Orque (film)

Orque is a 2001 American animated comedy adventure film produced by Paramount Feature Animation in collaboration with MGM Family Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures domestically and by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer internationally. The film follows Orque as he discovers that a human named Akula is threatening their population, so he decides to kill him in order to teach him a lesson and protect his sea friends, only to find that he may not be just a regular man, but something far worse than he'd imagine, even for ocean standards.

The film was released in the United States on July 20, 2001. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, score and voice cast, but criticized its story. It only made $53 million worldwide on its $100 million budget, making it a box office bomb.

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Development
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Writing
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Animation
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Casting
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Release
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Home media
Orque was released on VHS and DVD on November 27, 2001. The DVD release contains both fullscreen and widescreen formats on one disc, an audio commentary by the filmmakers, behind-the-scenes footage, and supplements detailing the film's development.

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Critical reception
Orque received mostly positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 68% based on 54 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's consensus reads, TBD. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 52 out of 100 points, based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

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Television series
A spin-off animated series, simply titled Orque, ran from 2002 to 2004 on Nickelodeon and later USA Kids. Produced and developed by Paramount Television Animation, alongside Nickelodeon Animation Studio and MGM Animation, the series is set right after the ending of the film.

Video games
A video game based on the film was developed by TBD and released by TBD for the Game Boy Advance and Microsoft Windows. The game's storyline was similar to the film's, with a few changes. The game received mixed to positive reviews.

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