Turma da Monica em Uma Aventura no Tempo (Monica's Gang In An Adventure in Time) is a 2007 Brazilian Animated Film of Monica's Gang.
It was directed by Mauricio de Souza and written by Didi Oliveira, Emerson Bernardo de Abreu and Flavio de Souza.
It's another sunny day in the Lemon District.
On one side of a street inside a lab, Franjinha (Franklin) is developing a time machine by synthetizing the four classical elements in order to create a fifth element that will give him access to portals in time to either the past or the future.
On the other side of the street, our four protagonists (Monica, Magali*, Cebolinha* and Cascão*) are planning to have a picnic which Jimmy Five uses for another one of his plans to get Samson away from Monica and become the owner of the Lemon Street.
Unsurprisingly, this plan fails and on the ensuing chase, the two plots converge whereupon, in an attempt to strike both Jimmy Five and Smudge with Samson, Monica strikes the four elements currently being combined, sending them back and forward in time and scrambling with the current time which is now freezing up in a blue wave that is slowly converging to the lab
And now, in order to stop the total freezing of time, our four protagonists must split up and recover the four elements throughout the ages in an adventure in time
An Adventure in Time is Monica's Gang 12th movie, 10th animated movie and the second one since The Princess and the Robot to have a fully original story rather than a compilation of short-stories.
EU PRECISO DE UM TV TROPES! PARA ME PERDER ACHANDO ONDE OS TROPOS ESTÃO!*
- Anachronism Stew: The element of fire and by extension Monica are sent to the Prehistoric Age or more specifically, the Cavern Clan version of the age which is this trope in droves
- Elemental Personalities: When one stops to think about it, each of the four kids represents one of the four elements they are each sent to recover
- Monica is Fire: Determined and driven but iconically quick to anger and violence and hard to calm down
- Jimmy Five is Air: Energetic and creative but just as iconically delusional and easily led by his victories and ideas
- Smudge is, sadly for him, Water: Easygoing and unambitious but lacks any spine and is easy to coerce
- Maggy is Earth: Simple and down-to-earth but stubborn (especially in relation to food) and traditional to a fault
- God Guise: Pitoco (one of the original characters created for this movie) creates one of these in the "Deus do Fogo" (God of Fire) in order to rule Lem and force them to (unknowingly, fake-) sacrifice Tooga (Thuga) in order to gain her hand and uses the element of fire to support and enforce the image. His masquerade falls when, in a temper tantrum, he sets his clothes on fire and has difficulty putting it out which, as Pitheco (Piteco) points out, should be one of the first things a God of Fire should be able to do
- Natural Elements: The four classical elements are a major focus of the film as their synthetization creates a fifth element that allows for time travel. They are (somehow) contained inside glass vials that (again, somehow) never run out and allow one (once again, somehow) to manipulate the element in question alongside related elements
- San Dimas Time: Surprisingly, for an animated adventure-comedy movie made in a country where taking the third option is basically a lifestyle, no one in the gang (like Little Fringe, Smudge or Maggy) ever suggest simply going back to before the elements were thrown in time
- Time Travel: "A Adventure in Time". It doesn't get more obvious
