Review: "Mr. Peabody and Sherman" is a fair attempt to remake Bullwinkle characters

"Mr. Peabody and Sherman" PG
The old cartoons about Bullwinkle and Rocky and friends from th 1970s have been made into several films, even some live action ones, so it was inevitable some studio would do a movie version of Mr. Peabody, the Einstein like white dog, and his boy, Sherman, traveling through time in their Wayback (WABAK in this one) machine. Set in the present day, the story appears to turn the adoption angle into a movie, with an angry young edgy child out to get Sherman, name of Penny, and a giant angry lady, and twists and turns lead to the boy eventually liking the girl, and their going on a love hate adventure in time, to show each other up. Sherman is supposed to be 7. Unless he has the intelligence and social graces of a genius, which supposedly he might, this could not happen. Becasuse it's a cartoon the plot may not necessarily need anything beyond kid logic to explain it. The premise is a blend of corny puns and stuff the adults get mixed in with stuff the kids might get, ans the time machine is used to accidentally lose Penny in time, and so the dog and his boy must go back into time and rescue her, and learn to like each other. The goofy imagines of historical figures add puff, including jokes about ancient Egypt, Rome in the Renaissance, the French revolution and the founding of the US, in an attempt to come to terms with the history in the original. but those first stories were part of 'fractured fairy tales', so none of it was to be taken seriously. Dreamworks does a fair job of combining the modern age with the original material but modernizing it loses something. It's worth a video rental later on. None of the previous Bullwinkle movies are worth getting, unless you count the original cartoons.