Sev: Indehindrance Day

Sev: Indehindrance Day is a 2019 American animated science fiction comedy film based on the Syfy animated television series Sev. It was directed by Kevin O'Ryan, co-directed by Adam Harven, co-produced by Tyler Dunn and Hugh Leland, and co-written by Jon Vitti, Pierce Julian, Mike Merlin, Gray Fisher, Ken Sampson, and Chris Wood. The film stars the regular television cast of David Herman, Kari Wahlgren, Michael McDonald, Hank Azaria, Kelsey Grammer, Tom Kenny, H. Jon Benjamin, and Rob Paulsen, with guest appearances by Mike Myers, Bruce Willis, Nicholas Cage, and Morgan Freeman.

The film follows Sev getting framed for a crime he didn't commit, and is forced to flee to an alien planet known as Zaphigon, where he discovers a plan from a known person that could destroy Sev's homeplanet of Earth. Eventually Naomi and William unite with both humans and unknown species around the universe so that they can fight John Doe, stop his plans to destroy Earth and rescue Sev while proving to the galaxy that he's innocent after all.

Sev: Indehindrance Day premiered at the Dolby Theater on August 19, 2019 and was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on August 30, 2019. It received universal acclaim from critics and was a box office success, grossing over $235 million on its $40 million budget. The film is dedicated to Jon Schnepp, a writer and voice actor on the show, and Chris Reccardi, a Storyboard artist and Background & Character Designer for the show and movie, who died in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Plot
On Earth, a 5-year-old Craig is trying to talk to a girl named TBA while in kindergarten, before he gets nervous and ends up tripping into mud making all the kids laugh. Craig being sad meets a fellow outcast, young girl named Naomi. Craig falls for Naomi who is unexpectedly a friend to a popular boy named Diddle who thinks Craig is a "Dork".

18 years later, Craig, now known as Sev, is working aboard the EIS, which is currently in the process of being bought by a wealthy man from the planet Zaphigon known as John Doe. One day, early in the morning, he is working his job until he gets spoken to by a mysterious voice who is later identified as God himself, and warns Sev about a man trying to impersonate Sev in order to get him arrested. Sev, who doesn't listen, calls him a "bitch" and walks off.

While performing routine matinence on the ship, he is all of a sudden knocked by gas and wakes up in a bed tied up next to a man that died while having coffee. A unknown man tells Sev he is a man named Anita Hardcock, which makes Sev laugh. Anita Hardcock, who is angered, tells him that he needs to do some "special job" for him. Sev is suspicious, agrees to take the job and makes a joke about his fathers name being Dixon Butts. After getting slapped by Anita, he reveals that his name is really Joe the Bumhole. Joe later informs Sev about John Doe being an evil man and later forces him in a spacecar to pick up some "old friends." Naomi and William take notice, and fear that Sev has been kidnapped.

In a prison named Harry Azcrac Intergalactic Penitentiary for Very Very Bad Boys, a man with big muscles eventually identified as Rico "RJ" Jonescomes up to the phone booth to talk to Joe the Bumhole in order to get bailed out. After being denied, he breaks out himself and RJ explains that they are the only people that can stop John Doe from taking over the whole city and claiming that Sev is the chosen one. Sev laughs and thinks that RJ went crazy making RJ being tempted to slap Sev. Sev recieves a holocall from Naomi asking him if he's alright, and he says yes.

John Doe, whose hand is only shown has a raspy voice that he later clears and speaks normally claiming that today is a new day for the Multiverse as new businesses, new cars, and a new robe for his own closet. Doe gets mad and tells the cameraman to show his whole face revealing a man with a mustache, long hair and a huge amount of pimples on his face. John Doe yells that he'll get revenge on Sev and everyone on the EIS, throwing a dart at their pictures and burning their pictures.

Sev, RJ, and Joe later identify and pick up their old friend, Dave Smith, who is now a crackhead after failing college 5 times. Dave Smith greets his old friends and show them a dry alien heart which he claims is the Statue of Liberty's foot. Sev is creeped out and asks where Naomi and William are. Sev is eventually chased by Officer Zepher, and Sev tries to explain that he didn't do anything wrong. Sev shoots down the group's Hovercar, and they crashland on the planet Zaphigon. The reunited friends finds an alien named Zlombo, who greets them with a insult asks them what happened to get them here, Sev explained that they crashlanded on the planet after being chased by one of John Doe's henchmen and they need help getting back to work. As Zlombo shows them around the planet some unknown men run up to them with guns and superpowers scaring Sev, two of the people being identified as Mr. Huggle Pants, a blue kitty, and The Boulder, who tells the gang that they work John Doe and The Boulder tells Sev that he wants to see him.

Later, the gang is being chased by the minions of John Doe in a flying tank, as RJ explains that they stole it from him. Sev, still crying that he isn't a chosen one and just a normal person that wants to be normal again, Naomi and William find Sev on the planet Zephigon, and tell him that the planet is full of criminal aliens who are plotting to destroy Sev's homeplanet of Earth.

In the dark while everyone is asleep, a shadow moves into the dark and is sent by Diddle to kidnap Naomi and William. A voice is heard from the shadow who is later identified as a rapper named Lil' BMX. Successfully doing his job, Jennifer is taken to John Doe to be held hostage.

The next morning, Sev wakes up and realizes Naomi and William are and missing. He finds a note in her sleeping bag stating that "If you want her back, come find me bitch! By the way, if you fail to find them, say goodbye to Earth. P.S. You taste like floor meat. ~Doe" Sev finds Agent Hypernova and they eventually find John Doe's headquarters. Naomi wakes up being tied up in a chair with a crackhead named Dick telling her it's free WiFi until he is killed by a offscreen person who is later shown as John Doe. Doe explains he is Diddle from elementary school and shows his hatred for Sev ever since Naomi left Doe for him which made him beyond rageful, tells the 3 that he's working on a secret to destroy Earth, and he's working with the Zaphigons to make it. Naomi screams out loud and is then knocked out by Diddle saying his motto "John Doe means unknown, dicksneeze."

While Sev is in Agent Hypernova's space jet trying to come up with a plan to save Earth, he gets a holocall from Diddle saying if he wants his crush back, he has to find him while showing her being tortured by the evil minion named Glabor who is Zlombo's evil twin and hangs up. Hypernova who hears the whole call suggests that they need help from one of his fellow agents. Arriving at Harry Azcrac Intergalactic Penitentiary for Very Very Bad Boys, Sev requests an inmate named Rojo. The bearded muscular man shows through the glass and picks up the phone explaining that he is in prison for life after accidentally killing a man during one of his missions. RJ who is worried suggests that they should give up and let Naomi get killed. Brian who is brave sadly agrees with RJ until a unknown British spy comes to the prison to search for the claimed chosen one, he is identified as Agent Hypernova sent by the British agency B.I.T.C.H. (Best Intelligent Tall Class HighClassSecretAgents) to help the gang. Suddenly a older deep, manly, commanding thug voice is heard who is later recognized by RJ as his older brother Devin "DJ" Jones. DJ tells the confused and worried gang that he came all the way and followed them to help on the quest. DJ also explains that God picked him up and dropped him off here because they think this film needs to end quicker.

While being all distracted, William comes and helps the gang go to John Doe's lair faster until the point where a creature named Smash, a wrestler who is misidentified as a Mexican John Cena nicknamed John Cenazaraqui who explains his name is El Trejo, tells the gang they better stop running. After getting into their special vehicle, everyone is relieved that they're safe until Joe the Bumhole is shot perfectly aimed in the head by a shy bullet. A second after he gets shot God breaks the fourth wall saying that the audience doesn't need a boring death, so Young Money rappers Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and Drake were brought in and paid a penny to make a song for the death to be entertaining and using a remote to press play continuing to show the death of Joe the Bumhole until gunshots are heard scaring off the musicians and the flying vehicle that the gang is riding in crashes.

Waking up from the crash all bloody, Sev finds himself in the lair of John Doe who greets him into falling for his trap. The evil lord shows all of his friends from EIS being stuck in cells with devices being strapped into their bodies making them unconscious. Doe shows Sev his parents, who cry for help and reveals Joe the Bumhole, who survive the gunshot, being held with a knife at his neck along with Naomi being tied up with blood on her shirt. A man with a Canadian accent named Scootz Weenir appeared having a gun pointed at helpless Naomi's head. John Doe shows the beat up and tied up heroes a machine which is used to gain all the power from the galaxy to make him into a huge monster which is his plan and after the plan is a success, he plans to take over the galaxy making the tied up EIS members turned into zombie slaves. Sev exclaims the plan for John Doe calling it "The dumbest thing I've ever heard since I found out they made a show with my likeness" and from that Doe reminds him that he is Diddle from school, yet Sev doesn't remember until he is smacked with a wooden stick. Diddle continues on his plan and speech saying that once this is over, he won't be sorry since Sev and the others will die. The lord also orders Scootz Weenir to knock Naomi on the head to make her unconscious and orders him to kill Joe the Bumhole with the assistance of a talking rock named Drew. Joe the Bumhole's last words were explaining to Sev that "he shouldn't give up no matter what and if he gets STDs, he shouldn't get blamed for it and hopes that his relationship is and better with Naomi.". He also says, "I told you that he is the one that is chosen so that he'll feel special", as well as saying that he still owes him $5 from a bet after beating him in IBA 4K39, and he gets killed after that sentence. Scootz tells his boss that it was wrong to kill him so they got dragged away into the dark and killed offscreen with their bones thrown and fed to Diddle's pet Zorglac. William runs up to Diddle and punches him repeatedly with no affect. William panics and run away, leaving Sev to  get trapped.

Sev, who is completely hopeless after being strapped up to "The Machine of Doomly Doom", is crying because of the death of his long lost friend whom Dave Smith forgot about, and Sev responds by saying, "If you don't shut up, crackhead, we're all gonna die!" William, also strapped to the machine, prays and says, "If I don't come back alive, I hope heaven has some good girls.". A TV screen appears in front of the people showing the mass destruction that Diddle is doing after the machine is doing its work. Everyone who is hopeless suddenly cries and the screen goes black.

Naomi is later woken up by Agent Hypernova and tells everyone that they are safe now. Sev, who realizes that the only way to stop Sev is to contact everyone in the galaxy, but to do that he's have to go into the "Forbidden Dimension". Sev cries and yells to tell him that he shouldn't do this mistake and Sev says it's the only way. Sev gets a kiss by Naomi and confesses her love for him, before he jumps and vanishes within going into the portal. Meanwhile, on Earth, chaos is happening all throughout the city with people dead, people frozen into statues, and people hypotized into zombie slaves. Once Naomi and the gang without Sev break out and try to contact everyone in the galaxy, Naomi says she is doing this for Joe and her future boyfriend Sev since they took their lives to save them. RJ makes a whole announcement on the radio for the the galaxy to fight back until they find out playing TBA makes everyone snap out. While the song plays on Earth, people start to come back until John Doe fights back and gets more powerful knocking everyone out and eventually getting RJ as well as everyone else to be mind controlled.

Sev wakes up in a world, known as Toonland, where he finds Silly Billy and Robert the Rabbit. Billy listens to Sev as he explains that he needs to get past this world to save Earth, Robert the Rabbit speaks to in his normal voice at first until he starts speaking in Joe the Bunmhole's voice. Joe motivates Brian into doing what he has to do by saying "You wouldn't let me down bitch so go save your world", which prompts Sev to go to Earth and save everyone

Diddle has took over all of Earth with no hope in the city it seems, until all of a sudden Sev comes in with an army of spaceships, which are piloted by various characters from the show, to defeat all the minions and undos the spells and hyponized people to make them go back to normal. Diddle, now called Diddlzilla taunts Sev, explaining how is he gonna stop him by himself until he noticed the planetary army. The army of spaceships fight the minions, as Sev fights Diddlzilla all the way until Naomi, William, and Agent Hypernova fly in and destroy Diddlzilla's core, killing him and turning Earth back to normal.

Naomi greets everyone and says that the gang saved the world until she finds Sev laying down while she assumes he's dead. Sev kisses him and says goodbye until he coughs and wakes up. As Naomi confesses his love for him, she explains that Sev is not a criminal, but an innocent man that got caught up in stuff he didn't deserve. Sev, Naomi and William return to work at the EIS and they are winked at by God along with Joe the Bumhole. The President of the Galaxy later knights Sev and his friends with medals of honor for saving the universe. The next day, Sev and Naomi find a surprise guest who is Joe the Bumhole in ghost form as he explains he came back as a deal with God. Joe is excited and glad for a happy ending until God explains that he accidentally gave Joe the Bumhole Opera Winfrey's voice as Joe says "What the F-" before being cut off by the credits.

In a post-credits scene, a live-action clip of Lil BMX tells the people that are still at the theater that you were so patient that you deserve a surprise, which is Lil BMX playing with action figures of the main characters making Sev have sex with Naomi. Lil BMX walks off and Joe the Bumhole, knowing that the film is over, demands that his voice will go back to normal, and it eventually does. Sev, who is irritated, states that he wishes his life was normal again.

Cast

 * David Herman as Craig Wallenbrough/Sev
 * Kari Wahlgren as Naomi
 * Michael McDonald as William
 * Hank Azaria as Dallas
 * Kelsey Grammer as TBA
 * Tom Kenny as Ty, various
 * H. Jon Benjamin as News Potato
 * Rob Paulsen as Julian
 * Mike Myers as Joe the Bumhole, a man who helps Sev to stop Diddle
 * Bruce Willis as Agent Hypernova, a British spy with an American voice that helps Naomi and William with saving Sev.
 * Nicholas Cage as Diddle/John Doe, a very rich and wealthy man that owns most of the military who is also the main antagonist of the movie, as he hated Sev since he was in elementary.
 * Morgan Freeman as God
 * Max Mittlelman as Rico "RJ" Jones
 * Adam Harven as Devin "DJ" Jones, the older brother of RJ who taught his younger brother the street life.
 * Seth Rogen as Rojo, the anti-hero of the film as despite being in jail, he is able to help Sev and his friends.
 * Kevin Hart as Mr. Huggle Pants, a blue cat who is the animal minion of Diddle.
 * Dwayne Johnson as The Boulder, a slight parody of Johnson's wrestler persona himself, but having special ablities. However, he suffered from a freak car accident so everytime he uses a super power, some random object explodes or has someone say "banana" randomly. Johnson was accepted for this role in March 2018.
 * TBA as Lil BMX, a washed up cocaine addicted rapper that is currently working for Diddle as his biggest henchman.
 * Billy West as Drew, a talking rock that has special powers from movement to the ability to reproduce.
 * Carlos Alazraqui as El Trejo, a Mexican-Argentine wrestler who was originally a friend of Joe until he got in a car accident where he forgot his memory and started to believe that he is a Mexican John Cena.
 * TBA as Scootz Weenir, a dirty, potty-mouthed Canadian worker for John Doe.
 * Jim Carrey cameos at the end of the film as Joe's Opera Winfrey voice.

Development
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Casting
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Animation
The film was animated at Rough Draft Studios in Glendale, California and South Korea, Yowza! Animation in Toronto, Canada, and Yeson Entertainment in South Korea. Rough Draft Glendale was responsible for the CGI sequences in the film, while the 2D animation was done at Rough Draft Korea.

Music
Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL, signed on to compose the score for Sev: Indehindrance Day in September 2018. In May of 2019, rapper Travis Scott teased that he had contributed a new song to the soundtrack for the movie. The song, entited "Unstoppable", was released by Grand Hustle and Epic Records as a digital single for the film on August 13th. An album featuring Junkie XL's score was released digitally by Back Lot Music on September 1st, with a physical release later that month.

Release
The film was released on August 30, 2019 in Real D 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D, 4DX, Dolby Cinema, and standard 3D/2D. The film was formatted to IMAX screens for the entire film with a 1:90:1 aspect ratio.

Marketing
To market the film, Universal Pictures worked on very extensive advertising campaigns to make the film advertised well. Adam Harven was involved on making the best ad-campaigns for promotion of the film with domestic marketing chief TBA using the internet for the best. Weinstock also noted that "it's unusual for a director to actually be involved in the marketing of a film" and calling it unique and smart. Adam recorded live action trailers as well as animated and motion-capture animation for various ads.

On TBA, all of the main cast was featured on the first official teaser poster of the film which was a parody of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens poster with Sev having a wooden stick and John Doe acting as Kylo Ren with a mask with the words "Your Mom was here". David Herman and several other cast members were attending the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con to present a trailer of the film, which received high standing ovation. Most critics praised the humor and originality of the film. Two more teasers were posted in 2019, the first being live-action footage of the actors recording saying lines from the film and acting out the scene only to be told by David Herman to "cut this garbage off", while the second featured Michael McDonald going up to random people saying "IT'S COMING SOON!!!" where it featured a cameo appearance by the rapper Lil Wayne. Tickets for the film also were released starting in June 2019 where all websites such as Fandango having so much people order tickets the sites had trouble running and ended up crashing. A sneak peek of the film featuring 5 minutes of footage from the film were shown before IMAX and IMAX 3D showings of TBA.

Unconventional billboards were also made for the film originally promoting it as a action film starring Tom Cruise with his girlfriend being played by TBA. The cast was also allowed to control the official Twitter account of Universal Pictures as well posting commercials, behind-the-scenes footage, and more.

For the IMAX release of the film, the film was also shown to be formatted to 1:90:1 for the entire film with the live-action scenes being filmed in IMAX 3D as well as IMAX 2D cameras. A special IMAX Countdown was given specifically to be shown before IMAX screenings of the film and was uploaded to IMAX's Youtube Account on August 15, 2019. The opening text for the Countdown said "PART MAN", "PART MACHINE", "PART HERO" with the countdown itself saying "Animated and Specifically Formatted for IMAX Screens" and changing to a 1:90:1 aspect ratio once these words appear.

Prior to and during its theatrical run, the film was promoted across the United States. McFarlane Toys released a line of action figures based on the film, Sony produced a limited edition Sev PlayStation 4, and TBA presented their users with the opportunity to download a free animated and static content for use within their conversations. Convenience store chain 7-Eleven served a limited-edition Slurpee flavor called "The Atomic Flavorload", named after TBA, to promote the movie. TBA held a series of online sweepstakes to win a trip to the film's Hollywood, California premiere.

Box office
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Critical Response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 81% based on 400 reviews, and an positive rating of 9.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "With it's self-aware tone, top-notch humor and writing, and incredibly fluid animation, Sev: Indehindrance Day is a joyride for both fans of the show and people who are new to it." On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film has a score of 87 out of 100, based on 204 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a high positive grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale.