Amazon.co.uk Review
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle suffers from a problem common among live-action movies that are based on beloved cartoon characters--the humans are never as flexible, unpredictable, or just plain goofy as their animated counterparts. In this blend of animation and live action, Rocky and Bullwinkle remain animated characters (trapped in our reality), while Boris and Natasha (Jason Alexander and Rene Russo), along with their boss, Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro), are transformed from cartoons to human reproductions when they escape from rerun land. They've come to our world to take it over; the FBI springs Rocky and Bullwinkle from the second dimension to stop them. But the writing in Kenneth Lonergan's script lacks the throw-away flair of the jokes that characterised Jay Ward's much-beloved animated series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Part of the problem is that Russo, Alexander and De Niro are so obviously working at acting cartoonish, instead of simply being cartoons. And part is that the script rarely comes up with the kind of wonderful wordplay in which Ward specialised. The moose, as usual, gets all the best lines, but they're too few and far between to salvage this underachieving summer film. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
Video Description
DVD Special Features: Original Trailer
Language: English, Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English
From the Back Cover
When two of the world's favourite carrtoon characters suddenly find themselves sucked out of their cartoon existence into the real world, you know you're in for one of the most enjoyable original family blockbusters of recent years.. Yes, thats right, Rocky and Bullwinkle, our hapless heroes are at it again but this time they must save the world from the evil Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro) and his sinister side kicks Boris Badenoff (Jason Alexander) and Natasha Fatale (Rene Russo). Knowing that their enemies will stop at nothing to see their fiendish plan succeed, our cartoon crime fighters prepare to fight to the death or at least the final reel for truth, justice and the American way.
