Tito dreams of reviving Starlight Plaza, with Turbo as a main attraction, much to his brother and coworker Angelo's annoyance. Chet, on the other hand, is not happy with his brother's new ability and wants him to return to normal. Theo wins the race in a matter of seconds, astounding both the humans and snails alike, earning the respect of the snails, led by Whiplash, and firmly establishing the name "Turbo" as his own.
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There, they are captured by Tito Lopez, a taco truck driver who works at the Plaza, and are brought to a snail race held by him and his co-workers. However, his first attempt to try out his new powers ends with him crashing a boy's tricycle into the garden in which many other snails worked at, resulting in him and Chet getting fired from the garden crew.Ĭhet angrily scolds Theo for his recklessness, and is snatched by a crow, but is pursued and rescued by Theo at a rundown strip mall called "Starlight Plaza". When he wakes up, he possesses superspeed and other characteristics of a real car. Suddenly, he is sucked into the supercharger of a Chevrolet Camaro, fusing his molecules with nitrous oxide. However, his obsession with racing makes him an outcast in the slow and cautious snail community, and a constant embarrassment to his older brother, Chet.Īfter nearly getting killed by a lawnmower in an attempt to retrieve a fallen tomato, a disappointed Theo wanders onto a freeway to admire the traffic and wishes upon a star, (later revealed to be an airplane) that he could be fast.
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In a suburban San Fernando Valley tomato garden of Van Nuys in Los Angeles, Theo, self-named "Turbo", is a garden snail who dreams of being a professional racer, just like his hero, five-time Indy 500 champion Guy Gagné. The film was dedicated to animator Nicholas Sanger Hoppe, who died of brain cancer before the film was released.
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A television series based on the film, titled Turbo Fast, with only Ken Jeong and Mike Bell reprising their roles, was put into production a year before the film's release, and it first aired on Netflix on December 24, 2013. Despite earning $282.5 million on a $127 million budget, the studio had to take a total of $15.6 million write-down on behalf of the film. The film was met with mixed to positive reviews. The film stars the voices of Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Snoop Dogg, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Luis Guzmán, Ben Schwartz, Richard Jenkins, Ken Jeong, Michelle Rodriguez and Samuel L. Set in Los Angeles, the film features an ordinary garden snail who pursues his dream of winning the Indy 500 after a freak accident gives him superspeed. The film is based on an original idea by David Soren, who also directed the film in his feature debut. Turbo is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated sports comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.