Mr. Peabody & Sherman: Love Through Time

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***Mr. Peabody & Sherman: Love Through Time*** is a 2025 American computer-animated romantic science fiction comedy film based on the characters from the *Peabody's Improbable History* segments of the animated television series *The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends*, produced by DreamWorks Animation, and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Rob Minkoff and written by Craig Wright, Jonathan Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein. The sequel to *Mr. Peabody & Sherman* (2014), the film stars the returning voices of Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Ariel Winter, Stephen Colbert, and Leslie Mann, all of whom are joined in by Jenna Ortega, Timbaland, Rachel Ticotin, Keanu Reeves, and Philip Baker Hall.

It is both the second fully animated film adaptation of a Jay Ward property and the second DreamWorks Animation feature to be based on characters from the Classics Media library (after the first film), as well as Rob Minkoff's third time directing an animated feature, having first directed *The Lion King* for Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1994.

*Mr. Peabody & Sherman: Love Through Time* premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on February 28, 2025, and was released theatrically on March 28, 2025, in the United States. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the humor, animation, action scenes, voice acting, soundtrack, scenes of romance, and references to the source material. It was also a box-office success, grossing $376 million worldwide on a $143 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film adaptation of a Jay Ward property to date. A third film, tentatively titled *Mr. Peabody & Sherman: Family History,* is in development.

## Synopsis

Nearly two to three years after the disastrous events in the first film, history has been updated slightly with modern elements, and talking inventor dog Mr. Peabody has been hailed history's greatest hero, even getting a Medal of Honor for his heroism in defeating the wormhole that caused the past to come to the present. His adopted human son Sherman has also started a new life of his own: no longer hating and now dating his classmate and close female confidant Penny Peterson, with whom he is planning to spend his whole summer with due to her parents Paul and Patty going away on a vacation for a month or two. While walking around New York City during a date one day, Sherman and Penny accidentally run into another girl their age: a redhead named Cassandra Ward, who develops a crush on Sherman and plots to control all of history with him. Having learned this information about Cassandra, Sherman and Penny decide to report this to Mr. Peabody, and the trio proceed to the WABAC and embark on the biggest time-travelling adventure of their lifetime to prevent Cassandra from controlling all of it, putting their lives at risk. They will also team up with former time-traveller turned rapper Wesley Briant and inventor Golden Retriever Frankie, who also begins to develop a family-like bond with Penny.

## Voice cast

* Ty Burrell as Hector J. Peabody, a talking intelligent white beagle who wears a red bowtie and spectacles and is the WABACs inventor and Sherman's adoptive father.
* Max Charles as Sherman, Mr. Peabody's mischievous but good-natured adopted ten-year old young boy.
* Ariel Winter as Penny Peterson, Paul and Patty Peterson's spoiled but kindhearted daughter and Sherman's former rival turned girlfriend.
* Jenna Ortega as Cassandra Ward, a young girl who develops a crush on Sherman and becomes a romantic foil to Penny, desperately wanting to rule over all time and space.
* Timbaland as Wesley Briant, a rapper who was once a time-traveller, now having retired the time machine to become the most successful rapper in all of New York City.
* Rachel Ticotin as Frankie, a Golden Retriever inventor. He befriends Sherman and Penny and develops a family-like attachment to the latter, later becoming Penny's adopted sister.
* Stephen Colbert as Paul Peterson, Patty's husband and Penny's father.
* Leslie Mann as Patty Peterson, Paul's wife and Penny's mother.
* Philip Baker Hall and Keanu Reeves as Bronson Smith and Garreth Jefferson, two dimwitted but competent security guards who become Cassandra's henchmen.
* Stephen Toblowsky as Principal Purdy, the principal of Sherman and Penny's school.
* Rob Minkoff as Gus Burns, a friendly cashier at Burritoville Mexican Eats and a close friend of the Petersons, who helps Sherman and Penny commit to each other's feelings.
* Patrick Warburton as King Agammemnon
* Stanley Tucci as Leonardo da Vinci
* Steve Valentine as Ay
* Regina Hall as Cleopatra
* Tika Sumpter as Nefertiti
* Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Alexander Hamilton
* Hugo Weaving as King George III
* Adrian Martinez as Kenneth O'Donnell
* Leila Birch as the WABAC
* Joe Pesci as Jake LaMotta
* Karen Brar as Mason
* Joshua Rush as Carl
* Fred Tatasciore as Politician #1
* Carlos Alazraqui as Politician #2

In addition, several other historical figures appear in the movie, including Odysseus (Tom McGrath), Marie Antionette (Laurie Fraser), Richard Nixon (Dan Castellanata), John F. Kennedy (Greg Ellis), and Freddie Mercury (Rob Paulsen). David Bowie, Akhenaton, Louis XVI, and Thomas Edison also appear in silent roles.