All Grown Up!

I think you guys who are giving bad reviews are being unfair. All Grown Up is a great show, I'm not denying that Rugrats will always be better with it's (in my opinion) unique style of humor that both kids and adults can enjoy. I find it enjoyable to see how the 'rats have grown and changed. If your looking for more misunderstanding between kids and adults type humor that was so common in The Rugrats, then go elsewhere. If your more interested in seeing the kids growing and how relationships between some of them have changed, as well as another 'growing-pains' "tweenage" show. Then watch this, you won't beat it.

I'd give it a 3+1/5 out of 5

Many people seem to be comparing this show to the original series, "The Rugrats". But this was not the reason why this show was created. It was created because the premiere of the special, "All Growed Up", was the highest rated premiere in Nickelodeon history. Some say that its bad because of the way its written. But it can't be bad, because none of the stories were taken from the original series, or any other shows. All of the stories are original. The show started in November, and they already started showing second season shows in June. In fact, Nickelodeon has ordered 22 new episodes, along with "Jimmy Neutron", "Fairly Oddparents", and "ChalkZone". More people can relate to the All Grown Up characters, so kids have more interest in it. Plus, now Dil serves a purpose and they can now communicate with their parents. Nothing is wrong with this show.

I'll admit, I didn't like the idea of All Grown Up when it was first introduced in 2001. Nick aired an hour-long special where the Rugrats go 10 years into the future (in commemoration of the show's 10th anniversary), and I hated it. This was during the time when all the buzz was about Rugrats; for goodness' sake, they even got a freakin' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! Judging by the condition of the show then, none of the praise was deserved.

Anyway, Nick later announced the All Grown Up series. I was more than reluctant to accept the series. Before officially dismissing the show as junk, I decided to give it a try. Incidentally, Klasky-Csupo has failed to produce a decent show for more than 5 years. When I saw All Grown Up, I wasn't as upset about it as I was before. It turned out that this spin-off even has several advantages over the preceding series.

For one thing, the babies finally get to talk to the adults, something some of us Rugrats fans had long anticipated. The characters are also establishing new personalities. No longer do they get in trouble out of curiosity, but mainly because they're in the earliest steps of establishing their identities. Best of all, DIL FINALLY HAS A REASON TO EXIST! In the old Rugrats, the addition of Dil was THE factor that officially began the show's downward spiral, that of which was beyond repair. But when the babies became pre-teens, sure enough, Dil was given a true personality, in where he not only serves as one of the better characters on the show, but it earned us fans a BIG sigh of relief.

All Grown Up is a fairly decent show. While not as good as My Life as a Teenage Robot, it is certainly a step ahead of that filthy As Told by Ginger show. Seriously, such shows as Ginger are merely just showcases of embarrassing adolescent stereotypes; amazing why ANYONE would enjoy such crap. But with the two cartoons Nick has released in the past several month, it seems like they ARE taking steps forward.

It seems now that All Grown Up has "replaced" the old Rugrats show. Nick rarely makes formal cancellation announcements, but it seems like the old show is officially done...thank God. Although All Grown Up isn't a masterpiece, it'll still enjoy a good run.

I like this show. It may seem dorky at first, but it actually makes a life for the so called RUGRATS.The show makes me happy, and makes me enjoy my teen life more! But my only flaw is that they are starting to use the dorky and annoying Rugrats music (1997-2001) that annoyed me after all these years. Otherwise the show makes me comfortable.I recommend that everyone watch this show. Teens Mostly!The show though gets annoying after a while with Angelica, who I hate!The show alternates from one teen having a problem, to another being weird.Hey, it's a typical Klasky/Csuopo cartoon with the animation and feel of most of their show which are excellent.The show is GREAT.

Rugrats: 9.5/10 All Grown Up: 9.8/10

I'm a fan of the original rugrats, when All Grown Up came I was very excited, I think it's a nice show, but it isn't exactly what I was expecting from a rugrats spin-off.

The only bad side of this show is that the show killed the rugrats, Tommy isn't the leader anymore , at the beginning he was supposed to be an artist and later he was just randomly obsessed with girls, Susie just thinks on singing and college, Angelica became just a generic boring teenager, Chuckie from being a nice and caring baby became a self-centered person who is always complaining of how bad is life for him, Kimi gotta be the worst of all of them, she doesn't have a personality not even a trait to set her apart from the other rugrats, she's portrayed as a selfish, spoiled girl who seems to think that the world revolves around her, by far the most horrible character in the entire series, At the end we have Dil that unlike his countpart on rugrats, he has evoluted to become the best character in this show, portrayed as the weird, nice,smart ,caring kid who is always willing to help and trying new things other people wouldn't do,always ready for the action, and that challenging attitude of not caring what other people think of him.

I think it's a good show, but I wish it would have to deal less with teenage issues and more kid related issues, if this wasn't a rugrats spin-off it'd be a very good show, but with rugrats in its past, people expect more from it.