After having enjoyed the first "Rugrats" movie, I (yes, as an adult) actually went out of my way to make this screening. And was I (as an adult) satisfied? quenched even? Or tragically disappointed? Uneventfully, the answer is -- neither.

"Rugrats Go Wild" starts out with a bang of color, movement, music, fun and song, but after the first act, meanders. Though, at times, sweetly sincere, the movie doesn't pack the emotion impact nor the thematic message we're all coming to expect from "movie cartoons."

That said, the picture is never boring and the kids in the theater seemed to be quite engaged. Adults will appreciate the several movie spoof moments from "Titanic" to "Perfect Storm" in poke-funnery image and score. I especially enjoyed the "Piano" rib.

Oh, I was surprised to learn that "Tim Curry" voices the charmingly fumbling Nigel Thornberry, both in film and on TV. Some of you may remember Curry from the not so similar midnight film: "Rocky Horror"

This Rugrats plays like a modern version of "Giligan's Island," but with an extended cast of characters so large it enlists the players from two Saturday morning cartoon programs. Both TV programs, btw, are very well done. I'd caught the Wild Thornberry's a couple of Saturdays during breakfast -- the show impressed me enough that I regretted missing the movie version.

Of note: Spike (the dog) opens his mouth and speaks with a human voice for the first time ever and guess whose human voice he's using? Bruce Willis. Also, fun for the older crowd -- Chrissie Hynde (of Pretenders fame -- you know, "my my my imagination") breaths life into the island's rarely seen white spotted leopard.

Oh, I was all excited about the odorama. But as hard as I scratched and as windily as I sniffed -- I didn't smell nothing more than my fingernail on cardboard.