History WesternAnimation / Storks

''Storks'' is a CGI-animated comedy written and directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, and starring Creator/AndySamberg, Creator/KatieCrown, Creator/KelseyGrammer, Creator/JenniferAniston, Creator/TyBurrell, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/KeeganMichaelKey and Creator/JordanPeele. Released on September 23rd, 2016, it is Creator/WarnerBros' second film under their Warner Animation Group banner after ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''.

''Storks'' is a CGI-animated comedy written and directed by NicholasStoller and DougSweetland, and starring Creator/AndySamberg, Creator/KatieCrown, Creator/KelseyGrammer, Creator/JenniferAniston, Creator/TyBurrell, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/KeeganMichaelKey and Creator/JordanPeele. Released on September 23rd, 2016, it is Creator/WarnerBros' second film under their Warner Animation Group banner after ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''.

''Storks'' is a CGI-animated comedy written and directed by Creator/NicholasStoller and Creator/DougSweetland, and starring Creator/AndySamberg, Creator/KatieCrown, Creator/KelseyGrammer, Creator/JenniferAniston, Creator/TyBurrell, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/KeeganMichaelKey and Creator/JordanPeele. Released on September 23rd, 2016, it is Creator/WarnerBros' second film under their Warner Animation Group banner after ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''.

* TalkingToHimself: InUniverse. Tulip's job in the mail room becomes so boring that she winds up creating various co-worker personae to bicker with. [[ItMakesSenseInContext One of them even covers for her when she tries to leave]].

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese release of the film uses "Heiwa" by Ai as its theme song, named after the artist's newborn daughter, fitting for the theme of the movie.

** Tulip is a pariah at Cornerstone for being a huge klutz whenever she tries to help. There's also the implication of genuinely racist feelings against her for being human, as humans are normally not allowed to enter. The trope is lampshaded by Toady.

* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Junior is ordered to "liberate" (i.e. fire) Tulip if he wants any hope of becoming boss of Cornerstore.com. He circumvents the issue by putting her in charge of the letter department, which hadn't functioned ever since the storks switched to delivering packages.

* ArtificialHuman: The baby machine creates these.

* RuleOfFunny: Why in the world is the off button to the baby machine behind four huge spinning buzzsaws?

* PottyFailure: Junior bluntly admits that he peed on his seat out of fear while the plane fell out of the sky.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The storks stopped delivering babies eighteen years ago, but the mail service to get letters to the storks (which involves a pelican deliveryman) still works their shifts, thereby ensuring Nate's letter gets to them. Eventually justified, as the ending reveals [[spoiler:that letters to the storks HAVE been sent throughout the years, but they haven't been processed due to Hunter shutting down the baby-making machine earlier]].

* ContrivedCoincidence: The storks stopped delivering babies eighteen years ago, but the mail service to get letters to the storks (which involves a pelican deliveryman) still works their shifts, thereby ensuring Nate's letter gets to them. Eventually justified, as the ending reveals [[spoilers:that letters to the storks HAVE been sent throughout the years, but they haven't been processed due to Hunter shutting down the baby-making machine earlier]].

* ContrivedCoincidence: The storks stopped delivering babies eighteen years ago, but the mail service to get letters to the storks (which involves a pelican deliveryman) still works their shifts, thereby ensuring Nate's letter gets to them.

* WaveOfBabies: Invoked by Junior in the climax

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Besides Diamond Destiny being a major reason for CharacterDevelopment for Junior, [[spoiler:the response to the massive flood of babies by the families is universal delight. While all of these families had asked for children from the storks, it had been 18 years since the last delivery. Evidently no-one had changed their mind in the intervening time.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The wolves can form several things together. But when they become a submarine, they need to periodically surface for air. And when they try to become an airplane, they [[spoiler:instantly fall out of the sky]].
** Building funny extensions onto your house to guide the stork in his delivery is cute and all, [[spoiler:but it will break various building safety codes in the process.]]
** After Junior, Tulip and the baby settle in for the night, the camera pans up to imply a heartwarming scene transition... only for the baby to start crying, at which point it zips back to show the two of them trying tiredly to get her back to sleep.

* TakeThatUs: The film seems to be more than willing to take potshots at itself.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Cornerstore.com [[http://cornerstore.com/ is a real website]]; sadly, they do not employ storks.

* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Tulip is very surprised that someone as popular as Junior is actually talking to an outcast like her. [[spoiler:Fans have signified it as her possibly having a secret crush on him, given how excited she was when he called her name.]]

* GaggingOnTheWords: Junior is unable to bring himself to fire Tulip, despite his efforts, so he simply gives her a job somewhere she won't be any trouble.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Offscreen but heavily implied. Tulip is raised as a baby by a company of storks view her as an accident, and want to fire her the moment she turns 18. She's obviously not considered one of the storks given that they call her orphan Tulip and her friends are all non-stork employees. It's mostly played for BlackComedy.

* LEGOGenetics: How else can you explain some of the hair colours of the babies, which include blue and bright pink?

* MeanBoss: Hunter, the head stork made his office entirely out of glass, knowing full well that birds can't see glass. ''Cue storks smacking into the glass walls''. He also uses tiny ball-like Robins as various office items, and the balls in OfficeGolf.

** In a CutawayGag a [[BlackComedy penguin gets eaten by a walrus]]. The problem with this is that walruses don't eat penguins because they live on opposite sides of the planet.

* MotorMouth: Both leads. Once you get Tulip yammering, she doesn't shut up. Especially if she's forced to talk to ''herself'' out of boredom. Junior, being played by Andy Samberg, has a habit of explaining things very quickly under his breath.

-->'''Hunter:''' Junior, do you know why I built my office entirely out of glass, even though birds can't see glass?\\

'''Hunter:''' Power mover.

''Storks'' is a CGI-animated comedy written by Nicholas Stoller (''Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall'', ''Film/{{Neighbors|2014}}'') and directed by Stoller and Doug Sweetland (a Pixar veteran best known for the short ''WesternAnimation/{{Presto}}''), and starring Creator/AndySamberg, Creator/KatieCrown, Creator/KelseyGrammer, Creator/JenniferAniston, Creator/TyBurrell, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/KeeganMichaelKey and Creator/JordanPeele. Released on September 23rd, 2016, it is Creator/WarnerBros' second film under their Warner Animation Group banner after ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''.

* GlassSmackAndSlide: Two storks ram into the glass window in Hunter’s office and slowly slide down it.

* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Pigeon Toady's attempt at destroying the Baby Factory with his drone, complete with slo-motion and heroic lighting, is unceremoniously ended when one of the gears flicks him away, ending up with him being thrown out of a window and through a helicopter.