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This article is about the film. For the video game, see The Rugrats Movie (video game).

The Rugrats Movie
Theatrical release poster
Written by
Based on
Gabor Csupo
Paul Germain
Starring
Edited by
  • John Bryant
  • Kimberly Rettberg
Music byMark Mothersbaugh[1]
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • November 8, 1998 (1998-11-08) (
    Grauman's Chinese Theater
    )
  • November 20, 1998 (1998-11-20) (United States)
Running time
80 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$24 million
Box office$141 million

The Rugrats Movie is a 1998 American

Dil Pickles, who appeared on the series the next year. The film features the voices of E. G. Daily, Tara Strong, Christine Cavanaugh, Kath Soucie, Cheryl Chase, Cree Summer, and Charlie Adler, along with guest stars David Spade, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Cho, Busta Rhymes, and Tim Curry. The events of the film take place between the series' fifth and sixth seasons
, and is the first film to be based on a Nicktoon.

Plans for a Rugrats film adaptation, along with

Viacom
, purchased the studio in 1994 and production had restarted on the television series after a small hiatus.

The Rugrats Movie was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on November 20, 1998.[1] The film received mixed reviews from critics and opened at #1 in the United States box-office. Grossing a total of $141 million worldwide, it became the first non-Disney animated film to gross over $100 million in the United States.[5] The film is followed by two sequels: Rugrats in Paris: The Movie in 2000 and Rugrats Go Wild in 2003.

Plot

Dil
. When they bring him home, they find themselves struggling to cope with Dil's constant outbursts and Tommy finds his new brother hard to get along with. After Stu assures him one day they will be happy to have Dil in the family, Tommy accepts his newfound responsibility as an older brother.

With Dil still causing problems at the Pickles' home,

Chuckie argue with Phil and Lil, Angelica walks in telling the babies to be quiet. In the process Dil snatches her Cynthia doll from her and she fights Dil to get her back, unaware that she failed to get Cynthia back she kicks the Reptar wagon which begins to drive away the babies on board. They speed recklessly through the streets and land in the back of a mattress van which after avoiding a collision later crashes in the woods, it's here they realize that they are lost. At first, Angelica shows no concern until she realizes the babies have her Cynthia doll, which prompts her to take the family dog, Spike
, to find them and retrieve Cynthia.

Tommy leads the babies toward a ranger's cabin, believing it to be the home of a magic "lizard" (a mispronunciation of

wizard
) who can grant their wish to go home. Unbeknownst to them, they are being pursued by a lone wolf. On the way, they encounter monkeys who hijacked their circus' train and crashed it in the woods. When they kidnap Dil, Tommy's friends refuse to help rescue him, believing they are better off without him and Tommy sets off after his brother alone. Meanwhile, Stu discovers that the babies are missing and he plus Grandpa race to the airport believing that they were accidentally inside the crate when it was picked up to be flown to Japan, after Didi discovers that the babies are missing they set out to find them in the face of the media sensation that has suddenly generated around their children's disappearance.

Tommy eventually finds Dil during a storm, but as he tries to take care of him, Dil continues acting selfishly. Tommy finally snaps and prepares to give Dil back to the monkeys, but Tommy's rage scares Dil into ending his behavior. At the same time, Dil's remorseful tears cause Tommy to come to his senses and the brothers finally begin to bond. After the storm, they are found by Phil, Lil and Chuckie who stop the monkeys from trying to snatch Tommy and Dil. Angelica finally finds her Cynthia doll after one of the monkeys dropped it and then reunites with the babies. As they begin to cross a damaged bridge Angelica falls out of the Reptar wagon and hangs dangerously through the gap in the bridge above a raging river. They are then confronted by the wolf but Spike races over and saves the babies by fighting the wolf and drags it off the bridge through the hole into the river. They all become sad when it seems that Spike is gone.

Stu, looking for the babies in a

pterodactyl
-like glider, sees them from above and crash lands into the ranger's cabin. Believing he is the "lizard," the babies ask him to bring Spike back instead of going home. Stu falls through the bridge and reveals Spike, who survived the fall by landing in the struts of the bridge. The children are all reunited with their parents and return home, where they accept Dil as one of the group in the woods.

Cast

Main article: List of Rugrats characters

Main

Guest

Baby singers

Production

Talks about making Rugrats into a feature film existed since the beginning of the series. The first attempt was in 1993, when

Viacom acquired Paramount Pictures, and Paramount would distribute the films instead. As a result, the contract from Fox expired, with no films produced (although Doug would eventually get a theatrical film from Walt Disney Pictures
in 1999). Production on The Rugrats Movie started a year later in 1995.

Two months before the release of the movie, an episode prequel titled "The Family Tree" was aired as the final episode of the fifth season. The film's beginning and ending parody Paramount and Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones film series. This later inspired the second segment of the episode "A Tale of Two Puppies / Okey-Dokey Jones and the Ring of the Sunbeams", that aired during the show's eighth season in 2002.

This film was the first Rugrats production to use digital ink and paint, rather than the traditional cel animation used in the show.

Two songs were cut from the film during production. The first revolves around Stu and Didi in a nightmare sequence where Dr. Lipschitz criticizes their parenting through a song. The second depicts the Rugrats pushing the Reptar Wagon through the woods, debating what to do about Dil in an army chant style song. These two scenes were cut from the theatrical, VHS, DVD, and Laserdisc releases. However, these scenes are shown on CBS and Nickelodeon television airings of the film.[8] These scenes were also present in the print novelization.

The film was released in theaters with a

Laserdisc, and Blu-ray
(through The Rugrats Trilogy Movie Collection) release contains a different CatDog short from Episode 28 titled "Winslow's Home Videos".

Media

Home media

The Rugrats Movie was released on

Laserdisc on the same day by Pioneer Entertainment. On March 15, 2011, the film was re-released in a three-disc trilogy DVD set alongside its sequels, in honor of Rugrats' 20th anniversary.[9] In addition, it was re-released in some movie sets by Paramount, in 2016 with all the non-sequel Nickelodeon-animated movies up to Barnyard, as well as a separate 2-disc set with Hey Arnold!: The Movie.[10] The film was released on Blu-ray on March 8, 2022 in a trilogy set alongside its sequels.[11]

Soundtrack

The Rugrats Movie: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by
Various Artists
ReleasedNovember 3, 1998
Recorded1998
GenreR&B, hip hop, pop
Length41:51
LabelInterscope, Nickelodeon
Rugrats soundtrack chronology
The Rugrats Movie: Music from the Motion Picture
(1998) 		Rugrats in Paris: Music from the Motion Picture
(2000)
Singles from The Rugrats Movie: Music from the Motion Picture
  1. "
    Take Me There
    "
    Released: February 2, 1999
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
 link[dead link]
Entertainment WeeklyC link

The Rugrats Movie: Music from the Motion Picture was released by

Amazon.com's Richard Gehr praised the CD for "[bridging] demographics as nimbly as the [original] show itself [did]" and for songs "fans of all ages will love".[12]

Entertainment Weekly's David Browne rated the Music From the Motion Picture with a C.[13]

Browne noted that, while the soundtrack is enjoyable for children and does "[make] concessions" for parents, adults may dislike the amount of rap.

Allmusic's William Ruhlmann reviewed the soundtrack positively, saying "the result" of the singers and songs "is a romp in keeping with the tone of the show and the film".[14]

The Rugrats Movie: Music from the Motion Picture spent twenty six weeks on Billboard 200, peaking at #19.[15]

One song written for the film's soundtrack that was ultimately removed was "(Safe in This) Sky Life", a new track by English rock musician

Everyone Says 'Hi'", under the shortened title of "Safe".[16]
The original 1998 recording remains unreleased and has never been circulated.

In honor of its twentieth anniversary, the film's soundtrack was released on vinyl on November 30, 2018.[17]

Track listing

No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."
Blinky Blink
4:00
Total length:41:51

Video games

A side-scrolling video game titled The Rugrats Movie was released for Game Boy and Game Boy Color in 1998 and 1999 respectively. It was developed by Software Creations and released by THQ.[18][19] Broderbund also developed and published a video game based on the film: The Rugrats Movie: Activity Challenge. It was released in September 1998, as part of the film's marketing campaign.[20][21][22]

Books

Several books were released by Simon & Schuster's Simon Spotlight branch and Nickelodeon inspired by The Rugrats Movie. Tommy's New Playmate and The Rugrats Versus the Monkeys were also released on October 1, 1998, authored by Luke David and illustrated by John Kurtz and Sandrina Kurtz.[23][24]

The Rugrats Movie Storybook, released on the same date and using the same illustrators and publishers, was written by Sarah Wilson.[25] The same date saw the release of The Rugrats Movie: Hang On To Your Diapies, Babies, We're Going In!: Trivia from the Hit Movie!, a trivia book written by Kitty Richards.[26]

A novelization of the film written by Cathy East Dubowski was published on October 1, 1998, by Tandem Library.

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation released a book titled The Rugrats Movie.[29]

Reception

Box office

The film was released on November 20, 1998, and made $27.3 million in its opening weekend,[30] from 2,782 theaters, averaging about $9,821 per venue and ranking number one that weekend, beating out Enemy of the State.[31] In total, The Rugrats Movie made $140.9 million; $100.5 million from the domestic market and $40.4 million from its foreign release.[30]

The film was released in the United Kingdom on March 26, 1999, and topped the country's box office for the next three weekends, before being dethroned by

The Faculty.[32][33][34]
[35]

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Rugrats Movie holds an approval rating of 59% based on 51 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Charming characters; loads of fun for kids and adults."[36] Metacritic gave the film 62% based on the 20 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.[37]

Empire gave the film three out of five stars, saying, "Fun for kids, but, despite some adult references, appeal for the over 10s is limited."[40]

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly graded the film with a B.[41] Schwarzbaum praised the movie for its appeal to both adult and child audiences, "juxtaposing the blithely self-absorbed parallel universes of small, diapered children and their large, Dockered parents".[41] However, other Entertainment Weekly reviewer Ty Burr gave The Rugrats Movie a B−, criticizing that the film's issues sprung from it being "bigger" than the original series, thus it having more cultural references, out-of-place CGI scenes, and "[going] into scary territory".[42] Burr did praise the "escaped circus monkeys" for being "scary in a good way", as well as a joke that was accessible to younger audiences.[42]

Rugrats co-creator and co-writer Paul Germain (who left the series in 1993, along with the other original writers) has stated that he disliked the film's story. Germain felt that the writers of the movie did not understand what the series was about, and thought that the scene in which Stu gives a watch to Tommy did not work as the adults were not supposed to recognize the babies' intelligence. In addition, he felt that by giving Tommy a baby brother, Tommy was no longer the baby, which changed the story of the series from what Germain intended it to be.[43]

Sequels

Two sequels have been released: Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, which was released on November 17, 2000, and Rugrats Go Wild, which was released on June 13, 2003.

References

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  10. ^ Goldstein, Seth (January 23, 1999). "Paramount Preps For 'Rugrats' Vid". Billboard. p. 6. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
  11. ^ "Paramount to Release 'The Rugrats Trilogy Movie Collection' on Blu-ray on March 8".
  12. ^ a b c "The Rugrats Movie: Music From The Motion Picture [Enhanced CD] [ENHANCED] [SOUNDTRACK]". Amazon. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
  13. ^ a b Browne, David (January 8, 1999). "The Rugrats Movie: Music From the Motion Picture (1998)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
  14. ^ "Rugrats: The Movie Original Soundtrack". AllMusic. Retrieved December 29, 2009.[dead link]
  15. ^ "Rugrats: The Movie – Original..." Billboard.com. Retrieved December 29, 2009.
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  21. ^ "Three New Titles for 'Rugrats' Fans". Staten Island Advance. October 11, 1998. Retrieved May 24, 2020 – via NewsLibrary.
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  32. ^ "Weekend box office 26th March 1999 - 28th March 1999". www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
  33. ^ "Weekend box office 2nd April 1999 - 4th April 1999". www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
  34. ^ "Weekend box office 9th April 1999 - 11th April 1999". www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
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  38. ^ a b Ebert, Roger. "The Rugrats Movie (G)". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
  39. ^ Gates, Anita (November 20, 1998). "FILM REVIEW; A Sibling Takes a New Rival for a Ride". The New York Times. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
  40. ^ Jeffries, Neil (January 1, 2000). "The Rugrats Movie Review". Empire. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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