Teen Titans: The Movie

Teen Titans: The Movie is a 2012 American animated superhero film. It is the second film adaptation of Teen Titans, first being Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, which was released in theaters on April 13, 2012. Scott Menville, Greg Cipes, Hynden Walch, Tara Strong and Khary Payton reprised their roles.

Teen Titans: The Movie became a huge success for the markets. It gained mixed to positive reviews becoming one of the best reviewed films of the year, and also was a huge box office success earning nearly $178 million worldwide.

Plot
The H.I.V.E. Five enters the city park and unleashed a creature deep underground named Tron to set to destroy the world. While watching the fireworks at the Carnival, Robin confirms to Starfire that he is in love with her. Meanwhile, the Teen Titans; Robin, Raven, Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy are staying close and strong together when trouble approaches and figures out that Tron has been unleashed, but they have never met him before. Although, Cyborg realized that he has been buried underground for 20 years for ruling the world.

The Teen Titans were being called for trouble in the city. When there was no trouble from the park, they than visit the park met Tron and were attacked by his robot leaving them alone. Tron, and the H.I.V.E. Five members entered the Titan Tower, destroying it in a fire, steal the power supply to regain to Tron and break it in pieces causing the Titans to lose their powers and killing their pet Silkie. As they returned to the Tower, they found that Silkie is dying. Another chance to get their powers restored is to head to the island called Titans Power.

Meanwhile, Titan East assistances to protect the world and Mas and Memos takes care of Silkie. The Titans are attacked by Tron’s robots but are being rescued by island’s owner Rebecca, who assistances to get their powers restored on their own gives them five ninja powers to journey to the woods alone. Beast Boy seceretly had a crush on Rebecca since he no longer sees Terra. After defeating four dirt monsters, their powers finally restored and captured the new power supply. Rebecca told the the Titans that they also have gain new power abilities to create a powerful invisibility and kissed Beast Boy in the cheeks to wish him good luck.

Back in the city, everything seems normal, but turns out that people are possessed by Tron's monsters including Titan East members Bumblebee, Aqualad, Speedy and later Starfire, having being kidnapped by Mammoth. While Robin, Raven, Cyborg and Beast Boy are battling against Tron, Mas and Memos rescued their entire friends and Starfire. Meanwhile, she rescued her friends and helped them defeating Tron, and the H.I.V.E. Five were arrested.

The Titans returned to the Tower, and they realized that they are too late because they found Silkie now dead. Beast Boy realized what Rebecca told them that they could use them to fix everything and bring someone they love to life. They used their ninja powers to rebuild the base and bringing Silkie back to life, and Robin returns the power supply. Meanwhile, Robin and Starfire shared a kiss and secretly announced that they are already a couple. Afterwards, the Titans had a party at the Titan tower celebrating to the world of thanking the Titans for saving the world.

Development
After the cancellation of Teen Titans in 2006, DC Comics and Warner Bros. will release an animated film adaptation of the TV series into theaters on April 13, 2012 with the original cast reprising their roles. Director Michael Chang, who did Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, will return to direct a theatrical film version as well as crew members. Scott Menville, Greg Cipes, Hynden Walch, Khary Payton and Tara Strong will reprise their roles.undefinedIt's production budget will cost $40 million to produce.

Teen Titans: The Movie will have the same animation, but will have a theatrical release version of the drawing comparing from the TV series to have a dramatic look inside the film. Chang states "bringing animated shows to theaters will be a big thing, because they are trying to make it into a feature length movie, not making it into some boring drawing from the show itself.

Original Soundtrack
The Teen Titans: The Movie motion picture soundtrack was released on March 20, 2012. Green Day will record the film's theme song. Puffy AmiYumi's song "Friends Forever" will be included in the film's soundtrack. The soundtrack ranked #4 at the Billboard 200.

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Teen Titans: The Movie score was released on April 10, 2012, three days before the film's theatrical release. David Newman will compose the film's soundtrack.

All songs written and composed by Alexandre Desplat.

Release
Teen Titans: The Movie was released in theaters everywhere starting on April 13, 2012. The film's trailer was released in front of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked on December 16, 2011. A video game with the same title was released on April 4, 2012. According to MPPA, the film received a PG rating for "rude humor and mild action" as of March 1, 2012. On March 31, 2012, Facebook and Warner Bros. said that they will stream a full movie live on Facebook and will have to buy the price of $30.00 to register to pay to see the film screened live on Facebook. This is to the fact that Facebook stating that the copyright belongs to Warner Bros., not Facebook.

Warner Bros. relased the film's new clip entitled "The End of the World" on April 7, 2012. A 31 second new TV spot was also released the same day. The following day, a 1 minute and 45 second promo featurette was released featuring the Titans into action. Teen Titans: The Movie had a world premiere in Los Angeles on April 9, 2012. Teen Titans: The Movie opens in 1,255 theaters at midnight, and 3,755 theaters nationwide starting on April 13, 2012.

Early test screening
The film's early test screening premiered on January 27, 2012 and received early positive reviews stating "the kids missed their favorite superheroes, and will be thrilled to see them returning and heading to theaters. Director and producer of the film attended the film's premiere, says that this could be at least the year's most anticipated film so far.

Criticial reception
Teen Titans: The Movie received mixed to positive reviews. As of April 14, 2012, the film scored a positive 95% from Rotten Tomatoes, based from 225 views, stating that comicbook fans realized that the movie feels like Kick-Ass with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but has a different feeling into it. It was also listed as one of the "best reviewed film" of the year so far. IGN gave a film 8/10 calling it "the best movie of the year so far." Metacritic scored Teen Titans: The Movie a 75, based on 30 views, becoming its favorite reviewed film this year so far.undefinedAdam Brown of New York magazine gave it a postive review stating that "it's a movie that nerdy fans have been waiting for, and feels like others have seen Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie back in 1995." Robert Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a mixed 2 1/2 out of 4 stars stating: "The movie feels like celebrating a reunion of the cancelled show from 2003 to 2006 on Cartoon Network seems neccessary enough to bring fans to watch their favorite characters, but most no longer watch them because he heard or seen children grow quickly.

Box office
In midnight showings, Teen Titans: The Movie grossed $3.2 million. On its opening day, it grossed $18,219,661, bringing its total to $42,141,860 on its opening weekend ranking it #1 at the box office finally ending The Hunger Games from being #1 at the box office after three weeks. The film closed in theaters on August 9, 2012. Teen Titans: The Movie grossed $96,984,250 in North America, with $81,000,000 in foreign markets, bringing its total to $177,984,250 worldwide.

Home media
Teen Titans: The Movie was released on DVD and Blu Ray on August 28, 2012. It was released a day earlier in the United Kingdom on August 27. It topped the DVD sales chart earning 1.2 million copies ($25,026,060) in its first week. As of October 24, 2012, it sold 4.9 million copies ($55,991,906) in total.

Television and theatrical film release
Following the success for the film's box office performances and the shorts, Warner Bros. announced that they could return Teen Titans on television with its new series, Teen Titans Go!, which is set to release in 2013 on DC Nation. The series premiered on Cartoon Network on April 23, 2013, and was praised by mixed reviews with some criticizing the show's new animation that looks more silly than the original TV series. Eventually, the series debut with 2.0 million views, making the series gain successful ratings, and was eventually renewed for a second season. The series will also have their first theatrical film adaptation of the television series. Entitled as Teen Titans GO! To The Movies, it is set to be released in theaters on July 27, 2018.