Ok I am 28 I saw this when I was maybe 7 or so. It was all done with puppets no live people at all. It starts out with a young boy who I think lives with his grandparents. The grand parents are making fireworks for the 4th of july and are all happy. I remember them saying " thisd years gonna be a big bang!" The kid is all grumpy and he asks what the big deal is. They try to tell him about freedom and how important it is but he just grumps off. Then an alien space ship kidnaps the kid for there zoo. The boy is put in with other aliens they have collected. He gets all the other aliens in the zoo to protest and the king alien who kidnaped them all ends up agreeing to bring them all home. please if any one has seen this and could tell me the title I would be so happy. Every one I ask looks at me like I am nuts :) maybe I am :) but i remember so much just not what it was called
thanks so much