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Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The
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Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The reviews


4.5

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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

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

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.

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

It's often surprisingly clever, dripping with respect for its model, and done with considerable wit and style.

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.

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.

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.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Works because they really are the focus - and they're excellently voiced .

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.

USA Today Andy Seiler

Pure nonsense is hard to sustain for an entire feature-length movie.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Beautifully regenerates the Jay Ward TV show its characters were based on.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

So quick that the flat moments are rapidly, inevitably chased by a new gag.

TV Guide Steve Simels

This megastar mix of CGI animation and live action is remarkably faithful to the spirit of the original.

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.

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.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Does go on too long, leading to inevitable dead spots.

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.

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.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Too dumb to realize that the senselessness is viral.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

It's sledgehammer whimsy, and it's not talking to me.

Film.com Sean Means

Has some good throwaway gags -- but far too often, the moviemakers don't throw them away soon enough.

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.

LA Weekly Brian Cronenworth

These are pitch-perfect impersonations rather than performances.

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Hardly a project worthy of grown men and women.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

The movie's attempts at zaniness are flat, almost embarrassing.

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.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Succumbs to its blockbuster ambitions and turns into a noisy, bloated mess.

Variety Joe Leydon

Scarcely seems worth the expenditure of time, money and talent.

Salon.com Charles Taylor

This clunky TV remake is stiffer than an iron curtain.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

A whole lot of something about nothing.

TNT RoughCut J. Rentilly

Rocky & Bullwinkle is the new millennium's "Howard the Duck."

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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