The Rugrats Movie (1998)

★ 6.2 1h 20m 635 votes IMDb
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The Rugrats Movie

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Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg as Ranger Margaret (voice) Age 70 · New York City, New York, USA Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host. Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Pu...
David Spade
David Spade as Ranger Frank (voice) Age 61 · Birmingham, Michigan, USA David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an American actor, comedian and television personality who first became famous in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and from 1997 until 2003...
E. G. Daily
E. G. Daily as Tommy Pickles (voice) Age 64 · Los Angeles, California, USA Elizabeth Ann Guttman (born September 11, 1961), better known by her stage names of Elizabeth Daily and E.G. Daily, is an American voice actress, actress, singer, songwriter, and musician. She voices...
Tara Strong
Tara Strong as Dilan "Dil" Pickles (voice) Age 53 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada Tara Lyn Strong (née Charendoff; born February 12, 1973) is a Canadian and American actress. She is known for her voice work in animation, websites, and video games. Strong's voice roles include anima...
Christine Cavanaugh
Christine Cavanaugh as Chuckie Finster (voice) Died 2014 · Layton, Utah, USA Christine Cavanaugh (August 16, 1963 – December 22, 2014) was an American former voice actress who had a distinctive speaking style and had provided the voice for a large range of cartoon characters....
Kath Soucie
Kath Soucie as Phil / Lil / Betty DeVille (voices) Age 59 · New York City, New York, USA Kath Soucie was born on February 20, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an American voice, film, stage and television actress known for playing Linka in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Lo...

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Kamurai 4/10 Aug 26, 2020
Weak watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend except for HUGE Rugrats fans.

As the origin story for Dill Pickles, it very clearly is going to deal with "Where do babies come from?", but I think this is the closest the Rugrats franchise has come to addressing death with its audience.

I don't think the nostalgia I had for Rugrats was strong enough. I'm seeing all these characters I loved, and just feeling nothing. I'm hearing these (fantastic, voice-acting) ladies doing baby voice, and I've seen other movies where ladies do baby voice and they're just not nearly as long as this one.

I might have been able to get into the movie as it actually has a decent story (thought it focuses on the parents more than I'm used to), but they decided to play with rules that involve how babies talk. They clearly present new-born babies that not only talk, but talk eloquently about "Missing their old womb" (sounds like a baby saying "room"). Dill, barely talks. in fact, he talks to the babies like the babies would talk to the adults, and they refer to him as a baby.

While they should be toddlers and speaking a lot more than they should, part of the premise is that they're babies that talk to each other, but not adults. It almost paints the picture that Dill was born retarded, but refuses to address it, even if it applies it directly.

It really broke the movie for me, as it's the chief mechanic behind the babies' A story line that is the basis for the parents' B story line.

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