The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle - Movie Reviews

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 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.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2024

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 1, 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.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2020

Rocky and Bullwinkle's CGI effects recall its antecedent Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and like that film its dialogue is packed with cultural references that will have adults laughing harder than the kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2019

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.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2018

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

All things considered, I got more fun out of the much maligned earlier attempt of bringing characters from the show to film, Boris and Natasha.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2010

Expected punny dialogue and sight gags ensue, but also packed in are pointed, self-deprecating barbs about Hollywood, moviemaking, and the conventions of cartoons themselves.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2010

These complaints are mere trifles compared to the fun I had at seeing my favorite moose and squirrel again.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

If you liked the 1960s cartoon series upon which this film is based, you'll like this film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 14, 2003

There's just not enough depth of thought to sustain it onscreen for 90 minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 29, 2003

All of this adds up to a story we don't care about with nothing particularly involving and about two laughs both in the first ten minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 8, 2002

For the most part, the film succeeds, with predictable complaints stemming from the stretch marks that plague all features based on TV/animated shows.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 12, 2002