Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2002 10:52 AM

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

-- the movie. Rent it! It's GREAT!

It snuck by under the radar, I guess, because I sure hadn't heard much
about it. We rented it because we wanted to hear Mark Mothersbaugh's
score for it. Well, Mark's score is PERFECT, and so is the film. It's
uncannily true to the subversive nature of the original Jay Ward
cartoons, and the makers even managed to have June Foray and Keith
Scott, the original Moose and Squirrel voices, channel the characters.
The whole movie is deconstructivist as hell, chock full of juicy
sideways-bulldada trenchantry regarding modern day TV, biz,
architecture, politics, etc, and to boot, it's relentlessly paced. My
only complaint is that the live action Natasha stayed stuffed into that
dress the whole time.

Special effects are used to the hilt for all the right reasons, and the
art direction on sets hits just the right level of cartoony. I found
myself rewinding numerous times to reexamine scenes for cool throw-away
details.

Comparisons to Roger Rabbit are inevitable -- Rocky reacts very angrily
to one within the movie -- but actually this is much funnier. For it
smacketh not of Disney or Spielberg. It's true Jay Ward style and
FUUUUCKED UP.

Robert DeNiro, the coproducer of this movie, does save the very best
lines for himself as Fearless Leader. Oh, and Jonathan Winters plays 6
roles. Need I say more. Whoever made this movie, their heads were in
the right place.

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From: "Jonny Bravo" <jonlberg@nospamolahotmail.com>

I AM NOT ALONE...........WOOhooo
I love the flick but it seems I can never geta honey to watch it with me
cuz they just don't get all the inside jokes, and stuff they carried over
from the cartoon...

--
Jonny Bravo

I'm Not Prejudice, I Hate Everybody....

If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger..Nietzche
Ya but I bet it still Smarts like the dickens...J. Bravo

http://boneheadgrafix.tripod.com
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From: bobdiddley@aol.com (Bobdiddley)

>It snuck by under the radar, I guess, because I sure hadn't heard much
>about it.

Yeah, now that you mention it, I do remember hearing stifled rumours about it,
then nothing. I just assumed it would be another of those "Let's make a movie
based on comic book/tv characters, etc..."
> It's uncannily true to the subversive nature of the original Jay Ward
>cartoons, and the makers even managed to have June Foray and Keith
>Scott, the original Moose and Squirrel voices, channel the characters.
That whole Bullwinkle/Fractured Fairytales group were way beyond the norm -
close to Dr. Seuss.

> My only complaint is that the live action Natasha stayed stuffed into that
> dress the whole time.

Oh, you too? I still carry a big wooden crush on the mysteriously alluring Ms.
N. Who played her?

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From: Reverend DJ Epoch <nunyabiz@noway.com>

That was the delectable Rene Russo.... now if we could ask them to make a
"director's cut" I'm sure DiNero could throw a few scenes in with some
gratuitous squirrel on agent sex and Boris & Natasha in a wild three-way with
moose.

--
Rev. DJ Epoch

"This Church is so big on titties that it's almost mandatory for all our
front doors to have knockers." - Paul E. Jamison

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Original file name: Adventures of Rocky and Bullwin - converted on Friday, 20 September 2002, 16:09