Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius story
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a 2001 American computer-animated science fiction comedy film produced by Nickelodeon Movies, O Entertainment and DNA Productions, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Synopsis: A schoolboy with super-genius intelligence must save all of the parents of the world from a race of egg-like aliens known as the Yolkians.
38 total · 7 major · 31 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien abduction | major | It was up to Jimmy and his friends to rescue the Retroville adults from their Yolian alien abductors. |
| child power | major | The 8-year-old boy Jimmy and his school pals banded together to rescue the Retroville adults from their Yolkian alien abductors. In the end, and without any help from adults, the kids defeated the Yolkians and saved theirs parents from being sacrificed to the Yolkian god Poultra. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The egg-like Yolkian aliens abducted all the adults in Retroville with the intention of sacrificing them to a gigantic three-eyed alien chicken. |
| father and son | major | Jimmy came to understand over the course of the film that he loved his father, Hugh, and never wanted to be without him again. |
| human childhood | major | The 8-year-old boy Jimmy and his pals were going around doing stereotypical childhood things. Jimmy snuck out at night to go to an amusement park with his friends, got in trouble with his parents for having made a mess in the house, etc. |
| mother and son | major | Jimmy came to understand over the course of the film that he loved his mother, Judy, and never wanted to be without her again. |
| the dangers of sending information out into space | major | By launching a communications satellite into space in the hopes of contacting alien life, Jimmy unwittingly supplied the Yolkians with the information they needed to abduct all the adults of Retroville. |
| be careful what you wish for | minor | Jimmy came to regret having wished for "no more parents" after the Yolkian aliens came to Earth and whisked all the Retroville adults off to their home planet. |
| be wary of strangers | minor | Jimmy's parents warned him to not talk to strangers. |
| beating one's self up | minor | Jimmy cried while in jail because he felt it was all his fault that the Retroville parents had been abducted by aliens. |