The Rugrats Movie
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Features
• AC-3
• Animated
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• Letterboxed
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 20 November, 1998
DVD Release : 30 March, 1999 |
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The Rugrats Movie Customer Reviews
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Disappointing.
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The artwork is inspiring, especially depictions of forests. There is plenty of action. The storyline appears to be good for kids. But there is a little problem. The authors of the script and storyline are not particularly intelligent. In other words, essentially every minute of the story is contrived and forced. Most of the picture consists of chase scenes, moving from here to there, and repeated boring attempts at cliff-hangers.
The movie seems to start off right. We see a parody of an Indiana Jones movie, where the cartoon character children enter an underground temple and attempt to snatch a golden chalice. They are chased off by a huge rolling ball. The ground cracks open, and the children manage to escape. From there, it all goes downhill. The children find themselves in a box, and the box is accidently shipped overland by a truck, and the truck gets in an accident and the children are dumped into a ravine somewhere in the wilderness. There is a dangerous wolf. The children manage to escape in a boat, but the boat approaches a waterfall (ho-hum). Children will not be amused by the repeated jokes about urinating.
Everything in this movie is derived or forced. The script writers failed to ask themselves, "Will the viewer care about what happens at this or that point in the storyline?" The script writers failed to ask, "Will the viewer actually notice that mere commotion by the cartoon characters is taking the place of substance?"
The movie is worse than the feature length SIMPSONS movie, which itself lacks the cleverness of the SIMPSONS T.V. episodes. The RUGRATS movie is worse than the feature length SPONGE BOB movie, a movie and T.V. show characterized by a unique brand of zaniness.
The only good thing I can say about THE RUGRATS is that the artwork is original, and somewhat better than the artwork of the SIMPSONS or SPONGE BOB. TWO STARS.
For those with an interest in movies for little kids, I might recommend the LEAVE IT TO BEAVER black and white television series, the splendid ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE color movie (great cameo by Whoopi Goldberg), the Disney movie MERLIN JONES (with America's sweetheart, Annette), and the complete first season of THE FLINTSTONES. I think we might all agree that THE FLINTSTONES T.V. show is not particularly clever or intelligent, but at least there are actual stories, and at least the concepts in the Flintstones (anachronisms) are creative and original. Also, BEAVER, MERLIN JONES, THE FLINTSTONES, and ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE do not contain any toilet humor. |
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