The Secret of the Magic Gourd (2007 film)
The Secret of the Magic Gourd | |
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Simplified | 宝葫芦的秘密 |
Directed by |
John Chu Frankie Chung |
Produced by |
Han San Ping John Chu |
Written by | Zhang Tianyi |
Screenplay by |
John Chu Lam Kee To |
Starring |
Gigi Lueng Zhu Qi Long Zheng Jia Hao Wang Jia Kun Lao Yi Jia Guo Kai Min He Qing Meng Qing Long De Zhang Yao Dong Tang Wen Ting Wei Ji Hao Chen Jun Jie Jin Li Qi Jin Li Lin Zhou Min Min Qin Hao Huang Cun Bao Li Hao Ban Lin Bai Ling Pan Jia Wen Xia Da Zi Maio Liang Shen Ling Cai Sha Li Wang Qing Wen Wang Sang Qi Sun Tian Qi Jia Cheng Lu Yi Han Zhang Ruo Lin Guan Min Fang Li Peng Tong Hui Lin Zhu Yi Ting Mo Yan Nan Liu Jing Ni Gu Kai Ping Wang Hang Yang Zhang Tian En Yang Ni Li Hao Wang Yi Wang Chao Yang Yang Huang Meng Sun Bang Bang Zhao Ren Jie |
Edited by | Angie Lam |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | China |
Language | Chinese |
The Secret of the Magic Gourd (Chinese: 宝葫芦的秘密), or The Magic Gourd, is a live-action/CGI animation movie made in 2007 by Centro in co-operation with China Movie Co Ltd and Disney.
The Secret of the Magic Gourd is Disney's first CGI/animation full-length feature film produced for the Chinese mainland market.
The films DVD release date in the United States was on January 27, 2009. The English dubbed version of the film features Corbin Bleu as the voice of the Magic Gourd and Drake Johnston as the voice of Raymond.
Summary
[Note: "Pumpkin" is referring to the magic
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. The Gourd's name is "Bailey."] The movie starts with an unusual dream of a young student named Raymond Bao, who is on a mission in space when meteorites attacks de repente on their spacecraft, their mission was to rescue the astronauts and return to earth. But when in real life, his grandmother and sister Sofy were trying to wake him because they were getting late for school. And he also had to say goodbye to his mother who was travelling to the train station, Raymond's friends were asking if I study last night. Even at school, Raymond finds himself in trouble, having difficulty answering math questions,causing his teacher to realize that he did not study.
Raymond's friends were also disappointed at him because of his low grades. Raymond is later mocked by classmates for his science project. But accidentally, Raymond leaves his backpack behind and could not deliver the science project, which furthered angered his friends. So Raymond goes back to his home distraught and upset. At that time his grandmother was telling Sofy about The Secret of the Magic Gourd. But upset Raymond scoffs at his grandmother and says that he does not care about that story, and finds it annoying. But his grandmother keeps narrating the story to Sofy while in his room, when soon enough Raymond falls asleep. Soon he starts dreaming, that he went fishing in a bamboo forest where the fish had pumpkin, Raymond found that frightening at the beginning, until the gourd told him that it was calledBailey, and it wants to help him. It offered him a deal that, if he does not tell anyone about him, he will put fish in his bucket as food. Raymond tells Bailey that he wants to show the fish to his friends, in the park of the school, a friend of Raymond John had frightened him, and Raymond teach them the fish, they wonder how can the goldfish be in a lake, so the teacher suggests to them that should go to the library. Raymond came home, telling the pumpkin to be with the fish, then came Sofy and saw something strange and was chasing him, until he reached his grandmother and told her to bathe and Raymond to do his homework.
The next morning Raymond goes to the library to order the book of marine animals, and the librarian told him that she reserved Fredy before, Bailey put the book in the backpack of Raymond, and left like a thief, Raymond tells pumpkin to let it go, but Bailey made the book fly away. Raymond and John went to play a type of Damas [Chinese Chess], pumpkin was confused and interpreted a double entendre as Raymond wanting to eat the chips in the game, forcibly feeding one into his mouth. Raymond and Bailey were chasing the book of marine animals to swim class, they accepted that they swam very well, Bailey noted that with him there'll always be a winner. Bailey was cleaning and tidying the room of his master, until he fell asleep. The next morning, Bailey Raymond had awakened him, he went to school early, and responded with good math questions and had high scores, and had 9 stars. In swimming class with the help of Bailey, he managed to swim far faster, then they left marks on the Raymond house, sticking a poster of swimming class.
Raymond could not make a robot, so Bailey made one for the Pumpkin, cut the nails of his master, Raymond was explaining to Bailey he wanted to do the fun. In the science room, they were repairing the project that Raymond had destroyed, was teaching his robot (that is constantly imitating what he was doing pumpkin), a fellow Raymond broke the robot, Raymond and Blade Bey went to a toy store, they saw some robots, then came Dan a friend of Raymond says he saw Raymond entering the toy library, Bailey made toys fence to the house of Raymond Bao, Raymond and Dan went to the cinema to see The counterattack Dinosaur swamp, but had not voletos then entered Bailey Raymond and Raymond le sac film. When they got home, Raymond sees a multitude of toys at home, tells Bailey has to return all the toys to the toy store, the father of Raymond gives him a bike for competition, Bailey was preparing to the math test Raymond, he wonders why he does not like the wishes have been granted. The next morning Raymond and Bailey rose early, Raymond wing school went with his new bike, he was emotional, Bailey told that this review was important in math class, Raymond was hoping Pumpkin help him examining, on that I steal an examination of one of her companions on that Raymond escaped the class to the bamboo forest where he had found the pumpkin, on that Raymond throw a pumpkin the lake, on that came the teacher and peers, the teacher heal Raymond wounds that made him pumpkin, in the rain, the teacher told him that what he did was wrong has to be a better student and a better friend, in that he apologized to Susy, and we shared Umbrella, Bailey tells his friend the frog that his master no longer loves him, Raymond had taken a retest, in that I saw pumpkin drawing, but not delete, Raymond was determined to competition, Raymond companions had won the competition. Raymond returns to the bamboo forest to tell Bailey who had won the competition, that Bailey said it did not help him win the competition on that Raymond says that's it! , Squash says tene to leave because you do not need more, in that they parted, when Bailey left and exclaimed love and do not forget to cut your nails !. In real life, Raymond woke up and saw a cloud wing like pumpkin, Susy was asking math questions in the final scene pumpkin exclaims the bird Flip have other poor to help !.
References
External links
- Official website
- Disney's official China movie website
- Disney's official USA DVD release website
- The Secret of the Magic Gourd at the Internet Movie Database
- The Secret of the Magic Gourd DVD Review on Kidzworld.com