Rugrats Go Wild!

Rugrats Go Wild!
Directed by	Norton Virgie John Eng
Produced by	Arlene Klasky Gabor Csupo
Written by	Kate Boutilier
Starring	Lacey Chabert Danielle Harris Tim Curry Jodi Carlisle Michael "Flea" Balzary Tom Kane Jodie Carlisle E.G. Daily Nancy Cartwright Kath Soucie Dionne Quan Cheryl Chase Tara Strong Cree Summer Jack Riley Melanie Chartoff Joe Alaskey
Music by	Mark Mothersbaugh
Edited by	John Bryant Kimberly Rettberg
Production company	Nickelodeon Movies Klasky Csupo
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 13, 2003
Running time	80 minutes
Budget	$25 million
Box Office	$55,405,066

Rugrats Go Wild! is a 2003 animated crossover film based on Nickelodeon animated television series Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys. It is a sequel to The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris. As well as a sequel to The Wild Thornberrys Movie. The Rugrats was the only Nicktoon to have a film trilogy until August 14, 2020 (Canada), November 5, 2020 (worldwide via Netflix), and March 4, 2021 (US, via Paramount+), when The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run was released, SpongeBob SquarePants is now the second Nicktoon to have a film trilogy.

Plot

The Pickles/Finster/DeVille clans (known as the Rugrats and their parents) are going for a much needed multi-family vacation courtesy of Stu Pickles. He has signed them all up for a cruise in the tropics. The group is not pleased to find that instead of sailing aboard a luxury cruise ship he has rented a rusted old boat without any of the amenities they were planning on. The boat is submerged by a tidal wave and when it bobs to the surface it is upside down. The families scramble to emerge through the bottom of the boat and then onto a life raft. Angelica Pickles breaks into a chorus of "There's Got To Be A Morning After" as they flounder in the ocean.

The next morning, they wash ashore on a tropical island that is seemingly deserted and they set out to make the best of the situation until they might be rescued. Little do they realize that Nigel Thornberry (Strawberry according to Tommy Pickles (E.G. Daily)) and his family are exploring the other side of the island in search of an elusive and rare leopard. Eventually the children of each family make contact with one another and friendships are formed between Chuckie Finster (Nancy Cartwright) and Donnie (Flea) as well as Debbie Thornberry and Angelica. Eliza Thornberry has a magical Doolittle-like ability to talk to animals. Spike the dog (Bruce Willis) is happy to be understood for the first time.

The kids are chased by the rare leopard, but manage to escape to an underground cave. The parents are setting up huts and gathering food when they discover Marianne Thornberry filming on the beach. The castaways are overjoyed to be rescued until it is learned that 3 year-old Angelica Pickles is piloting a submersible craft and the Thornberry's trailer is at the bottom of the lagoon. With a lot of cooperation and a radio fashioned from a coconut, the families are able to solve the problems and get aboard the cruise ship they wanted in the first place.

Cast

The Wild Thornberrys

• Lacey Chabert as Elizabeth Thornberry
• Tom Kane as Darwin
• Tim Curry as Nigel Thornberry
• Flea as Donnie Thornberry
• Danielle Harris as Debbie Thornberry
• Jodi Carlisle as Marianne Thornberry

Rugrats

• E.G. Daily as Tommy Pickles
• Nancy Cartwright as Chuckie Finster
• Kath Soucie as Phil and Lil and Betty DeVille
• Dionne Quan as Kimi Finster
• Cheryl Chase as Angelica Pickles
• Tara Strong as Dil Pickles
• Cree Summer as Susie Carmichael
• Jack Riley as Stu Pickles
• Melanie Chartoff as Didi Pickles
• Joe Alaskey as Grandpa Lou Pickles
• Tress MacNeille as Charlotte Pickles
• Michael Bell as Drew Pickles and Chas Finster
• Julia Kato as Kira Finster
• Phil Proctor as Howard DeVille
• Tony Jay as Dr. Lipschitz

Guest stars

• Bruce Willis as Spike
• Chrissie Hynde as Siri the leopard
• Ethan Phillips as Toa

Trivia

• The Rugrats repeatedly refer to Nigel Thornberry as "Strawberry".
• This marks the first and only time Spike ever speaks throughout the Rugrats series, who was voice by guest star, Bruce Willis.
• Nigel falling down and thinking that he is a baby is a reference to Stu falling down and thinking that he is a baby from the Rugrats episode Regarding Stuie.
• This is the second and last film based on The Wild Thornberrys, and the third and final film based on Rugrats.
• This is the first animated sequel to be rated PG by the MPAA, unlike the previous installments which were rated G.
  • It is also the first animated sequel to be produced in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, unlike the previous installments which were produced at 1.85:1.

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