Amphibia: Sprig's Grand Adventure: The Search for Anne Boonchuy

Amphibia: Sprig's Grand Adventure: The Search for Anne Boonchuy
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Film information
Produced by:	Tara Badawy
Written by:	Matt Braly
Studio:	Disney Television Animation
Distributed by:	Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Release Date(s):	2022
Language:	English

Amphibia: Sprig's Grand Adventure: The Search for Anne Boonchuy is a upcoming 2022 animated film was based on Cartoon "Amphibia" by Matt Braly. The film follows Sprig and his friends on a journey to find and rescue their friend Anne Boonchuy from the "skull". Along the way, the group confront their own insecurities throughout the search, facing and conquering them in a series of events where they are forced to act beyond their own known limits, thus discovering their true potential.

Plot:

On the last day of summer, Anne Boonchuy attempts to tell his friend Sprig some sad news, but Sprig is uninterested and continuously changes the subject. After spending the day playing, Anne Boonchuy leaves Sprig with the quote, "You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think," but the drowsy Sprig does not understand the sentiment. Autumn arrives the next morning, and Sprig awakes to find a pot of honey at his doorstep, failing to notice a note attached to it. After eating the contents and staining the note in honey, Sprig searches for Anne Boonchuy to ask about the honey pot, but discovers that he is missing. Sprig's friends – Polly, Wally, Maddie, and Ivy – have not seen Anne Boonchuy either and cannot decipher the note attached to the pot, so they go to Hop-Pop for advice. Although he is able to remove some of the honey from the note, Hop-Pop misinterprets it as a request for help from Anne Boonchuy. Further mispronouncing the word "school" as "skull", he deduces that Anne Boonchuy has been taken to a distant and dangerous place called "Skull", a cave where the monstrous "Skullasaurus" resides. Hop-Pop equips the group with a map and sends them into the "Great Unknown" of the Wartwood.

Throughout their journey through the Great Unknown, the group hears strange noises behind them, which they assume is the Skullasaurus. The group slowly begins to realize just how helpless they are without Anne Boonchuy in the outside world. Polly, Wally, and Maddie come to believe they do not have the courage, strength, or intelligence respectively to go on; Polly is abducted by a swarm of butterflies in a tranquil field, leaving him feeling terrified and useless, Wally falls into a deep gorge and is unable to bounce out to safety, eventually causing the others to dive in with him, and Maddie continuously makes bad leadership decisions following Hop-Pop's inaccurate map. Sprig tries to comfort them each with the advice Anne Boonchuy had given him, but fails due to his inability to remember exactly what he said. When Maddie finally breaks down and admits he has no idea where they are going, the group comes to terms with their loss and sulk in a nearby cave. While everyone is asleep, Spirg privately laments on the pain he experiences from losing Anne Boonchuy.

The next morning, the five friends realize they had spent the night in the Skull Cave. The group enters and splits up to find Anne Boonchuy, and though Maddie falls down a hole, Wally gets scared away by bats, Polly slips on some rocks, and Ivy, who is wearing a Styracosaurus-like log on his face runs with Polly sitting on his back. The four eventually reunite, but are scared away by Sprig's distorted reflection as he walks towards them from behind a crystal wall, mistaking him for the Skullasaurus. As Sprig winds up stuck in a small crevasse, his friends believe that he has been eaten. They discover the "Eye of the Skull" where Anne Boonchuy is supposedly trapped, and overcome their fears and doubts to reach it. Observing his friends' teamwork, Sprig excitedly frees himself from the tight gap, only to slip down a long descent and fall into a deep pit that he is unable to escape. While there, he realizes that Anne Boonchuy is still with him in his heart, even when they are not together, just as Anne Boonchuy had promised. As Polly, Maddie, Wally, and Ivy enter the Eye, they are found by Anne Boonchuy, who has been searching for them as well. He clears up Hop-Pop's misunderstanding of the note, explaining that he wanted Sprig to "help [him]self" to the honey pot he gave him and that he was really at school (which is what Anne Boonchuy tried to tell Sprig earlier). The roars of the Skullasaurus they have been plagued by were actually the noises of Sprig's stomach growling.

After Anne Boonchuy rescues Sprig from the pit, the group exits the cave, only to discover that from the outside, it and the other places they have crossed are not nearly as big and scary as they seemed when Anne Boonchuy was not with them (their frightening appearances were all just illusions). That evening, Anne Boonchuy says he will be returning to school the next day, but Sprig declares that he will always be waiting for him, and the two happily watch the sunset, knowing they will always have each other in the sanctuary of the Wartwood.

Cast:

• Justin Felbinger as Sprig Planter
• Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
• Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Planter
• Amanda Leighton as Polly Planter
• James Patrick Stuart as Wally Ribbiton
• Jill Bartlett as Maddie Flour
• Katie Crown as Ivy Sundew
• Matt Barly as Narrator

Songs:

The songs for the film were written and performed by the singer by Michael Abbott and Sarah Weeks.

• Forever and Ever by Jim Cummings and Frankie J. Galasso
• Adventure is a Wonderful Thing by Andre Stojka
• If It Says So by Ken Sansom
• Wherever You Are by Jim Cummings
• Everything is Right by Jim Cummings, Ken Sansom, Steve Schatzberg and Frankie J. Galasso
• Wherever You Are (end credits) by Barry Coffing & Vonda Shepard

See transcript:

• Amphibia: Sprig's Grand Adventure: The Search for Anne Boonchuy/Transcript