- Starring
- Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny, Charlie Adler
- Directors
- Joe Murray, Cosmo Segurson
- Rating
- TV-Y7
- Genre
- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Release date
- Aug 9, 2019
- Where to watch
- Netflix
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling drops wallaby Rocko and pals Heffer and Filburt back into O-Town after a wild 20-year space odyssey, crash-landing into a neon jungle of auto-updating smartphones, radioactive energy drinks, food trucks clogging every corner, and coffee shops on overdrive. While Heffer and Filburt dive into the tech-fueled chaos, Rocko holes up when he learns his beloved ’90s show, The Fatheads, is off the air. As Conglom-O teeters on bankruptcy due to Ed Bighead’s blunder, threatening his home with demolition, Rocko hatches a daring plan to resurrect The Fatheads. Teaming up with Ed, they navigate O-Town’s dizzying new world to pitch the revival to exec Mr. Dupette, racing against time to save the day.
Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling REVIEW
The first half of 'Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling' is a funny, if not particularly sophisticated, satire commenting on many of the changes to our world over the last twenty years. Fans of the original will no doubt thoroughly enjoy it, right up until it becomes unwatchable trash (See below).
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I sat through this movie to the end purely out of misplaced loyalty and wanting to see how it ended, and then I disowned it immediately afterwards.
Around 2020 up to today, the current woke philosophy is “the ideal is already normal”, but back in 2019 woke wasn’t fully mainstreamed as normal, which is why Static Cling not only conceals its wokeness and then suddenly blindsides viewers with a hard bait-and-switch they weren’t expecting, but it also lays on the emotional blackmail especially thick. I remember at the end of the movie, Rocko and Ed have a conversation with a talking cloud called “The Winds of Change”, that basically insinuated that if they (and the viewers) didn’t automatically get on board with every new technology, trend or fad, then they didn’t belong in the future and had no business being there. As someone who frequently avoids certain modern lifestyle choices that many others today take for granted, mostly out of fear that they might do more harm to me than good, this set me very much off-balance.
Never mind that the first half of the show and some episodes of the original series were meant to poke fun at “modern life” by showing how trying to get on board with something new and trendy wasn’t always as cool or hip as it was being hyped as.
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