Teen Titans Go! To the Movies

Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it was directed by Peter Rida Michail and Aaron Horvath (in their feature directorial debuts) and written by Michael Jelenic and Horvath.

It features the voices of Greg Cipes, Scott Menville, Khary Payton, Tara Strong, and Hynden Walch reprising their respective roles from the series, while Will Arnett (who also produced the film) and Kristen Bell join the cast.

Taking place during the events of the fifth season of the series, the film follows the Teen Titans, who attempt to have a movie made about them in Hollywood while dealing with supervillain Slade, who was responsible for making blockbuster movies about superheroes undercover as a Hollywood director.

The film is the second theatrical release to be based on a Cartoon Network series, after The Powerpuff Girls Movie in 2002. Warner Bros. first announced the film in September 2017, with the show’s original voice cast set to reprise their roles.

Arnett and Bell were added to the cast in leading roles a month later. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies premiered in the BFI Southbank on July 22, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 27. It grossed $52.

1 million worldwide against a $10 million budget and received positive reviews from critics, who praised the stylised animation quality, cast, score, and screenplay, but its focus on Robin‘s character and humour divided critics.

The first film in the Teen Titans Go! film series, it was followed by the direct-to-video stand-alone sequels Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019), Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam (2021), and Teen Titans Go!

& DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse (2022).

They criticize the Titans for their inability to take their positions as superheroes seriously, raising the fact that they do not have a feature-length film to prove their legitimacy.

At the premiere of Batman Again, the Titans’ leader, Robin, is mocked by the audience after he assumes that there is a film about him. When a supervillain named Slade breaks into S.T.A.R.

Labs to steal a crystal, the Titans try to stop him, but he defeats and insults them.

Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg, and Raven create a film about Robin to cheer him up but he gets upset, turns it off before watching the ending, and declares that they will go to Hollywood for a film. Upon arriving at Warner Bros.

Studios, they encounter director Jade Wilson, who is responsible for all the superhero films. The Titans retrieve the crystal from Slade at Wayne Tech, however, Slade escapes, resolving Robin to split from his teammates.

The next day, Jade announces that she will make a movie about the Titans due to their successful fight with Slade. Raven, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Cyborg discover a device labeled “DOOMSDAY” and try to destroy it. Jade explains that D.O.O.M.S.D.A.

Y. is simply an acronym for a new streaming service. Upset with the Titans’ shenanigans, she drops them from the film and decides to make it solely about Robin.

He accepts and decides that the Titans should break up, believing that they are holding each other back. As he films his movie, he begins to regret his decision and miss his friends. Jade is revealed to be Slade in disguise.

He steals the crystal back from the Titans Tower and reveals that the superhero films he made were to keep all the heroes distracted with filming while he stole technology from their cities to build D.O.O.M.S.D.A.Y.

, with which he will control minds and conquer the world. He purposely caused a rift between Robin and his friends to defeat them. Slade destroys the Titans Tower, but Robin escapes.

He calls his friends and apologizes; they return and reconcile with him.

At the premiere of Robin: The Movie, the Titans unmask Slade’s Jade disguise, but he unleashes the crystal’s power to mind-control the Justice League and send them after the Titans.

However, Slade uses the power device to hypnotize Robin and tells him to attack his friends. They show a movie to remind him that he is the hero of the Titans, causing Robin to turn back to normal.

The team uses their rap song to defeat Slade and destroy the crystal, snapping the other heroes and the rest of the world out of their trance.

The Justice League finally acknowledge the Titans as real heroes and Robin says he has realized he can be a hero and be himself without a movie.

In a post-credits scene, the 2003 Titans say they have found a way back, creating a bridge to Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.