Rose Land

Rose Land is a 2000 American animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Bear Bones Productions. It was was directed by Mala Miles and produced by Ray John. The film features the voices of Tara Strong, Tom Kenny, Dan Castellaneta, Jim Cummings, Yeardley Smith and Bill Murray. The story follows young sweet girl named Brina, she goes to a Rose Land, set up to start out an beautiful adventure to save everybody.

Rose Land was released in theaters on February 23, 2000, and grossed over $107 million worldwide on an $70 million budget. It was met with positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation and story.

Plot
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Cast

 * Tara Strong as Brina Dwele
 * Frank Welker as Wuf-Wuf, a pet dog from Brina.
 * Welker also voices the cat named Trigle, a another pet from Brina in the beginning of the movie.
 * Tom Kenny as Sion King
 * Dan Castellaneta as Fully
 * Kath Soucie (archive recordings) as Ruffa
 * Jim Cummings as Grey Tile
 * Mala Miles as Hotdogs, Grey's henchmens
 * Yeardley Smith as Bubbla
 * Bill Murray as King Rose
 * Rob Paulsen as Pupe
 * Carlos Alazraqui as Lo-Lo
 * Billy West as Harold
 * Doug Lawrence as Lune
 * Syo Tortellini as Guard #1
 * Mala Miles as Master Rose Junior / Guard #2
 * Nancy Cartwright as Creamy
 * Kyle Miles, Kelly Miles and Ziggy Miles as Co, Coco and Cococo

Additional voices

 * Jess Harnell
 * Jeff Bennett
 * Carlos Alazraqui
 * Susanne Blakeslee
 * Anndi McAfee
 * Charlie Adler
 * Dee Bradley Baker
 * Aria Noelle Curzon
 * Nancy Cartwright

Development
Rose Land began development in April 1998, under the name The Rose. The name was changed in July, to avoid confusion with a similarly-named song.

Animation
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Music

 * Main article: Rose Land/Soundtrack

The film's score was composed by Hans Zimmer and John Powell. A soundtrack for the film was released by DreamWorks Records and Geffen Records on February 20, 2000.

Marketing
Several companies released promotional products related to the film. Kellogg's promotional Pop-Tarts and fruit snacks, all proclaiming an "Rose Strawberry Flavor." Toy maker Hasbro produced a series of action figures and toys based on the film.

On February 23, 2000, Burger King began promotions for the film, giving out nine toys based on the Rose Land characters, in Kids Club Meal and Meal orders. M&M's released packages of the characters and came with a code for the Rose Land  video game. This was to support the film's DVD and VHS release.

Video game
A video game based on the film was released in North America and Europe on January 14, 2000 for PC, PlayStation, PS2, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color.

Home media
Rose Land was released on VHS and DVD on August 1, 2000 by DreamWorks Home Entertainment. It later saw a re-release in 2006 by Paramount. Paramount re-released the film on Blu-ray in 2010. In July 2014, the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures (owners of the pre-2005 DreamWorks Pictures catalog) and transferred to 20th Century Fox before reverting to Universal Studios in 2018. Because of this, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment subsequently released the film on Blu-ray on January 22, 2019.

Box office
Rose Land grossed $100.6 million in the United States and Canada and $90.7 million with a worldwide total of $209.8 million.

Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 46% based on 105 reviews and an average rating of 5.49/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Predictable story and thin characters made the movie flat." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 51 out of 100 based on 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and commented that although it wasn't "as quirky as Antz or as grown up as The Road to El Dorado and The Prince of Egypt", it was "bright and has good energy, and the kinds of witty asides that entertain the adults in between the margins of the stuff for the kids."

Main
To see the main transcript of the film, click here.

Trailers
To see the transcript for the trailers of the film, click here.