Snowtime!
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Snowtime!
| image = Snowtime film.jpg
| caption = Film Poster
| native_name = La Guerre des tuques 3D
| director = Jean-François Pouliot
| producer =
| based_on = {{Based on|The Dog Who Stopped the War|Rock Demers}}
| writer = Normand Canac-Marquis
Roger Cantin
Danyèle Patenaude
Paul Risacher
| starring = French version:
{{unbulleted list|Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier|Mariloup Wolfe|Sophie Cadieux|Gildor Roy}}English version:{{cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2016/02/11/snowtime-packs-a-message-review.html |quote=With the voices of Sandra Oh, Angela Gallupo, Lucinda Davis and Ross Lynch. |title=Snowtime! packs a message: review |newspaper=Toronto Star |author=Linda Barnard |date=11 February 2016 |accessdate=22 February 2016}}
{{unbulleted list||Angela Galuppo|Lucinda Davis|Sandra Oh|Ross Lynch}}
| music = Jorane
Éloi Painchaud
| cinematography =
| editing = Robert Yates
| studio = CarpeDiem Film & TV
| distributor = Les Films Séville
Entertainment One
| released = {{Film date|2015|11|13}}
| runtime = 82 minutes
| country = Canada
| language = French
English
| budget = $12.5 million
| gross = $3.3 million (Canada){{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/snowtime-canadian-box-office-award-861272|title=Canadian Screen Awards to Honor 'Snowtime!' as Biggest Homegrown 2015 Box-Office Hit|author=Etan Vlessing|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 2, 2016|accessdate=February 2, 2016}}
{{CNY|31.5 million}} (China)
}}
Snowtime! ({{langx|fr|La Guerre des tuques 3D}}), also released as La Bataille géante de boules de neige in France and Cleo in the United Kingdom,{{cite web |website=British Board of Film Classification |url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/cleo-2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205165545/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/cleo-2015 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 5, 2016 |title=Cleo (2015) |accessdate=22 February 2016 |date=15 January 2016}} is a 2015 Canadian animated comedy-drama film from Quebec.[http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/arts_et_spectacles/2015/11/03/006-la-guerre-des-tuques-3d.shtml "La guerre des tuques 3D réussit son pari"]. Ici Radio-Canada, November 3, 2015. Directed by Jean-François Pouliot, it is an animated remake of the 1984 film The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques).[http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-wednesday-december-16-2015-1.3367254/la-guerre-des-tuques-takes-aim-at-a-new-generation-1.3367271 "La Guerre des Tuques takes aim at a new generation"]. Q, December 16, 2015.
The film inspired the spinoff television series Snowsnaps (Les Mini-Tuques) that premiered in September 2018. A sequel film, Racetime (La Course des tuques), was released in December 2018.{{cite web|url=https://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/06/06/le-film-la-course-des-tuques-est-lance_a_23452746/|title=Le film "La course des tuques" est lancé|work=HuffPost|publisher=Verizon Communications|date=June 6, 2018|accessdate=September 1, 2018|first=Par|last=Cocherel}}
Plot
In a small village, a group of children get the idea to plan and stage a giant snowball fight during winter break over a snow fort, with the group who controls the fort by the end of the break winning. One boy, Luke, is decided to lead one team, but the group cannot decide who will be the opposing team. The group attempt to provoke two other kids, Piers and Frankie, into being the opposing team by pelting them with snowballs, but accidentally pelt Sophie, the new girl, whom Luke has a crush on. Infuriated, Sophie accepts leadership of the opposing team and has Frankie construct an elaborate snow fort.
On the first day of battle, Luke's team is successfully repelled. The following day, one boy, Chuck, constructs snowballs coated with ice, but the team decides not to use them. However, Sophie's younger sister Lucy discovers the iceballs and informs Sophie, spurring her to stage an ambush using snowballs filled with paint. During the attack, Sophie's team manages to steal Luke's bugle, an instrument he kept in memory of his father, who died during a war. Sophie's team gets into an argument with her, resulting in her not showing up the following day, allowing Luke's team to successfully infiltrate the fort and drive off its defenders. Learning of this, Sophie sneaks into the fort at night and takes their flag, despite being ambushed by Luke's group.
To get the feuding groups to reconcile, Nicky and his cousin Daniel feign injury to get the groups to unite. The two groups decide to abandon the war, but Sophie convinces Luke to return the fort to her side for one last battle, as she'd been absent when they first took it. Luke's group recruits the first graders to assist in the assault and utilizes Frankie's stolen plans to bombard the snow fort with giant ice blocks. In the battle that ensues, the fort collapses, crushing Piers' dog Cleo, killing her. A grief-stricken Piers blames Luke for taking the game too far. A remorseful Luke sounds a bugle call as the kids bury Cleo. The two teams, realizing they had let the game divide them, reconcile and tear down the remains of the fort together.
Production
Having earned $3,359,425 in 2015, the film was the highest-grossing Canadian film at the domestic box office during the calendar year, thus winning the Cineplex Golden Screen Award conferred by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.{{cite web |author=Barry Hertz |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |title=A Canadian box-office battle between Snowtime! and Brooklyn |date=4 February 2016 |accessdate=22 February 2016 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/a-canadian-box-office-battle-between-snowtime-and-brooklyn/article28555125/}}{{cite web |website=Northernstars |url=http://www.northernstars.ca/brooklyn-tops-canadian-box-office/ |title=Brooklyn Tops Canadian Box Office |date=4 February 2016 |accessdate=22 February 2016}} It had its American premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.[https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movies/animated-la-guerre-des-tuques-3d-will-screen-at-sundance-film-festival "Animated La Guerre des Tuques 3D will screen at Sundance Film Festival"]. Montreal Gazette, September 9, 2015. The film was released in English Canada on February 12, 2016 and the United States on February 19, 2016.
The soundtrack features many songs by various artists, including two recordings of "L'hymne" by Celine Dion, one English rendition as a solo artist and one French rendition recorded as a duet with Fred Pellerin.
Characters
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" border="1"fran
! scope="col" colspan="2"| Characters ! scope="col" colspan="2"| Voiced by |
| scope="col" style="width:12em;font-size:90%;"| Original
! scope="col" style="width:12em;font-size:90%;"| English ! scope="col" style="width:15em;font-size:90%;"| Original ! scope="col" style="width:15em;font-size:90%;"| English |
|---|
| Luc
| Luke | Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier |
| colspan="2"| Sophie |
| François Les Lunettes
| Four-eyed Frankie | Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc | Sandra Oh{{cite web |newspaper=Toronto Star |title=Snowtime! movie lets Sandra Oh get animated |author=Linda Barnard |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2016/02/12/snowtime-movie-lets-sandra-oh-get-animated.html |date=12 February 2016 |accessdate=22 February 2016}} |
| Pierre
| Piers | Sébastien Reding | Ross Lynch{{cite news |newspaper=Le Journal de Montréal |language=fr |author=Maxime Demers |url=http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/11/04/a-la-conquete-du-monde |title=À la conquête du monde |date=4 November 2015 |accessdate=22 February 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Movie+review+guerre+tuques+reanimates+spirit+original/11512227/story.html |author=Brendan Kelly |title=Movie review: La guerre des tuques 3D reanimates spirit of original |date=11 November 2015 |accessdate=22 February 2016}} |
| Lucie
| Lucy |
| Maranda
| Manolo | rowspan="2"|Sonja Ball |
| Jacques
| Jack |
| Henri Leroux
| Henry | rowspan="2"|André Sauvé | rowspan="2"|Heidi Lynne Weeks |
| Georges Leroux
| George |
| Chabot
| Chuck | Don W. Shepherd |
| Ti-Guy La Lune
| Nicky | Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} or Aline Pinsonneault{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} |
| France
| Fran | Aline Pinsonneault | Jenna Wheeler |
| Daniel Blanchette de Victoriaville
| Daniel Blanshire from Victoriaville | Esther Poulin |
Reception
The film has grossed over $13 million worldwide, including {{CNY|31.5 million}} in China.{{cite web |url= http://cbooo.cn/m/658999|title= 冰雪大作战（2017）|accessdate= 4 April 2017|work= cbooo.cn|language= Chinese}}
=Reviews=
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10.{{cite web| url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/snowtime_2015/|title=Snowtime! (2016)|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |accessdate=September 1, 2018}} On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score 52 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/snowtime!|title=Snowtime! reviews|publisher=Metacritic| accessdate=September 2, 2018}}
References
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External links
- [http://SnowtimeTheMovie.Com Official website]
- {{IMDb title|5143700}}
Category:2015 computer-animated films
Category:Canadian animated feature films
Category:Canadian children's animated films
Category:Films directed by Jean-François Pouliot
Category:Remakes of Canadian films
Category:Canadian Christmas films
Category:English-language Canadian films
Category:French-language Canadian films
Category:2010s English-language films