The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

PG

2000

1h 31m

Kids & Family

Comedy

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Popular cartoon characters Rocky and Bullwinkle make their big-screen debut in this adventure tale that combines animation with live action. Years after their television show was canceled, Rocky and Bullwinkle are still living off the residuals. This time, when three cartoon villains enter the real world as real people, they decide to take over the United States.

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Critics Consensus

Though the film stays true to the nature of the original cartoon, the script is disappointing and not funny.

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Roger Clarke

Independent (UK)

03/26/2024

2/5

It's quite clever and quite cute, in a 10-minute-joke-stretched-into-a-feature kind of way.

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David Germain

Associated Press

01/18/2018

While the movie continually teeters on the brink of abject corniness, it never quite topples off. And it doesn't hurt to have Robert De Niro, Rene Russo and Jason Alexander camping it up as cartoon villains come to life.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

12/28/2010

3/5

Kids will enjoy it, even if the jokes escape them.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

03/26/2024

Rocky and Bullwinkle is directed by Des McAnuff, who presumably took on this chore after the failure of his imaginative, challenging version of Ted Hughes's The Iron Giant [which he produced]. Very sad.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

10/01/2020

2/4

...the picture eventually segues into a frenetic and mostly kid-oriented midsection that slowly-but-surely drains one's interest...

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Kathi Maio

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

02/26/2020

In their natural pen and paint environment, Rocky and Bullwinkle shine. But they seem as dull as dishwater, and completely out of place, in a live action world. Hence, their Adventures never connect with viewers.

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Matthew S

@robert554 6d

The first time I ever watched Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) was when I was having a hard time in life, I was smoking and vaping and drinking behind my parents back, my girlfriend broke up with me and dated my school bully, my grades were dropping very low. My parents dropped me off to my grandparents house, I didn’t want to go but I still went anyway. My grandparents only had a couple of DVDs but one stood out, Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) I’ve heard of the original 60s cartoon. I played it on the DVD player and at first it started off boring. But as it kept going, I started to laugh. And once it ended, I felt like I wasn’t sad even though I was having a hard time at the time. Suddenly I didn’t care that my girlfriend broke up with me, now I stopped smoking, vaping and smoking. Now it is flawed, and some reviews in this platform don’t think it’s good, and it’s okay to have different tastes than me but personally, it was the greatest movie I have ever watched in my life in this planet.

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Nashua J.

@RT08628119 Jan 16

I remember this movie when I was toddler

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james F.

@Jamesfoster296 Jan 16

Yours suckers heads really suck

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Carlos I

@carlosFibarra Jan 12

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle is a noble but ultimately uneven attempt to translate Saturday-morning nostalgia into a big-budget spectacle. I love how game the cast is here, with Robert De Niro and Rene Russo clearly having a blast leaning into the campy villainy of Fearless Leader and Natasha. However, despite the high energy, the humor feels forced and it’s overall too corny to maintain its momentum. It’s not that they didn't understand the source material, it's more that the material doesn't lend itself well to a live-action film, as the whimsical, flat aesthetic of the original cartoon loses its charm when grounded in a three-dimensional world.

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Anythang S

@AnythangStudios Dec 1

I used to love this, but that was a long time ago. Now, I've grown up, and I see how bad this movie really is.

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Nicholas t

@nicktalbert2025 Oct 20

the adventures of rocky and bullwinkle bad movie

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Robert De Niro

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Synopsis

Popular cartoon characters Rocky and Bullwinkle make their big-screen debut in this adventure tale that combines animation with live action. Years after their television show was canceled, Rocky and Bullwinkle are still living off the residuals. This time, when three cartoon villains enter the real world as real people, they decide to take over the United States.

Director: Des McAnuff
Producer: Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Allison P. Brown
Screenwriter: Jay Ward, Kenneth Lonergan
Distributor: Universal Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures
Production Co: KC Medien AG, Capella International, Tribeca Productions
Rating: PG (Mild Language)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 30, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 13, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $26.0M
Runtime: 1h 31m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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