Storks(2016)

PG
Rated PG for mild action and some thematic elements
1h 27m

Release Date: Sep 23, 2016 | Wide

A-
6.8

Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby.

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Releases

Original Release | Sep 23, 2016

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$21,311,407
Total US & Canada:
$72,800,603
Total International
$111,000,000
Total Worldwide:
$183,800,603

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Director & Top Cast

Nicholas Stoller
Director

Doug Sweetland
Director

Jennifer Aniston
Actor

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital,Dolby Atmos,Dolby Surround 7.1,SDDS

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Canada,United States

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

Cornerstore was a place known for delivering babies and its employees are primarily storks, along with a few other birds. For generations, the storks of Stork Mountain delivered babies to families around the world, until one stork named Jasper imprinted on an infant girl and attempted to keep her for himself. Jasper accidentally dropped the infant's address beacon, and it broke into small pieces, then he went into exile.The current CEO of Cornerstore, a stork named Hunter (Kelsey Grammer), discontinued the baby delivering business, seeing more profit by converting the company to a parcel delivery service. As the last infant from before baby delivery was discontinued, Tulip, could not be delivered and was taken in by the company as an orphan.Tulip (Katie Crown), having just turned 18 years old, is working to promote new ideas for Cornerstore, but they always backfire and cause the company to lose stocks. Hunter declares her to be a severe burden and liability due to this incompetence. The charts also justify this, as every time she tries to help, their profits go down, and when they do make progress, it is when she's absent. Meanwhile Junior (Andy Samberg), Cornerstore's top delivery stork, is about to be promoted to boss of Cornerstore while Hunter is about to be promoted as chairman of the board. Hunter demands that Junior fire Tulip from the company due to her antics causing Cornerstore to suffer losses. Junior cannot find the heart to fire Tulip due to her kindness and hard work. He lies to her that she is being transferred to the mail room and instructs her to never leave her new office space.Meanwhile, a young 4-year-old boy named Nate Gardner (Anton Starkman) feels lonely because his parents, Henry (Ty Burrell) and Sarah (Jennifer Aniston), are too busy to spend time with him and yearns for a younger brother. When his parents scoff at the idea and he learns from an old brochure about Cornerstore and their former baby-making reputation, he writes a letter asking for a baby brother and sends it to Cornerstore.The letter makes its way to Tulip, bored of waiting, who reluctantly leaves the mail room to put the letter in a slot just outside the room despite Junior's attempt to stop her, dislocating his wing in the process. The slot leads to the shutdown baby factory (as she was supposed to put it in a containment of letters directly across). To their surprise, a pink haired baby girl is created inside a metal container, whom they later name Diamond Destiny.Knowing that Hunter will fire him for creating an unauthorized infant and not firing Tulip as ordered, Junior agrees to secretly help deliver Diamond Destiny. As Junior's wing is be broken, they use Tulip's flying machine for transportation. However, they crash into a frozen tundra. After a brief argument, Junior takes Diamond Destiny in the hopes of getting back to Cornerstore but is ambushed by two wolf leaders named Alpha (Keegan-Michael Key) and Beta (Jordan Peele) and their pack and taken to their cave, where Tulip was also captured. The two manage to save Diamond Destiny, whom the wolves have fallen in love with, and escape. In the meantime, Henry and Sarah open up to Nate's desire for a younger sibling and spend time with their son by building a landing platform for the storks.Back at Cornerstore, a pigeon employee named Toady (Stephen Kramer Glickman) learns of Diamond Destiny's existence. He goes after Junior and Tulip to confirm Diamond Destiny's existence, and upon reporting back to Hunter, he promises Toady Junior's position as they scramble the coordinates Junior and Tulip have been following to mislead them to a different location.After another brief encounter with the wolves, Junior and Tulip run into Jasper (Danny Trejo), an old stork that was ultimately responsible for Tulip being orphaned and the shutdown of baby delivery after he broke her address beacon. Jasper had followed them from Stork Mountain. Jasper has nearly repaired Tulip's delivery beacon, but is missing one piece, which had been in Tulip's possession for years. Junior reveals that he was supposed to fire Tulip, leaving her in tears. Now knowing where her family is, Jasper decides to take her to be reunited with them while Junior sadly continues to deliver Diamond Destiny by himself.Junior is captured and tied up by Hunter and his cronies at the false location and they kidnap Diamond Destiny. Hunter has Diamond Destiny taken away to live with penguins until she is an adult in order to silence the incident and prevent more plummeting stocks while Junior is tied up and gagged until his waiting attempt to death.Tulip reunites with Junior from being coughed to demise and they return to Stork Mountain during the highly anticipated Storkcon event to save Diamond Destiny from the penguins. After fighting an army of penguins, Junior and Tulip are chased into the abandoned baby making room and start up the machine as a distraction. Junior sends millions of archived letters from families into the baby-making machine, causing it to rapidly produce babies and distract the storks.As thousands of babies are being made, Hunter angrily confronts Junior and Tulip with a large robotic machine, but Junior refuses to surrender Diamond Destiny with Hunter's re-offered promotion. With the infant's playfulness, Junior and Tulip are able to cause the machine along with Hunter to fall off the cliff elevating the collapsing Cornerstore. After Junior flies for a short distance, it is revealed that Junior's wing was just dislocated.Junior rallies the storks, as well as the other birds, to help deliver the babies to the families who wanted them including the Gardners. Junior, Tulip, and Jasper deliver Diamond Destiny to the Gardners, and Junior has a vision of her future, taking her first steps, learning to ride a bike, being in a ballet, training her ninja skills, graduating and getting married. Nate is at first not happy about not getting a little brother but quickly cheers up upon seeing his new sister's ninja skills.The storks, former employees of Cornerstore, and the wolf pack reunite Tulip with her expanded family, and she and Junior continue their job of delivering babies as co-bosses of Stork Mountain. In the end, every family now knows that storks deliver babies once again.

Storyline

Storks deliver babies...or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the company's top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl. Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble before the boss gets wise, Junior and his friend Tulip, the only human on Stork Mountain, race to make their first-ever baby drop - in a wild and revealing journey that could make more than one family whole and restore the storks' true mission in the world. — Warner Bros. For generations, the storks of Stork Mountain delivered babies to families around the world, until one stork named Jasper attempted to keep an infant girl for himself. Jasper accidentally destroyed the infant's address beacon and went into exile. Unable to deliver the orphaned girl, the storks adopted her under the name Tulip. CEO stork Hunter discontinued baby delivery in favor of package delivery with Cornerstore.com. Eighteen years later, Tulip, now a young adult, tries to promote new ideas for Cornerstore, which backfire and cause the company to lose stocks..