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81
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71
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71
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69
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68
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68
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65
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64
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63
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63
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63
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60
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57
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57
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55
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53
Music Within
52
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51
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49
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47
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47
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47
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46
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44
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43
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43
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41
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41
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39
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30
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Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The
Universal Pictures
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
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Des McAnuff
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 13, 2001
Video: February 13, 2001
Theatrical: June 30, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
88 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Germany |

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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.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's often surprisingly clever, dripping with respect for its model, and done with considerable wit and style.

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.

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.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
So quick that the flat moments are rapidly, inevitably chased by a new gag.

50
TV Guide
Steve Simels
This megastar mix of CGI animation and live action is remarkably faithful to the spirit of the original.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

30
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Hardly a project worthy of grown men and women.

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.

10
Variety
Joe Leydon
Scarcely seems worth the expenditure of time, money and talent.

10
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
This clunky TV remake is stiffer than an iron curtain.

10
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
A whole lot of something about nothing.

0
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
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