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The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Thought it was a hoot
Review: My daughter was dying to see this last summer and she was only 4. We saw it 2 or 3 times at the movie. I couldn't wait until it was released. It contained the same silly puns and jokes. That is what made it great 30 years ago and today. One or two words that could have been left out for the children. Guess that was to get the pg rating instead of g. Still a good family flick.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Greatest Movie Ever
Review: I think this is the greatest movie ever! When it was in the movie theater I saw it four times because I thought it was so good. If you haven't seen this movie yet you should, it is definently a must see!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a great family film
Review: Hi its me, the 46 year old Rocky and Bullwinkle fan again.

Here in Britain we have had a good response to this film, although not the finest but highly enjoyable.

I have seen this movie at least 4 times, and I highly recommend it for anyone who has not met the dynamic duo before, no, not Batman and Robin, but Rocky and Bullwinkle.

The plot: Fearless Leader and his henchmen, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale have broken out of Pottysilvania and plan to take over the world by introducing RBTV (Really Bad Television). If it wasn't bad enough already. Their plan: hipnotise everyone into following Fearless Leader through the tv channels.

Meanwhile, in Frostbite Falls, our heroes, Rocky and Bullwinkle, have been made redundant and feeling the effects of unemployment. (I know just how they feel). Enter Karen Sympathy, our brave heroine to enlist the dynamic duo by way of the famous Green Light of Hollywood and set out to foil Fearless Leader's plot. You can guess the chaos that comes with Bullwinkle's performance in the courtroom,(Perry Mason, you're out of here) great jokes and a rather good bit of nostalgia too.

All in all, a great film for all the family, or fans of the moose, squirrel, Fearless Leader, Boris and Natasha. I highly rate Jason Alexander as a great and really mean Boris, and Rene Rousso as Natasha. She's my all time femme fatele (Cruella De Ville, move over,) Natasha's in town, and not one dalmation in sight.

The animation was wonderful and a tribute to Jay Ward, the creator of these characters. Oh, if only they were back on British television again.

adios for now, and as Bullwinkle would say,"what moose shouldn't see this film."

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great at what it is
Review: This is a genuinely fun film to watch. We just rented the tape and we watched it 3 times in 24 hours. We had a blast and the kids enjoyed it (though much of the humor went over their heads). The animation was decidedly so-so, but the humor was good enough I didn't mind. I counted 2 "bad" words in the whole thing and Karen Sympathy learns a lesson about honesty (not sure how true a morality lesson is to the original, but it fit well)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An enjoyable movie.
Review: This movie, by no means is a "film" or a classic in anyway, but does it really need to be? I thought the cameo's were great, the one liners were hysterical and Bullwinkle and Rocky as always made you want to jump up and say "awwww!" I fell in love with the lovable two all over again. Piper Perabo held her own, and did a sweet/tough job of playing her serious, fumbling character. Way to go Rocky and Bullwinkle, your movie was a success in my book!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: great movie!!
Review: ok, personally, i do not know why ppl think this is such a horrible movie. Although the fact that DeVito probably should have been Boris, I don't see much to complain about. people look to much into mivies. Let, loose, have fun, and this was a great movie! Perabo was great as Karen- she's agood actress. I was 5 when this show was on at like 6 in the morning on nick, and I used to get up to watch it, I loved it sooooo much. this movie recreates that, and I'm glad i can see these guys again. The one pun I liked the best was the u-turn one. that kerp me laughing for a while.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Clinton Schwartz' s review for Rocky and Bullwinkle
Review: I don't this is even a good film because 30 minutes into the film I was bored to death I'd rather watch a Pokemon movie than this movie and why I trew the copy I recorded away forever.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Hokey Smokes, Bullwinkle! We're in widescreen!
Review: Des McAnuff's "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" is something of a minor miracle--a film so clever, intelligent and hysterical that we should all get down on the floor and kiss Hollywood's feet for letting a movie of this caliber escape from Development Hell. In an era overflowing with pointless remakes of baby-boomer TV shows, the real surprise is not that "Rocky and Bullwinkle" works so well--it's the fact that it works *at all*. While many other live-action adaptations of cartoons are cinematic disasters, "Rocky and Bullwinkle" succeeds because McAnuff and the cast have treated their source material with the utmost reverence. This is a film built on love and admiration, and the utter delight with which it has been constructed is nothing short of infectious.

The screenplay, by "Analyze This" scribe Kenneth Lonergan, is some kind of masterpiece, melding both the unapologetically bad puns of Jay Ward's original series with an abundance of self-referential modern jokes (there are gags involving rap music, the Internet, and fax machines). But Lonergan has done his homework: the script has been so finely constructed that it doesn't feel any more peculiar to watch our favorite moose and squirrel come to terms with present day technology than it does to hear their traditional puns and wisecracks.

As our story opens, the ever-excitable Narrator (voiced by Keith Scott) informs us that Rocky (voiced by original actress June Foray) and Bullwinkle (Keith Scott again) have grown disillusioned with life in the animated world of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota. Since their show's cancellation, the heroes have survived on an ever-dwindling number of royalty checks. Although the plethora of free time allows Bullwinkle to pursue his new passion--saving his hometown's decimated woodlands--both he and Rocky miss the excitement of their by-gone glory days. Nor has Frostbite Falls itself fared particularly well: the once-scenic town is now a dilapidated slum, and the local economy is so poor that the Narrator himself has been forced to move back in with his mother, narrating the events of his own life to alleviate the boredom.

But opportunity knocks when that dastardly trio of villains, Boris Badanov (Jason Alexander), Natasha Fatale (Rene Russo) and Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro) escape from Cartoon Land and find themselves in the real world. Fearless Leader wastes no time in ripping off "Mystery Science Theater 3000" with his plan to take over America: he'll project horrible television shows around the country, programs so inept that even the most brilliant minds in modern society will be turned into quivering bowls of jelly. ("How is this different from regular television?" inquires Bullwinkle upon learning of the scheme.)

Like the original television show, much of the film's humor is subtle enough that it will fly right over the head of younger audience members (one of the buildings of Wossamatta U's campus is proudly labeled J-Ward, an homage to the show's creator, the late Jay Ward). But again, like the original show, there's enough variety in the presentation to make sure everyone comes out smiling. I must warn you, though: the puns are brutal (one body of water is named Crymia River, and the nation's highest-ranking military officers are General Foods, General Store, and General Admission). But as any fan of the series knows, merciless puns are to be expected from this particular duo. Longtime "Rocky and Bullwinkle" admirers such as myself are going to be flabbergasted by how much this film feels like the show they know and love. Don't be scared off by its live-action elements: "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" is a cinematic gem that gets absolutely everything right. Sometimes, it seems, you actually can go home again.

Regrettably, Universal's new DVD edition has not given the film the special edition treatment it so richly deserves. It's a disappointingly barren disc, containing little of note apart from a surprisingly tedious "behind the scenes" featurette and a few textual supplements. (It also contains only one of the film's theatrical trailers; at least two are known to exist.) Still, it gets the important stuff right: the anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) transfer looks stellar, and the audio (Dolby Digital 5.1) couldn't be clearer. Terrific film, but a disappointingly feature-free DVD presentation.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Back to the 60's
Review: If you liked the original cartoon you'll love the movie. It does a great job of recreating the feel & humor of the cartoon. Deniro as Fearless Leader is great it was enjoyable watching one of the great actors of our time take time out to do a "fun film". Rene Russo & George Alexander were also wonderful as Natash & Boris. It's obviously far-fetched but hey it's a cartoon it's supposed to be. In all a thoroughly enjoyable movie for the whole family

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not great
Review: The only good thing I can say is I did not fall asleep while watching it. Poorly acted and directed with the question 'are the old cartoon worth changing into movies?' If this answer is movies with little to not plot and extremely poor taste here you have them.


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