Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world.Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world.Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins & 16 nominations total
- Mr. Peabody
- (voice)
- Sherman
- (voice)
- Paul Peterson
- (voice)
- Patty Peterson
- (voice)
- Marie Antoinette
- (voice)
- …
- Robespierre
- (voice)
- Teacher
- (voice)
- (as Patrice A. Musick)
- Penny Peterson
- (voice)
- Mason
- (voice)
- Carl
- (voice)
- (as Josh Rush)
- Ms. Grunion
- (voice)
- Judge
- (voice)
- King Tut
- (voice)
- Ay
- (voice)
- WABAC Machine
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Rob Minkoff chose Ty Burrell for Mr. Peabody because "his voice embodied all the different aspects of the character today - not just the intellect and the suave personality, but the underlying warmth as well."
- GoofsAgamemnon dubs Sherman as "Shermanus," which sounds more Latin than Greek.
- Quotes
Penny Peterson: I'm not Penny anymore. Now, I'm Princess Hatsheput, precious flower of the Nile.
Mr. Peabody: "Precious," perhaps, but if you think we're going to leave you here, you are most definitely in "de-Nile."
Sherman: [laughs] I don't get it.
- Crazy creditsThe DreamWorks Animation logo has Sherman fishing in the moon.
- Alternate versionsThe closing credits in the UK version feature a song entitled 'Kid', written and performed by Peter Andre.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Troldspejlet nytårsspecial (2013)
- SoundtracksPause
Written by Pitbull (as Armando Perez), DJ Buddha (as Urales Vargas), Ari Kalimi, Abdelouahid Ben and Adrian Santalla
Performed by Pitbull
Courtesy of Mr. 305/Polo Grounds Music/RCA Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
Mr. Peabody (voiced by Ty Burrell) is the brainiest dog in all the land, and a celebrated inventor, athlete and businessman to boot. From his lonely perch atop the world, he decides to adopt a baby boy. Everything goes well until the bespectacled Sherman (Max Charles) starts school. Forced to play nice with Penny (Ariel Winter), a classmate who ridicules him for having a dog as a father, Sherman shows her the WABAC: a time machine invented by Mr. Peabody to allow his son to bear witness to history in the making. Together, Sherman and Penny embark on a trip across time that could destroy the past, the present and the future.
Bouncing merrily from the French Revolution to ancient Greece by way of the Italian Renaissance, Mr. Peabody & Sherman messes mischievously with history - we're presented with a cake-obsessed Marie Antoinette (Lauri Fraser), a volatile Mona Lisa (Lake Bell) and a beef-headed Agamemnon (Patrick Warburton). Most of these references will likely be lost on younger viewers, but there's still plenty to keep them entertained. As the film races along in its madcap way, gags and puns (so bad they're brilliant) are tossed at the audience in such great amounts that it's rather amazing that most of them work as well as they do.
The film does suffer a little from its breakneck pace, as it rushes headlong towards a cataclysmic convergence of the past and the present. The story gets a little lost in the shuffle of history, with almost too much to absorb by the time nefarious social services worker Ms. Grunion (voiced with wicked relish by Allison Janney) turns up - a canine bigot to the core - and threatens to remove Sherman from Mr. Peabody's custody.
Nevertheless, director Rob Minkoff manages to pull the whole thing off, balancing the film's largely irreverent tone with a surprisingly heartfelt ending. He even crafts a father-son moment near the end of the film that's both shamelessly sweet and a cheeky nod to cinematic history. (Think Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick circa 1960.) It's all quite enough to suggest that there's a bright cinematic future ahead for this little boy and his dog/dad.
- shawneofthedead
- Mar 4, 2014
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Las aventuras de Peabody y Sherman
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $145,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $111,506,430
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $32,207,057
- Mar 9, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $275,698,039
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1