Dudley Do-Right (1999)

User Rating:

3.6/10   

Director:

Hugh Wilson

Writers (WGA):

Jay Ward (characters)
Hugh Wilson (written by)

Release Date:

27 August 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Romance

Tagline:

From the creator of "George of the Jungle" comes a new kind of hero.

Plot:

Inept Canadian mountie Dudley Do-Right chases after villian Snidely Whiplash and woos girlfriend Nell Fenwick.

Plot Keywords:

Gold | Gold Rush | Horse | Slapstick | Gang

Cast

Brendan Fraser	...	Dudley Do-Right
Sarah Jessica Parker	...	Nell Fenwick
Alfred Molina	...	Snidely Whiplash
Eric Idle	...	Prospector
Robert Prosky	...	Inspector Fenwick
Alex Rocco	...	Chief
Jack Kehler	...	Howard
Louis Mustillo	...	Standing Room Only
Don Yesso	...	Kenneth
Jed Rees	...	Lavar
Brant von Hoffman	...	Barry (as Brant von Hoffmann)
Corey Burton	...	Voice of the Announcer (voice)
Dyllan Christopher	...	Young Dudley
Ashley Yarman	...	Young Nell
Jeremy Bergman	...	Young Snidely

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild comic action violence, and for brief language and innuendo.

Runtime:

77 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:L | South Korea:All | Finland:S | USA:PG (No. 36887) | Canada:G (Canadian Home Video rating) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Germany:6 | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Davis Entertainment

Trivia:

Dudley and Nell both didn't know that Wayne Gretzky's middle name is Douglas.

Goofs:

Continuity: At the start of the movie, young Dudley has an ice cream cone rubbed into his hair, but n the next shot his hair is clean with no sign of the ice cream.

Quotes:

Snidley Whiplash: That's no fair! They've got rocks and all we've got is machine guns!

Movie Connections:

Remake of "The Dudley Do-Right Show" (1969)

Soundtrack:

Right On The Money

This fairy tale is truly fractured...

Jay Ward's cute but bland cartoon about Canada's No. #1 Mountie plays even worse when brought to the big screen as a live-action comic adventure. Brendan Fraser is spirited and very adept at buffoonish slapstick, but he's not the right actor for Dudley Do-Right; he's a big, handsome lunk, and he's cheerful enough, but he doesn't know how to mug, nor is he helped by his limited voice (a deep monotone). It's always nice to see Sarah Jessica Parker in a film, but she isn't cast right either; as love-interest Nell, Parker gets no funny lines, she's too modern and grounded a presence, although she does help enliven a dance sequence about 47 minutes into the proceedings. Alfred Molina attempts to have fun as egomaniacal villain Snidely Whiplash, but his voice and fake mustache are his only props. The pithy announcer gets some dryly comic lines and Dudley's horse (named Horse, ha ha) shoots off a few raspberries, but this is a very dim slapstick vehicle, short on inspiration, poorly conceived and even more unmemorable than its cartoon predecessor. * from ****