Hello, spongey here.
Remember the rugrats?
Rugrats was, in my opinion, one of the best Nicktoons of all times. It showed a interesting and funny POV of babies. The characters were interesting, the stories were fun, and it was very funny,
So nick saw that they had a big hit on their hands. So they did what nick likes to do with their shows…. Besides cancel it I mean They made a movie!
This, is The Rugrats Movie.
When this movie came out, it was a huge hit. It was the highest grossing non Disney animated film at the time (until the green ogre came along in 2001). And fans consider it a nostalgic classic.
But…is it any good? Let’s see.
I won’t do the nostalgia critic thing and go play by play. But I will go through the movie and talk about the best/most important moments.
The film opens and closes with a spoof of Indiana jones. This is close to the show, with its imagination scenes. This introduces us to the characters, and lets us know this will be more of an adventure than usual.
So, we later learn that didi is getting ready to have a baby. The other babys are excited about the idea of having a new member of their little group.
Angelica, the bitch she is, tells the babies that once dill is born, the parents will forget about tommy, and she tells a bullshit story about Spike once being a human who got neglected when tommy was born.
Then the babies are taken to the hospital to see tommy’s new sibling be born. They are left in a play pen while didi gets things sorted.
Like in the show, they leave the pen, to find something. In this case, their sibling. Then….something happens.
They find themselves in the newborn infantry room….when the babies in there….start to….SING.
Yes, sing. They sing a song called “This world is something new to me” which involves caricrtures of celebrities and of course, dick jokes. It ends with the babies pissing into the air.
It’s weird, makes no sense…and it’s never mentioned again./
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BIG LIPPED ALI-seriously what the hell was that?
So…yea. Tommy’s brother is born, and he is named dill. Dill ends up annoying the fuck out of tommy, his friends, and his parents as well.
Then late at night, something happens. Didi and stu try to calm dill down by singing him a lullaby. Tommy however, wants them to tell him a bedtime story. He tries to get their attention, but dill’s lullaby seems to have caught it instead.
After dill is asleep, tommy gets rather depressed and…starts singing a lullaby to himself. Well…that’s…kinda depressing. Then…spike starts howling in the rain.
…I did not expect that.
Anyway, the next day, after a fight with dill, stu reminds dill that he should be responsible and gives him a pocket watch. Thankfully, stu did not hide it in his ass for 7 years. This scene is rather touching, and it becomes important later on, you’ll see.
Oh, and stu made this reptar wagon thing for his toy company. The babies are messing around with this when tommy shows up and sees they are planning to take dill back to the hospital, since as babies, they don’t get birth.
Angelica shows up and sees all the babies In the wagon, and kicks it so the wagon rolls away from the house (the door is open because these parents suck) and into the city. Angelica realizes her Cynthia doll was in the wagon, so she goes all Sherlock and runs after them.
To make a long story short, the babies get lost in the nearby Forrest and the parents finally realize they suck at parenting and call a search for the babies.
Oh, and there’s an asshole news reported named rex pester…voiced by Tim Curry. Yea, he’s pretty funny…though I’ll admit his character is kind of pointless.
Oh, the owners of a circus angelica wanted to go to, end up having their monkeys steal their train and get lost in the Forrest. When this scene first happens it’s really odd….but then it becomes important.
After tons of stuff happens with the babies, they come across the train were the monkeys pop up and we get …the song Witch doctor, only about monkeys.
Okay…
They have fun with the monkeys, but tommy has to feed dill, much to his dismay. What is he feeding him?
Bananas.
This goes as well as you expect.
The moneys steal this baby bag thing, and tommy goes to get it. While he’s gone, the monkeys steal dill. When tommy comes and finds this out, the other babies tell tommy that they hate dill, and that tommy is neglecting his friends for him. Tommy looks to chuckie for help and…chuckie agrees with them.
Before you comment on that, I must talk about the next scene..
Tommy finds dill and drags him into a hiding spot from the rain. He tries to share his bottle, and blanket with dill, but dill takes all of both. This becomes the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Tommy takes dill outside, throws away his responsibility watch, and almost pours banana baby food on Dil, which would attract a group of vicious monkeys to harm him. (This parallels the Sacrifice of Isaac.)
Tommy sees dills face, and drags him back in, and they share the blanket, after tommy sings a lullaby.
…okay, this is officially the most depressing movie ever.
Going into this movie, I expected a fun adventure. I got one…along with really tear jerking scenes! Seriously, this movie actually made me shed a tear once.
It did this on the 1st time. Toy story 3 did not.
Oh yeah ,I went there!
This is one hell of a depressing film.
Oh, and the babies are trying to find the “lizard” (I find it funny when they say words wrong) to grant them a wish, so they can go home.
Long story short, they end up on a bridge with a wolf, who was seen stalking them through the entire film. Spike shows up and tries to fight the wolf….but they both go under, leading to another really sad scene.
Then Stu shows up on his flying machine dragon thing he made (It makes sense in context) and crashes nearby. The babies think stu is the “lizard” and ask tommy to make his wish.
Earlier in the film, Tommy was debating if he should wish dill back (this was after the monkeys took him) or wish them all home. And now tommy wishes…that spike was back.
I’m not crying, I’m just sweating through my eyes.
So stu crashes through the bridge, showing that spike (and the wolf) landed safely. Well that was anti-climactic.
So the adults show up, the babies are saved, the circus guys get the monkeys, tim curry is mauled by monkeys, Anglicia gets her doll, and tommy learns responsibly. the film ends on another Indiana jones spoof, this time with dlll helping them out.
That’s the movie in a nutshell.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
As far movies based on cartoons go, this is one of the best. While it does have Big Damn movie all over it, it’s still really good. The show’s characters become fully fleshed out in here, especially tommy, who really shines in this.
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t takes what makes the show good, and adds to it. It’s a big adventure, but it’s not like they are finding the holy grail or anything. The opening is there to tell you that this won’t be a huge epic adventure, but a small scale one.
It stills feel like the show, since getting lost in the forest isn’t quite farfetched.
Oh, and I love how it tugs at your heart strings and makes you feel for these characters. This movie made me cry more than half the babies in this!
In fact, that should be on the back of the blu ray once it comes out, WHICH I SHOULD, NICK.
“It’ll make you cry like a baby!”-Some loser online
GRADE: A
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