Another RUGRATS Movie Is In the Works
By Movieguide® Contributor
The Rugrats are coming to the big screen once again!
Deadline reported that sources have told them “RUGRATS, the classic Nickelodeon cartoon from the 1990s, is getting a live-action/CGI feature adaptation with Jason Moore on board to direct. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE star Mikey Day co-wrote the script with Streeter Seidell.”
The project is being developed by Paramount.
RUGRATS premiered in 1991 and was rebooted in 1996. The animated babies — Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil — also starred in three movies: THE RUGRATS MOVIE, RUGRATS IN PARIS and RUGRATS GO WILD. Paramount+ launched a CGI reboot in 2021 that ran for two seasons before it was pulled from the streaming service.
This latest installment in the franchise will depart from its usual 2-D animation style. Instead, the Rugrats “will be animated in the movie, which is set in the real world à la SONIC THE HEDGEHOG,” Variety reported.
The outlet added that it’s “unclear” if other characters from the show will show up, but fans are holding out hope for appearances from Tommy’s siblings, Angelica and Dil, his dog, Spike, and the Rugrats’ parents, Didi and Stu Pickles, Chas Finster, Drew and Charlotte Pickles and Betty and Howard DeVille.
Another RUGRATS movie has been in the works for a while now, with Entertainment Weekly writing that a “live-action RUGRATS movie was first announced in 2018, with FAMILY GUY and FUTURAMA writer David A. Goodman writing the screenplay and an original release date of Nov. 13, 2020. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID filmmaker David Bowers quietly announced that he’d direct the film in 2019.”
Movieguide® has reviewed the RUGRATS movies favorably. A portion of the review for THE RUGRATS MOVIE reads:
THE RUGRATS MOVIE is too fast-paced for very small children, but older children may enjoy the crazy journey the babies take. Much of the charm relies on the quirky voices of Tommy, Chuckie and the twins, voiced by E.G. Daily, Christine Cavanaugh and Kath Soucie. Although the movie fittingly has no foul language or sex in it, it does have discussions and references to babies messing their diapers, a scene where babies in a maternity ward urinate to form a rainbow in the air, and some moderate action and slapstick cartoon violence. Responsibility and love win out in the end, however, so there are some positive moral messages in the text of this enjoyable, colorful animated movie.
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