Product Details

• Actors: Bill Scott, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad, Hans Conried
• Directors: Bob Schleh, Dun Roman, Ernest Terrazas, Frank Braxton, George Singer
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1991
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630191905X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,880 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Whether you're indulging in nostalgia for the cartoons of your youth or introducing your kids to Rocky & Bullwinkle for the first time, Volume 1 of the famous moose and squirrel's animated adventures is a sublime example of irreverent family entertainment. (It's been rated "Fun-E: Viewer Discretion Unnecessary.") The classic creations of Jay Ward Productions, Rocky & Bullwinkle packed more punch lines into a one-hour show than most cartoons manage in seven minutes, and this video leaps from the starting gate with a typically loony escapade. The snidely villains Boris and Natasha are scheming to retrieve "the Treasure of Monte Zoom" from the bottom of Lake Sal-de-Bain by pulling the plug on the lake's drainpipe! It's up to Rocky & Bullwinkle to arrive in ("Ta-da!") the nick of time--but not before the furry heroes (and the great narrator Paul Frees) serve up a barrage of vaudevillian wordplay that's as clever as it is ludicrous. (One of the show's great strengths was its self-deprecating humor; the writers knew how silly they were being, and were clearly having the time of their lives.)

Also included: Using the "Wayback Machine," Mr. Peabody and Sherman pay a visit to Robinson Crusoe, circa 1686; Bullwinkle tries his hand at poetry, and as "Mr. Know-It-All" provides instruction on how to sneak into movies; a classic segment of "Fractured Fairy Tales" (narrated by the great character actor Edward Everett Horton); and an episode of "Dudley Do-Right" in which Snidely Whiplash masterminds an ill-fated fur-smuggling scheme.

The animation is impossibly crude, but it hardly matters: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle are best enjoyed for the one-liners and throwaway gags that are likely to entertain grown-ups even more than kids. The Marx Brothers would be hard pressed to deliver this much goofy fun. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular!, December 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Vol. 1: Mona Moose [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Ya gotta love Rocky and Bullwinkle! In Volume 1, Rocky and Bullwinkle try to stop Boris and Natasha from getting the treasure of Monte Zoom. In Fractured Fairy Tales, the Wolf tries to stop eating Ridding Hoods cold turkey. Mr. Peabody finds Robinson Crusoe not as alone as he would like. Dudley Do-Right goes under cover. Wonderful volume!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Treasure of Monte Zoom!, July 27, 2000

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M. Happ (Iowa City, Iowa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Vol. 1: Mona Moose [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have the complete set and can't recommend it enough. These are too good to pass up for any fan of the show.

This one contains The Treasure of Monte Zoom, with more puns than you can shake a stick at. That alone is worth the price, but it wouldn't be the same without the shorts breaking up the episodes. There's Fractured Fairy Tales doing Little Red Riding Hood, Poetry time on Bullwinkle's Corner, Mr. Peabody and Sherman visit Robin Crusoe, and Dudley goes undercover to catch Snidely.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They still have it!, July 6, 2000

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S. Marzioli (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Vol. 1: Mona Moose [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After the advent of great cartoons like Ren & Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life, old cartoons such as Bullwinkle and Rocky were virtually forgotten. However, thanks to the release of their episodes on videotape, the classic exploits of the world's most famous moose and squirrel are once again available. While the humor existed in a period of time before foul humor was popular, The Rocky and Bullwinkle show is able to send viewers into fits of laughter based solely on the merits of their bad puns and insane situations. Some might argue that this is its best commodity, along, of course, with main characters that are as lovable now as ever. Fans of animation cannot escape from their roots, nor deny the absolute brilliance of these early cartoons. In their own way, as it should be, they are timeless.

What else can be said? Buy it!