Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The

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."