Rugrats Go Wild! Review
by Jon Popick (jpopick AT sick-boy DOT com)June 26th, 2003
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What does it mean when a kiddie pic incorporates more punk rock references than any adult film you've seen in the last couple of years? While I was pondering the answer to that question, I nearly peed myself when the eight-year-old sitting behind me at a screening of Rugrats Go Wild started singing along to a Clash song featured in the film.
In addition to The Only Band That Matters ("Should I Stay or Should I Go"), Wild also includes the voices of Flea and Chrissie Hynde, as well as covers of The Police ("Message in a Bottle") and Iggy Pop ("Lust for Life"), the latter of which is performed by Bruce Willis, who has the honor of providing - for the first time - the voice of the Pickles' long-suffering dog, Spike. Willis covering Iggy: That's almost as alarming as Willis making movies for kindergarteners while his ex-wife is off banging a guy with the IQ of one.
Wild is the eagerly awaited (hey, somebody was probably eager about this) feature-film merger of Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys, who each have had their own Nickelodeon shows and big-screen adventures. The shenanigans ensue when well-meaning Stu Pickles (Jack Riley) takes his family and friends out on a cruise but ends up marooning everyone on a seemingly deserted island. The island, however, is the site of the latest Thornberry exploration. It's all kind of like Survivor, except with more worm and booger eating, but just as much nudity. The highlight is when Stu makes like some weird love child of Gilligan and MacGyver and crafts a radio out of a coconut, a razor and a pen.
Wild is also an interactive film, instructing you to scratch-n-sniff certain parts of a special card you'll get on the way into the theatre. I missed the first three times they signaled me to start scratchin', so perhaps I was into Wild a lot more than I remember...
1:20 - PG for mild crude humor
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