Just before yet another snowstorm hit New York, Dreamworks Animation and 20th Century Fox snuck in a kid friendly, 3D premiere of “Mr. Peabody and Sherman” on Feb. 9. As was the case with the 1960s ...

Adapting a simple, line-drawn cartoon from the 1950s and 1960s into a feature-length, computer-generated 3D movie for a new generation of kids involves a surprising amount of nuance.

With “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” Dreamworks Animation sets its “Wayback Machine” to the early 1960s and charmingly revives one of the most popular features of the old “Rocky & Bullwinkle Show” — the one ...

I needn’t have worried. The prospect of a feature-length “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” made me nervous, since the Sahara-dry humor that made the old Jay Ward cartoon unique is all but absent from today’s ...

I could recall Rocky and Bullwinkle, the stars of a cartoon program I vaguely remember from the mid-1960s. Within those shows, I knew there were also a short five-minute cartoon for a goofy Canadian ...