Rugrats in Paris: The Movie Review
Rugrats fans it is time for my second Rugrats review of the week and boy do I have some thoughts about this one so here is my review of the second Rugrats movie Rugrats In Paris: The Movie lets get it on.
The plot of this movie is The Rugrats travel to Paris, France where Chuckie hopes to find a new mother and keep his father from marrying an evil business woman.I'll give the story this I had no idea where the heck it was going which is more then I can say about this first film but the story feels like it could have been told in a forty minuet special there's nothing feature length about it where as in the first films story could only have been told in a film.
Returning from the first film are Christine Cavanaugh as Chuckie Finster , Michael Bell as Chas Finster , E.G. Daily as Tommy Pickles , Cheryl Chase as Angelica Pickles , Kath Soucie as Phil, Lil and Betty DeVille , Cree Summer as Susie Carmichael and Tara Strong as Dil Pickles. Out of the returning actors i'd say that Christine Cavanaugh gives the best performance not that the others are bad but Chuckie is the main character of this film and she really stepped up.
They are joined by Dionne Quan as Kimi Watanabe , Susan Sarandon as Coco LaBouche , Julia Kato as Kira Watanabe , John Lithgow as Jean-Claude and the man , the myth , the legend known as Mako as Mr. Yamaguchi. Out of all the guest / new actors I really enjoyed Susan Sarandon I got the feeling that she was having a blast playing this character and since it's law not to say anything bad about Mako so i'm not going to say anything.
Little known fact unlike the first film where I remembered quite alot of what happened growing up I knew next to nothing about this film other then the fact it's set in Paris and there's an episode set after the events of the movie so I was pretty much seeing this movie for the first time.
Klasky Csupo returned to do the animation for the film and while it does look really good it's not as god as the animation seen in the first film in my opinion for the most part the characters look good and there's some nice movements and backgrounds but every once in a while you'd get a really odd drawing which can be really off putting.
Unlike the last film where the short run time hindered the films story here I felt that the film ran for the perfect amount of time nothing felt rushed and nothing felt like it dragged on two long but again I have to wonder why this story was given to a film when it would have been better suited for an episode of the series.
This film does try to have an emotional moment near the end and unlike the first film where it actually did a good job and made you feel emotional here I really felt nothing at all and I think that's because they were forcing you to have this moment where as in the first film it came more naturally and if you want to know what moment I mean it's when the babies have just been kidnapped and Chuckie breaks down crying.
I have to say that making Chuckie the main character of this film to me makes sense since he has alot of growing to do as a character plus he was always my favorite growing up so while the gang is indeed there and they are all main characters making him the center piece of the film allows him to grow as a character.
Unlike the first film which had alot of adult jokes init this film doesn't have any outside of two great parodies of The Godfather and outside of those references there's not much in the way of jokes there's some cute little moments which might get a small chuckle out of people but nothing which will full on make you burst out laughing.
Overall while this movie does indeed improve some things from the first film it also makes mistakes that the first film didn't make and it doesn't deserve it's 75% on RT it deserves something like 50 or 55% so this film scores a 6 out of 10 from me.
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