Ozzy (film)

2016 Spanish film

Ozzy

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Alberto Rodríguez
Nacho La Casa
Screenplay by| Juan Ramón Ruiz de Somavía
Story by| Juan Ramón Ruiz de Somavía
Produced by| Jeff Bell
Ibón Cormenzana
Phyllis Laing
Nacho La Casa
Ignasi Estapé
Ken Zorniak
Music by| Fernando Velázquez

Production
companies

Arcadia Motion Pictures
Tangent Animation

Distributed by| Buena Vista International[1] (Spain)
Entertainment One Films (Canada)

Release date

* October 14, 2016 (2016-10-14) (Spain)

Running time

| 90 minutes
Countries| Spain
Canada
Language| English
Budget| $8.5 million

Ozzy (also known as Ozzy: The Great Furscape) is a 2016 animated comedy film. The film stars Guillermo Romero, José Mota, Fernando Tejero, and Michelle Jenner.

The English dub consists of Jeff Foxworthy, Rob Schneider, Frankie Quinones, and introducing Lexi Walker.

## Plot

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Ozzy a Beagle dog, living a great life with his family the Martins, Susan, Ted, and his best friend Paula but one day when the family gotten an invitation letter to a Comic Festival in Japan they were all very happy that they are going on vacation but unfortunately they can not take Ozzy on this trip due to a quarantine period. They call all their relatives and ask if they could look after him but they all refuse after that they see an advert on tv, It was an advertisement for a Dog hotel called Blue Creek, where anyone can leave their dog while traveling to another country.

The family takes Ozzy to Blue Creek where they meet a man named Mr. Robbins the owner of the hotel where he shows them the entire place and it had steaming saunas and a massage room Susan and Ted are really impressed and they decide to keep Ozzy in Blue Creek while they’re gone. As the Martins leave for their vacation the whole hotel had appeared to be deceit as Mr. Robbins and his assistant Dominic loaded Ozzy and several other dogs in to a truck and drove them to a place where they stop to, when the truck door opens a Great Dane chief guard dog named Decker orders them out of the truck Ozzy was now in the real Blue Creek which is actually a Dog Prison he realizes what a mess he's in and tries to escape but fails as the gate closed and he was caught up by the guards he then meets the warden of the prison Grunt a St. Bernard who Ozzy explained that he was brought to the prison by mistake but he ignores what he was saying and snatches his collar and identity him as 463 the guards process him and locks him up in a cell where he meets a short-sighted Dachshund named Fronky who tells him that everyone had been waiting for their owners to come back for them but never did Ozzy was sorry for them but he was sure that his family will come back for him Fronky also shares to Ozzy that he is planning to escape and said he can join him if he wants too.

In the morning Decker put Ozzy to work by separating different coloured toy saucers but after making a mistake and a mess on the conveyor belt prisoners throw him in a washing machine as punishment and washed, after being served Cat food to eat he finds somewhere to sit down but nobody allowed him to sit them so Fronky gives him a place to sit and also then becomes friends with an elderly Fox terrier named Chester and an speechless Old English sheepdog named Doc, on Chester’s job he takes comics to prisoners cells due to his leg injury he then tells Ozzy that he was abandoned by his owners here on terrible condition of his leg problem and also tells him to give up hope on the return of his family but Ozzy refused to believe that knowing that his family will come back for him.

Later a small dog called Radar informs the others that it is day 6, meaning that Vito the ruler of the inmates was being released from the hole who Ozzy never knew about, when Vito was released it turns out that he is a small black-and-white Chihuahua, as Ozzy mention what he was like Vito gets angry as he walks up to Ozzy and pins him, Decker warned Vito that he will be thrown in the hole again for this retaliation so he tells Ozzy that they’ll meet again soon then leaves with his henchmen. On one morning when Ozzy awakens he saw that Fronky was gone, as he went to tell the others Fronky was thrown by the guard as he fails, on his 15th attempt to escape by just some technical mistakes like climbing down the roof, going through air vents and hang gliding over the walls but always ending up in Grant’s office he refuses to give up trying to escape as he reveals that he is a Guide dog to a blind man named Bob who he helps show paths just then Radar appears and informs Ozzy that Vito called him up for a meet up when he approaches to him he was interested in Ozzy’s running and invited him in a race against Flash his runner, when they were racing Flash was in the lead for the whole race, but near to the end Ozzy overtakes him and wins the race after that Vito gets rid of Flash and proposes Ozzy to be his runner to beat the prison guards in a race Ozzy wanted some time to think about the offer so Vito gives him 24 hours to think before answering.

The next day Fronky, Chester and Doc tells him not to do it that the races will get him into more trouble and will treat the same way like the last Runner, as Vito comes to Ozzy he made up his mind and refuses his offer, as Vito tells him, he can make his life easy or he can make it hard as later he and other Dogs started throwing balls at him, making him run into Grant who he shares his problem with and tells him to play on his behalf to be Vito’s runner and lose the race intentionally to make him win but Ozzy refuses his proposal too and now pursued by both sides now Vito and Grunt are trying to pressure him like getting beaten up by the guards, not giving him anything to eat and making him do a lot of digging work, Fronky and Doc helps him out but then also suffers the same fate as they were given night shifts in the factory Ozzy was sorry for them and promise to make things right when his family returns however Decker shows that a month has just passed 1 day ago and tells him no one is coming to get him which left him upset, when the Martins did return to pick up Ozzy, Mr. Robbins secretly lied to them saying that he died of an illness leaving them heartbroken and also leaving Paula in tears.

After so much work and torture Ozzy agrees to both Vito and Grunt’s offers but plans to double-cross both of them and makes up a plan to escape the prison, Fronky and Doc agreed to join him but except Chester who remains to stay out of trouble and leaves.

Onto the escape plan they Plan to get into the truck by hiding in the boxes of toy saucers to get there they need to use the underground passages to get to the factory but they need to use the blueprint to find their way which was in the warden’s office, Fronky try to ask Chester to help them but refuses suddenly after threatening to do his business on the comics Chester agreed to help them, later while Grant was gone and Fronky cleaning the windows, Ozzy, Chester and Doc goes into the office and searches for the blueprint and while trying to find it Doc found some pictures of him and his owner Mike who he misses so much and Ozzy promised him he gonna see him again, after they found the blueprint they cleaned up the mess and Grant suddenly came back into the office and they hide, Grant became suspicious and searches in his room, Ozzy and the others managed to escape through the window and grab onto Fronky and they fall and landed safely on a bush, after that they then continue with their plan while Ozzy trains for the race Fronky and Doc digs a tunnel that leads directly to the factory and doing his training, Vito and Grant meet up to talk and makes a deal, Vito demands if Ozzy wins they’ll have to give the prisoners real food what Grant and the guards been eating and nobody sent to the hole for a month, Grant agrees but he demand if Ozzy loses the prisoners will be given night shifts and be given cat food again and they will all be wearing muscles until next spring, Vito also agrees and they both shook on the deal which made Ozzy a little worried, on the day when the race arrived Chester comes in the locker room and tells them if they escape it will turn into a nightmare to the prisoners and tries convincing them not to escape, but Doc ties him up and covers his mouth with Duct tape but however Ozzy was worried that If they do escape the prisoners will have to face severe torture, and thinks he should give up the escape and try and win the race for them, Fronky remind him that they were all beating him up to make him run, Ozzy decided that they should vote on this and they’ve all decided that they’re going to escape.

Ozzy comes to the racetrack and started racing against the prison guards, undefeated champion Jock, where it was all even throughout the whole race but when they were about to finish the race all the lights went out for a few seconds then when they came back on everyone saw that Ozzy was gone much to Vito anger he ordered his henchman to go find him but however all of the doors were locked and they couldn’t get out, just then Ozzy started his escape with his friends who also took the tied up Chester with them, they had made it to the factory through the air vent and they jump down into the boxes, all of the boxes were loaded up into the trunk where Mr. Robbins and Dominic we’re waiting when the truck started to leave they were happy that they are leaving the prison however the truck stops and the doors were opened by Decker who caught the four dogs and they follow him devastated much more to their sadness that Chester explained to them that he left an oil stain behind in Grant’s office and he knew they went in there,they were really heartbroken hearing this as he too afraid that he break his front legs and only wanted to stay to not get in to any trouble much more to it as he along with Fronky and Doc were thrown in the hole and Ozzy being sent to the warden‘s office where a furious Grant approaches to attack him but Ozzy stopped him by destroying some of his bone sculptures and locks him and Decker outside the office he then uses a microphone to talk to all the prisoners, saying that he doesn't regret what he did in the race but he would never win the race because it was fixed shocking them all, Ozzy even tells them that Grunt was the winner in the race all these times, and they made them to forget that they were freed once he then said that he is no one’s champion and he is not 463 and revealed to them that his true name was Ozzy, he then helps them all to remember by throwing all the collars that Grant took away from them out the window which had recollect the prisoners memories, including Vito (who’s true name is actually Sugar).

Now knowing that they don’t belong in the prison, all the prison dogs band together in a fight against the prison guards so they can be free they’ve even captured Mr. Robbins and took him away and Vito takes on a fight against Grant, during all of that Ozzy managers to free Fronky and Chester but while trying to free Doc he gets attacked by Decker, but he managed to defeat him by aiming a saucer at him with a little help with Fronky flying on a fire extinguisher and they freed Doc, and Vito defeats Grant by launching himself at him as a big blow which caused him to crash onto the button which has opened the gate when it was opened Ozzy and his friends jumps on top of the truck which Dominic was driving out of the prison, and all the prisoners runs out of the prison to their freedom, while Vito settle some unfinished business with Grant and Decker.

When they got back to the city Ozzy returned Fronky and Doc home to their rightful owners and both happily reunite with them, on Ozzy’s way home Chester was the only one left but had nowhere to go, back home the Martins we’re having breakfast and they were still despondent on their loss of Ozzy Suddenly, Ozzy barks making them astonished as Paula found him under the table and they were overjoyed that he was alive and he introduces them to Chester, at first Ted refuses to adopt him but Paula and Susan agrees to keep him and Chester now becomes part of the family.

Sometime later, a reporter announce that Mr. Robbins was sentence to 20 years behind bars for animal cruelty and all the prison dogs were reunited with their families and owners and Ozzy even learned to never allow fear to paralyze him as he, Chester and all neighbours dogs stand up against the evil paperboy which caused him and his dog to run away in fear.

## Voice cast

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* Guillermo Romero as Ozzy
* Dani Rovira as Fronki
* José Mota as Vito
* Carlos Areces as Nathaniel Robbins
* Michelle Jenner as Paula
* Fernardo Tejero as Radar
* Elsa Pataky as Madden
* Pablo Espinosa as Mike
* Selu Nieto as Dominic

### English dub

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* Jeff Foxworthy as Grunt
* Rob Schneider as Vito
* Frankie Quinones as Radar
* Lexi Walker as Paula
* Jeff Espinoza as Jeff
* Stephen Hughes as Ted, Nathaniel Robbins, Twin #1, Carlin, Mike
* Robbie K. Jones as Tex, Dominic, Twin 2
* José Luis Martinez as Remy, Afghan Commentator, Additional Voices
* Jonathan D. Mellor as Chester
* Benjamin Nathan-Serio as Ozzy, Eddie, Fronky
* Amanda J. Nolan as Susan
* Kurt Schiller as Bob
* Jimmy Shaw as Decker
* Colleen Terry as Maddie (Ozzy’s girlfriend), Reporter
* Garrett Wall as Flash

Additional voices by Jeff Espinoza, Stephen Hughes, Robbie K. Jones, José Luis Martinez, Kurt Schiller, and Garrett Wall

## Crew

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### English dub

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* Joseph Wilka - Voice Director

## Production

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The film was co-produced by Spain's Arcadia Motion Pictures, Capitán Araña, and Pachacamac, and Winnipeg's Tangent Animation. Pre-production was done in Spain, and animation was produced in Canada using Blender software.[1]

Executive producer, Jeff Bell described the movie as a "Pixar-like quality that falls into the prison movie genre with funny tributes to the great prison classics. It's a story about friendship, loyalty, courage and the ability to find the best in ourselves when facing a tough situation".

The film had a budget of 8.5 million dollars.[2]

## Release

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Disney released the film in Spain on 14 October 2016. The film was released by Signature in the U.K. on 21 October 2016, and Entertainment One in Canada.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Disney Will Release 'Ozzy' in Spain Tomorrow". Cartoon Brew. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
2. ^ Tangent Animation: Making Ozzy with Blender, retrieved 2021-03-11

## External links

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* Ozzy at IMDb
* Ozzy at Rotten Tomatoes
* Ozzy at Library and Archives Canada

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