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James Isaac "Jimmy" Neutron (voiced by Debi Derryberry) is a character in the TV series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and the movie Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. He is the main and the title character of both the movie and the TV series.

He is named after scientist Isaac Newton, and James Chadwick who was nicknamed "Jimmy Neutron" for his discovery of the neutron. Jimmy Neutron is a boy scientist and inventor of sorts.

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a 2001 Academy Award-nominated computer-animated film, based on a few five-minute animated shorts shown on Nickelodeon in 2000-2001, The television series was supposed to begin before the release of the movie, but since there was not enough time, the animated shorts were created. It was produced by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies with O Entertainment. The film was produced using off-the-shelf software (LightWave 6) by DNA Productions of Dallas, Texas.

A spin-off TV series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, premiered September 6th 2002 only on Nickelodeon. This marked the first Nicktoon to be spun-off from a movie.

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The film was financially successful, bringing in $13,832,786 on its opening weekend for an average of $4,407 from 3,139 theaters, and ended up with a total of $80,865,848 domestically. It had a budget of roughly $25 million.