But while he’s showing off his skills as a mixologist, musician and chiropractor, Sherman unwisely decides to take Penny for a spin in Mr. Peabody’s WABAC machine.

Sherman quickly realizes he needs Mr. Peabody's help, so he returns to present day to get his father. They end up going back to rescue Penny, only to set off a on a series of adventures through time.

Sherman and Penny get into some trouble with Mr. Peabody’s time machine in the latest trailer released for 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks’ upcoming CGI family adventure film, Mr. Peabody and ...

In the 1959-1964 TV series, Mr. Peabody was aloof and professorial — so much that his fur should’ve turned to tweed — who adopted the terminally dorky Sherman as a pet.

Penny dares Sherman to show her Mr. Peabody's time machine known as the WABAC, they take a joyride, and Sherman promptly loses her in ancient Egypt. It's up to the dog and his boy to set things ...

Worse, the gravity of Mr. Peabody’s doggie-daddy issues, and Sherman’s own puppy love for a female frenemy named Penny, defang what should be anything-goes humor.

Kids don’t know about how Mr. Peabody and Sherman used to make history fun back in the late 1950s and early 1960s on Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, but director Rob Minkoff (The ...

She headlocks him, so Sherman bites her. A grim social worker threatens to have Sherman taken away from Mr. Peabody. Hoping to mend fences, Mr. Peabody invites Penny and her parents to dinner.

But unlike other big-screen youth fare, “Mr. Peabody and Sherman” isn’t a barrage of product placement and pop-culture references calculated to encourage youngsters to be hungry consumers.

AND VARIVASHYA POLADI. Kidsday Reporters, 10, FlushingMarch 4, 2014 We went to an advance screening of the new animated movie "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," in Manhattan.

In this telling, Sherman, voiced by 10-year-old Max Charles, invites his bored classmate Penny (Ariel Winter, also from "Modern Family") into the WABAC, resulting in a series of misadventures.