This entire idea was inspired from the thread for “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie”; just thought I’d share that, because why not.

The Rugrats Movie is personally, one of my favorite movies. I first saw it at the young age of 3 on video, in 2003. I had already fallen in love with the show, but the movie really added a lot more, and it just felt… bigger. The movie is still a classic in my eyes, and I want to preserve it the way it was intended to be seen, hence why I am here. It seems that, somewhere along the way, Paramount may have meddled with the colors of the movie. I took some screencaps of the theatrical trailer, taken from the movie’s US DVD, and also taken screenshots of the same frame from a 1080p WEB-DL of the movie (the US DVD looked the same as the WEB-DL, to my eyes, outside of the trailer of course).

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/152212 (either a red tint was added to the final movie, or a blue tint was added to this shot in the trailer; this is one of the few instances where I think the WEB-DL has the correct colors)

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/152213 (no need to comment, color change is painfully obvious)

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/152214 (seems a reddish-blue tint was added to the WEB-DL)

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/152215 (Background was totally redone between the trailer and the DVD/WEB-DL; no clue if the background in the trailer was just a placeholder, or if it actually appeared theatrically)

I am curious about a few things; would a CAM Rip exist for a movie so old (doubt it), or would someone still have a bootleg DVD from when it came out? Or, does anyone remember what it looked like theatrically? Someone did post a old Nickelodeon broadcast from 2004 or 2005 on the web (the 2 deleted scenes are included but those weren’t included theatrically), which I’ll get around to checking soon. Any other info that I failed to mention is greatly appreciated!