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Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

2000 animated film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Rugrats in Paris: The Movie is a 2000 American animated comedy film based on the Nickelodeon animated television series Rugrats. Directed by Paul Demeyer and Stug Bergqvist, it is the second feature film based on the series following The Rugrats Movie (1998). The plot takes place after the series' sixth season and before the seventh season and centers on Chuckie Finster as he resolves to find a new mother during a joint family vacation in Paris.

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The public source identifies “Rugrats in Paris: The Movie” as 2000 animated film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rugrats, Paris and Movie.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rugrats, Paris and Movie providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rugrats in Paris: The Movie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.