The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle is a 2000 American live-action/animated adventure slapstick comedy film directed by Des McAnuff and produced by Universal Pictures, based on the television cartoon series of the same name by Jay Ward. Animated characters Rocky and Bullwinkle share the screen with live actors portraying Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro, who also co-produced the film), Boris Badenov (Jason Alexander) and Natasha Fatale (Rene Russo) along with Randy Quaid, Piper Perabo, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. June Foray reprised her role as Rocky, while Keith Scott (no relation to original voice actor Bill Scott) voiced Bullwinkle and the film's narrator. It also features cameo appearances by performers including James Rebhorn, Paget Brewster, Janeane Garofalo, John Goodman, David Alan Grier, Don Novello, Jon Polito, Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Max Grodenchik, Norman Lloyd, Jonathan Winters and Billy Crystal. The film follows Rocky and Bullwinkle, who are enlisting their help by a young rookie FBI agent named Karen Sympathy to stop Boris, Natasha, and Fearless Leader from taking over the United States.
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| Country | United States
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| Budget | $76 million
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Lewis: Yeah, don't you know about E-mail?
Bullwinkle: Sure. A fax is a little red critter that hunts geese and chickens. Half of them are males, and the other half are "E-males".
Martin: No, it's a way of transmitting computer-generated information across great distances in the blink of an eye!
Bullwinkle: Well I was close.
- The students in the film were actually real students of Chapman University, where part of the film takes place.
- June Foray, one of the surviving members of the original Rocky and His Friends (1959), who created the voice of Rocket J. Squirrel, does Rocky's voice for this film. She also recreates the voice of Natasha (when Natasha is in cartoon form) and her ubiquitous "old woman" voice from the old series as the voice of the narrator's mother.
- As Fearless Leader, Robert De Niro, known for being a method actor, is the first actor to interpret a cartoon character as a method performance.
- This film was originally in pre-production in the early 1990s, with Danny DeVito and Meryl Streep set to play Boris and Natasha. Legal problems with copyrights prevented the film being made until several years later.
- Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, a comedy duo of the mid '90s, play Lewis and Martin respectively. A nod to another comedy duo, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.
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