The Rugrats Movie

***The Rugrats Movie*** is a 1998 American animated comedy film, based on the *Rugrats* TV series. The movie introduces Tommy's baby brother, Dil (who was named after Didi's cousin). From onwards, Dil appears as a regular character.

## Characters Present

* Tommy
* Dil (1st appearance)
* Chuckie
* Angelica
* Phil
* Lil
* Sean Pickles (1st appearance)
* Stu
* Didi
* Lou
* Drew
* Charlotte
* Miriam
* Spike
* Chas
* Howard
* Betty
* Lucy
* Susie
* Boris
* Minka
* Dr. Lipschitz
* Banana Brothers
* Rex Pester (1st appearance)
* Ranger Frank
* Ranger Margaret
* Willy Wonka
* Sedusa
* Katie Mitchell
* 3 Lucky Guys
* 3 Dogs
* Lisa Loud
* Peter Pan
* Wilbur
* TinkerBell
* Dorothy
* Swiper
* Captain Feathersword
* Mary Poppins
* Kalvin
* Television Announcer
* Edwin Carmichael
* Air Crewman
* United Express Driver
* Nurse
* Babies
* Goat
* Reporters
* Monkeys
* Scar Snout
* Marvin
* Circus TV Announcer
* Male Guest
* Serge

### Guest Stars

* David Spade as Ranger Frank
* Whoopi Goldberg as Ranger Margaret
* Tim Curry as Rex Pester
* Busta Rhymes as the Reptar Wagon
* Roger Clinton, Jr. as the air crewman
* Margaret Cho as Lt. Klavin
* Edie McClurg as a nurse
* Charlie Adler as United Express Driver
* Frank Welker as Scar Snout, and The Circus Monkeys (uncredited)
* Lou Rawls as a baby singer
* Iggy Pop as a baby singer
* Fred Schneider as a baby singer
* Kate Pierson as a baby singer
* Cindy Wilson as a baby singer
* Jack Angel as reporters (uncredited).

## Video Trailers

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## Video Clips

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## Scenes

* In the opening scene, the babies failed to reach the bowl, and had a giant boulder (which in reality, it is Didi's pregnant belly) scared them away.
* In the ending scene, Dil reached the bowl.

## Release

*The Rugrats Movie* was released on November 20, 1998, and opened at #1 at the box office with a gross of $27,321,470 in 2,782 theaters averaging to about $9,821 per theater, ahead of *Enemy of the State*, and became the first animated movie not made by Disney to gross $100 million in the United States and Canada.

* The film was followed by *Rugrats in Paris: The Movie* and *Rugrats Go Wild*. It grossed in worldwide results, $140,894,675, making it a box office success, considering its modest $24 million budget. Even though the movie a commercial success, the film earned mainly mixed reviews. It currently has a rating of 59% on the Rotten Tomatoes website. It also remained the highest grossing animated film based on a TV show until 2007 when it was out-grossed by *The Simpsons Movie* with a worldwide total of $527.9 million, although the film remained the highest-grossing Nicktoons film until the release of *The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water*  in 2015. The film was released on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD on March 30, 1999. The film will be released on Blu-ray on March 8, 2022 through *The Rugrats Trilogy Movie Collection*. It is also available on the iTunes store in high-definition.

## Trivia/Goofs

* Numerous changes were made before the film was released, many of which can be seen in the trailer. These include:
	+ When Tommy and Dil are introduced, Dil grabs Tommy's nose. In the trailer, there's some kind of "plop" sound effect when Dil grabs Tommy's nose, and Tommy cries instantly. In the film, there's no sound effect, and Tommy doesn't cry until a couple of seconds after Dil grabs Tommy's nose. However, in the trailer, his crying sound was different than in the actual movie, while in the actual movie, he uses his signature crying sound from "Touchdown Tommy".
	+ In a scene where Grandpa and Stu realize that the kids are gone, after Grandpa said "They were here a minute ago," Stu screams immediately in the trailer, but he never screamed in the film.
	+ In one scene, a "Big Action News" reporter (not Rex Pester) says, "Do you know where your children are?" It was heard in the trailer when Stu and Didi are surrounded by people after they found out their kids were missing.
	+ In the trailer, Tommy and Dil begin fighting over the teddy in a game of tug-of-war, but in this particular scene, Phil and Lil are sitting on the couch as the fight starts. Tommy and Dil's eyes are closed because of the strain. The teddy bear doesn't rip. In the background, we see a playpen that looks a lot like the one we see in "Moose Country". That playpen was never seen in *The Rugrats Movie*.
	+ In the part where people are asking Stu and Didi questions, the people and arrangements they are in differ from both the trailer and movie.
	+ In the trailer, when Angelica and Spike fall towards the forest, Angelica pulls Spike with her and we see Angelica *(back-side view, not front view)* with the leash and falling backwards. Spike is pulled literally forward. In the movie, however, this is not seen.
	+ In the trailer, when Tommy uses his jump rope to pull Chuckie through the Angelica-like stone mouth, he whips to his left and had his eyes open and his mouth closed, but in the movie, however, he closes his eyes for a second or two and does open his mouth as he whips.
	+ When Tommy says, "No! You can't do that!" to Phil and Lil, the scene is slightly different in the movie trailer. In the trailer, the background is darker, Tommy's motions are a little different, and he's further away than in the movie.
	+ When Tommy and Dil start the tug-of-war, Tommy starts it, but the way they react is much different: Tommy bares his gums, reaches with 1 hand, and grabs the leg. They begin pulling. The way their faces are differ in the movie.
	+ The scene during Dil being pushed out by Didi is different. The trailer included a leaves-and-forest-like scene background at the start of the trailer, but this wasn't used in the film.
	+ In one scene in the trailer, we see a cameraman running with a camera into a yellow van. This scene wasn't used in the movie.
	+ In one scene, Tommy is smiling and lifting his right hand up and saying "We're just having an adventure, that's all." In the background we see Chuckie & Lil, however, this is never seen in the film.
	+ In the trailer as Phil says "I've seen feetprints like that in our story book. A woof made 'em! And then he ate that little red riding girl." Also, the camera quickly zooms in on the wolf's footprint, unlike in the film itself.
	+ In the trailer, during the sequence where the light erupts from darkness only has palm leaves seen. But in the movie, they aren't the only ones seen. A group of planets, a school of fish mingling in aquatic plantlife, dinosaurs, dolphins and monkeys, stonehenge, the sphinx, and atoms appear as well.
	+ In the trailer when Phil says "And then he ate that little red riding girl", we see Angelica and Spike being chased by Scar Snout. However, this was never seen in the film.
* Sean Pickles made his 1st appearance.
* Two songs were cut from the film during production. The first sequence revolved around Stu and Didi in a nightmare sequence where Dr. Lipschitz berates their parenting through song. The other sequence occurs as the Rugrats are pushing the Reptar Wagon through the woods, debating what to do about Dil in army chant style. These two scenes were cut from the theatrical version, the VHS and DVD releases, and TeenNick airings of the movie (Yet like *Angelica the Divine* early VHS tapes, *The Rugrats Movie'*s early VHS tapes also had the deleted scenes). However, they were already animated at the time, and the scenes are shown on CBS and Nickelodeon TV airings of the film as the uncut version is only available on TV. These scenes were present in the print novelization.
* The more recent airings of the movie on Nickelodeon have removed the deleted scenes thus making the uncut version completely gone from TV. As of right now, they can only be seen on early recordings of the film.
* In the scene where the Rugrats were running out of the mountain cave being chased by a giant rock and the floor opens itself in front of them, when Chuckie yells "Tommy", the audio is taken from "Piggy's Pizza Palace".
* In the scene where Chuckie, Phil and Lil first saw the Reptar Wagon, when Lil says "Wow" with Phil, the audio is taken from "Send in the Clouds".
* *Shirley-Lock Holmes* is a parody of *Sherlock Holmes*.
* *Okey Dokey Jones* is a parody of *Indiana Jones*.
* This is the first piece of *Rugrats* media to use digital ink and paint instead of cel animation. The main series would not switch to digital ink and paint until "Acorn Nuts & Diapey Butts".
* In the ending credits, "Take the Train" is the only song not to show any screenshots of Angelica as the song plays.
* Unlike the TV series, Angelica's Cynthia doll has darker skin and her dress is turquoise and blue as opposed to orange and red and her shoes are pink instead of red. However, the group artwork on the poster and home media covers uses Cynthia's color scheme from the TV series.
* The Reptar doll which Phil and Lil fight over with has white eyes instead of orange for unknown reasons.
* The Reptar Wagon's gear stick's knob is purple in the movie and on the left-hand side of the steering wheel, but red in the cast artwork for the poster and home media covers and on the other side of the steering wheel.
* Tommy and Dil are the only two kids whose clothes do not rip holes during their adventure in the woods before all their parents finally rescue them.
* In this movie, Dil's outfit is purple, but in the TV series, his outfit is changed to yellow.
* In a promotional advert for the film, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are renamed Phil and Lil with the North Tower getting a bow.
* This is the first movie to use the 1998 Klasky-Csupo logo.
* This is the only *Rugrats* film to not feature Kimi Finster or Kira Watanbe-Finster as they don't appear until the next film, *Rugrats In Paris: The Movie*.
* The engine on the train is an 0-6-0 or an American type steam locomotive. These types of engines with this most common wheel arrangement were used most common on American railroads during the 1800s and 1830s, until 1928.
* During the scene with Rex Pester, a reporter asks Stu and Didi "Is it true that a Dingo ate your baby?", which is a reference to the Azaria Chamberlain case.
* In a demo tape of *Phil and Lil Double Trouble*, the movie was originally supposed to be released in 1997, but this ended up getting pushed back to Thanksgiving 1998.
* Hattie Winston takes over as the voice of Dr. Lucy Carmichael beginning with this movie, she wouldn't provide the character's voice again until the episode "Junior Prom".
* When the babies try to look for Dil for Tommy in the hospital nursery they call "the baby store", it is possible the babies once misheard what many believe is actually the stork that babies are thought to come from.
* This is the second time Stu and Drew are shown as kids after "Sour Pickles".
* This is the only *Rugrats* film where Grandpa Lou plays more of a major role as he only has minor roles in the next two films *Rugrats in Paris: The Movie* and *Rugrats Go Wild*.
* The atoms that are shown in the CGI-made graphic representation resemble the ones from the *Jimmy Neutron* franchise.
* It's not possible that real baby girls can pee in the air. At the end of the song "This World is Something New to Me", the newborn baby girls pee in the air to make a fountain along with the newborn baby boys.
* On the bridge when the babies see Spike attacking the wolf, Cynthia is seen in Angelica's hand. However, when Tommy asks the lizard they want Spike back the camera zooms on the babies, Cynthia is not in Angelica's hands.
* When Stu & Grandpa go to the airport control tower and check to see if the kids are on the plane where the crate is, but find out the goat is there instead. This makes no sense; There's no possible way the goat would've made it on to the plane, as x-ray scanners at Airport Security would've detected it. However, given the fact that this movie was from 1998 (fans speculate that in the timeline the year this happened was 1991) Airport Security wasn't as strict at the time since Security at Airports were more strict since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
* How did Angelica know about the lizard?
* The amount of cars on the circus train constantly change.
* When Phil said, "man overboard", he sounded like Lil.
* When Chuckie said, "Where are we?", he sounded like Phil.
* When Tommy drops his watch he looks down but the sponsatility was still on his neck when he dropped it.
* Although the overall group of monkeys consists of 20-23, only 10 total continue to be seen after they kidnap Dil. When they herd past Angelica while chasing Chuckie, only 8 of these 10 are shown, with multiple identical-looking monkeys chasing along. When the monkeys are reunited with their trainers, 2 of them (the lead monkey and the blue male monkey) are absent after running away at the sight of Scar Snout.
* After Angelica unsuccessfully attempts to retrieve her Cynthia doll from Dil after she accidentally gave it to him, she pulls off both of the shoes, and then later finds one of the shoes on the doormat. However, later in the movie when she finally discovers Cynthia and attempts once again to retrieve it until the monkey picks it up and she starts dragging on the monkey's tail, one of the shoes is still on Cynthia, and in subsequent scenes the shoe switches from left foot to right foot and vice-versa in between shots.
* When one of the monkeys tries to make off with Cynthia, this is the gray-browed monkey. In the next scene, it is the reddish orange lead monkey who is stealing Cynthia.
* When Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil crash into the back door and then collapse backward, the door and area around from the outside are bare. Yet in the next few seconds, after Didi picks up Tommy with Betty assisting due to Didi being pregnant and then head outside, the ribbons appear on the door and its surroundings as the baby shower is being held.
* After Tommy falls into the mud and gets coated with mud, he then smears some mud on Dil when he decided to admit Phil and Lil were correct earlier on about Dil's personality. While Tommy remains coated with mud, Dil appears clean again for the remainder of the time Tommy is muddy; and then later after all the parents finally retrieve their kids, the muddy stains reappear on Dil in the shot where he and Tommy take turns drinking milk while being held by Didi.
* When Phil launches a life preserver to Chuckie, the lever is seen in the backseat of the Reptar Wagon. This is clearly an error as the control panel is supposed to be in the cockpit of the vehicle.
* In the ending credits, the shot of Grandpa Lou searching for the missing kids in Stu and Didi Pickles' house is mirrored for unknown reasons.
* When Angelica turns up the volume to full-volume on the TV for the Banana Brothers Monkey Circus commercial, the speakers don't blare at all. This is ironic, as a loud to full-volume can actually cause the speakers to blare out wildly and wear down from their former state, and cause people in the surroundings to develop hearing loss.
* Straight before Tommy and his three pals enter the nursery, Tommy pulls the Chocolate Coin (which he saved from Didi's baby shower) out of his diaper with his right hand. Yet, in the next shot in close-up and then zooming out, it is in his left hand instead.
	+ Also, in that scene, the Chocolate Coin is shown to reflect lighting like any real coin would, but anything as edible as what Tommy was saving would not in any way be able to reflect lighting. Later, when he gives it to Dr. Lucy Carmichael, it makes a sound a real coin would make when it lands, but anything edible like that would actually have a muffled sound effect.
* When the door to the TV room is first shown when Angelica can't stand Dil's constant crying after being brought home from the hospital, the frame is perfectly fit with the shape of the door. However, when it is shown again in a later scene after Angelica kicks the Reptar wagon with the babies and sending them out of the house, the TV room's door frame has a semi-circle gap above where the door's height extends.
* When the babies ride the Reptar wagon for the first time, Tommy switches between the front and back seats and vice-versa in between shots during their ride before end up in a mattress truck.
* How did the kids know how to change Dil's diper? it is possible that they watched their parents change theirs.
* When Angelica and Spike enter the forest, the mattress truck is seen being towed. However, in the previous scene of Dil's diaper change, the truck was still there.
* When Tommy and his friends are about to head up the hill after loading Dil in the Reptar wagon, Dil was still wearing only his diaper. Later, when they are walking up the hill with the Reptar wagon handy, Dil has his sleeper on. However, in the similar but deleted scene, Dil was still wearing only his diaper as how it would have happened before they had any time to don Dil's sleeper.
* In the scene where Stu is building the Reptar wagon, when a blaze of fire erupts from the structure of the vehicle, when Drew dodges from the blaze, none of the fire hits his clothes. However, in the next shot when Stu is extiguishing the fire, a quarter of Drew's shirt and vest are burned off.
	+ Also, in the same incident, after two shots of fire land on Grandpa Lou's shirt, when he puts out the flames with his bare hands, the areas of his shirt which the fires landed on do not burn or rip holes.
* After Stu, Chas, and Grandpa Lou lift down Dactar from the ceiling, when it lands hard on the floor after the ceiling collapses, it is badly mangled. However, in a later scene where Stu has the Dactar ready to go and is on the roof of his and Didi's house before Grandpa Lou drives off, it is fixed up within a few hours after the incident. This is considered a plot hole, as it would actually have to take several days to repair those types of aircraft before they're ready to use once they're damaged.
* When Chuckie accidentally steps on his glasses breaking the lenses, his right leg is in front when he's facing the screen. In the next shot in his POV, his left foot is out instead before he retracts that step and puts on his glasses.
	+ Also, since the aftermath is in Chuckie's POV as he puts on his glasses, the angle is supposed to be blurry instead of clear since he has poor eyesight without his glasses on.
* At the beginning of the movie, when the babies are running from Didi, Lil's socks are blue instead of pink.
* One of the newborn babies during "This World is Something New to Me" has an earring.
* When Angelica says to Spike that she hopes that he turns into a frog she drops the leash in front of Spike, but in the next scene when she says "I'll find Cynthia myself", the leash is gone.
* When the babies run into Boris's goat and the goat bleats, Boris responds "He's saying 'hello'!" The goat, however, is female, as she sports a prominent udder, and Boris and Minka brought her as a baby shower gift in order to supply goat's milk.
* When Didi's labor begins, the colors on Susie's dress change.
* When Drew and Howard attempt to push the Jeep that Margaret is driving out of the muddy crevice, Drew is first shown wearing his usual clothes. In the next shot in close-up, Drew is wearing Stu's shirt.
* While the Rugrats run away from Didi (in which was actually a boulder in their imaginations), Didi slightly disappears while the scene pans to the Rugrats.
* Betty wears the wrong clothes like the purple and blue striped leggings instead of blue jeans while Didi is in labor.

## See also

* The Rugrats Movie (soundtrack)
* The Rugrats Movie/Transcript
* The Rugrats Movie (video game)
* The Rugrats Movie (DVD)
* The Rugrats Movie (VHS)
* The Rugrats Movie (LaserDisc)