The Ugly Duckling and Me! (2006)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Directors:

Michael Hegner
Karsten Kiilerich

Writers:

Hans Christian Andersen (fairytale)
Michael Hegner (story)
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Release Date:

6 October 2006 (Denmark)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Worm | Chicken | 3D Animation | Cat | Ugly Duckling

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Morgan C. Jones	...	Ratso / Frank (voice: English version)
Paul Tylack	...	Wesley (voice: English version)
Anna Olson	...	Phyllis (voice: English version)
Gary Hetzler	...	Stan (voice: English version)
Danna Davis	...	Chickens (voice: English version)
Barbara Bergin	...	Esmeralda (voice: English version)
Michelle Read	...	Peep Olga (voice: English version)
Hilary Cahill	...	Daphne (voice: English version)
Kim Larney	...	Baby Ugly (voice: English version)
Hillary Kavanagh	...	Pox (voice: English version)
Laurann Rabbitt	...	Lou (voice: English version)
Aoife Murray	...	Emmy (voice: English version)
Liz Lloyd	...	Fox, Swan #2 (voice: English version)
Aileen Mythen	...	Jessie (voice: English version)
Justin Gregg	...	Teen Ugly (voice: English version)
Drew Lucas	...	Ernie (voice: English version)
Hope Brown	...	William (voice: English version)
Rod Goodall	...	Preacher (voice: English version)
Patrick Fitzsymons	...	Swan #1 (voice: English version)
Max Hafler	...	Swan #3 (voice: English version)
Rick Kavanian	...	Ratso (voice: German version)
Sandro Iannotta	...	Ugly - as a child (voice: German version)
Wilson Ochsenknecht	...	Ugly - as a teenager (voice: German version)
Sarah Kim Gries	...	Jessie (voice: German version)
Gabi Köster	...	Phyllis (voice: German version)
Thomas Hackenberg	...	Wesley (voice: German version)
Till Hoheneder	...	Ernie / William (voice: German version)
Michael Koslar	...	Frank (voice: German version)
Volker Wolf	...	Stan (voice: German version)
Katja Liebing	...	Peep Olga (voice: German version)
Susanne Dobrusskin	...	Daphne (voice: German version)
Reinhard Schulat	...	Priest (voice: German version)
Karl Heinz Tafel	...	Seagull #1 (voice: German version)
Stephan Schleberger	...	Seagull #2 (voice: German version)
Michaela Kametz	...	Chicken (voice: German version)
Leander Wolf	...	Lou (voice: German version)
Annabel Wolf	...	Emmy (voice: German version)
David Enkler	...	Chick #1 (voice: German version)
Tom Enkler	...	Chick #2 (voice: German version)
Hans Bayer	...	Swan #1 (voice: German version)
Heiko Obermöller	...	Swan #2 (voice: German version)
Ilya Welter	...	Female Fox (voice: German version)
Renier Baaken	...	Seagull #3 (voice: German version)
Thomas Lang	...	Seagull #4 (voice: German version)
Rolf Berg	...	Seagull #5 (voice: German version)
Tom Jacobs	...	Rat #1 (voice: German version)
Phil Daub	...	Rat #2 (voice: German version)
Dieter Maise	...	Rat #3 (voice: German version)
Fritz Rott	...	Rat #4 (voice: German version)

Directed by
Michael Hegner
Karsten Kiilerich

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Hans Christian Andersen		fairytale
Michael Hegner		story
Mark Hodkinson		screenplay
Mark Hodkinson		story
Karsten Kiilerich		story

Produced by
Ralph Christians	....	executive producer
Philippe Delarue	....	executive producer
Moe Honan	....	producer
Anders Mastrup	....	executive producer
Gladys Morchoisne	....	producer
Daina Sacco	....	executive producer
Irene Sparre Hjorthøj	....	producer

Original Music by
Jacob Groth

Film Editing by
Thorbjørn Christoffersen
Virgil Kastrup
Per Risager

Art Direction by
Sten Mesterton

Production Management
Therese Sachse	....	production manager

Art Department
Lars Hornemann	....	storyboard artist
Snorre Krogh	....	storyboard artist
Kasper Kruse	....	storyboard artist
Christian Kuntz	....	storyboard artist
Jørgen Lerdam	....	storyboard artist (as Jorgen Lerdam)
Martin Madsen	....	storyboard artist
Martin Skov	....	storyboard artist
Anders Sørensen	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Alexander Buck	....	foley editor
Alexander Buck	....	sound effects editor
Garret Farrell	....	original dialogue recordist
Florian Kaltenegger	....	additional foley recordist
Emil Klotzsch	....	foley editor
Emil Klotzsch	....	sound effects editor
Stefan Korte	....	sound re-recording mixer
Philip Murphy	....	dialogue editor
Roland Platz	....	additional foley artist
Jörn Poetzl	....	foley artist
Tobias Poppe	....	foley editor
Tobias Poppe	....	sound effects editor
Philipp Sellier	....	foley mixer
Philipp Ueffing	....	sound mix technician
Guido Zettier	....	sound designer
Guido Zettier	....	supervising sound editor

Special Effects by
Christian Esbo Agergaard	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen	....	digital layout artist
Tore Rex Andersen	....	digital compositor
Tore Rex Andersen	....	lighter/shader
Thomas Banner	....	digital compositor
Thomas Banner	....	lighter/shader
Alex Bernardi	....	software engineer: research and development
Francois Cao	....	animator
Thorbjørn Christoffersen	....	digital layout artist
Julien Cohen Bengio	....	character rigging technical director
Philipp Eckel	....	film recording
Rasmus Eilertsen	....	digital artist: blocking, layout and compositing supervisor
Luca Fattore	....	digital layout artist
Laetitia Gabrielli	....	lighter
Thomas Haas-Christensen	....	digital artist
Michael Helmuth Hansen	....	digital layout artist
Bjorn Liljequist	....	lighter
Johanna Meijer	....	render wrangler
Johannes Sebastian Jørgen Erik Møgelvang	....	compositor
Christian Nerving	....	lighting/shading technical director and supervisor
Evelina Persson	....	render wrangler
Phillip Berg Sørensen	....	digital layout artist (as Philip Berg)
Ralf Wacker	....	digital intermediate supervisor

Animation Department
Jesper Colding	....	character designer
Pierre Collet	....	animator
Claus Darholt	....	animator
Luca Fattore	....	animator
Jean Hemez	....	animator
Alex M. Lehmann	....	animator
Vincent Lemaire	....	animator
Thomas Nøhr	....	character designer
Jürgen Richter	....	animation supervisor
Ludovic Savonnière	....	animation director
Fabrice Senia	....	senior animator
Henrik Thomas	....	character designer
Henrik Thomas	....	character modeling supervisor

Editorial Department
Lise Ann Mangino	....	head of post-production

Other crew
Nikolaj Berg Amondsen	....	software developer
Jørgen Asmussen	....	systems administrator and support
Delphine Blaineau	....	cgi producer
Michael Braun	....	dubbing director: German version
Hakim Chergui	....	systems administrator and support
Jesper Dahl	....	systems administrator and support
Peter Egehoved	....	head of IT
Jani Kuronen	....	technical director
Linda McEvoy	....	legal and business affairs executive
Lorraine Morgan	....	production coordinator
Hans Perk	....	head of technology
Finn Skovgaard	....	logo designer
Jakob Steffensen	....	supervising technical director
Paulina Sundén	....	production assistant
Frederic Thonet	....	cgi producer
Jeppe Ulle-Walter	....	technical director

Production Companies

• A. Film
• Disney Television France
• Futurikon
• Magma Films
• TPS Star
• TV2 Danmark
• Target Media Entertainment
• Ulysses Film Production

Distributors

• Filmax (2008) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Nordisk Film Theatrical Distribution (2007) (Finland) (all media)
• Seven Films (2007) (Greece) (all media)
• Warner Bros. (2006) (Germany) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Duran Duboi  visual effects, CGI studio
• Pictorion_das Werk  digital laboratory
• Ruhr Sound Studios  post-production sound services
• Zettier Sound Design  sound design & editorial

Also Known As:

Grimme ælling og mig, Den (Denmark)
Hässliche Entlein & ich, Das (Germany)
Vilain petit canard et moi, Le (France)

Runtime:

Canada:90 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Germany:89 min

Country:

France | Germany | Ireland | UK | Denmark

Language:

English | French | German | Danish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Germany:o.Al. | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Finland:K-7 | Ireland:G | Brazil:Livre | Portugal:M/4 | South Korea:All

Company:

A. Film

Goofs:

Continuity: In the end, when Ratso wears the tie, there’s a few shots that he has no tie at all.

Quotes:

Ratso: Anyway, you're not as different as you might think. Deep down, everybody's -
Baby Ugly: Beautiful?
Ratso: No. Everybody's ugly.

Movie Connections:

Version of "The Ugly Duckling and Me!" (2006)

Nice Trailer, Bad Movie

After watching the trailer I thought the would be fun, it was curious though that the last function was at 16:30 hrs.

To begin with the animation was nothing special, the drawings of the characters look cheap and the plot could have been written by a four-grader. It was boring and I feel cheated by the trailer (in a "happy feet" way).

At least I realized that Europe can produce exactly the same kind of superfluous, empty and bad movies without Hollywood. Another disappointing film.

Keep your money and don't watch this crap.