[4] The film features the voices of Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Danny DeVito, Ian McKellen, Sylvester Stallone, Patrick Warburton, Raven-Symoné, Harvey Fierstein, Wallace Shawn, Gilbert Gottfried, Tara Strong, James Arnold Taylor, Kevin Grevioux, and Lydia Rose Taylor in her film debut.

After a show, the circus' resident gypsy fortune-teller Esmeralda presents her beautiful niece Talia to her employers, asking them to give her a job.

Following the initial excitement, however, Owen soon discovers he has to work as a taste tester for Zoe's father, Mr. Woodley, at his dog biscuit factory.

Before they leave, circus pets Old Blue and Zena give the Huntingtons the mysterious box, and they later discover it holds animal crackers.

To catch up with him, Owen turns into a lion, but Brock gets captured by Mario Zucchini, who also steals animal cracker pieces.

At one performance, Horatio appears and offers Owen's mountain gorilla form his human cracker (which Mario had also unknowingly stolen) in exchange for the circus.

He then is confronted by Old Blue and Zena, who reveal themselves as Bob and Talia, alive but forever trapped in animal form due to the destruction of their human crackers in the fire.

Additional voices by Cam Clarke, Lara Cody, Debi Derryberry, Jessica Gee, Grant George, Max Koch, Brianne Siddall, and Jennie Yee In 2011, Scott Christian Sava wrote a comic book for Animal Crackers but was unable to garner any interest.

[22] Financing the movie were executive producers Mu Yedong on behalf of Wen Hua Dongrun Investment Co., La Peikang, board chairman of China Film Co., and Sam Chi for Landmark Asia.

[10] In the last week of October and throughout November 2014, Sava via the Animal Crackers Facebook page, there were sneak peeks to the look of some characters along with announcing the voice cast for those characters Kevin Grevioux as Samson the Strong Man,[19] James Arnold Taylor as Buffalo Bob,[18] Tara Strong as Talia,[17] Harvey Fierstein as Esmerelda the Fortune Teller,[15] Gilbert Gottfried as Mario Zucchini,[16] and Raven-Symoné as Binkley.

[13] On November 6, 2014, Blue Dream Studios announced Sylvester Stallone, Danny DeVito, and Ian McKellen as lead voice cast.

In an effort to save costs, it was produced at Blue Dream Studios Spain, a 5,000-square foot house in Valencia that the director, Sava, founded in early 2014.

On January 27, 2015, Sava announced on Facebook via the Animal Crackers page that first day of "studio sessions with the actors" began in Los Angeles.

[34] These releases were not authenticated or approved by director Scott Christian Sava, and are presumed to be licensed through investor Mayday Productions or another unknown outside entity.

[37] In Annecy 2017 movie review, Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter states that the story is "mostly predictable directions despite the limited pleasure of seeing those mighty morphin power crackers in action."

Overall, he stated about the film could be considered "passable enough, though it's far from the level of Sausage Party or Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, to name some other edible animation tales.

"[39] Renee Schonfeld of Common Sense Media gave the film three stars out of five, describing a "fantastical tale has wacky characters, music, and cartoon peril.

"[40] Nell Minow of RogerEbert.com rated the film three stars out of four, saying that the character designs are "average" and the action scenes are "energetic and staged with a strong sense of space."

"[41] David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a rate 2.5 stars out of 5 (Grade: B-), stating that the movie is "turned out kind of…decent."

He says about the film's screenplay is "does not re-invent the wheel here, and it does take a little time to build up the steam it needs as it heads towards its cracker-induced animal shapeshifting concept."

He also saws about a "few moments when it occasionally threatens to dampen some creatively exciting ideas with a few different sub-plots and techniques but eventually they bring it together nicely for a grand climax…which is actually kind of appropriate considering the plot."

"[43] Patrick Gibbs of SLUG Magazine reviewed the film about the animation is "not Pixar level, but it's good enough, with its own style and sensibilities and lots of colorful imagery."

He enjoys how it's "blend of musical sequences and occasionally problematic depictions of circus artists reminded [him] of both The Greatest Showman and Tod Browning's Freaks.