MOVIE · 2001

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

ActionAdventureAnimationComedyFamilySci-Fi83 min

Debi Derryberry is Jimmy, a kid inventor whose towering brainpower tends to outpace his social skills. After one of his homemade experiments sends a signal into space, aliens swoop in and kidnap the parents of Retroville, leaving Jimmy to organize the town’s kids into a rescue mission of his own. With best friend Carl (Jeffrey Garcia) and his robotic dog Goddard alongside him, he turns amusement-park rides and scrap-built gadgets into a fleet headed for orbit. The movie mixes suburban kid comedy with oversized sci-fi contraptions, rubber-chicken spacecraft, and a hero who thinks faster than everyone around him.