The ChubbChubbs!

"A little alien with a big problem."

2002 0h 5m EN

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6.8

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★6.8TMDB · 100

AnimationScience FictionComedy

Synopsis

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A janitor at an alien night-club gets his wish to be a singer.

“A little alien with a big problem.”

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Cast

Bradford Simonsen
Meeper (voice)
Jeff Wolverton
ChubbChubbs (voice)
Dustin Adair
Glorf (voice)
Eric Armstrong
Glorf (voice)
Yakov Baytler
Glorf (voice)
Mary Biondo
Glorf (voice)
Sumit Das
Glorf (voice)
Layne Friedman
Glorf (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Eric Armstrong
Writers: Jeff Wolverton
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

RUNTIME

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Tight 5-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 24 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The ChubbChubbs Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Robert Gordon shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Bradford Simonsen and Jeff Wolverton and Dustin Adair carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "A little alien with a big problem.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0331218 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Eric Armstrong directs. Robert Gordon cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 5-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Released 24 years ago.
3Part of the "The ChubbChubbs Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Editor Robert Gordon shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Bradford Simonsen and Jeff Wolverton and Dustin Adair carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "A little alien with a big problem.".
8IMDB entry: tt0331218 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Editing: Robert Gordon
Production design: Yarrow Cheney
Runtime: 5 min · 0h 5m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: The ChubbChubbs! (2002)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

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Part of

The ChubbChubbs Collection

A collection of the computer animated shorts featuring Meeper and the ChubbChubbs.

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Community reviews

What people are saying

CinemaSerf2026-04-03
★ 6/10
There is a slight twist in the tail of the tale here, but otherwise this is an unremarkable addition to the “Star Wars” franchise. Essentially, a clumsy janitor with ambitions to be the singer in a club is fired for being useless. Out on his ear, he is warned by none other than “Jar Jar Binks” that the dreaded “Chubb Chubbs” are coming. With everyone fleeing for their lives - even “ET”, it’s left to him to rescue a family of chick-like creatures from this band of axe-wielding ogres. Can he serenade them into submission, or…? It’s all watchable enough, the pub is quite cleverly called the “Ale e Inn” which I quite liked and of course there’s a message about never judging a book by it’s cover, but none of it looks to have had an human hand or eye anywhere near it and it’s production line stuff.

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