DreamMachine Episode 29: Mr. Peabody & Sherman

In this episode of DreamMachine, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2014 DreamWorks animated film Mr. Peabody & Sherman, based on the segment Peabody's Improbable History from the 1960's cartoon The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. The plot is about an intelligent dog named Mr. Peabody and his boy named Sherman who is more of his assistant than his son. While going to school, he meets a girl named Penny who constantly makes fun of him. Meanwhile, Child Protective Services claims that Mr. Peabody isn't a fit father for Sherman and threatens to take him away to a human family. When Mr. Peabody invites Penny and her family over for dinner, Sherman claims that he has traveled all over the world with a time machine called The Wayback Machine. Penny convinces Sherman to show her the machine only for them to visit a few places in ancient times. Will this time travel affect the past and future? Will Mr. Peabody have full custody of Sherman?    When the movie premiered in theaters, it received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers and made over $275 million dollars on a $145 million dollar budget. However, it was called a box office failure by DreamWorks. Despite that, it had gotten an animated series on Netflix and was the start of a major comeback for The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show with getting their own animated series on Netflix called The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle in 2018. What do Arun and Patricia think of the movie? Listen and find out.