Staring off with a pretty classical feeling vignette involving Peabody and Sherman trying to escape from the French Revolution, Minkoff blends the kind of silly, skewed, and nerdy history jokes and puns that made the original shorts from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show so endearing with a renewed sense of energy. While trying to make a fancy dinner to smooth things over with Penny’s parents (Stephen Colbert and Leslie Mann) and stave off intervention from a skeptical and evil assistant principal (Allison Janney), Penny coaxes Sherman into taking her back in time in the WABAC possibly altering the course of history forever and for the worst. Picked on by a classmate named Penny (Ariel Winter) for knowing more than she does, Sherman gets into trouble and Peabody’s parenting is called into question. Their adventures are briefly put on hold so Sherman can attend his first day of school and get a more social based education than Peabody can provide. Peabody (voiced by a spot on Ty Burrell) and his adopted boy Sherman (Max Charles) spend most of their days going back in time to relive historical high and low points with the help of a WABAC machine that allows them to time travel. Time travelling Nobel laureate, inventor, and all around most interesting dog in the world Mr. That’s mostly because the film stays faithful to the tone of the original show, delivers all new jokes, enhances the characters without destroying them, and by just updating the material enough so it doesn’t feel like a forced attempt at being hip. Well, I guess the first live action adaptation of George of the Jungle wasn’t all that bad (it hasn’t aged very well), but this is the first time since then that the spirit of Ward’s anachronistic and slyly witty work has ever translated to something cinematic.

It took the better part of 60 years, but finally the work of master animator Jay Ward has a proper big screen adaptation in Rob Minkoff’s Mr.

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