Leo (2023 American film)

November 21, 2023

Leo is a 2023 American animated musical comedy film directed by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel and David Wachtenheim (in Marianetti and Wachtenheim's feature directorial debuts), written by Smigel, Adam Sandler, and Paul Sado, and produced by Sandler and Mireille Soria. The second animated feature from Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions, it stars him in the titular voice role, alongside Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Rob Schneider, Jo Koy, Allison Strong, Jackie Sandler, Heidi Gardner, Robert Smigel, and Nick Swardson. It tells the story of a tuatara longing for the wild and worried about dying who is taken home by different students per the assignment of a strict substitute teacher.

Leo was released by Netflix on November 21, 2023 to generally positive reviews.

Storyline

Leo (Adam Sandler) is a jaded and desperate lizard who is looking for something different after a visitor to their class suggests he is old. So when the opportunity to explore the world presents itself as a take-home assignment for students, Leo jumps at it. But his plan to go home with a student is disrupted when the student discovers Leo can actually talk. Pretty soon, Leo learns that while the world has something to offer him, he has things to offer his elementary class, as each student who takes him home, he finds a new way to help them cope with the pains of growing up.

Sound Effects Used

• Hollywoodedge, Chimpanzee Screams AT050301/Sound Ideas, CHIMPANZEE - EXCITED CALL, ANIMAL, MONKEY, APE 02
• Hollywoodedge, Elephant Trumpeting PE024801
• Hollywoodedge, School Bell Long Ring PE193201
• IOS Camera Sound
• IOS Message Tone Sound
• IOS Opening Ringtone Sound
• Sound Ideas, BIRD, PARROT - SMALL: SINGLE CALL, ANIMAL 01