We already knew that Jay Ward's Rocky and His Friends was the hip kids' show of the Sixties. Now we know that screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan and director Des McAnuff knew it, too. But knowing it and being it are two different things. The mumbo-jumbo that permits the three inept villains to pass into live action (Robert De Niro, Rene Russo, Jason Alexander), while the heroic squirrel and his sidekick moose pass merely into post-Roger Rabbit three-dimensionality, is hard to swallow. (The idea of the villains in live action was already tried: the unreleased Boris and Natasha.) And an hour and a half on a single adventure is even harder. Piper Perabo hits and sustains just the right note of scout-leader enthusiasm as FBI agent Karen Sympathy, and other people hit a right note on a rare occasion. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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