Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe

Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe is a 2020 American   film produced by Disney Television Animation, based on the Disney Channel animated television series Phineas and Ferb. It is the second feature-length film of the Phineas and Ferb series and the standalone sequel to the 2011 film Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension. The events of the film take place before the final episode of the series.

The film was released on Disney+ on.

Plot
Candace, once again, suffers another day of trying and failing to bust her genius brothers Phineas and Ferb. As she airs her grievances to Vanessa, a space pod comes and sucks them up. Phineas and Ferb witness this and, identifying the license plate on it, learn that it is from the planet Feebla-Oot and recruit Isabella, Baljeet and Buford to build a portal to the planet. The portal redirects them to Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. where Dr. Doofenshmirtz was also trying to build a portal upon seeing that Vanessa was kidnapped. Realizing that they cannot head directly to Feebla-Oot, they use Doofenshmirtz's spaceship to travel there with Perry the Platypus secretly following them.

Candace and Vanessa explore the space ship they have been taken to and locate the escape pods. While Vanessa escapes, Candace is captured; however both end up on Feebla-Oot anyway. Candace is taken to the leader, the oddly named Super Super Big Doctor who sympathizes with Candace's plight. She too has two younger brothers that she was tired of and decided to come to Feebla-Oot to rule it. Big Doctor informs Candace that she contains "Remarkalonium" which is important for their people, thus making Candace feel special. Upon arriving, Phineas and Ferb try to patch things up with Candace by giving her a gift they made, but she rejects them and Big Doctor has them taken away.

The gang is actually being imprisoned, which is what Big Doctor had done to her brothers, but Perry rescues them. Candace learns that the "Remarkalonium" is actually just carbon dioxide which is what a spore plant named Mama needs so that Big Doctor can control her subjects. Candace accidentally reveals that the people of Earth exhale carbon dioxide and Big Doctor plots to conquer Earth. Phineas, Ferb and the gang team up with the oppressed Cowards, the previous inhabitants, and attack the alien city. Big Doctor and her army flee to Earth. The gang follow her, but Doofenshmirtz stays behind when he learns that Vanessa is still on Feebla-Oot.

The gang reach Earth in time to fight Big Doctor and her army. While Isabella, Buford and Baljeet fight the aliens, Phineas and Ferb free Candace who cries in shame over how she treated her brothers. They reveal that her gift is a coffee mug that projects images of their past adventures. While Candace may not be special to the world, she is special to them. They fight the aliens, but Mama grows big and unleashes her spores on the populace. As the heroes are captured, Candace manages to reach out to Big Doctor who has an epiphany about her life, just as Mama increases in size and devours her.

The kids fight Mama while Doofenshmirtz, Vanessa and Perry return; having used the Chicken-replace-inator, a gadget that swaps something with the closest or farthest chicken, to transport themselves to Earth. Candace uses the -inator on Mama, replacing it with the initial chicken that they used in the first place, and sends it back to Feebla-Oot. Mama shrinks in size and spits out Big Doctor who is captured by the Cowards. Candace has the chance to bust her brothers when Linda drives by, but she instead tells her to go get pizza for them. Candace begins to truly appreciate her brothers for everything they have done for her, only for the movie to end with Perry's wrist watch going off.

In a mid-credits scene, Phineas and Candace's step-father and Ferb's father, Lawrence, discovers that the portal is still in the backyard and ends up in Dr. Doofenshmirtz's lab which was still on fire from the rocket's fire. He returns and accidentally destroys the portal with Linda, once again missing it and wondering what he has been doing, to which Lawrence replies "I have no idea".

Production
While developing their new streaming service, Disney+, Disney approached Phineas and Ferb creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and asked them to develop a new Phineas and Ferb movie for the service, as they wanted the service to have "projects that would appeal both to kids and adults, and [the] show has a multi-generational appeal", with 47% of their audience being adults. While initially unsure about making a movie, as "[they] thought [they] had done enough with these characters", the two eventually agreed to develop the film upon "[realizing they] kind of missed them", to which they "started thinking about a fun premise that would appeal to everyone, even those who weren't familiar with the show". During the first week of writing, the writers came up with several different ideas for the movie, but they were all discarded, as they had already been done in the series. They eventually came up with the idea of "a real rescue story" in which Candace is captured by aliens, and settled on that, as the series never had a rescue story, a story in which Candace was the main character, or a story that put the characters in "dire stakes". Povenmire and Marsh said that "[they] wanted to make sure [they] had something new to say [about the characters]" while working on the film, but that didn't "violate any of the characters' set-ups and rules of their world".

On April 11, 2019, it was announced that a new film titled The Phineas and Ferb Movie would be released on Disney+ within a year of its launch. The film will be produced by Disney Television Animation, marking their first non-television film since Teacher's Pet (2004), while Marsh and Povenmire will serve as executive producers. The film will also mark Disney's first non-television film to use 2D animation since Winnie the Pooh (2011). According to Jim Bernstein, the film is unrelated to a theatrical Phineas and Ferb film that was previously in the works. The film's title was announced as Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe on August 23, 2019, during the 2019 D23 Expo. On March 27, 2020, Disney Television Animation was temporarily closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but production on the film continued remotely. On July 1, 2020, it was confirmed that Bob Bowen will direct the film. The film officially wrapped production on July 11, 2020.

According to Marsh, Bowen managed to find a "creative solution" to a story issue within the film, which they initially opposed, but eventually agreed to use in the film after Bowen pitched it to them again as an animatic. According to Povenmire, the writers first wrote a script before starting to storyboard the movie, a process contrary to the TV series, which was written during the storyboard process. One of the jokes in the film, featuring Phineas and his friends going "back to their base elements" before transitioning to a live-action scene where Povenmire and Marsh are seeing pitching the scene, was originally written for the unproduced theatrical film. Disney executives originally ordered the gag to be removed from the film, but Povenmire and Marsh refused, feeling that audiences would react to it positively.

Release
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe was released on, exclusively on Disney+

Cast

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International versions

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