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CyberWorld

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CyberWorld
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
  • Colin Davies
  • Elaine Despins
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Hugh Murray
  • Todd Alcott
  • Additional story work:
  • Mark Smith
Produced by
  • Steve Hoban
  • Hugh Murray
Starring
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byIMAX Corporation
Release date
  • October 6, 2000 (2000-10-06)
Running time
44 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$16.7 million[2]

CyberWorld is a 2000 American 3D[3] animated anthology film shown in IMAX and IMAX 3D, presented by Intel. Several segments originally filmed in 2-D were converted to 3-D format by IMAX. As presented on its website, it was labelled the first 3D animated film in IMAX.

Plot

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A guide named Phig commences the movie by showing the audience the "CyberWorld", a futuristic museum of infinite possibilities. Meanwhile, three computer bugs (Buzzed, Wired, and Frazzled) try to eat the CyberWorld through its number coding. When Phig learns about them, she goes on the hunt for the destructive computer bugs while presenting various short premade clips of computer-animated productions, such as scenes from Antz and Homer³ from The Simpsons.

In the end, Buzzed, Wired and Frazzled create a black hole (the one seen in "Homer³"), which kills them. Phig got almost swallowed up in the hole, but not before her "knight in cyber armour," technician Hank, reboots the entire system just as she gets sucked up into the vortex. Phig concludes the movie by explaining to the audience that none of the events caused by the bugs ever occurred. She attempts to summon her battle gear to prove her point, only to receive a pink bunny outfit in return (a similar trick the bugs played on her in the film's midsection).

Selected segments

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  • The dance sequence from the animated feature Antz
  • The CGI parts of the "Homer³" segment from The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror VI"
  • The music video of the Pet Shop Boys song "Liberation"
  • "Monkey Brain Sushi", a short film created by Brummbaer at Sony Pictures Imageworks
  • KraKKen: Adventure of Future Ocean, a short film created by ExMachina
  • "Joe Fly", a short film created By Spans & Partner
  • "Flipbook and Waterfall City", a short film created by Satoshi Kitahara
  • "Tonight's Performance", a short film created by REZN8 specifically for the film

Cast

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Release

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CyberWorld premiered at the Universal Citywalk IMAX Theater on October 1, 2000. It is the first IMAX film with a PG rating (some language from the Antz and Simpsons segments).

Reception

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Box office

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CyberWorld was a box office success, grossing $11,253,900 in the domestic box office and $5,400,000 overseas for a worldwide total of $16,653,900.[2]

Critical response

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On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 55% based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 6.18/10.[4] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53/100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[5]

Roger Ebert, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, praised the film for accurately presenting what 3D technology is capable of. He particularly singled out the size of the IMAX screens the film was projected on. He wrote, "(The film) takes advantage of the squarish six-story screen to envelop us in the images; the edges of the frame don't have the same kind of distracting cutoff power they possess in the smaller rectangles of conventional theatres."[6]

Contrarily, Paul Tatara of CNN.com was displeased with the film's over-reliance on 3D effects, continuing to say, "Unfortunately, you can't escape the sensation that you might end up wearing the contents of your stomach while you watch it."[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "CYBERWORLD (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. October 12, 2000. Archived from the original on November 5, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "CyberWorld 3-D". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. October 25, 2002. Archived from the original on November 5, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
  3. ^ "Cyberworld 3D (2000) - Turner Classic Movies". Archived from the original on 2023-10-26. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  4. ^ CyberWorld at Rotten Tomatoes
  5. ^ "CyberWorld". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 17, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
  6. ^ Ebert, Roger. "Cyberworld 3D". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  7. ^ Tatara, Paul (October 5, 2000). "Watch 'CyberWorld 3D' with open eyes, empty stomach". CNN.com. Archived from the original on October 2, 2023. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
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