All Grown Up!
All Grown Up!
TV-Y | 12 April 2003 (USA)
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  • Reviews
    Alicia

    I love this movie so much

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    Stometer

    Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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    Tedfoldol

    everything you have heard about this movie is true.

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    Rexanne

    It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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    elena1997

    All Grown Up is much better than people claim. Heck, I can't decide if I like AGU or Rugrats more. And to those who complain about the former Rugrats trying to fit in; It's actually normal for that to happen.Personally, my favorite character is Chuckie Finster. To me, he's more relatable than all of the other characters put together. "My stomach, my butt, in a unitard?!" "I can feel it. It starts in my feet, and..." "I've always said the key to happiness is... lowered expectations." "I can't fight the man. I can't even get my jacket closed." Those are only a few relatable quotes by Chuckie alone, but I'm sure those are enough to prove my point.My favorite episodes have to be "Project Chuckie", "Wouldn't It Be Nice?", and "The Finster Who Stole Christmas." The first one shows that popularity isn't everything, and Chuckie decides to stay a dork. Plus, it briefly showed him as a Rugrat! X3 The second one shows that homosexual pairings are perfectly normal, even though the marriages weren't real. Plus it shows that there can be too much of a good thing, what with Harold and Harriet. Also, it shows to not judge a book by its cover, with Chuckie and Fridge. The third one has the classic lesson "Appreciate the small things in life." Also, who doesn't love an episode centered on their favorite character?So overall, I feel like All Grown Up is a wonderful, yet underrated cartoon and I wish reruns were on again in the mornings, when people are actually awake.

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    I_Am_The_Resurrection

    ALL GROWN UP is basically a spin off and not much else of the original Nickalodeon RUGRATS cartoon that featured the babies Tommy Pickles, Chucky Finster, Lil and Phil DeVille, Angelica, Susie and (later) Kimi (Chuckies sister) and Dill (Tommy's brother). I grew up with RUGRATS and thought it was a great cartoon. It had excellent humor, nice stories and the show's creators, Klasky & Csupo, were obviously very original and creative with the concept of the adventures of babies. The new show ALL GROWN UP tries to recapture the magic of the original cartoon. I was disappointed when I saw it. I found the "all-grown-up" Chuckie just annoying and the whole "pre-teen-acting-mature/trying-to-be-popular" that applied to (unfortunately) *all* of the characters dull and washed out. There still are some funny scenes and jokes in the new series and it was interesting how the artists would make the whole baby gang of RUGRATS look ten years from their age in the original show. Overall, this show is 'fair' and only watchable if a) you're a die-hard fan of the RUGRATS, b) have never seen the original show, c) you're a pre-teen that has nothing to do, or d) your so bored that your somehow forced to see this show. This show is not that good. It doesn't compare to the older RUGRATS episodes in quality, humor, and everything else.

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    aleusong

    I never saw the original special that started it all. I think it would've been better had this series not been made.Every episode I've seen stresses too heavy on the morals. Well it's a kid show, I suppose that's normal. But everything is recycled, and the main antagonists are those so-called cool kids that are nothing but assholes. "We say it's cool." That is so retarded! And that episode where Kimmy doesn't find out until she's like 12 or something that she's Japanese and wants to be more Japanese: #1 I don't think kids are that stupid and would know what ethnicity they are before they get too old #2 The moral of the episode seems to discourage having an interest in one's own true culture which really upsets me.There's a desperate cry for work on writing and characters. Among all things Dil is a FULL clone copy of Carl from "As Told By Ginger" another unoriginal show, while the rest of the cast only bear some similarities to other characters in personality.I'm not some freak who thought that this series was a bad idea from the start. I had hopes for it, but when I realized while watching how much of it has been done to death, I was outraged.The show lacks fantasy and wonder which was what makes The Rugrats special, nothing like its spin off at all.

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    Hancock_the_Superb

    As good as "The Rugrats" were in their heyday (1991-4), it's almost painful for me to contemplate how terrible they've become since the first movie in '98. I absolutely reviled the original "All Growed Up" special, for it sucked. Though the idea of seeing the 'Rats as teenagers for one episode might be kinda neat (to seem people), I think that making them tweeners for a whole series (and one that seems to have at least some base of popularity, since it has yet to be cancelled) is REALLY stretching it. It's bad enough that this show took a lame idea and stretched it out beyond all reason, but that could be overcome, if this show was written with some degree of wit and originality. But it isn't. This is the usual Klasky-Csupo, unfunny, lowest-common-six-year-old-denominator garbage, at best a fifth-rate rip off of "As Told By Ginger" (which I dislike but isn't completely terrible, contrary to my review of that show). The plotlines have been recycled from the cliche bin of virtually every kid's television show ever made. There are plotlines about a career aptitude test (everyone from "The Simpsons" to "Hey Arnold!" have done that one) to Kimmi hanging out with a "bad boy" (name one kid's show that doesn't involve a similar plotline) to Susie being ripped off by a supposed talent agent (the most recent show to do that was "Everybody Loves Raymond", but I seem to recall it occurring in a number of other shows as well). So obviously, this show wreaks of originality.The characterization is even worse, with the usual cliche teenage characters, mixed in with some truly out there characterizations. Angelica is really the only survivor; she's as bossy and egotistical as she's ever been, but at age 12/13 she somehow seems less entertaining than when she was 3 years old. Susie's pretty close to what she once was, too, but she was never more than a marginal character, so that's kinda irrelevant. Tommy is now a dumba** would-be avant-garde filmmaker (remember his "brilliant" movies about sneezing and dirty laundry?), without much other characterization. Chuckie's very geeky (though he's somewhat more rebellious), as to be expected, but thanks to the "ingenious" casting of Nancy Cartwright to replace Christine Cavanaugh, Chuckie sounds more than ever like Bart Simpson with a head cold. Kimmi isn't exactly a particularly enlightening character either. Dil is a weirdo who believes in UFOs or some garbage like that, and Phil and Lil are pretty much typical popular kids. And the parents now are virtually non-existent caricatures of their former selves.So: is "All Grown Up" a p***-poor spin-off of an increasingly turgid franchise, or simply an average teen show with familiar characters? Actually, it's both. I've watched three eps of this show, and they've made me not want to watch any more. And the theme music is absolutely gut-wrenching as well.No stars. I'd rather watch post-Dil, even post-Kimmi "Rugrats" (shudder) than this filth.

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