Boris and Natasha: The Movie
Boris and Natasha is a
comedy film that was loosely based on the
animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The actors did not attempt to copy the accents of their animated counterparts, and although
Rocky and Bullwinkle do not appear in this film, they are referred to by the names "Agent Moose" and "Agent Squirrel". This was due to the network's inability to secure the rights to the animated character's likenesses for this film. This film was produced by
Management Company Entertainment Group for
Universal Pictures, and originally released to
movie theatres by
1992.
The movie opens in the tiny country of
Pottsylvania, located between the countries Wrestlemania and Yoursovania, where Fearless Leader (
Christopher Neame) concocts a plan to obtain a time-reversal microchip. Boris (
Dave Thomas) and Natasha Fatale (
Sally Kellerman) are the two spies being used as patsies in his plan. Partway through his plot, the duo realizes something is awry, and detour to America to find the base of the real plan.
They find themselves knee-deep in a secret assassin operation, topped with exploding potatoes and the temptations of capitalism. The movie features cameos by
John Travolta,
June Foray, and
John Candy.
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