Purple Squirrel 3: Surly's Western Side

Purple Squirrel 3: Surly's Western Side, also titled simply Purple Squirrel 3 and Surly's Western Side, is a 2005 computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Cal Brunker and Steve Oedekerk, produced by John A. Davis, Keith Alcorn, Bob Barlen and Oedekerk and written by Graham Moloy, Lorne Cameron and Oedekerk based on a screenplay by J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Andrew Millstein and Oedekerk. A direct sequel to Purple Squirrel 2: Purple Squirrel Returns (2002), it is the third film in the Purple Squirrel franchise and reprises the voices of Will Arnett, Kari Wahlgren, Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman and more.

An international co-production between the United States and Australia, the film was produced by Paramount Feature Animation, Warner Bros. Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Village Roadshow Pictures, O Entertainment, Omation Animation Studio and Buddy Entertainment, with DNA Productions, Cinesite and Nitrogen Studios providing animation services. It was the last Purple Squirrel film to have animation provided by DNA Productions prior to its closure in 2006.

Purple Squirrel Three premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2005 and was theatrically released on September 17, 2005 by Paramount Pictures, on September 21, 2005 by Warner Bros. Pictures and in Australia and New Zealand on October 2, 2005 by Roadshow Entertainment. It received mostly positive reviews, praising its animation, humor, plot, voice cast (particularly Arnett, Wahlgren, Hopkins and Colman), visual effects, tone, and emotional weight. It was a box office hit, grossing $1.8 billion worldwide on a $100 million budget. It was followed with a sequel, Purple Squirrel 4: The Reckoning, released on January 1, 2010.

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Cast

 * Will Arnett as Surly, a purple squirrel and the main protagonist.
 * Kari Wahlgren as Hazelnut, a female pink squirrel and Surly's girlfriend.
 * Anthony Hopkins as Henry, a golden brown squirrel and Surly's father.
 * Olivia Colman as Victoria, a light brown squirrel and Surly's mother.
 * Sam Rockwell as Robinson, a black and white wolf.
 * Scarlett Johansson as Hemisphere, a red striped spider.
 * Danny McBride as Ginny, a goofy guinea pig.
 * Halsey as Rella, a blue rabbit with long ears.
 * Ryan Reynolds as Brandon, a brave deer.
 * Mila Kunis as Betty, a lovely deer and Brandon's girlfriend.
 * Wanda Sykes as Stella, a short-tempered, sassy striped skunk. Stella also appears as a supporting character for Hammy in 2009.
 * Jane Lynch as Twinkle,
 * Simon Pegg as Mucky,
 * Vincent Cassel as Bonjour, a French basset hound who speaks English.
 * Holly Fields as Tiana, a female black cat who became a spy.
 * Jonah Hill as John,

Development
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Animation
Like with Purple Squirrel and Purple Squirrel 2, the animation was held at DNA Productions, Inc. in Dallas, Texas. Additional animation was produced at Cinesite in London, England, and at Nitrogen Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia. John A. Davis was the lead animator for DNA, while husband-and-wife duo Greg Tiernan and Nicole Stinn were respectively the lead CGI producer and unit producer for Nitrogen Studios.

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Release
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Box office
Purple Squirrel 3: Surly's Western Side opened on September 17, 2005 with $68.5 million domestically and $147.2 million in other territories of North America on its first opening weekend. The film made $790.5 million in the United States and Canada and $1.101 billion in other territories for a worldwide total of $1.892 billion. Breaking several box office records, the film became the highest-grossing animated film of all time.

Critical response
Purple Squirrel 3: Surly's Western Side opened to critical success, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reporting an approval rating of 94% based on 219 critic reviews, with an average rating of 8.15/10. The sites critical consensus reads: "Set on the Western side of things, Surly's Western Side is all action, humor and wit, and Will Arnett does even better with every film on the purple squirrel."

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