Mr. Peabody & Sherman
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Short description
Mr. Peabody is a dog with extraordinary intellect, a Nobel laureate, Olympic champion and gourmet. He adopts a boy named Sherman and builds a time machine, the WABAC, to teach him history by visiting the past directly. When Sherman breaks the rules of time travel and a classmate, Penny, is accidentally stranded in another era, past events start to change and threaten the present. The pair must set history right before the damage becomes permanent.
The film is an animated adaptation of the characters from the 1960s Rocky & Bullwinkle television show, directed by Rob Minkoff. It is his seventh feature, following The Lion King, the two Stuart Little films, The Haunted Mansion, The Forbidden Kingdom and Flypaper. Craig Wright wrote the screenplay, Denise Nolan Cascino and Alexandra Schwartz produced, and the voice cast includes Ty Burrell as Mr. Peabody, Max Charles as Sherman, Ariel Winter as Penny, Allison Janney, Stephen Colbert and Stephen Tobolowsky.
Released in 2014, it runs 92 minutes and cost about 145 million dollars, earning roughly 273 million worldwide, a modest return against its budget. On IMDb it holds 6.8 from 84,000 votes, on TMDB 6.7 from 2,605, while a critics' rating stands at 6.7 from 137 reviews, so audiences and critics broadly agreed.
What's left behind the scenes
- A painting of Bullwinkle from "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" (1959–1964) can be spotted in Mr. Peabody’s apartment.
- Robert Downey Jr. was considered for the role of Mr. Peabody.
- Among Mr. Peabody's memories is a scene on a river, where a girl in Egyptian clothing finds a cradle with a baby. This is an allusion to the biography of the prophet Moses, who was found and raised by the Pharaoh's daughter.
- Work on the character design began in 2006, when Dreamworks Animation had just acquired the rights to use them, and the script hadn't been written yet. The designers were given the opportunity to "go freelance" and work on the characters for several months without daily check-ins, which was a novelty in Dreamworks' policy. The future cartoon's creators acknowledged the need to recreate Jay Ward’s characters in volumetric animation as closely to the original source as possible, while also making them more organic and modern.
- By official order of Dreamworks, a real cake was baked for the premiere party, exactly replicating the design of Marie Antoinette’s cake in the cartoon.
- According to director Rob Minkoff, Ty Burrell was approved for the role because his voice "could embody various aspects of a modern character – not only intelligence and affability, but also the underlying softness and warmth of Peabody."
- In "The Simpsons" series, Mr. Peabody and Sherman appear in the sixth season, sixth episode (Treehouse of Horror V), where Homer travels through time.
- A surreal nightmare sequence, in which the dog, tied to a kennel, helplessly watches Sherman, represented as a giant flower, gradually move away from him and then disappear, was intended to demonstrate Peabody’s sole, all-encompassing fear of losing Sherman. For various reasons, this scene was not included in the final version of the cartoon.
- The time machine in the cartoon is called the Wabac machine. This is a distorted spelling of the phrase "Wayback machine".
- Before the main feature, a short film called "Almost Home" (2014) was shown in theaters.
- Mr. Peabody and Sherman are characters from the cartoon series "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" (1961–1964).
- In one of the early script versions, it was planned that Peabody would travel to the past and meet Sherman before his adoption in order to save their family relationship in the future.
- At various stages of the cartoon's production, versions of plot arcs were discussed in which Mr. Peabody and Sherman encourage the ancient Egyptians to build the famous Sphinx, travel to Ancient China to get advice from Confucius and accidentally destroy the Great Wall of China, get caught in a heated shootout in the Old West, leave footprints on Easter Island near the Moai statues, witness the signing of the Magna Carta by King John of England, visit the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, dock at Baffin Island on Christopher Columbus’ ship, look deep into the ages and help ancient humans invent the wheel. In addition, among the famous historical figures who could have appeared in the cartoon were women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, Aztec king Montezuma I, and Native American guide Sacagawea.
- The scene where Peabody and Sherman fly kites is an allusion to Benjamin Franklin's experiments on atmospheric electricity.
- Rob Minkoff always liked "The Incredible History of Peabody" from the Rocky and Bullwinkle series and had dreamed of making a full-length adaptation of it for many years.
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