The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Memorable, crazy movie

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Rocky and Bullwinkle first appeared in an animated TV series in the late 1950s. Decades following the cancellation of the show (which lasted only a few years), some film and video game adaptations were made but they all only generated lukewarm responses, although I do enjoy the video games.Here, we have this film called The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Like all films based on the TV series, including the one called Mr. Peabody and Sherman, this film could not breakeven in box office numbers, let alone make a profit.I can only wonder why any adaptation, film or game, based on the TV show can't get any success. Perhaps it goes back to TV show itself. Because the flying rodent is male, they could have selected a boy to do his words. But instead, they selected a hag which is unauthentic, untraditional, and artificial. I guess that really hurt the rodent's popularity as the moose gained more attention in the show's later years. Strangely though, they continue to use the hag for this film as well as the 2014 short film. Well I'm glad that the pesky hag has finally kicked the bucket. This time could a brighter and better era for the franchise.

Released in 2000 and directed by Des McAnuff, "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" is a live action cartoon based on the early 60's animated show. Rocky and Bullwinkle are CGI (voiced by June Foray and Keith Scott) while Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader are played by actors (Jason Alexander, Rene Russo and Robert De Niro respectively). Piper Perabo stars as a klutzy, sympathetic FBI agent who's assigned to bring Rocky and Bullwinkle into the real world and bring them across the country in order to stop the diabolic scheme of Fearless leader to hypnotize the American populace through RBTV (Really Bad TV), compelling them to elect him as president. Numerous actors are featured in peripheral roles or cameos, like Randy Quaid, James Rebhorn, Whoopi Goldberg, John Goodman, Jonathan Winters, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, amongst others.To enjoy a movie like this you have to be willing to enter into its goofy world and roll with it. If you can do that, it has its amusing moments and is noticeably better than "Dudley Do-Right" (1999), but it's nowhere close the quality of the "The Flintstones" (1994) or its almost-as-good sequel, "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas," which was released two months before "Rocky and Bullwinkle." The original Rocky and Bullwinkle TV show was never as popular as The Flintstones show and this might've contributed to the movie flopping at the box office, but its main problem is that it's overall mediocre despite its undeniable fun energy.This was Perabo's second feature film and her first in a major role. She's the main protagonist and pretty much carries the movie, which is surprising in light of her lack of experience up to this point. Later the same year she starred in the semi-iconic, but shallow, "Coyote Ugly."The satirization of the lamestream media's power to dupe people into supporting a dubious candidate (or vilify another) is well done and reflects reality. How else could someone like HeyLIARy Rotten Clinton get so many votes? (Disregarding the millions of fraudulent "votes," of course). The film runs 92 minutes and was shot mostly in California, but also Washington DC and New York.GRADE: C+

In 1964, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is canceled. Thirty five years later, Rocky and Bullwinkle's world is crumbling. Rocky doesn't even fly anymore. With the fall of the Iron Curtan, Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro), Boris Badenov (Jason Alexander), and Natasha Fatale (Rene Russo) go underground and dig their way to Hollywood. Studio executive Minnie Mogul signs a contract with the trio attached to the project which gets them pulled into the real world. They are buying up all the cable channels to broadcast RBTV (Really Bad TeleVision) and hypnotize the country. FBI agent Karen Sympathy (Piper Perabo) is sent to get Rocky and Bullwinkle to take down the villains.This movie keeps to the spirit of goofy humor of the original TV show. It is full of the sly comedy and sarcastic references. I would have liked all the characters from the cartoon to remain in their 2 dimensional animated look. It's probably a mistake to have real actors play the cartoon villains. No matter how hard the three actors try, they can never get the cartoon feeling into their characters. They feel flat and rather tiresome. Piper Perabo is adorable and works well with Rocky and Bullwinkle. However she gets separated from them and the chemistry dissipates. It's a simple road trip movie and should be a lot easier than this.

This movie was a BIG disappointment to everyone! I don't think many people who wrote the script or worked on the movie had even seen many Rocky and Bullwinkle shows. Most reviewers panned it when it came out, as a big rip-off. --"Rotten Tomatoes" says that only 23% of viewers even liked it. Jason Alexander, Robert de Niro, Reneee Russo et. al. are given NOTHING to do in the film and are completely wasted, and Rocky and the Moose get little enough screen time themselves. Lame, lame plot that seems to be something about how Hollywood studios "greenlight" a film. Very few funny or original jokes, not much relation to the original show. Pepper Perambulo--a forgotten ingenue of 12 years ago (remember Tawney Kittaen?) seems to get most screen time. I pretty much thought she must have been sleeping with one of the producers or financiers of the film.All the REAL "Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" shows are available for FREE on Hulu.com. Watch it there and forget this mess!--Yuck!!