''Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms'' ( da, Disco ormene;
german: Sunshine Barry und die Discowürmer; also known as simply ''Disco Worms'') is a 2008 Danish-German
3D computer-animated 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 Gloria, they decide to create the greatest disco band the world has ever seen: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms.
Voice cast
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Peter Frödin
Peter Frödin (born 7 January 1964) is a Danish actor, comedian and singer.[Who is ... Peter Frö ...](_blank)
as Bjarne (Barry)
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Lars Hjortshøj
Lars Hjortshøj (born 3 June 1967 in Hinnerup) is a Danish stand-up comedian and television and radio host.
He has taken part in many Danish shows, including '' Casper & Mandrilaftalen'' and in the sit-com '' Langt fra Las Vegas''.
As of Februa ...
as Niller
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Trine Dyrholm as Gloria
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Troels Lyby as Jimmy
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Birthe Neumann
Birthe Neumann (born 30 April 1947 in Vanløse, Copenhagen) is a Danish actress.
In 1972 she graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre, and was shortly afterwards employed as an actress at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.
At th ...
as Mor
* as Far
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Henning Jensen as Tonni Dennis
* as Justesen
* as Naturspeaker
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Kim Hagen Jensen as Promotor
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Tonni Zinck as Skolopender
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Casper Byriel Svane as Flue
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Kirsten Skytte and
Margit Rosenaa as Døgnflue
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Fedor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (russian: link=no, Фёдор Сергеевич Бондарчук ; born 9 May 1967) is a Russian film director, actor, TV and film producer, clipmaker, TV host, founder of production company Art Pictures Studio. ...
as Tonni Dennis
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Denis Hückel as Käfer
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Olavi Uusivirta
Olavi Uusivirta (born 28 July 1983 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish rock/pop singer, songwriter and actor.
Childhood and education
Before his school years Uusivirta moved with his parents first to Kotka and later to Karkkila due to his moth ...
as Aaro
[Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms](_blank)
at the Danish Film Institute. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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.
[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.Disco Worms
Common Sense Media. Reviewed by Schonfeld, Renee. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
References
External links
* (in Danish)
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Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms
' at filmportal.de (in German)
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2008 films
2008 animated films
2008 computer-animated films
2000s Danish-language films
2000s German-language films
Danish animated films
German animated feature films
2008 multilingual films
Danish multilingual films
German multilingual films
2000s German films