is distributed by Paramount Pictures International. It was released in 3D. The film won the Goya Award for Best Animated Film at the 2016 Goya Awards
Plot
Mike Goldwing, a plucky, determined 12-year old boy, is the son and grandson of NASA astronaut. His grandfather Frank Goldwing, a once revered, but now forgotten retired astronaut, whom lives his days isolated from his family in an old age home for retired astronauts after missing out on his big chance to fly to the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as a part of the Apollo XI mission.
When an eccentric Texan billionaire named Richard Carson III devises a plan to fly to the moon, to steal the moon's vast mineral resources (Fictional Helium-3), and destroy the American flag planted by the Apollo XI team trying to prove that America had never visited the moon and that he was the first person on the Moon in order to own it, the President of the United States orders NASA to plan another space flight to the moon to beat Carson, so that he won't rewrite history, and at the same time prevent Carson from obtaining Helium-3 from the moon which can be used as both a new powerful energy source and a weapon of mass destruction to threaten any city which refused to buy this energy.
Carson upon hearing the news, hires a saboteur to sabotage the NASA mission. Firstly, during a test maneuver, the saboteur (posing as a cameraman) shoots the test lander and causes an oil leak, causing it to run out of fuel and crash, injuring Mike’s father, Scott. Thankfully, Mike and his friends, Marty and Amy manage to escape unhurt. Scott blames Frank for not refueling the tank and for his leg fracture (despite his wife’s protests).
As such, Mike decides to go to the moon as a stowaway on a rejuvenated Saturn-V rocket in order to undo the ‘Goldwing Curse’. Mike, Marty and Amy try to sneak inside the launch area, but Marty gets caught after being attacked by alligators in the marshes surrounding the launch pad. Suddenly, the launch gets sabotaged by the same saboteur from before, and this causes the rocket to launch much earlier than planned. Carson assumes that by launching the rocket earlier, no one would be in the rocket to man it, meaning that no one would be there on the moon to stop him from mining the powerful Helium-3. Accompanied by his grandfather, Amy and Marty (at the control center on Earth), and their clever lizard named Igor, Mike blasts off to the moon to capture the flag and reunite his family. Carson tries to destroy the space craft in which the trio are traveling. The trio along with Igor, risking their lives on the moon, with assistance from Marty on Earth, capture the flag to reveal as proof that man had walked on the moon to the whole world and destroy Carson’s evil plans by sabotaging his futuristic Helium-3 mines. Mike even learnt that Frank had been ruled out of the first mission because he had caught the chicken pox from his son Scott, So he blamed Scott for him missing out on his great opportunity of landing on the moon, but he realize that it was not Scott’s fault and he was a failure for blaming it on his own son. Feel guilty about this, Frank decided to leave his family (declaring that Scott would be better off without him.) After planting the flag back, they all return safely back to Earth with Mike’s plans to reunite his family and break the ‘Goldwing Curse’ accomplished as Frank and Scott have reconciled and made peace to each other for the first time in many years.
In a post-credits scene, Carson is seen drifting through space with his assistant Steve Gigs, who is revealed to be an android created by Carson’s other late assistant Bill Gags, whom he had accidentally disintegrated when he tested his Helium-3 weapon. As Carson forgive Gigs for killing Gags, he is annoyed by an inexhaustible battery powered robot that he had used on the moon (despite the fact that its battery’s idea came from him.)
Cast
| Character | English Actor | Spanish Dub Actor |
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| Mike Goldwing | Lorraine Pilkington | Carme Calvell |
| Richard Carson III | Sam Fink | Dani Rovira |
| Amy González | Phillippa Alexander | Michelle Jenner |
| Marty Farr | Rasmus Hardiker | Javier Balas |
| Frank Goldwing | Paul Kelleher | Camilo García |
| Steve Gigs | Derek Siow | Fernando Cabrera |
| Bill Gags | Andrew Hamblin | Xavier Casan |
Release
Box office
Capture the Flag opened in 20 United States theaters on 4 December 2015 and earned $6,690 in its three days of release. The film grossed $12,481,312 in Spain and $4,178,905 elsewhere for a worldwide total of $16,660,217.[3]
Reception
The film has received a 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on the 23 reviews and an average rating of 4.9/10[4].
Home media
The film was released on DVD on March 1, 2016.[5]
Trivia
Though released first in Spain, Capture the Flag was animated to the English voice cast first and dubbed into Spanish/Catalan in post production.
References
- ↑ "CAPTURE THE FLAG [2D] (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ↑ "Capture the Flag (2015) - Box office / business". Internet Movie Database. Amazon.com. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- 1 2 "Capture the Flag (2015) - International Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ↑ Capture the Flag, retrieved 2017-12-01
- ↑ Capture The Flag, Paramount, 2016-03-01, retrieved 2017-12-01