I read some of the reviews here before watching this and was expecting a bomb but it surprised me to the upside. Fraser does a good job as dudley though why they had him play the role 30 pounds overweight, i don't know. I've never liked Sarah Jessica Parker because she's not pretty but she's well cast here as Nell, who is not supposed to be that good-looking anyway. In the cartoon series she played something of a vamp constantly chasing the clueless dudley. In the movie they inexplicably left that side of her out and she's just dudley's (and snidley's) girl. Speaking of snidley he is, as expected, the real star. Alfred Molina does a great job. Without him this show would have been a bomb.
Dudley Do-Right
1999
Action / Comedy / Family / Romance
Dudley Do-Right
1999
Action / Comedy / Family / Romance
narration breaking the fourth wall based on cartoon mountie (rcmp) royal canadian mounted police (mountie) comedy of errors
Plot summary
Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with gold nuggets.
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Not great but better than i expected
Better than I expected
I though this film was going to be nothing but juvenile nonsense. How pleased I was when I discovered that it was a lot livelier and energetic than I predicted.
The voice-over never once annoyed me as I thought it would and everyone in this movie seems to go overboard with their characters. Yet, despite all the energy and frenetic comedy, the film never feels indulgent.
The plot is, of course, nonsense. But then again you hardly want a family movie to have a labyrinth plot. Dudley Do-Right may have flopped but I don't know why. It's in the same field as the terrible "Waterboy" but that made over $100, 000, 000. This I won't understand. Maybe it's only because Canadians will truly love the intellectually-challenged Mountie.
This fairy tale is truly fractured...
Jay Ward's cute but bland cartoon about Canada's No. #1 Mountie plays even worse when brought to the big screen as a live-action comic adventure. Brendan Fraser is spirited and very adept at buffoonish slapstick, but he's not the right actor for Dudley Do-Right; he's a big, handsome lunk, and he's cheerful enough, but he doesn't know how to mug, nor is he helped by his limited voice (a deep monotone). It's always nice to see Sarah Jessica Parker in a film, but she isn't cast right either; as love-interest Nell, Parker gets no funny lines, she's too modern and grounded a presence, although she does help enliven a dance sequence about 47 minutes into the proceedings. Alfred Molina attempts to have fun as egomaniacal villain Snidely Whiplash, but his voice and fake mustache are his only props. The pithy announcer gets some dryly comic lines and Dudley's horse (named Horse, ha ha) shoots off a few raspberries, but this is a very dim slapstick vehicle, short on inspiration, poorly conceived and even more unmemorable than its cartoon predecessor. * from ****