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Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The
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Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 36 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.5 out of 10
based on 30 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG for brief mild language

Starring Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Randy Quaid, Piper Perabo, Robert De Niro, Janeane Garofalo, Carl Reiner, and Jonathan Winters

Escaping the bounds of their two-dimensional cartoon world, Cold War spies Boris and Natasha are pursued by fearless heroes Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose.


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Jay Ward
Ken Lonergan
 
DIRECTED BY: Des McAnuff  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 13, 2001 
Video: February 13, 2001 
Theatrical: June 30, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA / Germany 

What The Critics Said

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80
Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
So packed with knowingly dreadful puns, wily sight gags, and self-referential cheek that it's impossible not to be charmed.
75
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Crammed with show-biz jokes that younger kids won't fathom, but the action is so quick and colorful that they probably won't mind.
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75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It's often surprisingly clever, dripping with respect for its model, and done with considerable wit and style.
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75
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Rocky and Bullwinkle have not only returned, but they've been placed in the hands of filmmakers who know what they're doing.
75
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Has the same mixture of dumb puns, corny sight gags and sly, even sophisticated in-jokes. It's a lot of fun.
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75
Chicago Tribune Marc Caro
Stuffed with smart Internet gags, silly movie references and a happy energy that makes you forgive the sequences that don't work.
75
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Works because they really are the focus - and they're excellently voiced .
75
Boston Globe Jay Carr
It's a sunny, funny, fittingly cartoony blend of computer-generated 3-D representations of the flying squirrel and his pal the moose with actors.
63
USA Today Andy Seiler
Pure nonsense is hard to sustain for an entire feature-length movie.
60
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Beautifully regenerates the Jay Ward TV show its characters were based on.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
So quick that the flat moments are rapidly, inevitably chased by a new gag.
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50
TV Guide Steve Simels
This megastar mix of CGI animation and live action is remarkably faithful to the spirit of the original.
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42
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The problem with the movie isn't that it sells out Rocky and Bullwinkle -- it's that it can't keep up with them.
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42
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The liveliest thing here is the keen sense of regret you feel at seeing two TV icons reduced to supporting characters in a lame movie that trades on their good names.
40
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Does go on too long, leading to inevitable dead spots.
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40
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Hit-or-miss comedy at its best and worst: When it connects, the belly laughs are long and loud, but when it misses, the groans you'll be hearing are your own.
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40
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Never asks its target audience of self-referential baby boomers and their littles bundles of joy to take it more seriously than it takes itself.
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38
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
Too dumb to realize that the senselessness is viral.
30
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It's sledgehammer whimsy, and it's not talking to me.
30
Film.com Sean Means
Has some good throwaway gags -- but far too often, the moviemakers don't throw them away soon enough.
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30
Time Richard Schickel
It's great to have the Moose back, but it would be greater still to see him in a humorous context fully worth of him.
30
LA Weekly Brian Cronenworth
These are pitch-perfect impersonations rather than performances.
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30
Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Hardly a project worthy of grown men and women.
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25
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
The movie's attempts at zaniness are flat, almost embarrassing.
25
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The whole affair has a painfully self-conscious, self-referential air. Jokes land with a thud, and so, alas, does Rocky, who seems to have forgotten how to fly.
20
The New York Times Dana Stevens
Succumbs to its blockbuster ambitions and turns into a noisy, bloated mess.
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10
Variety Joe Leydon
Scarcely seems worth the expenditure of time, money and talent.
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10
Salon.com Charles Taylor
This clunky TV remake is stiffer than an iron curtain.
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10
Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
A whole lot of something about nothing.
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0
TNT RoughCut J. Rentilly
Rocky & Bullwinkle is the new millennium's "Howard the Duck."

What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ramzeeze B. gave it a0:
The Worst Movie Ever like it has the cheesiest crap. i wish i could go into negative numbers for the rating.

Aaron B. gave it an 8:
"Horribly pathetic, the jokes are lackluster, and the story is for 5 year olds with no sense of wit." Obviously, "Cole L." hasn't ever seen the original "Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoon series. If you remember right, the jokes, were corny, the characters just short of mindless, and overall, the show was just amazingly stupid....but that was the humor of it all! No one can review this movie, and say that the movie is missing something from the cartoon. The makers of this movie were dead-on with the humor, and the only way you could dislike this movie, is if you didn't like the cartoon.

Layne gave it a 2:
Not only does it fail to bring newcomers onto its small fan wagon, but fans of the series will also be hesitant to board, if not just simply bored.

Gilbert M. gave it an 8:
Yes, the story is for 5-year olds. Well spotted. And maybe it's just that De Niro hasn't lost HIS sense of humour, unlike others I could mention.

Ned D. gave it a 2:
Total mess. Agonizingly unfunny bastardization of a classic. Robert DeNiro must have needed some quick cash to agree to star in this tripe.

Cole L. gave it a 2:
Horribly pathetic, the jokes are lackluster, and the story is for 5 year olds with no sense of wit.

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