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THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE
May 11, 2018  | By David Bianculli

Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: The original “Rocky & Bullwinkle” cartoon series from the late 1950s and early 1960s, Rocky & His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, may have been my first personal examples of Must-See TV. So the idea that Amazon Prime is reviving the show after all these years is good news, but also news that’s laced with a bit of apprehension – especially since Amazon didn’t make any episodes available for preview. After watching the first few episodes of the series that dropped this morning, I can say this: This new Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle got all the voices right, from the title roles to Boris and Natasha, and came close enough with the narrator. The structures of the episodes aren’t as varied, and the animation is stylized a bit differently but is passable. The jokes aren’t usually as good, warped or adult as they were in the old series, but the plots have the same sort of silliness, and a guest appearance by Gordon Ramsay, providing his own voice while hosting a cooking-competition TV show called “Le Grande Yum Yum,” somehow fits. Still, the best news of all is that Amazon Prime also provides all seasons of the original “Rocky & Bullwinkle” adventures. So head there first… immediately. Nothin’ up my sleeve…

 
 
 
 
 
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