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Western Animation: Rugrats Go Wild

Rugrats Go Wild! is the third and final Rugrats movie, as well as the second and also final The Wild Thornberrys movie. Though it it did earn enough money to cover its $25 million budget, it was still a box-office disapointment, only making $39,402,572 in domestic gross.

Stu takes his family and friends on a cruise and after getting caught in a storm they wash up a deserted island.

Tommy's hero Nigel Thornberry and his family happen to be on the same island filming a documentary.

The babies search the island for "Nigel Strawberry" (not knowing for sure that he's there) and Nigel finds them, but then a coconut falls on Nigel's head and he gets amnesia, making him think he's a baby.

Rugrats Go Wild! provides examples of the following tropes:

Ascended Extra
- Susie gets to join in on the adventure after being a only minor character in the first two movies.
- And Spike is now an supporting character, thanks to Eliza Thornberry's power giving him a speaking role.
Badass: Quite a few characters, actually.
- After a first act brimming with Epic Fail, Stu gets one in designing a Rube-Goldbergesque system to raise the Comvee, leading to the rescue of Nigel and the babies.
- Spike should get special mention for brazenly humiliating a clouded leopard, risking drowning to retrieve the raft for the pontoon repair, and being voiced by Bruce Willis.
- Betty pretty much spends the film overcompensating for Howard's breakdown. She dives back into the wreck to save a life raft (and Dil's pacifier,) breaks up the group's roundtable shouting match, and takes an active role in the Comvee salvage alongside experienced explorer Marianne Thornberry.
- The three most self-interested characters in the movie each get a moment of their own. Charlotte spearheads the escape of the capsizing boat (complete with informed Fanservice Action Dress Rip.) Angelica manages to pilot the bathysphere well enough to rescue the babies, Suzie and Nigel from the cave, even if they smack into an even bigger mess. Debbie's is minor, but she does provide a crucial element to the Comvee raising- the gum to hold the patch in place for the pontoon. She even dives in herself to secure it.
Bamboo Technology
Big Damn Heroes: When Siri catches up to the babies, Donnie springs into action, wearing Chuckie's clothes and wielding Dil's stroller like a katana. He does no great damage to the leopard, but he pretty much ensures the kids' escape single-handed.
Cats Are Mean: Siri the clouded leopard.
Chekhov's Gun
- Chuckie's shoes, the only bit of clothing Donnie doesn't return. They serve as the parents' alert that the tykes are missing, leading them to chase him until they meet Marianne, pretty much setting up Act 3.
- Also, the raft that Betty retrieves in the shipwreck. Spike retrieves it in Act 3 so the adults can patch the sunken Comvee's busted pontoon.
Continuity Nod: Nigel receives a blow to the head and believes he's a baby, just like Stu in the Rugrats episode "Regarding Stuie". Also, at one point as Chuckie is wandering through the jungle, he sees a bunch of monkeys and screams, "Oh no! Not monkeys!" in reference to the first movie in which one of the babies' greatest enemies was a troop of circus monkeys that were following them and chased Chuckie to and nearly off a cliff.
Contrived Coincidence
Deleted Scenes: A few Cut Songs and a short scene showing Betty fishing with a spear and Didi being horrified by her "inhumane" methods.
Demoted to Extra: Grandpa Lou.
Face Death with Dignity: Sure, nobody is really going to die in a Rugrats movie, but one of the darkest moments in the film is when Nigel and the babies are trapped in the bathysphere on the ocean floor, out of fuel and, soon, oxygen. Nigel decides, rather than panicking, to keep the kids distracted by singing "Old MacDonald." The expression on his face every time he looks at the oxygen gauge shows a clear lack of expectation to survive.
I Would Say If I Could Say
Spike (while he's trying to get the raft): I've battled my way through more tennis balls then I can count! If I could count!
Intergenerational Friendship : Angelica and Debbie, and Nigel with all the kids, especially with Tommy.
MacGyvering
Mirror Routine: Chuckie and Donnie do this through a waterfall after Donnie takes Chuckie's clothes and glasses.
Mistaken Identity: When the babies see Donnie wearing Chuckie's clothes (and his glasses), they assume he's Chuckie. It doesn't help that they (somewhat) resemble each other anyway.
Predators Are Mean: Siri. She likes to eat babies simply For the Evulz!
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: This is more of a Rugrats movie. With the exception of Nigel, the Thornberrys don't do much.
Stealth Pun: Stu Pickles buying everyone tickets for a luxury cruise, then making them take a smaller, rickety looking boat instead, resulting in everyone getting shipwrecked. In short what he did was completely Stu-pid.
Suddenly Voiced: Spike ^note, by Bruce Willis.
Villain (Sucks) Song: The "Big Bad Cat" number is a combination of both, where it's a Villain Sucks Song for Spike, and a Villain Song for Siri.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Siri at first, seemed to be a major antagonist in the film. She only appears in a few scenes and is never seen or mentioned again.