Sesame Street: Elmo's Grand Adventure

Sesame Street: Elmo's Grand Adventure is a 2014 direct-to-video musical comedy animated film starring Elmo, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Based on the popular U.S. children's series Sesame Street, the movie is an updated spoof of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. It was originally released digitally on September 2, 2014, to be followed by a DVD release on September 16, 2014.

Plot
On the 2nd of October, when Guy Smiley, at the Muppet Club in London, announces about his beliefs that grouches are the most intelligent muppets (after his many plans were foiled by Donald Grump), Maria, hoping to raise money for a nearby children's park, makes a wager that Elmo can travel around the world in 80 days, collecting the signatures of 80 grouches in the process. Oscar, mad at Elmo for disturbing his trash can, is incensed at the thought of some other grouch getting the red monster first and vows to follow Elmo around the world and catch the muppet himself; unbeknownst to either one, a thief named Huxley is also present.

Elmo sets a course to Paris, but is blown by a strong wind to the Swiss Alps, where he gets trapped, as does Kermit the Frog, but Big Bird saves them both. Elmo goes back to Paris, where he causes Grover to mistake Oscar for a female muppet. Elmo continues on to Venice, but grows overweight after eating too much pizza. On a longboat, he faces a lot of grouches, but he overpowers them and goes back to normal. While attempting to sleep in Egypt, he is chased into a tomb by Oscar and several other grouches, but escapes. In the African jungle, he outsmarts two lions with help from a little bird.

In the Chinese Himalayas, he befriends another muppet known as Beep (the name coming from her ability to imitate a car beeping), after rescuing her from a sacrifice. They are taken by more winds into Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Japan, and eventually make it onto a boat to the United States. However, Oscar catches up with them, but Bert and Ernie cause him to slide into the water. Elmo and Beep are able to save him, but end up on a beach in Australia. Oscar meets Cookie Monster and they chase the two muppets, resorting to a motorcycle, but end up in the ocean.

Elmo and Beep ride a windsurfer to San Francisco. Oscar hijacks a tram to chase them, but ends up on Alcatraz, to the fury of Baby Bear, who appears as the tram's driver. The two muppets make it safely on a train to Las Vegas, where they escape more grouches. Afterwards, they go through more cities across the US, finishing in New York City. There, they trick Oscar into getting onto a concorde alone. The two muppets are caught up in an Atlantic hurricane and briefly washed up on an island, but outsmart more grouches and escape back through the hurricane.

In a pub in the English countryside, they discover the thief and manage to outsmart him. Oscar attempts to frame Elmo by passing his license to fly for a stolen passport. He almost succeeds, but the real passport is in his hand, thus getting himself arrested instead. Elmo and Beep believe they are a day late, until they discover that it's the 21st of December because they crossed the international date line. They are able to get back to London, complete their mission and save the park, and Elmo even gets knighted by the Queen, whilst Oscar heads to prison.

Cast

 * Ryan Dillon as Elmo
 * Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Beep
 * Eric Jacobson as Oscar the Grouch, Guy Smiley, Grover, Bert
 * Sonia Manzano as Maria
 * Jim Meskimen as Huxley
 * Martin P. Robinson as Mr. Snuffleupagus, Telly, Donald Grump, Casino Grouch #1
 * Carmen Osbahr as Rosita
 * Fran Brill as Zoe
 * Matt Vogel as Big Bird, Count von Count
 * Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog, Ernie, Football Stenchman, Sacrificial Grouch
 * David Rudman as Cookie Monster, Chicago the Lion, Baby Bear, Colander Stenchman
 * Bruce Connelly as Barkley
 * Dave Goelz as Humongous Chicken, Gonzo Sphinx, Casino Grouch #2
 * Grey DeLisle as Airport Worker, Queen of England
 * Tom Kenny as Policeman, Bike Salesman
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Ship Crewman
 * Jacob Bertrand as Orphan Child #1
 * Ariel Winter as Orphan Child #2

Songs

 * 1) "Around the World in 80 Grouches"
 * 2) "Elmo Don't Stand A Chance"
 * 3) "The Greatest Thing You Can Earn Is A Friend"

Trivia

 * This is the first Sesame Street film to be entirely animated.
 * This is the second direct-to-video Sesame Street film, the first being Abby in Wonderland.
 * This is Warner Bros. Animation's second spoof of Around the World in Eighty Days. The first being Tweety's High-Flying Adventure.