| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
So packed with knowingly dreadful puns, wily sight gags, and self-referential cheek that it's impossible not to be charmed.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
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
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
Rocky and Bullwinkle have not only returned, but they've been placed in the hands of filmmakers who know what they're doing.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Works because they really are the focus - and they're excellently voiced .
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
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.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Pure nonsense is hard to sustain for an entire feature-length movie.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
Beautifully regenerates the Jay Ward TV show its characters were based on.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
So quick that the flat moments are rapidly, inevitably chased by a new gag.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
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
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
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.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Does go on too long, leading to inevitable dead spots.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
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
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
Too dumb to realize that the senselessness is viral.
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| 30 |
Rolling Stone
It's sledgehammer whimsy, and it's not talking to me.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Has some good throwaway gags -- but far too often, the moviemakers don't throw them away soon enough.
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| 30 |
Time
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.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Brian Cronenworth
These are pitch-perfect impersonations rather than performances.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Hardly a project worthy of grown men and women.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
The movie's attempts at zaniness are flat, almost embarrassing.
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
Succumbs to its blockbuster ambitions and turns into a noisy, bloated mess.
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| 10 |
Variety
Scarcely seems worth the expenditure of time, money and talent.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
This clunky TV remake is stiffer than an iron curtain.
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| 10 |
Dallas Observer
A whole lot of something about nothing.
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| 0 |
TNT RoughCut
Rocky & Bullwinkle is the new millennium's "Howard the Duck."
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