Totally Spies! The Movie
Totally Spies! The Movie is a 2009 French animated spy-action film directed by Pascal Jardin and written by Robert and Michelle Lamoreaux. It is an adaptation of the TF1's animated television series Totally Spies! created by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel.
The film is a prequel to the television series and covers how the girls first met and shows how they became spies for the World Organization of Human Protection. It stars the voices of the original French cast of the television series, and also features the voice of German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld as the main antagonist. It is the first theatrical film based on a TF1's TFOU animated series.
Totally Spies! The Movie premiered at the Grand Rex on 28 June 2009, and was released in France on 22 July 2009 by Mars Distribution. It received mixed reviews from critics. Internationally, it made its debut direct-to-television on Cartoon Network.
Plot
Teenagers Clover, Sam, and Alex move to Beverly Hills, CA. Their paths cross outside a sushi restaurant, where WOOHP agents purposely cause the giant roll above the entrance to break off and chase after them, setting nearby animals free in the process. Alex saves an American Landrace piglet, and the girls destroy the roll before it causes any damage. The girls later see each other again at their new school and meet their rivals, Mandy, Dominique and Caitlin. The girls eventually find themselves sucked in through a locker and into one of the offices of WOOHP. There, Jerry Lewis reveals that WOOHP had been secretly observing the trio since childhood and picked them as prime recruits for the organization. The girls refuse to join WOOHP, but later are "forced" into training after each having traumatic experiences that seemingly relate to WOOHP. In 48 hours, they complete their training.They girls are thrown into their first mission when famous celebrities, including animal psychologist Peppy Wolfman, are abducted. They girls go to Wolfman's building where Alex has Oinky "go hog wild" as a distraction. The trio finds that each celebrity went through a makeover by a machine called the "Fabulizor", discovered thanks to security footage in Wolfman's office.
The girls later see that everyone at school also had gone through the Fabulizor, having the same look the next day. Oinky also ends up going through the Fabulizor. This is after nearly being blasted by one of the bad guy's minions in a fighter jet while being flown back to school. Tailing Mandy that night, they find that all of those who went through the Fabulizor became hypnotized by a chip in their cheekbones prior to the makeover. Alex spots Oinky behind the crowd and grabs onto him. Clover and Sam grab onto Alex as they get abducted into a space station.
There, the girls meet the mastermind behind the entire affair, Fabu, a model who lost fame on the runway and was ashamed of being an outsider during childhood. The spies are eventually captured by Fabu's henchmen. Fabu plans to abduct everyone who went through the Fabulizor and place them inside space station "Fabutopia" to live out new lives in the posh surroundings, then use a missile to destroy Earth. Fabu uses his Fabulizor in reverse and gives the girls horrible makeovers. He then sets them to be blasted back to Earth in rockets. Meanwhile, WOOHP agent Tad refuses to save the girls, planning to stop Fabu himself, take all the credit and regain his "favorite agent" status with Jerry.
After a fight with Fabu, however, Tad is strapped to the missile bound for Earth. The girls escape and, after fixing the Fabulizor's damage to themselves, go after Fabu. They cannot stop the missile from taking off but hitch a ride as it is rocketing towards Earth. They manage to turn the missile around to destroy the station. They then are picked up by Jerry in one of WOOHP's ships and rescue the kidnapped people from aboard the station and evacuate safely, before the missile destroys the station. They then destroy Fabu's ship and catch him and his Sphynx in his escape pod.
The girls later accept their position as spies. They return to school to face punishment from principal Miss Skritch for the "damage" they caused when trying to avoid her earlier. But there, they realize that thanks to WOOHP, Miss Skritch was transferred to another school in Siberia as punishment by the Beverly Hills school district for child abuse. Fabu, Yuri and Tad are later imprisoned and set for punishment by WOOHP, and everyone who was rescued from aboard Fabu's space station have their minds erased. The girls are later notified of another mission. They bring up personal appointments but soon find themselves running from a WOOHP jet as it prepares to suck them aboard. The girls eventually change into their spy uniforms and go on the mission.