George's Marvellous Medicine

George's Marvelous Medicine is a 2000 American animated fantasy film produced by Paramount Feature Animation and based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film follows George Kranky, a boy who lives with his parents on a farm near a village, who, after having enough of his maternal grandmother, makes a magic medicine to replace her old one. When his magic medicine proves to be very effective, George's family offers to sell it to farmers across the world, while George is left to think about the implications of his actions, as if he is granted access to a magical world unlike anything he had ever seen.

The film was released in the United States on June 2, 2000 by Paramount Pictures. Upon release, it was met with mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, many of whom praised it for its faithfulness to its source material, animation, humor, John Debney's score, and performances. In addition, the film was a box office hit, making about $392.3 million worldwide, prompting a TV series that ran from August 18, 2001 to 2003 on Nickelodeon.

Plot
George Krankey is an 8 year old boy living with his parents and grandmother on a large farm laying outside of the town. His grandmother is a mean old woman, telling George stories of how she loves to eat insects and always making him make cups of tea for her that she always is never satisfied with. These stories even lead to George thinking she may be a witch, even though his parents would often deny him. One day, his parents leave the farm to get groceries at the nearby town, and George, now fed up with his grandmother after yet another story, decides to make his own homemade medicine to replace her old one.

He grabs a stockpot and explores the farm, looking for various ingredients for the medicine. He first visits the bathroom, where he collects some shampoo and deodorant in the pot, then goes to the laundry room, where he drops in some floor polish. He then goes to the kitchen, where he adds some horseradish and quality gin, then goes to the garage, where he then adds some animal medicine, engine oil, anti-freeze, and he finishes it off with some blue paint to mimic the old medicine. He sets out back into the kitchen, where he cooks up his medicine, and as he cooks it, colorful smokes starts to erupt from the boiling mixture, worrying George. His worries are thankfully short-lived, as he finishes the medicine, then pours the old medicine down the sink, and pours his new medicine in, which made him confident that it will help his grandmother. He heads into the living room, pours out a spoonful of the medicine and gives it to his grandmother.

She immediately goes dead eyed, and shortly after, she starts to cough out little bits of smoke. This quickly starts to worsen as smoke starts to come out of her ears, nose and mouth, and then she starts to inflate with smoke. A terrified George heads off to get a bucket, and he comes back with it, now full of water, then splashes it at his grandmother, who starts to deflate. After she goes back to normal, George tries to ask her if she's alright, but then she springs up out her chair, completely still. All of a sudden, her entire body starts elongating, she goes through each floor of the house, until she is finally at the roof.

However, she still believes that she has magic powers, and she made herself huge, and thinks that George is lying. She eventually realizes that George was telling the truth all along, seeing that he has indeed made a new medicine all by himself. Just then, George notices a brown hen pecking about in a yard close to where he was standing, and decides to give pour out a spoonful of medicine and give it to the hen, thinking that it's full of corn.

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Voice cast
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 * Jonathan Lipnicki as George Kranky
 * Betty White as George's grandmother
 * Tony Hale as Speckling

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Development
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Writing
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Animation
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Marketing
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Home media
George's Marvelous Medicine was first released on VHS and DVD on February 6th, 2001 with both full-screen and widescreen versions on one disc, an audio commentary by the filmmakers and a sneak preview at PFA's next feature film, Orque, among other stuff. It was later re-released as a Special Edition DVD on April 27th, 2004 with new special features on top of what was already available on the previous DVD release. On September 14, 2010, for the film's 10th anniversary, the film was released for the first time on Blu-Ray, and contained new special features in addition to most, if not all, of the old special features from the previous DVD releases.

On November 15th, 2017, George's Marvelous Medicine became available on Netflix.

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Critical reception
George's Marvelous Medicine received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 76% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's consensus reads, TBD. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 68 out of 100 points, based on 54 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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Television series
A spin-off animated series, simply titled George's Magical Adventures, ran from 2001 to 2003 on Nickelodeon. Produced and developed by Paramount Television Animation, alongside Nickelodeon Animation Studio, the series is set TBD.

Video game
A video game based on the film was developed by Artificial Mind & Movement and Neon Studios and released by Infogrames for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast and Microsoft Windows. The game received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, praising it for its atmosphere and soundtrack.

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Trailers
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