HOME | DD

Description
Show: Rugrats
Episode: Movie
Year: 1998

Writer(s): David N. Weiss, J. Michael Stem

I just want to say for the record that Rugrats in Paris: The Movie is the far superior movie, but that don't mean this movie isn't admirable in and of itself. Given it was the very first theatrical movie based on a TV show AND it was the first non-Disney animated film to gross over $100 Million, that's got to amount to something! Dil Pickles may not have been the best addition to Rugrats, but here he actually does add to the film pretty well, giving us a lot of emotional moments with Tommy.

They don't just have Tommy hate Dil right from the start, he tries his absolute hardest to accept this new, smelly, loud addition to his family and really does want to keep him safe because that what big brothers are supposed to do. I've seen a lot of things that use the "new baby overshadows the old one" plot before, but this does it right! It also manages to deconstruct the usual series formula of having the tots adventures go under the parents’ radar by putting them in an actually dangerous situation! I mean getting lost in a toy store with a robot gorilla after you is one thing, but being lost in the woods, cold and hungry, with crazed monkeys after you? The shit just got real!

I know a lot of people make cracks that Stu and Didi are the worst parents in all animation but I got to give them credit for their determination in finding the kids. The scenes with Stu flying in Dactar are absolutely glorious! Perfectly blending 2D with CGI and live action photography! The Reptar Wagon ain't too shabby either! Being voiced by Busta Rhymes certainly don't hurt none; that's another thing, it's one of those moves with gratuitous celebrity voice cameos but they don't offset the movie at all like having David Spade and Whoopi Goldberg cameo as park rangers. Speaking of which, the music number "This World Is Something New To Me" is one of the bets Big-Lipped Alligator Moments (BLAM) in animated movie history! You can't say you got Lou Rawls, Iggy Pop, Lenny Kravitz and the B-52s among others to do singing newborns in pretty much anything else! Speaking of BLAM, that scene where Didi gave birth… I wonder if that's what everyone sees when they're first born?

Sure, maybe the movie is a bit too ambitious for the show itself, but all the same it’s an impressive product for the Renaissance Age of animation at a time when direct-to-video films were becoming more common. I'd expected this to go down the same path, but once upon a time, Nickelodeon had a brain and took the high road, proving to everyone that TV to movies CAN work! This is truly an adventure for anyone who’s ever worn diapers!

Rugrats is owned by Nickelodeon, Viacom and Klasky-Cuspo.

1001 Animations is from

Regulas314

Description
Show: Rugrats
Episode: Movie
Year: 1998

Writer(s): David N. Weiss, J. Michael Stem

I just want to say for the record that Rugrats in Paris: The Movie is the far superior movie, but that don't mean this movie isn't admirable in and of itself. Given it was the very first theatrical movie based on a TV show AND it was the first non-Disney animated film to gross over $100 Million, that's got to amount to something! Dil Pickles may not have been the best addition to Rugrats, but here he actually does add to the film pretty well, giving us a lot of emotional moments with Tommy.

They don't just have Tommy hate Dil right from the start, he tries his absolute hardest to accept this new, smelly, loud addition to his family and really does want to keep him safe because that what big brothers are supposed to do. I've seen a lot of things that use the "new baby overshadows the old one" plot before, but this does it right! It also manages to deconstruct the usual series formula of having the tots adventures go under the parents’ radar by putting them in an actually dangerous situation! I mean getting lost in a toy store with a robot gorilla after you is one thing, but being lost in the woods, cold and hungry, with crazed monkeys after you? The shit just got real!

I know a lot of people make cracks that Stu and Didi are the worst parents in all animation but I got to give them credit for their determination in finding the kids. The scenes with Stu flying in Dactar are absolutely glorious! Perfectly blending 2D with CGI and live action photography! The Reptar Wagon ain't too shabby either! Being voiced by Busta Rhymes certainly don't hurt none; that's another thing, it's one of those moves with gratuitous celebrity voice cameos but they don't offset the movie at all like having David Spade and Whoopi Goldberg cameo as park rangers. Speaking of which, the music number "This World Is Something New To Me" is one of the bets Big-Lipped Alligator Moments (BLAM) in animated movie history! You can't say you got Lou Rawls, Iggy Pop, Lenny Kravitz and the B-52s among others to do singing newborns in pretty much anything else! Speaking of BLAM, that scene where Didi gave birth… I wonder if that's what everyone sees when they're first born?

Sure, maybe the movie is a bit too ambitious for the show itself, but all the same it’s an impressive product for the Renaissance Age of animation at a time when direct-to-video films were becoming more common. I'd expected this to go down the same path, but once upon a time, Nickelodeon had a brain and took the high road, proving to everyone that TV to movies CAN work! This is truly an adventure for anyone who’s ever worn diapers!

Rugrats is owned by Nickelodeon, Viacom and Klasky-Cuspo.

1001 Animations is from

Regulas314