Rocky & Bullwinkle | |
---|---|
Directed by | Gary Trousdale |
Produced by | Denise Nolan Cascino |
Written by |
Robert Ben Garant Thomas Lennon |
Based on | Characters created by Jay Ward |
Starring |
June Foray Tom Kenny Robert Cait Lauri Fraser |
Narrated by | Robert Ben Garant |
Music by | Tony Morales |
Edited by | Mark A. Deimel |
Production
company |
|
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date
|
October 14, 2014 |
Running time
|
9 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Rocky & Bullwinkle is a 2014 American computer-animated direct-to-video short film based on the 1960s animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Gary Trousdale, best known for co-directing Disney's Beauty and the Beast, served as the director, while Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon were the writers.June Foray reprises her iconic role as Rocky, while Tom Kenny voices Bullwinkle. It was released on October 14, 2014 on the Blu-ray 3D of Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
In desperation to finally kill Rocky and Bullwinkle and have them as trophy heads for his rumpus room, Fearless Leader assigns his spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale a new mission: to use a robotic female moose to seduce Bullwinkle, and inevitably destroy him (as well as Rocky in the process). Boris controls the robot’s actions through the interior.
When Rocky and Bullwinkle return to Frostbite Falls after escaping from a Mayan temple, they are rewarded with a special day of their honor at a town ceremony, in which Bullwinkle is immediately smitten with Boris’ robot disguise. The two spend time together, with Boris constantly attempting to kill Bullwinkle, only to bring himself bad luck. Meanwhile, Rocky feels isolated from his best friend and follows them wherever they go, until he discovers Bullwinkle has proposed to the robot moose. The narrator tells us to wait for the next part called Another Fine Moose You've Gotten Me Into or The Man In The Iron Moose. At Bullwinkle's poetry corner, Bullwinkle reads a poem which is actually a rap song by Eminem entitled Superman only to stop reading it due to the fact it had swear words in it. Bullwinkle then skips it and says next week he will read the works of 50 Cent. Back in story arc, Rocky arrives to crash the wedding on a cruise ship, but Bullwinkle and the robot moose have already been wedded and Bullwinkle dances with the robot to Jimmy Soul's If You Wanna Be Happy. Rocky then discovers it was Boris who lured Bullwinkle away with romantic gestures, and tries to stop him only for Natasha to intervene by challenging him to a duel. Boris eventually gets fed up with the act and evacuates and getting hit with a bowling ball, leaving the robotic bride to explode and kill Bullwinkle. However, he falls back down after finding out his parachute has been taken, and falls into the ocean with Natasha. Rocky is able to save Bullwinkle in the last minute, knocking the robot moose off the ship to explode into Boris and Natasha’s faces, before the two spies are immediately eaten by a shark. Bullwinkle makes amends with his buddy and they swear never to let anything come between them, only for Rocky to fall in love with an explosive mechanical squirrel.