Snowtime!

Snowtime! (French: La Guerre des tuques 3D), also released as La Bataille géante de boules de neige in France and Cleo in the United Kingdom,[4] is a Canadian computer-animated 3D film from Quebec, released in 2015.[5] Directed by Jean-François Pouliot, it is an animated remake of the 1984 film "The Dog Who Stopped the War" (La Guerre des tuques).[6]

Snowtime!
Film Poster
La Guerre des tuques 3D
Directed byJean-François Pouliot
Written byNormand Canac-Marquis
Roger Cantin
Danyèle Patenaude
Paul Risacher
Based onThe Dog Who Stopped the War
by Rock Demers
StarringFrench version:
English version:[1]
Production
company
Haoliners Animation
3QU Media
Distributed byLes Films Séville
Entertainment One
Release date
  • November 13, 2015 (2015-11-13)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
English
Budget$12.5 million
Box office$3.36 million (Canada)[2]
CN¥31.5 million (China)[3]

The film inspired the spinoff television series Snowsnaps (Les Mini-Tuques) that premiered in September 2018. A sequel film, Racetime (La Course des tuques), was released in December 2018.[7]

Premise

The film centres on a group of children, led by Luke (Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier / Angela Galuppo) and Sophie (Mariloup Wolfe / Lucinda Davis), who plan and stage a giant snowball fight during the Christmas holidays.[5]

Production

Having earned $3,359,425 in 2015, the film was the highest-grossing Canadian film at the domestic box office during the calendar year, thus winning the Cineplex Golden Screen Award conferred by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.[8][9] It had its American premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.[10] The film was released in English Canada on February 12, 2016 and the United States on February 19, 2016.[2]

The soundtrack features many songs by various artists, including two recordings of "L'hymne" by Celine Dion, one English rendition as a solo artist and one French rendition recorded as a duet with Fred Pellerin.

Characters
Characters Voiced by
Original English Original English
Luc Luke Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier Angela Galuppo
Sophie Mariloup Wolfe Lucinda Davis
François Les Lunettes Four-eyed Frankie Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc Sandra Oh[11]
Pierre Piers Sébastien Reding Ross Lynch[12][13]
Lucie Lucy Sophie Cadieux Angela Galuppo[14]
Maranda Manolo[15] Anne Casabonne Sonja Ball
Jacques Jack[16] Catherine Trudeau
Henri Leroux Henry André Sauvé Heidi Lynne Weeks
Georges Leroux George
Chabot Chuck Gildor Roy Don W. Shepherd[17]
Ti-Guy La Lune Nicky Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque or Aline Pinsonneault Elisabeth MacRae[18][19]
France Fran Aline Pinsonneault Jenna Wheeler[20]
Daniel Blanchette de Victoriaville Daniel Blanshire from Victoriaville Esther Poulin Holly Gauthier-Frankel[21]

Reception

The film has grossed over $13 million worldwide, including CN¥31.5 million in China.[7][3]

Reviews

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 70% based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10.[22] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score 52 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[23]

References
  1. Linda Barnard (11 February 2016). "Snowtime! packs a message: review". Toronto Star. Retrieved 22 February 2016. With the voices of Sandra Oh, Angela Gallupo, Lucinda Davis and Ross Lynch.
  2. Etan Vlessing (February 2, 2016). "Canadian Screen Awards to Honor 'Snowtime!' as Biggest Homegrown 2015 Box-Office Hit". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  3. "冰雪大作战（2017）". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  4. "Cleo (2015)". British Board of Film Classification. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. "La guerre des tuques 3D réussit son pari". Ici Radio-Canada, November 3, 2015.
  6. "La Guerre des Tuques takes aim at a new generation". Q, December 16, 2015.
  7. Cocherel, Par (June 6, 2018). "Le film "La course des tuques" est lancé". HuffPost. Verizon Communications. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  8. Barry Hertz (4 February 2016). "A Canadian box-office battle between Snowtime! and Brooklyn". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  9. "Brooklyn Tops Canadian Box Office". Northernstars. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  10. "Animated La Guerre des Tuques 3D will screen at Sundance Film Festival". Montreal Gazette, September 9, 2015.
  11. Linda Barnard (12 February 2016). "Snowtime! movie lets Sandra Oh get animated". Toronto Star. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  12. Maxime Demers (4 November 2015). "À la conquête du monde". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  13. Brendan Kelly (11 November 2015). "Movie review: La guerre des tuques 3D reanimates spirit of original". Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  14. Scott Tobias (28 January 2016). "Sundance Film Review: 'Snowtime!'". Variety. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  15. http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-manolo.html
  16. http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-jack.html
  17. http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-chuck.html
  18. http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-nicky.html
  19. Sheri Linden (19 January 2016). "'Snowtime!': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  20. http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-fran.html
  21. http://www.snowtimemovie.com/about-daniel.html
  22. "Snowtime! (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  23. "Snowtime! reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
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