Stuck in rerun hell, the characters that remain have had all the life sucked out of them by doing the same stale material over and over again. We assume moose and squirrel don't survive this one, but studio boss Carl Reiner , who hates moose pictures, queers the deal. OK, enough story, let's get to the jokes. Remembering that the original segments were all of three and a half minutes long, it's probably too much to expect that a full 90 minutes of gags would work. The first 20 minutes of Rocky and Bullwinkle unload blast after blast of puns and visual gags with gatling gun-like ferocity.
History is updated.
Characters are introduced. Parodies of films stretching from Mission Impossible to E.T. and all the way back to Taxi Driver fill the gaps. Cameos by John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and supporting characters Keenan and Kel , as students at Bullwinkle's alma mater, Wossamotta U keep things moving. June Foray's return as Rocky, the voice she made famous, is delightful. In the two dimensional world they inhabited, Boris and Natasha always were one dimensional villains.