No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie is an animated spy comedy film based on The Loud House. It is the third animated film for the franchise (after The Loud House Movie and The Casagrandes Movie), but unlike its predecessors, it was released on Paramount+ instead of Netflix, with a same-day televised premiered on Nickelodeon.
Plot[]
The Loud family - consisting of Lincoln Loud, his ten sisters Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn Jr., Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa and Lily, and parents Rita and Lynn Loud Sr. - are going on vacation to a tropical island, where Albert (a.k.a. "Pop Pop"), the kids' maternal grandfather, plans to marry his girlfriend, Myrtle. Lincoln is intrigued by Myrtle's past as a secret agent (after having learned about it in the episode "Pop Pop the Question"), and longs to become one himself. On the flight, Lincoln meets a woman named Fifi, who immediately gets annoyed by the Louds' antics.
Soon after the Louds arrive at their hotel, Pop Pop and Myrtle head out on a fishing trip, with Lincoln joining the two. Lincoln spots some suspicious activity from the boat, but he is soon spotted and ambushed by a group of henchmen; Myrtle is able to defeat all of them. Lincoln is awestruck, having just seen Myrtle's fighting prowess, but she downplays it and discourages him from going on further spy missions due to the danger it poses. Myrtle contacts her boss, telling her that they need to leave the island, but Lincoln sends a message to her behind Myrtle's back telling her she has accepted the mission. Outside, Lincoln runs into Fifi again, who gives him his camera. Lincoln calls his best friend, Clyde McBride, to inspect one of the pictures he took of the suspicious activity; he traces it to a nearby restaurant, Rubiner's. Lincoln heads there, but is spotted by Myrtle, who has a bellboy be disguised as her while she pursues Lincoln. The family returns and takes the bellboy out on a trip, not knowing that the real Myrtle is out at Rubiner's. Lincoln enters the restaurant and encounters Fifi again, but soon overhears the henchmen from earlier discussing plans, sneaking away to listen in.
Lincoln is pulled away by Myrtle, who tells him off once he confesses he had accepted the mission, but he tells her that the henchmen from earlier are planning to build a rocket for "Dufus". The two are soon spotted by Dufus' henchmen, but Myrtle and Lincoln work together to defeat them all. The two then leave the restaurant on a moped and are pursued by Dufus' henchmen; while they are able to outrun their pursuers, they are soon ambushed, with Myrtle captured. The rest of the family finds Lincoln on the side of the road, who tells them what had happened with Myrtle, and exposes the bellboy who had been disguised this whole time. The family is determined to save Myrtle, and with Lisa's help obtains gadgets that would aid them.
The following morning, the family is able to deduce that Dufus' base is in a nearby mountain. Fifi arrives with a buggy she had rented, but tips off the henchmen on patrol. Rita takes the buggy, which is soon swarmed by another set of henchmen. The Louds manage to lose them, and the buggy stops inside a secret entrance. The Louds are forced to split up to find Myrtle's cell; meanwhile, Myrtle baits two guards into her cell, allowing her to escape. The Louds soon enter what appears to be her cell, but instead stumble into a trap. Myrtle fights against Ham Hand, an adversary she had faced in the past, and momentarily knocks him out as she finds out the other Louds are now in a rocket that is being launched by the woman Lincoln met from earlier, Fifi, revealing that her husband, Rufus, had been launched into space by Myrtle, and she had been enacting a vengeance plan by taking advantage of Lincoln's naivety to lure everyone into the rocket.
Myrtle fights with Fifi for custody of the remote, but the rocket launches with all the Louds onboard. Seeing the plight he put them all in, Lincoln admits defeat, but Myrtle figures out a way to escape - using the septic tank as an escape pod. However, one of the Louds would have to stay back. Myrtle offers to stay back, but Lincoln, seeing the love Pop Pop and Myrtle have for each other, decides to sacrifice himself in the rocket. To save Lincoln's life, Lisa hacks into a satellite to knock it off-course, sending the rocket back to Earth, and Pop Pop frees Lincoln. The family joins in a loving embrace.
Having lost the wedding rings during the fight with Fifi, Lincoln presents Myrtle with a pair of bamboo wedding rings, having obtained them after selling his David Steele watch, and Pop Pop and Myrtle get married.
Voice cast[]
| Voice actor | Character(s) |
|---|---|
| Bentley Griffin | Lincoln |
| Catherine Taber | Lori |
| Liliana Mumy | Leni |
| Nika Futterman | Luna |
| Cristina Pucelli | Luan |
| Jessica DiCicco | Lynn Lucy |
| Grey Griffin | Lana Lola Lily |
| Lara Jill Miller | Lisa |
| Jaeden White | Clyde |
| Jill Talley | Rita Computer Voice |
| Brian Stepanek | Lynn Sr. Todd Jerry (Cargo Shorts Henchman) |
| Piotr Michael | Albert Boat Henchman Karaoke Patron |
| Alex Cazares | Myrtle |
| John DiMaggio | Mr. Grouse Flop Henchman Mo |
| Khary Payton | Harold |
| Dan Fogler | Mr. Dufus |
| Paul Wight | Ham Hand |
| Amy Sedaris | Fifi Dufus |
| Chester Rushing | Owen Guard 1 |
| Sarah Niles | X |
Trivia[]
- Alex Cazares substitutes Jennifer Coolidge as Myrtle.
- Sawyer Cole, Lincoln's current voice actor, confirmed in an Instagram story that Bentley Griffin would be voicing Lincoln in this film. This suggests that this film was produced during the early production of Season 7, which Bentley Griffin was most prominent, thus making this the last piece of Loud House media where Bentley Griffin voices Lincoln.
- This is the first animated film in the franchise to be distributed via Paramount+, rather than Netflix, and the first to be produced for television.
- This is the first film in the franchise to be written solely by the show's regular staff, as the previous films were solely or co-written by writers who have not worked on any of the series.
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| Nickelodeon Original Movies | |
|---|---|
| 2000s | Globehunters • The Electric Piper • Cry Baby Lane • Shredderman Rules • The Last Day of Summer • Gym Teacher: The Movie • Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh • Spectacular! |
| 2010s | Fred: The Movie • The Boy Who Cried Werewolf • Best Player • A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! • Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred • Rags • Fred 3: Camp Fred • A Fairly Odd Christmas • Swindle • Terry the Tomboy • A Fairly Odd Summer • Santa Hunters • Splitting Adam • Liar, Liar, Vampire • Rufus • Lost in the West • Legends of the Hidden Temple • Albert • Rufus 2 • Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library • Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie • Tiny Christmas • Bixler High Private Eye • Lucky |
| 2020s | A Loud House Christmas • Monster High: The Movie • A Really Haunted Loud House • Monster High 2 • The Thundermans Return • No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie |