CyberWorld (original) (raw)
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2000 American film
| CyberWorld | |
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 Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Colin Davies Elaine Despins |
| Screenplay by | Charlie Rubin Steve Hoban Jimmy Savile Hugh Murray |
| Story by | Hugh Murray Todd Alcott Additional story work: Mark Smith |
| Produced by | Steve Hoban Hugh Murray |
| Starring | Jenna Elfman Matt Frewer Robert Smith Dave Foley |
| Music by | Paul Haslinger Hummie Mann |
| Productioncompanies | 20th Century Fox (credit only) DreamWorks Animation (credit only) Intel EyeTide Media ZeoCast IMAX Sandde Animation Spin Entertainment Consolidated Film Industries Pacific Data Images (Antz and Homer³ segment) |
| Distributed by | IMAX Corporation |
| Release date | October 6, 2000 (2000-10-06) |
| Running time | 44 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $16.7 million[2] |
CyberWorld is a 2000 American 3D[3] animated anthology film shown in IMAX and IMAX 3D, presented by Intel. Several segments originally filmed in 2D were converted to 3D format by IMAX. As presented on its website, it was labelled the first 3D animated film in IMAX.
A guide named Phig commences the movie by showing the audience the "CyberWorld", a futuristic museum of infinite possibilities. Meanwhile, three computer bugs (Buzzed, Wired, and Frazzled) try to eat the CyberWorld through its number coding. When Phig learns about them, she goes on the hunt for the destructive computer bugs while presenting various short premade clips of computer-animated productions, such as scenes from Antz and "Homer³" from The Simpsons.
In the end, Buzzed, Wired and Frazzled create a black hole (the one seen in "Homer³"), which kills them. Phig almost gets swallowed up in the hole, but not before her "knight in cyber armor," technician Hank, reboots the entire system just as she gets sucked up into the vortex. Phig concludes the movie by explaining to the audience that none of the events caused by the bugs ever occurred. She attempts to summon her battle gear to prove her point, only to receive a pink bunny outfit in return (a similar trick the bugs played on her in the film's midsection).
The dance sequence from the animated feature Antz
The CGI parts of the "Homer³" segment from The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror VI"
The music video of the Pet Shop Boys song "Liberation"
"Monkey Brain Sushi", a short film created by Brummbaer at Sony Pictures Imageworks
KraKKen: Adventure of Future Ocean, a short film created by ExMachina
"Joe Fly", a short film created By Spans & Partner
"Flipbook and Waterfall City", a short film created by Satoshi Kitahara
"Tonight's Performance", a short film created by REZN8 specifically for the film
Jenna Elfman as Phig
Matt Frewer as Frazzled
Robert Smith as Buzzed and Wired
Dave Foley as Hank the Technician
Cara Pifko as Computer
Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Harry Shearer, and Yeardley Smith of The Simpsons
Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys
David Geldart as Pete
Richard Pearce as Joe Fly
Ned Irving as Sanchez
Mark Lyndon as The Praying Mantis
Georg Hahn as The Mites
Frank Welker as The Firefly
CyberWorld premiered at the Universal Citywalk IMAX Theater on October 1, 2000. It is the first IMAX film with a PG rating (some language from the Antz and Simpsons segments).
CyberWorld was a box office success, grossing 11,253,900inthedomesticboxofficeand11,253,900 in the domestic box office and 11,253,900inthedomesticboxofficeand5,400,000 overseas for a worldwide total of $16,653,900.[2]
On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 55% based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 6.18/10.[4] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55/100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[5]
Roger Ebert, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, praised the film for accurately presenting what 3D technology is capable of. He particularly singled out the size of the IMAX screens the film was projected on. He wrote, "(The film) takes advantage of the squarish six-story screen to envelop us in the images; the edges of the frame don't have the same kind of distracting cutoff power they possess in the smaller rectangles of conventional theatres."[6]
Contrarily, Paul Tatara of CNN.com was displeased with the film's over-reliance on 3D effects, continuing to say, "Unfortunately, you can't escape the sensation that you might end up wearing the contents of your stomach while you watch it."[7]
- ^ "CYBERWORLD (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. October 12, 2000. Archived from the original on November 5, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ^ a b "CyberWorld 3-D". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. October 25, 2002. Archived from the original on November 5, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
- ^ "Cyberworld 3D (2000) - Turner Classic Movies". Archived from the original on 2023-10-26. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ CyberWorld at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ "CyberWorld". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 17, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2025.
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "Cyberworld 3D". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
- ^ Tatara, Paul (October 5, 2000). "Watch 'CyberWorld 3D' with open eyes, empty stomach". CNN.com. Archived from the original on October 2, 2023. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
