Hi i'm Chris, im 23 years old and i'm one of those peeps with an ambition to work in TV. (tsk)
Hi i'm Chris, im 23 years old and i'm one of those peeps with an ambition to work in TV. (tsk)
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As you can guess i've been away from here a month (and you've probably guessed what i've been seeing over the past four weeks too) So here's another to one of my favourite cartoons "The Rugrats".
Only The Simpsons rivals the Rugrats in its consistently spot-on portrayal of modern American suburbia, seen from the inside out — and Rugrats drops its love bombs without being inappropriate for toddlers, and without resorting to postmodern absurdism. Indeed, toddlerhood is absurd enough, and the show's first spin-off movie, The Rugrats Movie, focused, as the show does, on the quotidian realms of diapers, misinterpreted adultisms, indiscriminate oral indulgence, incomprehensible Jewish traditions, and, most importantly, the storms of peer socialization. Rugrats in Paris, on the other hand, veers too far from the Pickles' backyard to have much of an impact — but the rhythms, characterizations, and fish-eye perspectives are still at work. Suffice it to say that the animated munchkins lay waste to the City of Lights in pursuit of ice cream and justice, the frequent song interludes will distract the kids (but send the adults into comas), and the anti-Disney satire rages as never before.
Set largely in EuroReptar, a Paris theme park built around the kids' favorite Japanese monster figure (but obviously an open mockery of EuroDisney), Rugrats in Paris possesses a surprising narrative shift: Wide-eyed, courageous Tommy Pickles, normally the show's Indiana Jones, takes a backseat to neurasthenic, bucktoothed scaredy-cat Chuckie, who, as you may recall from the show's napalm-like Mother's Day episode, has no mom. In Paris (where the four families have flocked when Tommy's crackpot inventor dad is called in to repair the primary Reptar robot), the cacophony of toddler-ignited mayhem flits around the crucible of Chuckie's motherlessness. At times, Rugrats in Paris throttles the idea of a toddler wounded by maternal loss with open abandon, and anyone with mother issues should take cover. The plot, as such, involves a French Reptar exec (voiced by Susan Sarandon) who, in order to get on her boss's family-values good side, attempts to get Chuckie's nasally impaired pop, Chas, to marry her.
For grown-ups, the jokes are often flat tires, largely thanks to their context — when the 2-year-olds are simply sitting around a hole in the backyard, attempting to understand the world, that's when Rugrats shines. Over-involved in high-flying chase scenes and obtuse narrative chicanery (in the end, the kids inhabit the head of the giant Reptar robot and go tear-assing through Paris, just like a real Godzilla), the formula peters out. Not that kids already enamored of the characters will care — though they may be shocked by how inessential Tommy is, and by the scene in which perennial harridan Angelica actually apologizes, and means it. The stabs at Disney will keep your spirits high, however — during Reptar's stage show, music supervisor and Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh ladles in "Reptar, I Love You," which is probably the most devastating parody of a late-Disney power ballad ever recorded. In the end, poor Chuckie gets his first, nearly terrifying, word out — if you or your kids have followed Chuckie's travails, it's a cathartic moment — and finally gets a real Mom. Thank God.
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Apr 21st, 2001
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