Teen Titans: The Movie

Teen Titans: The Movie is a 2012 film adaptation of Teen Titans, which was released in theatrical release on April 13, 2012. Scott Menville, Greg Cipes, Hynden Walch, Tara Strong and Khary Payton reprised their roles.

Teen Titans: The Movie became a huge success for the markets. It gained mixed to positive reviews becoming one of the best reviewed films of the year, and also was a box office success earning $225 million worldwide.

Following the success of Teen Titans: The Movie, Warner Bros. and DC Nation announces that they would bring Teen Titans back into television with a new show Teen Titans Go! in 2013.

Plot
The H.I.V.E. Five enters the city park and unleashed a creature deep underground named Tron to set to destroy the world. Meanwhile, Teen Titans approaches and figures out that Tron has been unleashed, but they have never met him before. After they spoted no trouble in the city, they head to the park where met Tron and were attacked by his robot leaving them alone. Meanwhile, Tron, and the H.I.V.E. Five members entered the Titan Tower, destroying it and steal the power supply to regain to Tron and break it in pieces causing the Titans to lose their powers. They also injured their pet Silkie. As they returned to the Tower, they found that Silkie is dying. Another chance to get their powers restored is to head to the island called Titans Power.

Meanwhile, Titan East assistances to protect the world and Mas and Memos takes care of Silkie. The Titans are attacked by Tron’s robots but are being rescued by island’s owner Rebecca, who assistances to get their powers restored on their own gives them five ninja powers to journey to the woods. After defeating four dirt monsters, their powers finally restored and captured the new power supply. Rebecca told the the Titans that they also have gain new power abilities to create a powerful invisibility.

Back in the city, everything seems normal, but turns out that people are possed by Tron's monsters including Titan East members Bumblebee, Aqualad, Speedy and later Starfire, having being kidnapped by Mammoth. While Robin, Raven, Cyborg and Beast Boy are battling against Tron, Mas and Memos rescued their entire friends and Starfire. Meanwhile, she rescued her friends and helped them defeating Tron, and the H.I.V.E. Five were arrested.

The Titans returned to the Tower, and they realized that they are too late to save Silkie. Realzing by Beast Boy that there is chance left, the Titans used their ninja powers to rebuild the base and bringing Silkie back to life, and Robin returns the power supply. Afterwards, the Titans had a party at the Titan tower celebrating to the world of thanking the Titans for saving the world, while Robin and Starfire shared their kiss.

Cast

 * Scott Menville as Robin
 * Greg Cipes as Beast Boy
 * Hynden Walch as Starfire
 * Khary Payton as Cyborg
 * Tara Strong as Raven
 * Lauren Tom as Jinx, Gizmo
 * Ashley Johnson as Rebecca, Terra
 * Ron Perlman as Tron
 * T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh as Bumblebee
 * Mike Erwin as Speedy
 * Wi Wheaton as Aqualad
 * Michael Rosenbaum as Kid Flash
 * Freddy Rodriguez as Más y Menos
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Mammoth, See-More
 * Jason Marsden as Billy Numerous

Production
After the cancelation of Teen Titans in 2006, DC Comics and Warner Bros. will release an animated film adaptation of the TV series into theaters on April 13, 2012 with the original cast reprising their roles. Diretor Michael Chang, who did Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, will return to direct a theatrical film version as well as crew members. Scott Menville, Greg Cipes, Hynden Walch, Khary Payton and Tara Strong will reprise their roles. It's production budget will cost $40 million to produce.

Teen Titans: The Movie will have the same animation, but will have a theatrical release version of the drawing comparing from the TV series to have a dramatic look inside the film. Chang states "bringing animated shows to theaters will be a big thing, because they are trying to make it into a feature length movie, not making it into some boring drawing from the show itself.

English composer Alexandre Desplat will compose the film's soundtrack. Green Day will record the film's theme song. Puffy AmiYumi's song "Friends Forever" will be included in the film's soundtrack.

Release
Teen Titans: The Movie will be released into theaters everywhere starting on April 13, 2012. The film's trailer was released in front of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked on December 16, 2011. A video game with the same title was released on April 4, 2012. According to MPPA, the film received a PG rating for "rude humor and mild action" as of March 1, 2012. On March 31, 2012, Facebook and Warner Bros. said that they will stream a full movie live on Facebook and will have to buy the price of $30.00 to register to pay to see the film screened live on Facebook. This is to the fact that Facebook stating that the copyright belongs to Warner Bros., not Facebook.

Warner Bros. relased the film's new clip entitled "The End of the World" on April 7, 2012. A 31 second new TV spot was also released the same day. The following day, a 1 minute and 45 second promo featurette was released featuring the Titans into action. Teen Titans: The Movie had a world premiere in Los Angeles on April 9, 2012. Teen Titans: The Movie opens in 1,255 theaters at midnight, and 3,755 theaters nationwide starting on April 13, 2012.

Early test screening
The film's early test screening premiered on January 27, 2012 and received early positive reviews stating "the kids missed their favorite superheroes, and will be thrilled to see them returning and heading to theaters. Director and producer of the film attended the film's premiere, says that this could be at least the year's most anticipated film so far.

Criticial reception
Teen Titans: The Movie received mixed to positive reviews. As of April 14, 2012, the film scored a positive 95% from Rotten Tomatoes, based from 225 views, stating that comicbook fans realized that the movie feels like Kick-Ass with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but has a different feeling into it. It was also listed as one of the "best reviewed film" of the year so far. IGN gave a film 8/10 calling it "the best movie of the year so far." Metacritic scored Teen Titans: The Movie a 75, based on 30 views, becoming its favorite reviewed film this year so far. Adam Brown of New York magazine gave it a postive review stating that "it's a movie that nerdy fans have been waiting for, and feels like others have seen Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie back in 1995." Robert Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a mixed 2 1/2 out of 4 stars stating: "The movie feels like celebrating a reunion of the cancelled show from 2003 to 2006 on Cartoon Network seems neccessary enough to bring fans to watch their favorite characters, but most no longer watch them because he heard or seen children grow quickly.

Box office
In midnight showings, Teen Titans: The Movie grossed $3.2 million. On its opening day, it grossed $18,219,661, bringing its total to $42,141,860 on its opening weekend making it it #1 at the box office finally ending The Hunger Games from being #1 at the box office after three weeks. Overseas, it roses the #1 position in the U.K. (£4,220,860), Australia (AU$4,150,886), Norway (5,220,000 NOK) and Japan (¥710,860,988). In total, the film brought in $21,000,000 ranking #3 behind Titanic 3D and Battleship, for a worldwide total of $66,141,860. The film closed in theaters on August 9, 2012. Teen Titans: The Movie grossed $96,005,195 in North America, with $129,400,000 in foreign markets, bringing its total to $225,405,195 worldwide.

Home media
Teen Titans: The Movie was released on DVD and Blu Ray on August 28, 2012. It was released a day earlier in the United Kingdom.

Television release
Following the success of Teen Titans: The Movie, Warner Bros. announced that they could return Teen Titans on television with its new series, Teen Titans Go!, which is set to release in 2013 on DC Nation.