Trouble Island

Trouble Island is an upcoming science fiction comedy film directed by Kevin Smith, and written by Jackson Kelley, Bill Watterson, and Smith, based on Watterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and is the 21st entry into the Calvinverse. The film stars an ensemble cast of Kelley, Taika Waititi, Smith, Griffin Gluck, Ty Burrell, Ben Schwartz, Elizabeth Banks, Bill Hader, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Tom Ellis, and Ozzy Osbourne. Set three months after Calvin and Hobbes III: Double Trouble, Calvin's dad once again drags an unwilling family on yet another camping trip. This one is going to be much more interesting than usual, as Calvin is also seeing a psychiatrist who might have an ulterior motive for taking him as a patient.

Cast

 * Jackson Kelley as Calvin
 * Taika Waititi as Hobbes
 * Kevin Smith as Socrates
 * Griffin Gluck as Andy
 * Ty Burrell as Sherman
 * Ben Schwartz as MTM
 * Elizabeth Banks as Mom
 * Bill Hader as Dad
 * Simon Pegg as Galaxoid
 * Nick Frost as Nebular
 * Ozzy Osbourne as Retro Griffin
 * Tom Ellis as Dr. Furcifer

Plot
On a summer day, Calvin, Hobbes, and the gang are riding down Sneer Hill on the wagon, with Socrates preparing to do a stunt involving him dirt ski behind the wagon with styrofoam trays. They end up crashing in a river, and they head home to dry off. They discuss a possible other attack from Rupert and Calvin and Hobbes reveal they're going on another camping trip, but this time on the usual island. Suddenly, Socrates gets a transmission from Galaxoid and Nebular but the transmission is full of static. Meanwhile, Mom prepares dinner as Dad arrives home from work. Mom expresses she's worried about Calvin since he's been living a normal life since Double Trouble and the two discuss the credibility of a majority of Calvin's stories. Mom brings up a child psychiatrist and Dad considers it.

A few days later, the gang goes on their usual daily routines. As Calvin and Hobbes read some comic books, Mom and Dad call Calvin down and tell him about the psychologist. Calvin expresses disdain, and Mom and Dad say Calvin has been his normal self since the aliens, despite Calvin's claims he interacts with aliens on a bi-weekly basis. Finally, Calvin reluctantly decides to go. The family goes to meet a man named Dr. Furcifer, and he begins chatting with Calvin about what he likes to do in his free time and his previous exploits. The conversation turns to Hobbes and Dr. Furcifer proposes the idea Hobbes is just a toy. However, Calvin shoots down that idea because Hobbes is able to think on his own free will and interact with the rest of the gang. Furcifer talks to Mom and Dad about the results of the session and after the family leaves, Furcifer leaves the building and pulls of his face to become Retro Griffin.

The day of the camping trip comes and Dad hurries the family out of the house. The rest of the gang shows up to wish Calvin and Hobbes goodbye. When they arrive on the island, Dad expresses joy about how great it is to be back despite his family's opposing thoughts. It escalates to an argument between Calvin and Dad where Calvin yells at Dad that the only reason they go camping is so Dad can get away from his job and he storms off with Hobbes into the woods. Mom calms Dad down, and says there has to be an activity both Calvin and Dad both enjoy. Calvin grumbles about the argument while Hobbes tries to make him see the other side, unaware they are being watched by Retro, who has built The Imaginator 2.0.

Andy gets awoken by Socrates from a nightmare, and Socrates says he keeps having troubles with his transmitter chip, and it seems to be malfunctioning. They go to Sherman's lab to get the transmission from Galaxoid and Nebular. The transmission tells them that Retro has escaped from his Ankorian prison, where he was placed at the beginning of the universe. Meanwhile, Mom shows up in Calvin's tent, gives him dinner, and tells him Dad means well with the camping, and then when she heads off to bed, she and Dad hear something in the woods. They go to search and find Retro with the Imaginator 2.0. and he traps Mom and Dad in a cage, telling them that he wants revenge on Calvin and Hobbes.

Back in Sherman's lab, the gang gets video contact with Galaxoid and Nebular and they tell the gang what happened with Retro in prison. Sherman decides to place a call into MTM. Calvin and Hobbes are woken up with a loud ringtone from MTM and they accept the call, where Sherman explains they Retro has escaped from prison and is hiding on Earth somewhere. Hobbes exits the tent and sees the island has drastically changed, with only the island altered. When Calvin sees it, he observes they already found Retro.

Retro waits for Calvin at the Imaginator, and tells Mom and Dad the events of Can You Imagine That?, where he explains that ever since Calvin destroyed the first Imaginator, he bent reality to make all his fantasies and adventures come true, where Mom and Dad question the fact that Hobbes is really real. After a while, Calvin finds his parents in the cage, when a deinonychus dinosaur approaches them. But Calvin acts excited until he sees Retro again. Retro says his intention is to return reality to how it was before Can You Imagine That, and that will be his revenge, starting with Hobbes. Retro flips a switch on the Imaginator and everything goes white.

Calvin awakens, but with Hobbes by his side, still a tiger. Retro stutters that Hobbes was supposed to turn back into a stuffed tiger. Calvin and Hobbes prepare to turn Retro in but they are interrupted by Mom screaming. It turns out the results of the Imaginator was able to cause Mom and Dad to see Hobbes the way Calvin does. Hobbes pounces Retro while Calvin and his parents escape, but they're cornered by a dinosaur. Calvin uses MTM to fire a dart into the dinosaur's neck, knocking it out. Mom and Dad are flabbergasted that both Hobbes and MTM are real and can talk. Calvin and Hobbes prepare to fight Retro and they get Mom and Dad to go with them, arming themselves with Calvin's inventions. Meanwhile, Andy, Sherman, and Socrates get picked up by Galaxoid and Nebular in their ship and they head to the island.

As Calvin, Hobbes, Mom, and Dad search for Retro, Mom and Dad question Calvin about all the things he's done now that they can see Hobbes. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang floats above the island and observe they can't get on the island without being attacked by a creature, deciding to bring Calvin and Hobbes into their ship when a volcano erupts from the sea. Calvin explains to his parents that Retro is using the Imaginator to bend reality and Mom and Dad theorize they could see Hobbes the whole time, but they just blocked it out because it was too absurd. They take that theory to Retro and Retro angrily denies it when suddenly, they are taken into the Ankorian ship.

Once in the ship, Retrotries to get out and then Calvin introduces Mom and Dad to his friends. Sherman takes Mom and Dad to Galaxoid and Nebular while everyone else chases after Retro. Retro runs through the ship but doors keep slamming in his face, forcing him to go different directions, when he runs into Calvin and the gang, Calvin prepares to fire MTM but Retro asks if MTM can defeat pure imaginative power. Sherman tells Dad to activate the Time Pauser, and they are joined by Mom in helping Calvin gain the upper hand. Mom uses the Atomic Freezer on Retro, which freezes his lab coat, and when time starts up, Calvin blasts the Imaginator and Retro escapes. Galaxoid tricks him into getting into an escape pod to transport to a maximum security planet, and the ship sends Retro away, hopefully never seeing him again.

Back on Earth, Mom and Dad ask the gang about the adventures they've had and Calvin uses the Imaginator to reverse the island to the way it was, and Mom and Dad are knocked out, as Calvin teleports them back to their campsite. The next morning, Calvin awakens to see they accidentally deleted his parents' memories of the adventure. Calvin asks why they camp, and Mom says it's because Dad's father never took him. Dad explains to Calvin about the relationship between himself and his father, which makes Calvin understand him a bit more. Calvin says he is all for playing outside, just not in Dad's way, and proposes some middle ground, where they camp in the woods near a lake. Calvin heads swimming and Mom and Dad discuss their dreams, where they had the same dream, which recounted the events of the film. Meanwhile, in space, Retro's pod takes a detour straight towards Planet Zok. The final battle is about to begin.

In a post credits scene, Mom hears the TV on, but sees Hobbes sitting in front of the TV. Mom says she wishes Hobbes will be passed down to Calvin's kids, and Hobbes replies back with, "I think he will.". A shocked Mom talks with Hobbes about his existence, to which Hobbes doesn't know exactly what he is. But he tells Mom Calvin is very important to him and then Mom heads back to bed, wishing Hobbes good night. Hobbes says good night back as the film ends.