Rated PG, directed by Des McAnuff, with Rene Russo (Natasha), Jason Alexander (Boris), Robert De Niro (Fearless Leader), June Foray (Rocky), Keith Scott (Bullwinkle), Piper Perabo (Karen Sympathy), running time: 88 minutes.
An animated Rocky and Bullwinkle are living in a shabby, two-dimensional retirement condo in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, trying to stretch ever-diminishing residual checks from their once-popular animated series. Meanwhile, halfway across the world in Pottsylvania, an animated Boris and Natasha are busy tunneling to Hollywood where they sign a deal with studio executive Minnie Mogul. Before the ink is dry they are transformed into Russo, Alexander and De Niro because, as he explains he's, ``attached to the deal.'' The three immediately hatch a plan to take over America by hypnotizing its citizens with really bad TV. Rocky and Bullwinkle are pulled out of retirement to deal with the menacing trio with the help of a kindly FBI agent named Karen Sympathy.
Earlier this month, a Hong Kong ship, Shunxin-39, was identified as the ship that had cut telecom cables on the seabed north of Keelung. The ship, owned out of Hong Kong and variously described as registered in Cameroon (as Shunxin-39) and Tanzania (as Xinshun-39), was originally People’s Republic of China (PRC)-flagged, but changed registries in 2024, according to Maritime Executive magazine. The Financial Times published tracking data for the ship showing it crossing a number of undersea cables off northern Taiwan over the course of several days. The intent was clear. Shunxin-39, which according to the Taiwan Coast Guard was crewed
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