Patrick: The Movie is an animated spin-off of the Johnny Thunder Saga that explores how Patrick Hooligans entered Lord Sam Sinister's gang, framed by the aftermath of the events of the short story Johnny Thunder and the Winter Vessel.
Plot Summary[]
The film opens in the Canadian Provisional Jail, where Patrick Hooligans, Lord Sam Sinister, and their entire gang has been held prisoner for endangering Cape Sable Harbor's seal population. Lord Sinister is in solitary confinement for hitting Patrick, and while they wait for anything, John Parker asks Patrick how he, Billy, and the rest joined Lord Sinister's gang. Patrick reminisces.
The scene flashes back to 1998 Mistden Island, where Nevada Smith and his archaeology intern Dave Anderson are navigating the crime-ridden streets to H. Frenchman's Bar. Inside, they announce that they're looking for some henchmen to help them find the tomb of King Ramalama Dingdong. Everyone laughs and dismisses them, except for Patrick and his group, who peer over in curiosity. Nevada Smith and Dave investigate the group, and the four introduce themselves.
A week later in Egypt, the group is plodding through the desert while Dave gives directions. As Helga carries the water, Dalton tackles her over the water. They wrestle and slam into a small shrine. Patrick thinks that they have found the tomb, but Helga confirms otherwise. As they continue on, the shrine sinks into the ground, sucking in Helga with it. As the group banters, Smith tells them all to shut up over a rumble.
With lumbering deliberation, the living statue of Sobek-Ra emerges from the sand and studies Dalton. The group runs off screaming, causing Sobek-Ra to give pursuit. Nevada Smith finds the entrance to the tomb and the remaining five enter. Patrick trips and falls, causing him to lose his bag of provisions. He throws his inventory at Sobek-Ra, but in doing so, lights a stick of dynamite in the process. Patrick runs as Sobek-Ra eats the dynamite, causing Sobek-Ra to blow up and bury the tomb entrance.
As they assess their situation, Dave demonstrates his ineptitude by giving an obvious analysis of the situation. They decide to move on, where they discover a large chamber that is filled with piles of sand. Dave digs through this sand to discover Amset-Ra's signal beacon. Little do they know that they're actually inside Amset-Ra's Scorpion Pyramid, though they look around and discover that everything else is gone (since Archibald Hale had it all removed after Jake Raines and his entourage defeated Amset-Ra). They all groan in defeat.
Over the next two days, they look for ways to escape. Dave tries to dig, but barely moves any sand. While Nevada Smith, Billy the Kid, and Patrick pile shoulders to reach the upper balcony, they discover that it goes nowhere.
Three days after they were first trapped, they group has resorted to eating bugs to stay alive. Dalton gives some reassuring words, but Nevada Smith, completely fed up with Dave's ineptitude, slaughters Dave and cooks his body. As Nevada Smith devours Dave's flesh, an explosion rings out from the passageway where they entered the tomb. They investigate and discover that Lord Sam Sinister has unintentionally rescued them.
As Patrick finishes up his story, Billy wonders if their days as treasure hunters will end in their jail cell. Just then, Lord Sinister, who escaped solitary confinement, blows up the back wall of the jail cell, freeing his henchmen. As they leave, John asks what happened to Amset-Ra's alien beacon. Patrick claims that it's lost in the mail.
At the Alpine Oil Refinery in Alaska, a cargo plane drops off a crate containing the signal beacon, which is loaded onto a truck. As the vehicle drives away, the crate falls out of the back and into a crevice. Smashing open, the device comes to rest inside of an ice cave, where it remains for several years. A Maelstrom Crystal activates and attaches to the device, shooting out a signal beacon into the sky.
In 2021 Mistden Island, Silencia Venomosa meets up with an informant outside of H. Frenchman's Bar. He tells her that his client is interested in her for her reputation. He then gives her a simple task: bring Billy the Kid to his client alive, who in interested in the ability to cheat death that he gained in the Chamber of the Hidden Mysteries.
Production History[]
Ever since Patrick Hooligans briefly mentioned in Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo about how he joined Lord Sam Sinister's gang and the immediate popularity of the said character, there was always quiet murmurings around the studio about the idea of giving Patrick his own movie. However, since Mustache Maniacs Film Co. did not want to end up getting stuck just making Johnny Thunder films, this project was shelved in favor of more diverse works, such as The Adventures of Legoman and Alpha Team: The Movie. Patrick would get his own Christmas film in 2009 with A Very Patrick Christmas.
Patrick: The Movie wouldn't be considered a serious project until 2018, right when the Bricks in Motion contest "Movie Magic" began. The contest was seen as a fun way to realize this project, but then, another project, The Pen, became too ambitious for its own contest, BRAWL 2018. Because of this, The Pen became the Movie Magic entry (though it ended up not being completed in time), while Patrick: The Movie became independent of any contest.
As work slowly progressed for Pharaoh's Quest: The Curse of Amset-Ra, Patrick: The Movie was ultimately pushed back to a 2020 release. However, all release dates for all then-future films were retracted by the end of 2019, giving this film no official release date at the time. In addition to this, the Covid-19 pandemic prevented this film's production from beginning, meaning that there was then no set time frame for this film's release.
When restrictions began to ease on May 21, 2020, this film officially began production, shortly after How To Build a Log Cabin was released. Filming started on recycled sets, before moving to all-new sets built specifically for the film.
On October 9, 2020, after two years since its announcement, it was officially confirmed that Patrick: The Movie would be released on Christmas Day 2020 as a way to send off an otherwise tough year on a silly, light-hearted note. The announcement also included the announcement for the short film The Employee of the Month, which would see its development completed in October before production on Patrick: The Movie wrapped up that November.
The film wrapped up most of its development on December 11, 2020, at which time it was shipped off to Dylan Johnson to compose the film's score. It is during this time that additional tweaks were made to the film ahead of its December 25 release, with the official trailer debuting on December 4. In a surprise to everyone working on the film, John Stabe was able to reprise his role as Nevada Smith.
Audience Reception[]
Audiences have received the film very well. There was a lot of anticipation for the film's release, which paid off in its positive reception. They have enjoyed the film's goofy nature, as well as seeing Patrick get his own film after twelve years. The ending has also made audiences excited for future films that are being teased.
Characters[]
- Patrick Hooligans (Garrett Schelske)
- William "Billy the Kid" Parker (Al Bermudez)
- John "Six Shots" Parker (Al Bermudez)
- Lord Sam Sinister (Andrew Bermudez)
- Nevada Smith (John Stabe)
- Helga Hunt (Teresa Bermudez)
- Dalton Harrod (Behrad Behnezhad)
- Dave Anderson (Marcus "Left Handed Dude")
- Bar Hooligan (cut from film)
- Officer Curt (cut from film)
- Beatrice Honey (cut from film)
- Sobek-Ra (n/a)
- Silencia Venomosa (Teresa Bermudez)
- Informant (Andrew Bermudez)
Locations[]
- Canadian Jail
- Mistden Island
- H. Frenchman's Bar
- Scorpion Pyramid
- Egypt
Credits[]
- Andrew Bermudez - Director; Producer; Writer; Animator; Voice Actor; Editor
- Garrett Schelske - Voice Actor
- Al Bermudez - Voice Actor
- Behrad Behnezhad - Voice Actor
- Marcus "Left Handed Dude" - Voice Actor
- Dylan Johnson - Composer
- John Stabe - Voice Actor
- Teresa Bermudez - Voice Actor
Tropes[]
Patrick: The Movie contains examples of the following tropes.
- Adaptational Abomination: In the Pharaoh's Quest story, Sobek-Ra was simply a square crocodile head with wings. While still being a statue, here he's a massive crocodile with antlion pincers, a scorpion tail, and giant eagle wings.
- Antlion Monster: Sobek-Ra, who is described as being a crocodile/antlion/eagle/scorpion hybrid.
- The Artifact: Dave Anderson's name is this, unbelievably. In the original script, Dave was given that name in order to set up a joke related to a children's show about vehicles where each episode would be titled There Goes A (name of vehicle). The main character was named (profession) Dave, which was referenced when Patrick would originally mourn Dave's (originally accidental) death by saying, "There goes your life, intern Dave!" However, when the script was changed to make Nevada Smith kill Dave, the joke no longer made sense and was therefore cut. In spite of this, Dave retained his name.
- Ascended Extra: Patrick himself technically counts, though he does have a pretty major role in the later Johnny Thunder films. However, Nevada Smith, Billy the Kid, and Dalton Harrod (the latter of which wasn't even named before this film) all count.
- Ascended Fanon: The character of Dalton Harrod was actually in Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo, but was only credited as Henchman #1. His character name was given to him by a YouTube user named Colby James, who wrote a comment that named some previously-unnamed henchmen from that film. While the proposed character description was declared non-canon, the name was introduced into the canon and was first used in this film.
- Bad-Guy Bar: Mistden has one of these, named H. Frenchman's Bar, which is where Nevada Smith and Dave Anderson first hire Patrick, Billy, and the rest.
- Book-Ends: The film starts and ends inside of the Canadian Jail where Lord Sinister and his gang were last seen at the end of Johnny Thunder and the Trail of Botnik. This is also played with with respect to the flashback and the present events, as Lord Sinister is seen planting the dynamite that frees his henchmen in the same manner in both 1998 and 2020.
- Bounty Hunter: Silencia Venomosa is canonically a bounty hunter, though her actions in-universe (as well as in her 1998 cameo) make her more of a mercenary or assassin. Several production documents also refer to her as a hired gun.
- Build Like an Egyptian: Though it's hardly made clear in the film itself, Nevada Smith and his team find themselves trapped in a pyramid.
- Bumbling Sidekick: This movie not only stars one with Patrick Hooligans, it also has its own in the form of Dave Anderson.
- Captain Obvious: Parodied with Dave Anderson. When Nevada Smith's group gets trapped inside of the pyramid corridor, Dave analyzes the destroyed remains of Sobek-Ra and concludes that the reason that they are trapped is that they cannot leave.
- Continuity Nod: Being a film focused on Patrick Hooligans' past, these are all over the place. They are as follows:
- At the beginning of the film, The villains' discussion talks about Patrick playing with seals and Lord Sinister hitting Patrick. This references both the end of Johnny Thunder and the Winter Vessel and the bad joke that Patrick tells in Johnny Thunder and the Trail of Botnik.
- On the streets of Mistden, there are several sights that make reference to other characters and events. Silencia Venomosa (who, in 1998, was just getting into the bounty hunting business) is seen outside a market accepting a job, and across the street is a dilapidated front for a Solarum Industries office, naturally from the film Solarum.
- Dave Anderson says that he and Nevada Smith are looking for the tomb of Ramalama Dingdong. This refers to the film that was created in the Pioneer Drama Service play Unwrapped (which is fully canonical). This connection is strengthened when Nevada Smith realizes that Dave Anderson has simply been leading them to the tomb by reading David O. Dimwit's shooting script from that story.
- Sobek-Ra himself is technically a nod to Pharaoh's Quest: The Curse of Amset-Ra, since he's the last of Amset-Ra's stone guardians to be awakened. His coloration even matches the other guardians.
- The main chamber of the tomb that Nevada Smith's team is trapped inside is the same as the one where the finale for Pharaoh's Quest: The Curse of Amset-Ra takes place, meaning that the team is trapped inside Amset-Ra's Scorpion Pyramid, though it's worn down from age.
- The alien signal beacon is one for Pharaoh's Quest: The Curse of Amset-Ra, since its the exact same device seen in that film, though it is worn from age.
- Just like how its described in Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo, Nevada Smith takes his frustrations out on Dave Anderson by killing him and eating his flesh.
- Also just like how its described in Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo, Lord Sam Sinister is the one who saves Patrick, Billy, and the rest at the end of the flashback.
- If that crystal in the ice cave looks familiar, that's because it's a Maelstrom Crystal, like the one seen at the end of Baron Typhonus' staff in Alpha Team: Mission Deep Jungle.
- Silencia Venomosa doesn't speak until her scene after the end credits, since one event that had yet to happen before 1998, but did happen long before 2021, was her giving up her vow of silence.
- Cut-and-Paste Environments: In a strange variation, this film reuses sets from films that had not yet been released at the time of production. These sets included Mistden Street and the Henchman Bar from Johnny Thunder and the Wonders Beneath the Waves and an ice cave from Mysteries of the Arctic. The Pyramid Chamber and the Canadian Jail (from Pharaoh's Quest: The Curse of Amset-Ra and Johnny Thunder and the Trail of Botnik, respectively) play this straight, however.
- Dig Attack: This is how Sobek-Ra ambushes Nevada Smith's team.
- Doomed by Canon: Since Patrick tells Lord Sam Sinister in Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo that his team was rescued after they had finished eating their partner, guess what happens to Dave Anderson.
- Dramatic Slip: Patrick makes one as he is being pursued by Sobek-Ra.
- Dumb Is Good: Sort of. Technically speaking, no one here is actually good, but the biggest idiots in this film also happen to be the nicest characters. While Nevada Smith and Helga Hunt are (relatively) smarter, they're also far more unpleasant people.
- Early-Bird Cameo: In the shots that take place in Mistden, one of the colorful, and well-armed, locals that is going about their business is Silencia Venomosa, who was already confirmed to be a canonical character, but makes her first actual appearance in the cinematic universe here.
- Egypt is Still Ancient: Just like Pharaoh's Quest: The Curse of Amset-Ra, this trope is both justified and averted. Very little of modern Egypt is seen (just one building in the title sequence), yet it clearly shows an Islamic-style building. The rest of the time in Egypt is either spent in the desert or inside the ruins of an Ancient Egyptian pyramid.
- Enraged by Idiocy: This is what causes Nevada Smith to kill Dave Anderson and eat his flesh.
- Eye Pop: What the group's camel does upon seeing Sobek-Ra before running away.
- Flying Postman: The scene at the Alpine Oil Refinery features a cargo plane, implying this trope.
- Foreshadowing: And how! This film ends with no less than three instances of foreshadowing.
- The first is the villains themselves escaping from jail, since it was already confirmed that they're going to be the antagonists in Johnny Thunder and the Wonders Beneath the Waves.
- The second is Amset-Ra's alien signal beacon being lost in the Arctic, then being activated by the Maelstrom years later. This sets up the plot for Mysteries of the Arctic.
- The third and final one is after the end credits, when the informant assigns Silencia to go looking for Billy the Kid, hinting at the events of the film Venomosa: The Bounty of Billy the Kid.
- Grim Up North: Invoked with Amset-Ra's alien signal beacon being lost in Alaska. It was just lost in the mail, but then years later, the Maelstrom reactivates it and signals for hordes to come...which is then followed up on in Mysteries of the Arctic.
- Historical Character Confusion: Played for laughs with Dave Anderson, who calls Napoleon Bonaparte by the name Neapolitan Boulevard. He also claims that he founded Rosetta Stone (which is an educational language-learning software company named after the famous artifact).
- Idiot Plot: This is the main reason that director Andrew Bermudez has called this film a foil to Johnny Thunder and the Trail of Botnik. Both films involve two, unrelated groups being forced to work together to find a treasure. They have their disagreements along the way, then they eventually come together as a team, even though they don't get the treasure. What sets this film apart is HOW this unfolds. While Johnny Thunder and the Trail of Botnik ultimately ends with everyone resolving their differences and intentionally leaving the treasure, this film ends with Lord Sinister forcing them to work together, with the treasure being already gone by the time they arrive.
- Lethally Stupid: The character of Dave Anderson, though he's mostly lethal to himself.
- Living Statues: Sobek-Ra is the last of Amset-Ra's living statue guardians, which Nevada Smith and his team accidentally awake.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Sobek-Ra is mostly a giant crocodile statue, but also has antlion larva pincers, eagle wings, and a scorpion tail.
- No Party Like a Donner Party: Just like how it was described in Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo, Nevada Smith takes his famished frustrations out on Dave Anderson by slaughtering him and cooking his body to eat.
- Pit Trap: This is what the shrine with the yellow jewel lures unsuspecting explorers into.
- Pyramid Power: Though not displaying great powers, the pyramid that Nevada Smith and his gang are trapped inside of is actually Amset-Ra's Pyramid, complete with its original signal beacon inside.
- Real Is Brown: To make the Egyptian desert look as dry and barren as possible, all of the colors used on those sets were in the realm of yellowish-brown, with only gold, dark blue, and dark red accentuating the ruins of any man-made structures.
- Resolved Noodle Incident: In Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo, Patrick, taking Lord Sinister's rhetorical question about how he got his henchmen literally, tells him that he saved them from an Egyptian Tomb that they were trapped inside, forcing them to eat one of their own. This film takes that comment and turns it into the overall plot.
- Saved by Canon: Anyone who has seen Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo knows that Patrick Hooligans, Nevada Smith, Billy the Kid, and Dalton Harrod have to survive this story, since they all appear in that film.
- Schmuck Bait: The shrine that Dalton Harrod and Helga Hunt ram into while fighting is quite alluring, with striking gold spikes and a bright yellow jewel. It looks too good to be true, and it is; that's actually the tip of Sobek-Ra's tail.
- Signs of Disrepair: The sign for H. Frenchman's Bar is damaged in such a way that it looks like it actually reads Henchman Bar, which is the bar's entire purpose in this film.
- Snail Mail: Played for laughs with Patrick's crate containing the signal beacon. It's lost in the mail for literally 22 years...and it ends up at the wrong address, anyway. Then again, Patrick's shipping label wasn't very clear on that front, so you can't completely blame the USPS.
- Spin-Off: This film is officially a spin-off of the Johnny Thunder Saga, as it places the secondary character Patrick Hooligans into a starring role. Even the main antagonist from that series, Lord Sam Sinister, is relegated to a cameo at the end of this film in order to focus on Patrick.
- The Stinger: Stay until after the end credits, and you'll see another scene on Mistden Island. Silencia Venomosa accepts a job from an informant to capture Billy the Kid and deliver him alive, setting up the storyline for the film Venomosa: The Bounty of Billy the Kid.
- A Tale Told by an Idiot: In this film, Patrick Hooligans is the one telling what happens. Subverted in that not only is the tale canonically correct, John Parker takes the tale to be 100% accurate. Some could argue that this is justified in that Billy, who was also there, is siting next to Patrick and can therefore correct any factual errors.
- Thirsty Desert: Downplayed, but the members of Nevada Smith's expedition put a lot of emphasis on how little water they have. Also, Sobek-Ra spooks their only camel, which runs off with most of their supplies.
- Too Dumb to Live: Parodied with both Patrick Hooligans and Dave Anderson. Both are utter morons and completely naïve about the archaeology business, but are somehow able to survive everything that is thrown at Nevada Smith's gang. At the very least, Patrick actually survives the adventure, while Dave does succumb to Nevada Smith's temper in the 11th hour.
- Trash Talk: How Helga Hunt talks about her peers.
- Villain Protagonist: As beloved as Patrick Hooligans is, he is still a villain (to a certain degree), as are most of the characters in this film, making them all count as this trope.
- Villains Out Shopping: Played with immensely in this film. While the villains in the present are locked up in jail for their villainy, Patrick's story technically takes place before he became one of Lord Sinister's cohorts. However, he double subverts this by joining a gang of outcast thugs on Mistden Island, an island that embraces villainy, so he could be stretched to be counted a villain then, along with his cohorts. In Egypt, his band does act like just a regular archaeological team, albeit a lot more incompetent, but by the end, they have finally joined Lord Sinister's gang.
- When It All Began: Basically, the premise of this film with respect to Patrick Hooligans and his fellow henchmen.
- Whole Episode Flashback: With the exceptions of the beginning and the end, the entire film is one big flashback for how Patrick Hooligans got into the adventuring business.
- Wretched Hive: Mistden Island, the crime-ridden island where Nevada Smith gathers his gang, is this.
Trivia[]
- This film's flashback takes place in 1998 to commemorate the year that the first LEGO Adventurers sets were released.
- While it is only a cameo, this film is the first time that the Dimension 418 version of Silencia Venomosa has ever made an official appearance.
- The only returning character that had his original actor replaced was Dalton Harrod. In Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo (where the character was only credited as Henchman #1), the role was played by Al Bermudez. In this film, the role is played by Behrad Behnezhad, who reprises his role for Johnny Thunder and the Secret of Marco Polo: The Adventure Retold.
Gallery[]
Documents[]
- Script (COMING 2024)
External Links[]
- Official Web Page
- Trailer on YouTube
- Film on YouTube
- Art Gallery on YouTube (LINK COMING SOON)
- Production Gallery on YouTube (COMING 2024)
- Soundtrack on YouTube