I've always enjoyed the Rugrats television show on Nickelodeon, with its amusing view of the world through the eyes of young children. The writers manage to provide a few grown-up yucks while pleasing their younger audience with plenty of juvenile humor.

But the first full-length Rugrats film, The Rugrats Movie, left me bored and disappointed. When my kids pleaded to see Rugrats in Paris, I stalled until the movie arrived at our local, cheap-ticket theater. I'm happy to say I was pleasantly surprised. This movie is much better than the first, and worth spending 80 minutes watching with your children.

The film is filled with wonderful sight gags, such as the sumo wrestler waiters performing at a sushi-kareoke bar. The kids will have a great time with the fast pace and zaniness of the story. And parents will appreciate the references throughout the film to the Godfather movies. (See if you can spot the celebrity voices of Susan Sarandon, John Lithgow, Debbie Reynolds and Casey Kasem.)

Reviewed by Jo Hansen