After reading some other reviewers here, I definitely concede having grown up in a different era. There are more than several comments on this board regarding the bullying that takes place in the story. Now I watched the whole picture and never even gave that a second thought. Just like I never gave a serious thought to Wile E. Coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner, or Tom and Jerry beating up on Spike. Because it's not real. And I never thought when I was a kid that it was alright to bully other kids who were smaller or different from me. But with today's emphasis on the subject, and especially with the anonymity that goes with the internet, bullying is obviously a serious issue. But I don't think the picture is going to influence anyone in that direction.
Well that's my little aside. It's been a long time since I've seen any of the original Mr. Peabody cartoons and I'll probably have to get me one of those WABAC machines to do it right. But from what I remember, this flick hit on the highlights, and brought back to mind the way the original Peabody would analyze his subject with drawings and diagrams to explain how he solved a particular problem. As expected, his adopted boy Sherman managed to get into one scrape after another until Dad found a way to bail him out.
Updated for a modern audience, Sherman and his female counterpart Penny head for various eras in history, making stops in ancient Egypt, the French Revolution, and Florence, Italy during the time of Leonardo da Vinci. The second part of the story would make your head hurt if you were trying to logically follow the whole time travel business, as characters from throughout the ages randomly pop up. The story takes on the serious consequences of meeting your own self in a different time line, but obviously played for amusement and teaching some timeless lessons along the way. When it was over I thought to myself that yes indeed, every dog should have a boy.
Well that's my little aside. It's been a long time since I've seen any of the original Mr. Peabody cartoons and I'll probably have to get me one of those WABAC machines to do it right. But from what I remember, this flick hit on the highlights, and brought back to mind the way the original Peabody would analyze his subject with drawings and diagrams to explain how he solved a particular problem. As expected, his adopted boy Sherman managed to get into one scrape after another until Dad found a way to bail him out.
Updated for a modern audience, Sherman and his female counterpart Penny head for various eras in history, making stops in ancient Egypt, the French Revolution, and Florence, Italy during the time of Leonardo da Vinci. The second part of the story would make your head hurt if you were trying to logically follow the whole time travel business, as characters from throughout the ages randomly pop up. The story takes on the serious consequences of meeting your own self in a different time line, but obviously played for amusement and teaching some timeless lessons along the way. When it was over I thought to myself that yes indeed, every dog should have a boy.