Hey Arnold!: The Movie

Hey Arnold!: The Movie

Hey Arnold!: The Movie is a 2002 animated film based on the Hey Arnold! television series. Arnold, Gerald, Helga, the three protagonists as in the series, set out on a quest to save their neighborhood from a greedy, sinister developer who wants to tear it down and put up a enormous mall.

Genre: Family
Year:
2002
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[First lines; The movie begins with we see the city's locations and Harold, Iggy and Lorenzo are playing baseball before Willie drives with his ice cream truck; A kid is giving money to Willie, having his ice cream and Willie reads the newspaper; Harold throws a baseball to Park; Park strikes out and the woman is at the window looks up to a baseball while putting clothes in the basket; we see Brainy and Harvey are at the market; Sid and Stinky are splashing water; the construction workers look up at the helicopter with a black wrecking ball; as the wrecking ball hits the apartments and pouring liquid on the family photo]

Gerald Johanssen:
I'm telling you, Arnold, your ball is flat.

Arnold:
It's not flat. It's just a little low on air. [The ball pops and deflates]

Gerald Johanssen:
Like I said, your ball is flat. Hey, I still can't believe we let those fifth graders beat us.

Arnold:
Well, the important thing is we tried our best.

Gerald Johanssen:
The important thing is we got our buns whooped.

Arnold:
Come on Gerald, we had fun. And we almost beat 'em.

Gerald Johanssen:
Why do you do that Arnold? Why do you always have to look on the bright side?

Arnold:
Somebody has to. [Arnold and Gerald notice FTi helicopters, and a crowd of citizens] Mr. Green, what's going on?

Mr. Green:
It's Scheck. He wants to buy up the whole neighborhood so he can knock it down and put up a fancy mall.

Arnold:
Who's Scheck? [The crowd is watching TV]

Reporter:
[on TV] The plan, which was approved by the mayor just moments ago, would allow Future Tech Industries to redevelop a six-square-block area between 33rd and 39th Streets. Oh, I understand the president and CEO of Future Tech Industries, Mr. Scheck, is about to make a statement.

Mr. Scheck:
[on TV; To the mayor] Thank you. I just want to say I'm delighted at the mayor's support of our renewal plan.

Gerald Johanssen:
Nice suit.

[A man with a white mustache shushes him]

Mayor Dixie:
[on TV] I am behind Mr. Scheck's project one hundred percent. [camera flashes]

Mr. Scheck:
[on TV] Although some of you in the affected area may have concerns about how this plan will impact your homes and businesses, let me assure you; change is good. This plan represents the end of urban decay, the end of your broken-down shops and apartment buildings, the end of antiquated and dilapidated storefronts. It's time for a new world. Out with the old, in with the new.

Arnold:
What's wrong with old things? Some old things are great.

Harold Berman:
Yeah, like Mrs. Vitello.

Mrs. Vitello:
[hits Harold over the head with flowers] Whippersnapper.

Harold Berman:
Ow!

Mr. Green:
This has been goin' on for months. The city council recommended against it, but the mayor's lettin' him do it anyway. I never figured he could pull it off.

Gerald Johanssen:
What does it mean?

Mr. Green:
It means they want us to sell out, move away so this Scheck character and his big corporation can move in.

Crowd:
No!

Harold Berman:
No way!

Mr. Scheck:
[on TV] It's time to put the past behind us. I have seen the future, and it's Future Tech Industries.

Phoebe Heyerdahl:
But this is our neighborhood!

Rhonda Lloyd:
They can't just tear it down.

Eugene Horowitz:
[singing] This is our neighborhood! / How can they tear it down!? / How can they turn our smile into a frown!? / We may be just a few, but if me and you and you. [Arnold switches off the stereo]

Arnold:
Stop! Stop singing, Eugene. This is serious. [A truck carrying a bulldozer is speeding down the street]

Crowd:
Oh, my gosh.

Mr. Green:
We can't take this lying down. We should do something!

Harold Berman:
Yeah, but what can we do?

Arnold:
We can refuse to sell our houses.

Gerald Johanssen:
Well, I'll sign a petition!

Arnold:
Yeah. Let everybody know this is our neighborhood and we're not giving it up without a fight!

Helga Pataki:
[watching from a roof] Hah! Arnold! What an annoying little goody two-shoes. What a dopey little dreamer. What a corny little cornball. Always going around trying to get everyone to look on the bright side and do the right thing. How I despise him. And yet... I love him! I love him! I love his unerring sense of right and wrong. I love his unfailing insistence on the needs of the many over the needs of the few. But most of all I love the way his hair smells when I get real close behind him and he doesn't know I'm there, but then he turns and looks at me funny and I scowl at him and make an excuse for being so close, and then I insult him just to cover up the secret, adoring feelings for which I have so long and painfully harbored. Oh, Arnold!

Arnold:
Mr. Green can write the petition.

Mr. Green:
Say no more, Arnold. I'm already working on it.

Helga Pataki:
If only I could find the guts to tell you. If only I weren't such a coward. If only I had your strength.

Arnold:
We'll take it around the neighborhood and get everybody to sign it.

Helga Pataki:
But what if you lose? What if the neighborhood is torn down, and you have to move away, and we are separated, and we never see each other again, and I never, ever seize the chance to tell you how I really feel about you? Oh, Arnold, how I love you.

[Brainy appears from a chimney, dressed up as a chimney sweep. Helga smacks him]

[Helga comes home]

Helga Pataki:
Dad! [To Miriam sleeping on a table] How's it going, Miriam?

Miriam Pataki:
Oh. Molasses, it's you. [Helga hears voices and comes to see what's going on]

Big Bob Pataki:
Okay, great, but where's the store go?

Nick Vermicelli:
[Big Bob, Nick Vermicelli, and three other guys are seen gathered around a model of the neighborhood on a table] Alright. Right here. Big Bob's Beeper Emporium. Big sign, can't miss it from the freeway, and the overpass drops you big-bang-boom right in the parkin' lot.

Big Bob Pataki:
That's good. Yeah, right in the stinkin' lot.

Helga Pataki:
Dad?

Big Bob Pataki:
What do you want, Olga?

Helga Pataki:
It's Helga, Dad.

Big Bob Pataki:
Right, Helga. That's what I said.

Helga Pataki:
Could I talk to you?

Nick Vermicelli:
We gotta split anyway, Bob. We'll talk.

Big Bob Pataki:
Right, we'll talk. And send me the paperwork, I can't wait to get started. Hey, can I keep this pop-up thing? [He points at the model]

Nick Vermicelli:
You got it. [Nick and the other men leave the room]

Big Bob Pataki:
Alright. [to Helga] You know what this is? It's our future. See, here's where my new Super Beeper Emporium is gonna go up, right after we rip down the flower shop, and Green Meats and the rest of the block.

Helga Pataki:
Uh yeah, well, uh, about all that, Dad... I mean a lot of people are gonna have to move away and sell their businesses.

Big Bob Pataki:
Yeah, what's your point?

Helga Pataki:
Well, I was just wondering if this whole tear-down-the-neighborhood Future Tech thing is really necessary.

Big Bob Pataki:
Of course, it's necessary. It's more than necessary. It's progress. You can't have progress without a little pain. No pain, no gain.

Helga Pataki:
But what's wrong with leaving things the way they are?

Big Bob Pataki:
I'll tell you what's wrong with it, missy. Leave things the way they are and Big Bob's Super Beeper Emporium doesn't happen.

Helga Pataki:
But, Dad...

Big Bob Pataki:
Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey! I'll say this once, and I want you to hear it, little lady. Change is good. When the new Big Bob's Super Beeper Emporium goes up, the cash is gonna roll in and you'll forget all about the old neighborhood. And do you know why? Because we'll be rich. And that means you'll be rich. You can have that pony you've been wantin'.

Helga Pataki:
Dad, I wanted a pony when I was five.

Big Bob Pataki:
Uh. Well, what do you want now?

Helga Pataki:
I don't know.

Big Bob Pataki:
Well, make up your mind, 'cause once this neighborhood goes down and my store goes up, you can have anything you want. And I mean anything.

Helga Pataki:
[looks at fashion magazine] Anything?

Big Bob Pataki:
That's what I said. We're gonna be stinkin' rich, girl. Rich. What's more important than that, huh?

[Ernie Potts plays accordion; Oskar Kokoshka and Mailman Harvey play saxophone; Grandpa (wearing a rasta wig) is on drums; Mr. Hyunh plays guitar; Suzie Kokoshka is a DJ; Grandma is tap dancing. Arnold and Gerald are at controls. They all play some kind of strange pokla rock music, and Grandpa smashes one of Suzie's records, annoyed by her DJ techniques. The crowd is cheering]

Helga Pataki:
[watching from a roof] Blockapalooza, hah! Please.

Reporter:
[for TV] It's called Blockapalooza, a last-ditch effort to save a forgotten neighborhood from the wrecking ball. A classic story of the little guy pitted against the corporate giant.

[Nick Vermicelli and Big Bob are watching TV at Big Bob's house]

Big Bob Pataki:
What the heck are they doing? They'll mess up the whole deal!

Nick Vermicelli:
Forget about it. It's all taken care of.

Arnold:
[on TV] You know what this is about. It's our last chance to stand up and tell Future Tech Industries that we won't sell. We won't let 'em tear down our neighborhood.

[The crowd on TV screen is cheering]

Nick Vermicelli:
One of our guys intercepted their permit, thereby making the whole assemblage illegal.

[Police cars suddenly appear at the party]

Officer:
Go, go, go!

[The crowd is panicking. Police breaks up the party. People are running away]

Gerald Johanssen:
[to the officer] Hey, what's going on?

Riot Cop:
Never got any permit.

[Nick Vermicelli and Big Bob are laughing at the TV screen]

Voice:
Please disperse from this area at once!

Arnold:
Grandma?

Grandma Gertie:
Bring on your worst. We shall not be moved. [She chains herself to the door of the Sunset Arms]

Officer:
Come on. Nice and easy. [Grandma almost bites him]

Grandpa Phil:
Hey! Stop, that's a frail old lady!

Grandma Gertie:
[while she and the door she's chained to are carried into the S.P.A.T. car] Never give up Arnold. Never give in. Save the neighborhood. One if by land, two if by sea. Put the lime in the coconut. Mix it all up. [The car speeds away while she laughs]


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