Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie is a 2000 animated comedy film based on the Nickelodeon animated television series Rugrats. This film marks the first appearance of Kimi Watanabe and her mother, Kira. The film also marks the only appearance of two legitimate human villains in the Rugrats franchise, Coco LaBouche, a cruel and tyrannical woman who dislikes children, including babies, and her accomplice, Jean-Claude. The events of the film take place before the seventh season of Rugrats.

The film was released in the United States on November 17, 2000. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $103 million worldwide against a production budget of $30 million.

Plot
At the wedding reception of Lou Pickles and his new wife Lulu, a mother-child dance during the reception saddens Chuckie Finster and his father Chas as Chuckie's mother died of a terminal illness shortly after Chuckie was born.

Tommy Pickles' father Stu is summoned to EuroReptarland, a Japanese amusement park in Paris, France, to fix a malfunctioning Reptar robot. Due to Stu being called in the early morning thanks to the time difference, he ultimately brings Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Angelica, Dil, their dog Spike, and their parents to Paris to take a vacation at the park.

Coco LaBouche, the greedy, cold-hearted and child-hating head of EuroReptarland, plans to succeed Mr. Yamaguchi as the president of the entire Reptar franchise and its parent company Yamaguchi Industries upon his retirement. However, Yamaguchi says that his successor has to love children to be able to do the job, so Coco lies to him by making him think that she is engaged to a man with a child. Upon the Rugrats' arrival at EuroReptarland, Angelica overhears a conversation between Coco and Yamaguchi before being caught. To save herself, Angelica reveals that Chas is looking for a second wife, prompting a delighted Coco to pound on the idea.

Coco strikes up a relationship with Chas, but her attempts to bond with Chuckie fail. The adults and babies meet Coco's overworked but kind-hearted assistant Kira Watanabe and her daughter Kimi, who hail from Japan, but are now living in France. Kira reluctantly helps LaBouche to win Chas' affections. Meanwhile, Spike gets lost in the streets of Paris and falls in love with a stray poodle named Fifi.

Kira tells the babies the origins of Reptar, explaining he was a feared monster until a princess revealed his gentler side to make the frightened humans like him. Chuckie decides the princess should be his new mother, and is aided by his friends to reach an animatronic replica of the princess in the park that they were unaware of, but they are stopped by Coco's ninja security guards. At the show's premiere, Angelica informs Coco of Chuckie's wish, so Coco sneaks backstage and takes the spotlight as the princess, luring Chuckie into her arms to make her seem wonderful with children. Chas is ecstatic, deciding she would make an excellent mother and decides on the spot to marry her.

On her wedding day, Coco and her accomplice Jean-Claude kidnapped the children (including Angelica) and trapped them in a warehouse. Upon witnessing this, Kira stands up to Coco and threaten to tell Chas the truth, but Coco throws her out of her limo, leaving Kira to race to the wedding herself via bicycle. Chuckie rallies the children to crash his father's wedding at Notre Dame de Paris using the Reptar robot. They are chased by Jean-Claude, who pilots Reptar's nemesis known the Robosnail robot. The chase culminates in a fight on a bridge, and Chuckie knocks Robosnail into the Seine River.

Chuckie interrupts the wedding just in time and Jean-Claude accidentally reveals Coco's kidnapping plot, prompting an angry Chas to call off the wedding in disgust. Angelica also exposes Coco's plan to Yamaguchi, who angrily fires Coco in retaliation. Angelica rips Coco's wedding dress and Coco disappears out of the church humiliated and defeated while Spike chases Jean-Claude away. Kira arrives at the church and apologizes to Chas for what Coco did to him and Chuckie. Sadly, Chas admitted it was his fault, die to him being blinded by the romance in Paris and apologizes to Chuckie for doubting him. But then, Chas and Kira began to fall in love after they spoke the lines from one of Chas' favorite poems, which turns out to be one of Kira's favorite poem.

Chas and Kira eventually get married sometime later after returning to the United States while Fifi is adopted by the Finster family. As the new family take the first dance together, they are interrupted when the whole dance floor erupts into an all out food fight instigated by the babies as the film closes.

Main

 * Christine Cavanaugh as Chuckie Finster
 * Michael Bell as Chas Finster
 * E. G. Daily as Tommy Pickles
 * Cheryl Chase as Angelica Pickles
 * Kath Soucie as Phil, Lil and Betty DeVille
 * Cree Summer as Susie Carmichael
 * Tara Strong as Dil Pickles
 * Dionne Quan as Kimi Watanabe
 * Julia Kato as Kira Watanabe

Supporting

 * Joe Alaskey as Grandpa Lou Pickles
 * Debbie Reynolds as Lulu Pickles
 * Michael Bell as Drew Pickles
 * Jack Riley as Stu Pickles
 * Melanie Chartoff as Didi Pickles
 * Tress MacNeille as Charlotte Pickles
 * Phil Proctor as Howard DeVille

Guest stars

 * Susan Sarandon as Coco LaBouche
 * John Lithgow as Jean-Claude
 * Mako as Mr. Yamaguchi
 * Marlene Mituko, Darrel Kunitomi and Goh Misawa as the villagers of the "Princess Spectacular" show
 * Tim Curry as a sumo singer
 * Billy West as a sumo singer
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as a sumo singer
 * Paul DeMeyer as the street cleaner and dog catcher
 * Phillip Simon as the animatronic bus driver
 * Richard Michel as the French worker
 * Charlie Adler as the inspector
 * Phillipe Benichou as the ninja
 * Dan Castellaneta as the priest
 * Lisa McClowry as the princess
 * Casey Kasem as the wedding DJ
 * Roger Rose as the Finster wedding DJ
 * Margaret Smith as the stewardess

Soundtrack
A soundtrack for the film, titled Rugrats in Paris: The Movie: Music From the Motion Picture was released on November 7, 2000 on Maverick Records.[6] Like the last soundtrack, it also contains an enhanced part: the theme song to the film "Jazzy Rugrat Love" by Teena Marie.

Follows
Rugrats (1990) (TV Series)

The Rugrats Movie (1998)

Followed by
The Rugrats: All Growed Up (2001) (TV Short)

Rugrats: Still Babies After All These Years (2001) (TV Short)

All Grown Up! (2003) (TV Series)

Rugrats Go Wild (2003)

Spin-off
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) (Video Game)

Referenced in
At the Movies: Proof of Life/Vertical Limit/The Emperor's New Groove/State and Main/Pollock (2000) (TV Episode) Referenced during the "The Emperor's New Groove" review.

Rugrats: Finsterella (2001) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Events referenced for continuity

Recess: School's Out (2001)

Lizzie McGuire: Timmy Turner's First Day of HillRidge Junior High (2001) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​VHS is briefly seen on the shelf in the library at HillRidge Jr. High.

At the Movies: Sweet November/Recess: School's Out/Down to Earth/Faithless/Yi Yi (2001) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Referenced during the "Recess: School's Out" review.

Vanilla Sky (2001) ​​​​​​​poster seen on a building in times square.

Undercover Brother (2002)

Singsing ni Lola (2002) ​​​​​​​Anna wears the Rugrats shirt on the beginning of the movie.

The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) ​​​​​​​Main theme plays at the start of the movie.

The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) (Video Game) ​​​​​​​VHS is seen in the video rental store at the Style Shack.

100 Greatest Cartoons (2005) (TV Special) ​​​​​​​Poster can be seen behind one interviewee

The Nostalgia Teen: The Rugrats Movie (2011) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Review forshadowed at the end

Game Grumps: Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2012) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​The movie is talked about.

The Blockbuster Buster: Top 10 Cartoons That Should Never Be Movies (2013) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​mentions the Rugrats movies

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Larry David/Gisele Bündchen/Jeezy feat. Future (2014) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Larry David refers to the movie as "Rugrats in Europe"

Outside Xtra: 7 Shockingly Scary Moments in Non-Horror Games (2020) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​The film's poster is shown.

Featured in
The Making of 'Rugrats in Paris' (2000) (Video)

Behind the Movie: Rugrats in Paris (2000) (TV Movie)

Troldspejlet: Episode #25.13 (2001) (TV Episode) reviewed + footage used

Rugrats: Still Babies After All These Years (2001) (TV Short)

Animation Lookback: Top 10 Best Animated Sequels (2011) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Ranked at number 5.

WatchMojo: Top 10 Animated Sequels (2015) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Rugrats in Paris: The Movie gets an honorable mention.

The Know's Top 10s: Top 10 RADDEST Dinosaurs! (2017) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Reptar is the #6 pick.

MsMojo: Top 10 Cartoon Weddings of All Time (2018) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​The wedding of Chas Finster & Kira Watanabe is #7.

Spoofs
King Kong (1933)

Adventures of Superman (1952) (TV Series) Dialogue "Look, up in the sky"

Lady and the Tramp (1955)

The Godfather (1972)

Enter the Dragon (1973)

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Problem Child 2 (1991)

A Few Good Men (1992) ​​​​​​​Lil's line, "You want the button? You can't handle the button," is a spoof of the famous "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" line.

Jurassic Park (1993)

Little Indian, Big City (1994) ​​​​​​​The babies (when controlling the giant Reptar on their way to stop the wedding) climb up the Eiffel Tower.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995) (TV Series)

Super Mario 64 (1996) (Video Game) ​​​​​​​Mario kills Bowser on level one in the same way that reptar destroys iron snail.

The Iron Giant (1999)

Shaft (2000)

Charlie's Angels (2000)

Spoofed In
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)

Lizzie McGuire: Lizzie's Misadventures in HillRidge (2002) (Video Game)