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Ben 10 Versus the Universe: The Movie
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Wikipedia article
'Ben 10 Versus the Universe: The Movie' is a 2020 American animated superhero television film based on the 2016 TV series 'Ben 10', which serves as a reboot of the 2005 TV series of the same name created by Man of Action. Directed by Henrique Jardim and John McIntyre and written by Benjamin Lane, Chelsea McAlarney, Johnny Vu, Andr LaMilza, John Martinez, Josh Kim, Sarah Visel, Benjamin P. Carow and Kelly Turnbull, it stars Tara Strong, Montserrat Hernandez, David Kaye, John DiMaggio, Greg Cipes and Yuri Lowenthal. In this film, Ben travels around space to stop a new threat that can lead Earth to total destruction. It is also considered to be a near seven-part special episode movie, as episodes are regularly eleven minutes long.
A new 'Ben 10' film was officially announced by Cartoon Network in February 2020. The film's first trailer was shown on July 23, 2020, at San Diego Comic-Con at Home, a replacement to the 2020 edition, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It premiered on Cartoon Network on October 910, 2020.
Plot
After foiling Steam Smythe's plan to destroy a telephone industry, Ben Tennyson feels like everything he does is getting repetitive and feels like there's no one left to give him a challenge. When his cousin Gwen and Grandpa Max start encouraging Ben to not let his guard down when there are new threats coming, they suddenly get an urgent call from their friend Phil, and they quickly travel to his house. After getting there and entering his secret lab in his garage, Phil shows them a meteor heading towards Earth that threatens to destroy all life on the planet. Left with no other options Ben decides to destroy the meteor with one of his aliens but before he does that, Phil tells Ben that the key which is used to unlock his Omni-Kix armor is actually in reverse and turning it into its proper lock could unlock the other secret upgrades of the Omnitrix. After putting the key back in its proper place in the Omnitrix, Ben turns into Jetray, then twists his Omnitrix twice, giving him a new upgrade and suit called Omni-naut Armor". After doing a couple of test runs, Ben is ready to fly into space and destroy the meteor.
Ben flies into outer space while Gwen, Grandpa Max, and Phil monitor Ben while also feeling worried as he tries to stop the meteor. When Ben reaches the meteor, he suddenly changes direction, and flies into a portal to another galaxy while the meteor continues heading towards Earth. As the Tennyson's and Phil moan over Bens disappearance and brace for impact, the meteor lands but is actually revealed to be Ben's arch-enemy Vilgax who has escaped from his imprisonment in the Null Void in the Season 2 finale and wants revenge against Earth and Ben Tennyson.
Meanwhile, after exiting the portal, Ben finds himself stranded in space and when he times out, his Omnitrix gives him a spacesuit to help him survive in the depths of space while also being abducted by the Incurseans, who think he is Vilgax. Ben tries to escape using Omni-Naut Humungousaur, but he times out, the Incurseans overpower him and they bring him to the Grand Magistrate to face justice against the entire universe.
Meanwhile, on Earth, the Tennyson's and Phil try to find Ben's energy signature in the Omnitrix, but instead they find Ben's rival, Kevin, who is hiding in a cave while his Antitrix is malfunctioning, just like Ben's Omnitrix did in the season 1 finale. After convincing Kevin they could help him repair his Antitrix, he agrees to protect the world in Ben's absence. After they leave, the police hear a report about a jaywalker in a nearby city but it is revealed to be Vilgax who is looking for something that belongs to him and destroying anything that gets in his way.
While in space, Ben tries to convince everyone in the Galactic Court that he is not Vilgax, but they do not believe him after Tetrax arrives with false evidence claiming that Ben is Vilgax, and he is banished to the Null Void. As Ben tries to find a way out of the Null Void, he soon encounters criminal aliens that are also stuck in the Null Void who try to take Ben's Omnitrix as they heard rumors of the device and Ben told by Vilgax while he was trapped. When the aliens prepare to take the Omnitrix, they are suddenly stopped by Azmuth, a Galvin, and the creator of the Omnitrix. After the aliens leave, Ben tries to fight him, thinking that he works for Vilgax, but Azmuth takes away the Omnitrix from Ben telepathically and accidentally tells him that he knows Vilgax. Ben tries to get Azmuth to tell him everything he knows about Vilgax by continually asking him, Azmuth eventually agrees to do so in order to get Ben to stop talking.
He tells Ben that when he was a young inventor, he didn't care about the consequences of his decisions or the inventions he made. He secretly created the Omnitrix to changes a person's genetic information and allow the wearer to feel what it's like to be in a different species shoes, and planned on using it as a symbol for peace around the Universe. He later met a young Vilgax who wanted to learn more about his work so Azmuth decided to teach him as an apprentice in the possibilities of science. But Vilgax became power-hungry and wanted to use the Omnitrix's power to control the universe, so in desperation, Azmuth used the Omnitrix's power to trap half of Vilgax's DNA to save the universe and sent himself in self-imposed exile to the Null Void out of guilt for Vilgax's crimes.
After finishing his story, Ben tries to convince Azmuth to give him the Omnitrix back so he can save his planet, but Azmuth still refuses to do so until Ben tells him he is willing to rescue his planet even without the Omnitrix. This speech makes Azmuth slightly interested and agrees to give it back to him as long as he passes one trial first, which Ben accepts.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Kevin has just defeated Solar and Polar at Phil's house when Vilgax arrives to take the Antitrix that he had sent the blueprints to Kevin in his dreams and used him to build the device. When Vilgax demands Kevin to give him the Antitrix he refuses and a fight bring on between the two. At first Kevin is winning, but then loses the Antitrix to Vilgax, who uses it to become a hybrid of all of Kevin's aliens known as Anti Vilgax. As the Tennysons and Phil try to escape with an unconscious Kevin, they are stopped by Vilgax and he attempts to kill them until Kevin wakes up and tries to use Glitch to stop him, but when that fails and Vilgax crushes Glitch's rustbuggy form, Glitch turns into a suit of armor for Kevin to wear and fight Vilgax, who has grown weary and used his Galvanic Mechamorph DNA to terraform the Earth into Planet Vilgax.
Meanwhile, in the Null Void, Azmuth reveals his trial to Ben, he must pass through a large pipe with traps before the timer on his Omnitrix runs out. After numerous attempts fail, Ben starts to lose hope until he asks Azmuth for a hint or advice, which Azmuth gives to Ben in order to keep things interesting. He tells Ben that all his usual tricks with the Omnitrix are keeping him from unlocking its true potential. As Ben tries to figure out what Azmuth's advice is about, two of the alien criminals attack him and try to take the Omnitrix for themselves. While they are fighting, a rift opens and it begins sucking one of the criminals in while the other one abandons his comrade.
When Ben sees the criminal in trouble, he tries to use the Omnitrix to save him but none of his aliens can save him until he figures out how to switch out the DNA Pods in the Omnitrix and changes into a slimy alien dubbed Goop (though he is referred to as "the booger guy"). Ben uses Goop to rescue the alien but fails to finish the trial.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Vilgax continues to terraform the Earth while Kevin tries to beat Vilgax to no avail. In the Null Void, Ben sorrows that he failed the trial, but Azmuth gives Ben more time after seeing him heroically rescue the alien criminal from the portal. With his confidence restored, Ben tries to find a way out but Azmuth already has one for him, he shows Ben a device that opens a portal out, Ben escapes after using Omni-Naut Shock Rock to charge it up bigger. Before Ben leaves, he asks Azmuth why he didn't escape the Null Void in the first place, Azmuth responds by saying that he believes he deserves to be here for what he has done, but Ben tells him that people can change and he escapes the Null Void.
After successfully escaping, he sees the Incursions flagship getting sucked into a Null Void portal, so Ben helps get them to safety but passes out after he uses too much of his power. He awakens in the Flagship where the Incursions tells Ben that they rescued him when they find out he saved their ship, something Vilgax would never do. The Grand Magistrate thank Ben for his heroism and tries to help Ben to get back home using their flagship, but the engines were knocked off when they were trying to escape from the Null Void. But first, they try to find Tetrax who is about to escape. Ben captures him, but lets him go on the basis that Azmuth hired him.
After returning to Earth, Ben finds Vilgax and Kevin fighting and helps Kevin fight off Vilgax with Omni-Kix Four Arms. But Vilgax's many powers make him able to take down Ben and Kevin and destroy Glitch. After incapacitating them, he steals the Omni-Kix Key and places it into the Antitrix. Kevin removes the Antitrix, but Vilgax has already charged himself up to a cosmic entity named Alien V. While Ben and Kevin attempt to defeat the super-powerful Alien V, his super-charged abilities make him too powerful for them and Kevin gets knocked many feet away. Ben starts to lose faith again until Azmuth, who has escaped the Null Void, calls him using the Omnitrix and reminds Ben of what he learned during his trial in the Null Void. With his faith restored, Ben adds a new alien into his arsenal, a giant alien dubbed Way Big. After a tense battle, Ben defeats Vilgax.
Azmuth and the Incursions arrive as Azmuth takes his strongest and most dangerous creation away from Ben to use its DNA repair function to restore Vilgax to his normal self and repair the Earth, and then returns it to Ben, asking him to keep it safe for him and but make him regert such a decision. The Incursions take Vilgax into custody. The Tennyson family try to find Kevin, who disappeared after the fight, while Phil recovers Glitch's remains with the hopes of rebuilding him. Phil and the Tennysons head to Nebraska for another vacation.
Voice cast
* Tara Strong as Benjamin Kirby Tennyson, Glitch, Police Radio, Realtor
* Montserrat Hernandez as Gwendolyn Catherine Tennyson, the ten-year-old paternal first cousin of Ben and only granddaughter of Maxwell Tennyson who unknowingly has a strong natural potential and affinity for all types of magic, mysticism and sorcery.
* David Kaye as Grandpa Max, Humungousaur, Azmuth, Fisherman, Piscciss Volann Prisoner, Shock Rock, Incursean #2
* John DiMaggio as Four Arms, Phil, Loboan Prisoner
* Greg Cipes as Kevin 11 (also as Bashmouth, Crystalfist, Rush, Hot Shot, Dark Matter, Quad Smack, and Bootleg)
* Yuri Lowenthal as Vilgax, Alien V, AntiVilgax (uncredited), Ectonurite Prisoner
* Roger Craig Smith as Emperor Milleous, Way Big, Steam Smythe, Computer, Cop 2, Diamondhead
* Daryl Sabara as Heatblast, Vulpimancer Prisoner
* Todd Haberkorn as Slapback, Tetrax Shard, Solar Twain, Man #1, Cop, Incursean
* Dee Bradley Baker as Jetray, Major Glorff, Cop #1, Opticoid Prisoner, Rath, Goop
* Tom Kenny as Polar Twain
* Josh Keaton as XLR8
Production
In February 2020, Cartoon Network officially announced that a new 'Ben 10' film would be in production.
Release
Television
'Ben 10 Versus the Universe: The Movie' premiered on Cartoon Network channels around the world on October 10, 2020.Home media
'Ben 10 Versus the Universe: The Movie' also released digitally on October 11, 2020, one day after the film's official premiere, and was also released on DVD on October 27, 2020, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.Theatrical
It also received a theatrical release in the United Arab Emirates.Reception
Box office
The film was released theatrically in the United Arab Emirates. , it had grossed $50,743.Soundtrack
'Ben 10 Versus the Universe: The Movie'
References
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