The Island (2019 film)

The Island is the 2019 American-Canadian 3D live-action/computer-animated musical comedy adventure film produced by Amblin Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment, DreamWorks, and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was released theatrically in the United States on January 4, 2019. The plot centers about a boy's odyssey follows three penguins, a crocodile and a parrot gets thrown on a ship and washed ashore on the tropical island. Now, the heroes need to make plans for saving all the lemurs from the slavery and death.

Plot
In a dystopian future New York City, a flu virus spreads throughout the animal population. The authoritarian new mayor of Megasaki City, Kobayashi, signs a decree banishing all animals to the unknown sland, despite the insistence of scientist Professor Watanabe that he is close to finding a cure for the virus. The first animal to be taken away in the ship is the meerkat Timon, who is banished by the meerkats (presumably due to his bad luck while digging tunnels) and is belonged to Leonard, the son of the widowed woman and the grandson of the mayor's deceased brother.

Meanwhile, two penguins, a crocodile and a parrot was thrown off the ship and is washed ashore on the island. After the animals awakens, they explores the island and soon discovers that it is uninhabited by lemurs, and they sleep for the night. Several monkeys also wash up on the shore, as well as the baby monkey, and until the penguins find a newfound friend, Marina. Leonard steals a plane and flies to the island to find Timon.

Timon, after separated from his friends, go and find food and while doing so, a monkey named Clarence and a red elephant named Nick Trunk, who also washed ashore on the island after being banished by their parents. They then go to their treehouse, but the welcome party is interrupted by the leader of the lemurs, Chief, enslave all the lemurs to build all the pyramids.

Meanwhile, a strong-willed elephant seal named Branch and his son washed ashore on the island. Branch blames his mother for the incident. Timon and Homer is nearly attacked and chased by the hyenas. While doing so, the fight is stopped by the greedy and muscular lemur named Gutt Rex, and his cowardly and greedy parrot and henchman, Melman, which they revealed themselves to be banished by the leader of the lemurs, King Jumba. That night, Chief is eaten by Dino for his actions of slavery and Dino refuses to flee into exile, and Jumba becomes king again. Chief's daughter, Jane, banishes Dino to the sea.

While sleeping, Timon and his friends is captured by the lemurs to hold auditions for the nature show by performing a song. In return, Homer attempts to return Timon to his relatives by saving the lemurs from being slaves by freeing them, but Timon refuses and Gutt Rex discovers and puts her into the cage. King Jumba welcomes Timon and his animal friends as their descendants, but Gutt Rex confronts him. With jealousy and anger, Gutt Rex steals Jumba's crown and reveals his true nature to become king for enslave all the lemurs, had Timon and Homer thrown into a pit.

Without him, Marina and the animal friends is forced to return the young boy home. To his dismay, Timon lives alone in the island. One day, Clarence, Nick Trunk and the kids joins the forces with Tony to defeat Gutt Rex and brought Jumba's crown back. During the sunrise, Gutt Rex takes over the island and expose his crimes for Jumba, much to the animals' shock, who returned back, thanks to Timon. Timon and Gutt Rex gets into a fight, see an active volcano the next day, and they decide that they have to leave the island with the others. Gutt Rex reluctantly accepts defeat at the hands of Jumba by climbing the volcano and falling into the lava pit to his death, and Melman is freed enough of his abuse.

The animals and the lemurs then run towards the raft and escape the eruption, and is freed from the slavery, but except King Jumba is sacrificed himself. Later, a passing cargo ship finds the creatures, drifting. Leonard reunites back with his mother and sister.

During the credits, Timon returns home to Africa and becomes his mother's boss for worked by the other meerkats to dig tunnels, Clarence and Nick Trunk take a vacation in Palm Springs, Marina returns home in Antartica and falls in love with Homer, Dweeb returns home with the other parrots and marries Leela, and Jane becomes queen of the island, along with her new assistant Bulba and continues the slavery soon.

Live-action roles

 * Raymond Ochoa as Leonard Pilster, the young boy and the only human which can be friendly towards the animals. He is the main protagonist, and the son of Ali and sister of Mabel.
 * Emma Fuhrmann as Mabel Pilster, the young girl and is one of the humans can be friendly towards the animals. She is the deuteragonist, and Leonard's sister and Ali's daughter.
 * Julie Kavner as Ali Duran, Leonard and Mabel's mother and the wife of the mayor
 * Demzel Washington as Evan Baker-Duran, Leonard and Mabel's future stepfather and Ali's girlfiend
 * Peter Capaldi as Francesco Roberts, Dennis' friend
 * Nikki Reed as Belle DuPont, a waitress at a tiki bar on the island
 * John Stamos as Evan DuPont, Belle's widower father and Dennis' other friend
 * Paget Brewster as Ali Duran, Evan's girlfriend and Belle's future stepmother
 * Emily Mortimer as Sharon Roberts, Francesco's wife
 * Michael Pitt as Austin Duran, Ali's brother
 * Tim Russ as George Baker, Dennis' brother
 * Antonio Banderas as the Mayor
 * Banderas also voiced his brother Mayor Domo

Motion capture voice performances

 * Nathan Lane as Timon, the meerkat who is separated from his mother and uncle after being banished by the other meerkats.
 * Jim Carrey as Homer
 * Ewan McGregor as Blonde
 * Will Ferrell as Dweeb, the green parrot.
 * Rihanna as Marina, the female Emperor penguin who is separated from his father. She is currently Homer's girlfriend and later wife (at the end).
 * Steve Buscemi as Clarence
 * Wayne Night as Nick Trunk
 * Jordy Ranft as Willy
 * Christopher Lloyd as Gutt Rex, the strong-willed, greedy, stubborn and evil lemur who is King Jumba's pawn.
 * Hank Azaria as Melman, the red parrot who is Gutt Rex's greedy, cowardly and dim-witted henchman until he reforms.
 * John Hurt as Bulba
 * Idris Elba as King Jumba

Home media
The Island was released on DVD, Blu-Ray (2D and 3D) and Digital HD on June 6, 2019. The bonus features contains audio commentaries, deleted scenes, the alternate opening, making of, and the "Faith" music video.

Soundtrack

 * 1) "Deliver Us" - Chorus
 * 2) "It's a Jungle Out There" - Nathan Lane, Steve Buscemi, Josh Gad
 * 3) "We Are Family" - Raymond Ochoa, Emma Furhmann
 * 4) "Who Let the Dogs Out" - Baha Men
 * 5) "A Little Home" - Nathan Lane, Rihanna
 * 6) "That's a Life for Me" - Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria
 * 7) "Can't Stop the Feeling (End Credits)" - Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake

Sequels
A sequel, The Island 2, was set to be released on 2021.

Trivia

 * Chiefe Lemur wasn't added in the original movie. His abusive treatment was a clear explanation why his daughter Jane became mischievous and arrogant that incited the animals against humans to set off the film's plot in the first place.
 * Homer and Marina met and became friends, then after the events of the first film, it is revealed that Marina and Homer were married and had two chicks named Ice Cub and Bonnie.