Itsy Bitsy Spider (film)

This article is about the short film. For the television series, see Itsy Bitsy Spider (TV series).

Itsy Bitsy Spider
Directed by	Matthew O'Callaghan
Produced by	Willard Carroll Tom Wilhite
Written by	Michael O'Donoghue
Starring	Frank Welker Thora Birch Jim Carrey Andrea Martin
Music by	David Newman
Production company	Hyperion Animation
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	July 23, 1992
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

Itsy Bitsy Spider is a 1992 American animated science fantasy-comedy short film directed by Matthew O'Callaghan and written by Michael O'Donoghue, loosely based on the homonymous rhyme and released with the movie Bébé's Kids. It features Frank Welker as the title character and Langston the cat, and Jim Carrey as the Exterminator. In the film, there is a happy-go-lucky city girl called Leslie who has a spider friend named Itsy. It was rated PG by the MPAA for sci-fi cartoon violence.

This short film was a family-friendly version of The Terminator and RoboCop, as well as the pilot episode of the series. The film was eventually made into a television animated series, which aired on the USA Network to becoming a franchise.

Plot

A country spider is the friend of a young girl named Leslie McGroarty (Thora Birch), who takes piano lessons from a very strict instructor (Andrea Martin) (incidentally, she is learning to play the actual rhyme) and her cat, Langston. When the instructor is frightened by Itsy, she calls an Exterminator, that uses more and more extreme measures to try to kill Itsy, most of which end up causing pain and destruction to the instructor's home, Langston and the Exterminator himself, which turns out to be a heavily armed android (Jim Carrey). The Exterminator's methods begin to get even more extreme, escalating from poison and vacuums to guns and explosives, until the instructor's house is eventually blown up. Itsy is reunited with Leslie (who had the sense to leave the house before the flamethrowers came out), and they go home to the city.

Cast

• Frank Welker - Itsy, Langston
• Thora Birch - Leslie McGroarty
• Jim Carrey - The Exterminator (credited as James Carrey)
• Andrea Martin - Music Teacher

External links

• Itsy Bitsy Spider at IMDb
• Itsy Bitsy Spider at AllMovie