Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms

Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms (Danish: Disco ormene;[2] German: Sunshine Barry und die Discowürmer; also known as simply Disco Worms) is a 2008 Danish-German 3D computer-animated film directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen from a screenplay by Nielsen and Morten Dragsted.[2][3][4]

Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms
Directed byThomas Borch Nielsen
Screenplay byThomas Borch Nielsen
Morten Dragsted
Edited byKirsten Skytte
Music byJörg Lemberg
Production
companies
Crone Film
Radar Film
Distributed bySvensk Filmindustri
Release date
10 October 2008
Running time
75 minutes[1]
CountriesDenmark
Germany
LanguagesDanish
German
Budget$5,000,000
Box office$6,371,879

Premise

Earthworm Barry gets no respect and lives at the bottom of the food chain, but one day he finds an old disco record which arouses his interest in music, and, with help from friend Gloria, they decide to create the greatest disco band the world has ever seen: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms.[2]

Voice cast

Production

In total, production lasted 16 months on a budget of $5 million. According to Nielsen, the character designs and script took a year to complete. The film also faced difficulty with finding financing, which inevitably took 8 months to find.[5]

Release

The film was released in Danish theatres on 10 October 2008, and opened with $225,324 for a total of $1,936,776. In Germany, the film was released on 29 October 2009, and grossed $33,604. The worldwide gross for Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms was $6,371,879.[6]

Critically, the film received generally average to negative reviews.[1][4][7]

References
  1. Koopmans, Paula: Sunshine Barry en de Disco Wormen – Disco ormene (2008). (in Dutch). CineMagazine. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  2. Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms at the Danish Film Institute. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  3. Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms (Disco ormene) at Cineuropa – the best of European cinema. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  4. Bühler, Philipp (29 October 2009) Im deutsch-dänischen Animationsfilm "Sunshine Barry und die Discowürmer" tanzen Wirbellose den Boogie: Sein Schicksal ist ein Haufen Mist. (in German). Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved 10 October 2021. Paywalled.
  5. Zehed, Ramin (24 April 2009) Thomas Borch Nielsen: Director, Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms. Animation Magazine. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  6. Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms at Box Office Mojo, an IMDb company. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  7. Disco Worms. Common Sense Media. Reviewed by Schonfeld, Renee. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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