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.

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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