Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms (; ; also known as simply Disco Worms) is a 2008 animated musical comedy film directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen from a screenplay by Nielsen and Morten Dragsted.Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms (Disco ormene) at Cineuropa. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
Premise Earthworm Barry gets no respect and lives at the bottom of the food chain, but one day he finds an old disco record which arouses his interest in music, and, with help from friend Tito, they decide to create the greatest disco band the world has ever seen: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms.
Voice cast Peter Frödin as Bjarne (Barry) Lars Hjortshøj as Niller Trine Dyrholm as Gloria Troels Lyby as Jimmy as Donna Birthe Neumann as Mor as Far Henning Jensen as Tonni Dennis as Justesen as Naturspeaker Kim Hagen Jensen as Promotor Tonni Zinck as Skolopender Casper Byriel Svane as Flue Kirsten Skytte and Margit Rosenaa as Døgnflue Fedor Bondarchuk as Tonni Dennis Denis Hückel as Käfer Olavi Uusivirta as AaroSunshine Barry & The Disco Worms at the Danish Film Institute. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
Production In total, production lasted 16 months on a budget of $5 million. According to Nielsen, the character designs and script took a year to complete. The film also faced difficulty with finding financing, which inevitably took 8 months to find.Zehed, Ramin (24 April 2009) Thomas Borch Nielsen: Director, Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms. Animation Magazine. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
Release The film was released in Danish theatres on 10 October 2008, and opened with $225,324 for a total of $1,936,776. In Germany, the film was released on 29 October 2009, and grossed $33,604. The worldwide gross for Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms was $6,371,879.Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms at Box Office Mojo, an IMDb company. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
Critically, the film received generally average to negative reviews.Bühler, Philipp (29 October 2009) Im deutsch-dänischen Animationsfilm "Sunshine Barry und die Discowürmer" tanzen Wirbellose den Boogie: Sein Schicksal ist ein Haufen Mist. (in German). Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved 10 October 2021. Paywalled.Disco Worms. Common Sense Media. Reviewed by Schonfeld, Renee. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
References
External links (in Danish)
Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms at filmportal.de (in German)