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RUGRATS GO WILD!

The whole multicultural Rugrats menagerie decide to go on a seafaring vacation, but it’s not the cruise everyone expects, since one of the parents (an inventor by trade) has booked them all on a sail-it-yourself junk. Of course they get shipwrecked and wind up on an uninhabited island where the cast from Nickelodeon’s other hit animated TV series, The Wild Thornberrys, are filming a documentary about leopards. The parents fight, the kids get lost in the jungle, and the ensuing raucous misadventures include Nigel Thornberry’s getting bopped on the head and regressing to the age of three. Directors Norton Virgien and John Eng handle the opulent animation crisply, and it helps that there are plenty of tart movie references (Titanic, The Planet of the Apes, and The Poseidon Adventure, to name a few) to keep adults engaged. Bruce Willis voices Spike, the Rugrats’ dog, and the whole experience comes with a coordinated, scratch ’n’ sniff card to let you know what soda pop and stinky feet smell like. (81 minutes).

BY TOM MEEK

Issue Date: June 13 - 19, 2003
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