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The Penguin's New Groove (The Penguin and Me in other territories, ペンギンの新しい溝 in Japan and Pingviini ja jäljitelmä in Finland) is an American-Japanese fan-made animated film. Directed by a Japanese-born Australian person named Lorenzo "Japeth XL" Tsukuda, it features the animation style of Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost. The film was released in the United States on YouTube on March 24, 2006 and in Japan on VHS and DVD on April 7, 2006. It was released by Paramount Home Entertainment on VHS and DVD on May 13, 2006, including the short film, Beauty and the Gaulish Boy. Produced between April 20, 2004 and 2005 through Japanese animation studios Mook Animation and TMS Entertainment, it is based on the Japanese comic book of the same name from 1998.

Plot synopsis
When Robin's girlfriend, Barbara tries to escape for the second time during the climax, Belson gets a revolver out from a drawer and shoots at her, but he hits her with hair buckle was taken down which leads to Robin rescues her and the oil derrick going up in flames. Let's split up for other clues! Robin and Barbara were jumped off the oil rig and are driven by dolphins to Hawaii; a Shiba Inu dog named Kenai and his best friend are a big, real, wild, powerful, and strong Saiyan hippie named Koda find a penguin egg that had hatched as a young, hilarious, and fleet-of-foot penguin named Nori showed up to help them. Kenai, Koda, and Nori were driven by a dolphin in the group to Hawaii so they could find Robin and Barbara as if they were escaped from the ocean and defeat the Ghost of Tsushima who plans to rule the world, and Mr. Jay, his girlfriend, Abby Harper, and her henchman is a chemically-boosted assassin, Bane, are in charge of summoning the two-headed turkey named Olaf in the world. All of them, together with the Saimaa ringed seal named Sydney, set off on a road trip full of humor, awesome adventures, big drama, and non-stop laughs!

United States version

 * Scott Menville as Robin
 * Tara Strong as Barbara
 * Frank Welker as Kenai
 * Matthew Lillard as Koda
 * Andrew Sabistion as Nori
 * Carlo Bonomi as Sydney
 * David Hasselhoff as Blue Eagle
 * Keanu Reeves as Discord
 * C. Ernst Harth as Olaf
 * Xzibit as Ghost of Tsushima
 * Joaquin Phoenix as Mr. Jay
 * Carlos Alazraqui as Bane
 * Michelle Yeoh as Abby Harper
 * Scott McNeil as Joshua

United Kingdom version

 * Martin Lawrence as Robin
 * Mila Kunis as Barbara
 * Frank Welker as Kenai
 * Scott Innes as Koda
 * Andrew Sabistion as Nori
 * Carlo Bonomi as Sydney
 * David Hasselhoff as Blue Eagle
 * Keanu Reeves as Discord
 * C. Ernst Harth as Olaf and Joshua
 * Xzibit as Ghost of Tsushima
 * Joaquin Phoenix as Mr. Jay
 * Carlos Alazraqui as Bane
 * Michelle Yeoh as Abby Harper

Japanese version

 * Yasunori Matsumoto as Robin
 * Megumi Hayashibara as Barbara
 * Naomi Kusumi as Kenai
 * Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Koda
 * Kazumi Totaka as Nori
 * Kōki Uchiyama as Sydney
 * Akio Katō as Blue Eagle
 * Toshiyuki Morikawa as Discord
 * Hiroyuki Sanada as Olaf and Joshua
 * Nobuaki Fukuda as Ghost of Tsushima
 * Wataru Takagi as Mr. Jay
 * Kenta Miyake as Bane
 * Rie Kugimiya as Abby Harper

Spin-off
A spin-off television series, titled Koda Ball Z, aired on all Coca-Cola XD stations in Japan from November 23, 2003, to January 3, 2008, and its television film, titled Koda Ball Z and the Witch's Ghost, was released in North America on April 20, 2005, and in Japan on December 13, 2005, and it is a parody of Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost. Scott Innes provides their roles of Kenai and Koda, while Japeth XL returned to direct the film for television. The television film's plot focuses on Kenai and Koda join their friends, Yuna, Barney, and Tarja once again pile into Formula Two and stumble onto hazardous pay. This time they happen upon some Tokyo ghoulies in a small New England town.

Prequel
A prequel, titled The Seals' New Groove, was released on November 8, 2012. Carlo Bonomi reprised his role of Sydney, while Japeth XL returned to direct the film. The prequel's plot focuses on Sydney and two mermaids will be found inside the circus ring, when the three sea lions live in the air and find their own special species for the first time in Tokyo.