Dangerous Squirrel (1988 Film)

Dangerous Squirrel is the 1988 spoof (and fake) animated movie. The movie was produced by Cannon Films, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was directed by Nicholas Meyer and screenplay by Robert Watts.

Plot
A long time ago, there was a teenager named Dragongirl, got in trouble at Vitaphone elementary school. Everyone, including Sondra Saint, bullied Dragongirl, but no one believed her... not even her parents. Not in real life. Nobody cares whether teachers and principals are cruel or not. Dragongirl's teacher, Sondra Saint sends Dragongirl to the principal's office, but she refused, so Sondra Saint brings Dragongirl to the principal named Mickey Victor, in his own office. Principal Victor told Dragongirl that she's been repeated Kindergarten, doing terrible things, picking on other students, not doing all assignments, including homework and, worst of all, disruptive manners. Finally, Principal Victor has had enough, so he was hereby expelled Dragongirl... and called her parents. A short time later, Dragongirl's parents are very furious with Dragongirl, so they're going to take her home and ground her. They ordered Dragongirl to get in the car, but she refused, so they put her in the car and strapped her with seat belts... and her parents got in the car. Dragongirl tried to apologize, but it was too late. Her parents denied her apology. Finally, they've had enough, so they disowned and evicted Dragongirl... meaning her parents kicked Dragongirl out. After she got out of the car on a road, her parents moved out and abandoned Dragongirl at age 17. And no one, including her parents, will ever see Dragongirl... again. Several years later... one stormy day, at the house, Sophie's parents put their baby daughter, Sophie, in a basket, to send her away in a flash flood river. As baby Sophie is crying, Dragongirl, as an adult, heard a baby crying, so she rushes to the river... and rescues Sophie. She was adopted by Dragongirl, her own stepmother. Dragongirl takes care of Sophie, inside of her stepmother's place, by feeding her, cleaning her and nurturing her. Now, some years later, Sophie, who's now a kid, was nagged by Dragongirl and is forced to do some chores. Sophie does the laundry (washing/drying) and folding clothes, does the dishes, vacuuming on carpets, dusting off objects, scrubbing floors and picking up objects. And giving each meal to her stepmother... especially the right meals, because if she gives the wrong meals to Dragongirl, she forced Sophie to choose something else... or else Dragongirl puts Sophie in the closet. Poor Sophie, at least she ate the ones her stepmom chose the wrong meals. The meal for Dragongirl was a full plate of hamburger sandwich (between two sliced hamburger buns), some French fries and a glass of tea. Sophie tries to have some but Dragongirl refused and sends her back to her own bedroom. The reason? Sophie privately ate some foods, until she was caught by her stepmom, and Sophie says "Nothing", but Sophie lied, so Dragongirl puts Sophie in a closet for one hour... until her closet punishment is over. Every day was the same... for Sophie, who's had enough. She uses her bed sheets to turn into a parachute and flies off the window and lands softly to the ground and decides to run away for survival. Now, Dragongirl was surprised that Sophie escaped, so she has to go after her. During rainstorms, Sophie crosses the wooden & rope bridge while crying. Dragongirl snarls and tries to catch Sophie, but Sophie cuts the bridge ropes with the knife and as the bridge falls down, so does Dragongirl. And Sophie gave a sigh of relief. At the Vitaphone town hall, there are four people, which are Tristan, Deputy Tom, Sheriff Mike and Mayor Davis. Their reaction of how Dragongirl's trouble was revolting. Meanwhile, Dragongirl crawls back to her own palace because of a terrible accident she had, though her clothes are muddy and torn. At the sewing room, Dragongirl made her own dress, and her own mask. All sides of her dress, her mask and her hair are black and white. Now, Sophie heard what chattering and squeaking are. They are the squirrels, which are Oswald and his parents. Sophie and the squirrels introduced themsleves... and she told her backstory to the squirrels. Now she became friends with the squirrels... and Corey, who introduced himself, along with Sophie. He brought a picnic basket. Oh, Corey was on his way to the campsite Wolper Forest, but he was lost and made new friends, especially Sophie and the Squirrels. Back at her stepmom's palace, Dragongirl brought some metal junk and her tools to invent her very first mechanical monster called "Dontail". Dontail can't speak English, but he says "Roo-Omps!", which is his own roaring sound. Dragongirl yells "It's Alive!" -- and she rides on Dontail to catch Sophie and takes her back to her stepmom's palace. Speaking of that, Sophie is very hungry, so Corey sets out a picnic for himself and Sophie. They are the hot dog-hamburger sandwiches (made with cooked hamburger patties, sliced cooked hot dogs and bread slices, wrapped in packages) and Coo-Coo Cola pop bottles. Each sandwich and each bottle is enough for both of those two. As for the squirrels, they eat acorns... and other nuts. They also gather nuts every Fall... right before every Winter begins. Now, after they ate their foods, bad things happen. Based on Oswald's daymares and nightmares, especially the mechanical monsters every day and night. They turned out to become a reality. Dragongirl takes Sophie back home... by capturing her with Dontail. Oswald was feared that he's in grave danger. Sophie screams for help, but it's useless. A short time later, now that Sophie's back home with her stepmom, Dragongirl, and her mechanical monster, Dontail, Sophie refused to believe her stepmom survived the incident, thinking she's someone else. However, Dragongirl was unmasked in order to prove Sophie that Dragongirl survived... and as it turns out, she is her stepmom. And Sophie surprisingly screamed. Oswald was too scared to rescue Sophie, because of his nightmares, but his parents and Corey want Oswald to calm down and overcome his nightmarish fears. It's the only way for Oswald to fight back against Dragongirl's mechanical monsters and save Sophie. And so, Oswald has no choice but to rescue Sophie. Oswald crosses an alternate bridge for emergency because the other bridge fell down due to the ropes cut off because of Sophie, but they cross an alternate bridge. Back at the palace, Sophie is grounded for two weeks... for running away and cut off the rope bridge that give Dragongirl a fallen accident. Now, they've heard an alarm, so Dragongirl orders Dontail to stand by the front door at her palace. Oswald tries to get to the palace of his arch-nemesis, Dragongirl, when suddenly, her very first mechanical monster, Dontail, is already here. Oswald knows Dontail is in his nightmares, but it already became a reality. Oswald calms down and decides to fight back against Dontail... and succeeded. Dontail fall off the palace porch stairways and comes crashing down... destroying Dontail instantly, much to Sophie amusement, but much to Dragongirl's upsetting. As Oswald rushes to Sophie in her stepmom's bedroom, she was happy to see Oswald was brave. Just as they about to leave, Dragongirl is very angry. She has no choice but to take them both down, but they dodged by the window, but Dragongirl grabbed Sophie's left leg. As Oswald tries to attack Dragongirl, she grabs him and crushes him, though he quickly bites Dragongirl's thumb, causes her to scream and Oswald gets to Sophie, catching him and kicking her stepmom off from her... and Dragongirl fall off and gets another fallen accident. Now Sophie and Oswald climbed back inside of her stepmom's palace. Sophie was worried Oswald had an injury due to recently accident, so she takes Oswald back to his parents and Corey. Although Oswald had a terrible accident, his parents and Corey are so proud of him getting rid of Dontail and rescue Sophie. Corey noticed Oswald was injured, though Sophie tells Corey not to worry so Oswald will be okay. And, now, Corey and Sophie hugged each other. This level 1 of the movie story may be over, but their adventures are just the beginning. As Dragongirl went unconscious, there was little Dragongirl was mad, because no one cares about her.

Cast
Me (imitating so many voices as dubbed version for my unreleased homemade animated movies).
 * Charlotte Rae as Princess Dragongirl (Dolores Drachma)
 * John Kassir as Tristan (Tristan Thomas)
 * Frank Welker as Oswald (a squirrel who faces dangerous perils based on his nightmares)
 * B. J. Ward as Oswald's Mom
 * Mel Blanc as Oswald's Dad
 * Burt Reynolds as Deputy Tom (Zachary Tom)
 * Dom DeLuise as Sheriff Mike (Peter Mike)
 * Dan Castellaneta as Mayor Davis (Edward Davis)
 * Anndi McAfee as Sophie (Sophie McCole; Anndi McAfee's first film)
 * Phillip Glasser as Corey (Corey Morrison)
 * Megan Follows as Young Dragongirl
 * Wendy Schaal as Dragongirl's Mom (Laura Drachma)
 * Roy Firestone as Dragongirl's Dad (Ken Drachma)
 * Molly Ringwald as Sophie's Mom (Phoebe McCole)
 * Anthony Michael Hall as Sophie's Dad (Alexander McCole)
 * Lorannie Gary as Sandra Saint (Dragongirl's School Teacher)
 * Paul Bartel as Principal Mickey Victor
 * Vic Tayback as Dontail
 * Kelsey Grammer as the Narrator

Production
I'm (JamesTherHAMPMaster) ready to tell you a story about the Dangerous Squirrel movie level 1, I made, which is called "Dangerous Squirrel" (1988). I made an original movie on June 11, 2016, but due to technical difficulties, I've got a plan... an emergency plan... and succeeded on June 15, 2016. I use so many voices... just like the late, great man of 1,000 voices named Mel Blanc (1908-1989). I drew and colorized some characters on sketch pads and cut out them with scissors to make characteristic paper figures on my room on June 2 - 3, 2016. Also, I've drew some 4-way background sequences on sketch pads on June 4 - 7, 2013. I also made a book on April 30 - May 2, 2010. Now, I use a DVD camcorder, with a tripod, to face my laptop. That musical themes, you asked, is "Halloween" (1978) musical theme. It was my idea about my homemade dark comedy movie between "Dangerous Squirrel" and the "Halloween" musical theme, ever since I was 12, in July & August. Before that, I was 11, I made my other stuff called "Pikachu and the Villains of Halloween 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & H20"... it was in December of 2000... and made some pictures in May 2001. In June 2001, I made my own characters, including Bugs Bunny, Lola Bunny, Rocky Squirrel & Bullwinkle Moose, for WWF (now WWE). And in August 2001, I've decided to use some same characters and renamed my project "Pikachu and the Villains of Halloween" to "Dangerous Squirrel". On May 5, 2001, I introduced my own fictional character named "Princess Dragongirl". On August 2001 - January 2002, I drew and wrote some opening & closing sequences of "Dangerous Squirrel" on paper sheets... and I came up with the 8th Dangerous Squirrel movie called "The Dark Angel of Shadows". As you know, my own fictional character, Princess Dragongirl, has a lady, with a blonde hair with two curls and a red line from her left eye, though it was too dangerous. I used Bugs Bnny, Lola Bunny, Rocky Squirrel & Bullwinkle Moose. I made 8 VHS tapes and 8 VHS covers in April - May 2002. My old characters are completely useless... until on the night December 6, 2009... I dreamt about a little girl with a blonde hair and a little boy with a brown hair... and it gave me an idea, so I've decided to came up with new characters... and new ideas. From now on, to make my project less gruesome, I remodeled Princess Dragongirl, in black & white dress costume, inspiration of Harley Quinn (from Batman's franchise) and Cruella DeVille (from 101 Dalmatians). I made new characters, which are Sophie (inspiration of Jenny Beck, Heather O'Rourke, JonBenet Ramsey & Natalie Gregory), Corey (inspiration of Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Courtland Mead & Danny Lloyd), Oswald & his parents (brown squirrels). Dragongirl (inspiration of Natasha Richardson, Alison Doody, Daryl Hannah & Rebecca De Mornay). And teenage Dragongirl (inspiration of Leslie Bega, Shevonne Durkin, Cori Wellins & Megan Ward) and her parents, her teacher Sondra Saint (inspiration of Miss Kettlewell & Edna Krabappel) & her principal Mickey Victor (parody of Principal McVicker). Oh, and Dragongirl's mechanical monsters (inspiration of Godzilla, King Kong, Stay Puft & Mecha-Bowser). Some books of my ideas have inspired by Cinderella, The Gunnywolf, Little Miss Muffet, and Watership Down. You think the title "Dangerous Squirrel" means a squirrel is dangerous? Actually, a squirrel named Oswald is in grave danger. He has nightmares about mechanical monsters that soon turn out to be a reality. Also, the name of the title is a parody of Danger Dog, which cartoon created in the early 2000s. If you think the title "Dangerous Squirrel" will be in UK, perhaps this title will be "Dragongirl" (1988; UK) and therefore "Dangerous Squirrel" will only be in USA. Unfortunately, that was in 1988. I was born on New Year's Eve (December 31) in 1988. Babies, like me, can't draw papers. I made some of the fake movies, though. I started drawing some sketch pads in June 2016. That Dangerous Squirrel Level 1 Book I made makes me following the paragraph as I snapshot the sequence. I took a lot of photos of the drawings I made on a DVD camcorder with an SD card in my room. First of all, I use my DVD Camcorder to face those cut-out characters & objects and background drawings I made. Anyway, I insert the SD card to the laptop. I put these photos I took onto "Photo/Video Timeline" in Windows Live Movie Maker. Now I edited these photo clips and and added photos to it from each folder. Anyway, I recorded a lot of voices from the homemade book I made, removed it from narration timeline, and reimport it to the music timeline, trimmed off some mixed-up words and some goofs. I put some clips of musics onto "Music timeline". Now, I use Video Transitions and Video Effects onto some clips. It's a good thing I've got Windows 10 on my laptop, though I worked very hard to put good stuff on Windows Live Movie Maker. I saved some parts of the whole thing... until I finished. That's the hard part on June 12 - 14, 2016. The technical difficulties are disc skipping and finalization errors, meaning it's unable for me to finalize the mini-DVD, so I have no choice but to put my mini-DVD camcorder to face the laptop, plug up the audio/video wire from the mini-DVD camcorder to the DVD recorder. I put the TV set on mute so it doesn't have feedback screeches. I can only imitating sound effects... and not allowed to do some commentary talking. I saved the movie, and two special features into videos. Anyway, I started recording on DVD by June 15, 2016. Now I'm finally ready to tell you a story. I've had to be careful saying words because they'd get mixed up sometimes. I've also had to be careful using voices because I might get a cough.

Post Production
Skywalker Sound

Soundtrack

 * "Halloween Theme" - John Carpenter (used for "Dangerous Squirrel" by Alexander Courage)
 * "No Complaits" - Jerry Goldsmith (from "Poltergeist" 1982 soundtrack)
 * "Night Visitor" - Jerry Goldsmith (from "Poltergeist" 1982 soundtrack)
 * "Night of the Beast" - Jerry Goldsmith (from "Poltergeist" 1982 soundtrack)
 * "Escape From Surburia" - Jerry Goldsmith (from "Poltergeist" 1982 soundtrack)
 * "Open Your Heart" - Madonna (also from "True Blue" album)

Opening Credits
WARNER BROS. Presents

A CANNON GROUP, INC./ GOLAN-GLOBUS Production

A NICHOLAS MEYER Film

Dangerous Squirrel

Starring: CHARLOTTE RAE

JOHN KASSIR

FRANK WELKER

B. J. WARD MEL BLANC

BURT REYNOLDS DOM DeLUISE DAN CASTELLANETA

And Introducing: ANNDI McAFEE as "Sophie"

Casting By: MARION DOUGHERTY

Music By: ALEXANDER COURAGE

Associate Producer: PAUL SABELLA

Costume Designer: ROSANNA NORTON

Production Designer: BO WELCH

Film Editor: MARK GOLDBLATT

Art Director: MARK HAIGH-HUTCHINSON

Director of Photography: MATTHEW F. LEONETTI, ASC

Executive Producer: JEAN MacCURDY

Story By: ROBERT WATTS and NICHOLAS MEYER

Screenplay By: ROBERT WATTS

Produced By: MENAHEM GOLAN and YORAM GLOBUS

Directed By: NICHOLAS MEYER

Closing Credits
Dangerous Squirrel

A GOLAN-GLOBUS Production

CAST

Princess Dragongirl: CHARLOTTE RAE

Tristan: JOHN KASSIR

Oswald: FRANK WELKER

Oswald's Mom: B. J. WARD

Oswald's Dad: MEL BLANC

Deputy Tom: BURT REYNOLDS

Sheriff Mike: DOM DeLUISE

Mayor Davis: DAN CASTELLANETA

Sophie: ANNDI McAFEE

Corey: PHILLIP GLASSER

Young Dragongirl: MEGAN FOLLOWS

Featuring:

Dragongirl's Mom: WENDY SCHAAL

Dragongirl's Dad: ROY FIRESTONE

Sophie's Mom: MOLLY RINGWALD

Sophie's Dad: ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL

Sandra Saint: LORANNIE GARY

Principal Mickey Victor: PAUL BARTEL

Dontail: VIC TAYBACK

Narrator: KELSEY GRAMMER

Unit Production Manager: PHIL RAWLINS

1st Assistant Director: ANDREW STANTON

2nd Assistant Director: KRISTOFFER LARSON

3rd Assistant Director: SCOTT JOHNSON

Project Lead: SHIRAZ AKMAI

Lead Programmers: TIM DOYLE JASON HOERNER NEIL KA'APUNI DAN KOLLMORGER RYAN A. MAPES CHRISTOPHER MASTERTON

Artists: CHUCK CRIST ANDREW JONES RYAN POWELL LUIZ RAMIREZ ALEJANDRO ROURA LeROY STRAUSS

Animators: DEREK BONIKOWSKI DON HOGAN GENE KOHLER ELIZABETH PUGH DANNY RICHARDSON ELBEN SCHAFERS

Level Designer: GARY SPROUL

Operation Manager: COLIN WALTER

General Managers: LYLE HALL MARCEL SAMEK

Additional Designers: JUSTIN NORT RYAN KIRK JOHN WHITMORE KRIS JACKSON

Concept Artists: THOMAS SCHILLINGER DONALD YATOMI

Additional Artists: MORIBA DUNCAN ABDREW HOLDUN

Layouts: EDDY BENJAMIN DORRIS BERGSTROM ED CERULLO BOB CHIARITO LOU DELLAROSA

Backgrounds: EDWARD FAIGON HELEN KOMAR ALISSA MYERSON SONSA RUTA RICHARD WILLIAMS

Music Performed By: THE NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Music Editors: TOM VILLANO STEVE McCROSKEY

Orchestration: ALEXANDER COURAGE

Technology Directors: SHIRAZ AKMAI CHRISTOPHER SANDERS

Testers: MARIA ANOMI SHIRLEY C. ALOVERA TYLER HOLMES

QA Technician: JASON ROBERTS

QA Database Administrator: MONICA VALLEJO

Script & Dialogue: DAN SLOTT

Voice-Over Recorded at: C&D PRODUCTIONS, INC.

Voice-Over Director: GORDON HUNT

Clean-Up Animators: LIN LARSEN FRANCESCA FREEMAN

Final Checkers: LAURA CRAIG MAXINE MARKOTA

Titles and Optical: WARNER BROS. STUDIO FACILITIES

Special Thanks to: SUNSOFT REPUBLIC PICTURES CORPORATION

"OPEN YOUR HEART" Performed By: MADONNA Courtesey of: SIRE RECORDS

Memorable Quotes from "DAFFY DILLY" Courtesey of WARNER BROS., INC.

Read the Book from GOLDEN BOOKS

Film on Locations in BURBANK, CA (USA) and LONDON, ENGLAND (UK)

Play the NES game from SUNSOFT

Re-Recorded at LORIMAR STUDIOS

Soundtrack Album on WB Records, Cassettes & CDs

Color By: WARNERCOLOR®

Spetral Recording DOLBY STEREO SR In Selected Theatres

I.A.T.S.E.

MPAA No. 29247

AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION Animals are monitored and animated by American Humane Association. No animals were harmed in the making of this film.

This Motion Picture ©1988 Warner Bros., Inc. and Cannon International Films, N. V.

Story and Screenplay ©1988 Warner Bros., Inc. and Cannon International Films, N. V.

All Original Music Compositions ©1988 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.

All material is protected by copyright laws of the United States and all countries throughout the world. All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized exhibition, distribution, or copying of this film or any part thereof (including soundtrack) is an infringement of the relevant copyright and will subject the infringer to severe civil and criminal penalties.

The story, all names, characters and incidents protrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons, places, buildings and products are intended or should be inferred.

Dangerous Squirrel A CANNON FILM

DISTRIBUTED BY WARNER BROS A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY

Trivia

 * The scene of Sophie's punishments is based on a scene from Cinderella.
 * The name of the fictional city in Vermont, "Vitaphone" was named after the now defunct sound film system.
 * The awful snacks (raw eggs, Swiss cheese, grape nuts and prunes) are also from GoAnimate (now Vyond).
 * Princess Dragongirl made a costume and a mask that looks similar to Cruella De Ville (from 101 Dalmatians) and Harley Quinn (from Batman franchise).
 * The name of the fictional soda pop brand, "Coo-Coo Cola", is a parody of Coca-Cola.
 * The scene where Dragongirl's happy reaction about how Dontail built was based on a scene from "Frankenstein" (1931).

Release
Dangerous Squirrel has released in theaters in USA on December 23, 1988 (just in time for Christmas) by Warner Bros. Pictures.