The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Des McAnuff

Writers (WGA):

Jay Ward (characters)
Kenneth Lonergan (written by)

Release Date:

30 June 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Tagline:

It's not the same old bull.

Plot:

35 years after The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show's cancellation, the 2 have been living off the finances of their reruns on TV...

Plot Keywords:

Squirrel | FBI | Moose | Hollywood | Deforestation

Awards:

2 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Rene Russo	...	Natasha
Jason Alexander	...	Boris
Piper Perabo	...	Karen Sympathy
Randy Quaid	...	Cappy von Trapment
Robert De Niro	...	Fearless Leader
June Foray	...	Rocky / Cartoon Natasha Fatale / Narrator's Mother (voice)
Keith Scott	...	Bullwinkle / Narrator / Cartoon Boris Badenov / Cartoon Fearless Leader (voice)
Janeane Garofalo	...	Minnie Mogul
Carl Reiner	...	P.G. Biggershot
Jonathan Winters	...	Whoppa Chopper Pilot / Ohio Cop with Bullhorn / Jeb
John Goodman	...	Oklahoma Cop
Kenan Thompson	...	Lewis
Kel Mitchell	...	Martin
James Rebhorn	...	President Signoff
David Alan Grier	...	Measures

Also Known As:

Die Abenteuer von Rocky und Bullwinkle (Germany)

MPAA:

Rated PG for brief mild language.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | France:U | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:I | Iceland:L | New Zealand:PG | Peru:PT | Portugal:M/6 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | UK:U | USA:PG (certificate #37559)

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

Capella International

Trivia:

June Foray, one of the surviving members of the original "Rocky and His Friends" (1959), who created the voice of Rocket J. Squirrel, does Rocky's voice for this film. She also recreates the voice of Natasha (when Natasha is in cartoon form) and her ubiquitous "old woman" voice from the old series as the voice of the narrator's mother.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: At the R.B.T.V. Station, when a security guard is tossed from Bullwinkle's antlers, the glass shatters before the guard is thrown through it.

Quotes:

[Natasha has posed as Karen to gain an upper hand, and the real Karen is being arrested for impersonating an FBI Agent]
Rocky: But she really is with the FBI.
Oklahoma Cop: Yeah, and I'm really John Goodman.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The Sound of Music (1965)

Soundtrack:

America

Decent, But Don't Be Fooled

One thing that was misleading: the cover of the VHS (or DVD) shows Robert De Niro, Rene Russo and Jason Alexander but those three do NOT have major roles or a lot of lines in this picture. Most of the lines are by an unknown name: actress Piper Perabo ("FBI Agent Karen Sympathy)" and the two cartoon characters.

This is another one of these live-action cartoons in which some characters are real-life and others are cartoons and the all interact on screen at once.

This comedy has a lot more subtle than laugh-out-loud lines. It's decent, and does have a certain appeal but is not as good as I expected after reading a couple of reviews prior to its release. I think it has an equal appeal for kids or adults.