Filled with adorable characters, vivid animation and playful original songs, “The Happy Cricket” presents classic values that children and families will relate to. Christopher, a carefree cricket bubbling over with good humor, lives a simple happy life. But the arrival of Warlord the lizard threatens Christopher’s forest home when he orders the destruction of trees and prohibits the making of music. Christopher and his friends are determined to reclaim the forest and vanquish the villain. The 82-minute DVD features an animated short and can be played in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Launch date: October 24, 2006.
— Clever Redondo, president of Clever Image Studios and a professor of animation at New York University, told TDmonthly “the creation of the characters and the design ... brings a new look.” Originally released in Latin America, the film now has wide distribution in the United States and Canada.