Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms

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Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms
Danish theatrical release poster
Directed by	Thomas Borch Nielsen
Screenplay by	Thomas Borch Nielsen Morten Dragsted
Produced by	Nina Crone
Edited by	Kirsten Skytte
Music by	Jörg Lemberg [de]
Production companies	Crone Film Radar Film
Distributed by	Svensk Filmindustri
Release dates	10 October 2008 (2008-10-10) (Denmark) 29 October 2009 (2009-10-29) (Germany)
Running time	75 minutes
Countries	Denmark Germany
Languages	Danish German
Budget	$5,000,000
Box office	$6,371,879

Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms (Danish: Disco ormene; German: Sunshine Barry und die Discowürmer; also known as simply Disco Worms) is a 2008 animated musical comedy film directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen from a screenplay by Nielsen and Morten Dragsted.

Premise

Earthworm Barry gets no respect and lives at the bottom of the food chain, but one day he finds an old disco record which arouses his interest in music, and, with help from friend Tito, they decide to create the greatest disco band the world has ever seen: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms.

Voice cast

• Peter Frödin as Bjarne (Barry)
• Lars Hjortshøj as Niller
• Trine Dyrholm as Gloria
• Troels Lyby as Jimmy
• Helle Dolleris [da] as Donna
• Birthe Neumann as Mor
• Peter Hesse Overgaard [da] as Far
• Henning Jensen as Tonni Dennis
• Niels Anders Thorn [da] as Justesen
• Olaf Nielsen [da] as Naturspeaker
• Kim Hagen Jensen as Promotor
• Tonni Zinck as Skolopender
• Casper Byriel Svane as Flue
• Kirsten Skytte and Margit Rosenaa as Døgnflue
• Fedor Bondarchuk as Tonni Dennis
• Denis Hückel as Käfer
• Olavi Uusivirta as Aaro

Production

In total, production lasted 16 months on a budget of $5 million. According to Nielsen, the character designs and script took a year to complete. The film also faced difficulty with finding financing, which inevitably took 8 months to find.

Release

The film was released in Danish theatres on 10 October 2008, and opened with $225,324 for a total of $1,936,776. In Germany, the film was released on 29 October 2009, and grossed $33,604. The worldwide gross for Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms was $6,371,879.

Critically, the film received generally average to negative reviews.

References

External links

• Official website (in Danish) [archived link; original dead]
• Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms at IMDb
• Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms at filmportal.de (in German)
• Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms at Rotten Tomatoes