Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms

2008 animated film

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10 October 2008 (2008-10-10)

Running time

75 minutes^[1]CountriesDenmark
GermanyLanguagesDanish
GermanBudget$5,000,000Box office$6,371,879

Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms (Danish: Disco ormene;^[2] German: Sunshine Barry und die Discowürmer; also known as simply Disco Worms) is a 2008 animated film directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen from a screenplay by Nielsen and Morten Dragsted.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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 Gloria, they decide to create the greatest disco band the world has ever seen: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms.^[2]

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^[2]

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.^[5]

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.^[6]

Critically, the film received generally average to negative reviews.^[1]^[4]^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Koopmans, Paula: Sunshine Barry en de Disco Wormen – Disco ormene (2008). (in Dutch). CineMagazine. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms at the Danish Film Institute. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
^ Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms (Disco ormene) at Cineuropa – the best of European cinema. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b Bühler, Philipp (29 October 2009) Im deutsch-dänischen Animationsfilm "Sunshine Barry und die Discowürmer" tanzen Wirbellose den Boogie: Sein Schicksal ist ein Haufen Mist. (in German). Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved 10 October 2021. Paywalled.
^ Zehed, Ramin (24 April 2009) Thomas Borch Nielsen: Director, Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms. Animation Magazine. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
^ Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms at Box Office Mojo, an IMDb company. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
^ Disco Worms. Common Sense Media. Reviewed by Schonfeld, Renee. Retrieved 10 October 2021.