The Ricktacular Rick and Morty Movie

The Ricktacular Rick and Morty Movie is a film based on the animated series 'Rick and Morty'. The film will release in cinemas on July 17th 2024.

Plot Summary

After another encounter with Evil Morty, the dimension C-137 was destroyed. Rick's plan was just to go to another dimension where they got captured on their encounter with Evil Morty, however, Morty doesn't like that plan and insists on Rick getting the dimension back into existence, all the while avoiding Evil Morty. This film also acts as the finale of the Evil Morty story.

Plot

The film begins with Rick, Squanchy, Gearhead, Bird Person and Mr. Poopybutthole, with each one of them except Rick on an instrument, Rick then begins to spout random lyrics about the rules of how to behave in the cinema, such as not to take off your shoes, kiss, talk too much or kicking the seat infront of the watcher. Rick, is clearly drunk and keeps saying that he'll do specific things to punish the viewer if he doesn't follow the theater rules, with it occasionally cutting to Squanchy, Gearhead, Bird Person and Mr. Poopybutthole on instruments. Then Morty comes to the garage and asks Rick what he's doing, to which Rick responds to Morty with a 'Fuck off, Morty!'. A remix of the series' intro begins to play. It with Morty sleeping, when suddenly Rick bursts into the room and wakes up Morty, dragging him to his space cruiser. Rick then tells Morty that he needs to get power crystals from the planet 'Suggmicrock'. Morty then asks if he could go back to bed, as Rick can do this himself, but before Morty could finish the sentence, Rick shouts at him to shut up. A remix of the intro of the series then plays. After that it then cuts to Rick and Morty landing on the planet, when suddenly they see Evil Morty also collecting the crystals. They are both weirded out. Evil Morty says 'Didn't you forget what I said, Rick? I said that I have big plans involving you, and one of them is collecting your intelligence, and putting all of that good stuff into my body, great plan, huh Rick?' Rick adds 'What? You know that that is pure fiction, right?. ' Evil Morty then says 'How dumb are you Rick? You call yourself the smartest man in the universe, and yet you can't comprehend the idea of intelligence sucking? Basic scientists know this.' Evil Morty then calls out his army, which proceed to capture our duo, luckily, Morty had a ketchup packet in his pockets. Morty then blasts the ketchup packet in the Guards' face. Rick and Morty then proceed to run, Rick gets his portal gun, to go back home. Rick then thinks he's safe, until the whole world begins to collapse, Morty is terrified, Rick, in the last second, uses his portal gun to get out of there, the duo go to another dimension where Morty didn't have that ketchup packet, essentially they got captured and Rick's intelligence got sucked out. Morty hates this idea, and doesn't want to live with another version of his family, after Morty continues to bother Rick, Rick says that he could get the C-137 dimension back, he just has to time travel. Morty loves this new idea, asking Rick if he could make a time travel machine fast. Rick says that he needs a lot of money to do that, and so he has to borrow the time travel machine from the president of the USA. Rick and Morty then use their space cruiser to get quickly to the president of the USA. During this, Evil Morty shows up, with his army. Space Beth says 'Morty, when did you get this huge army?' to which Evil Morty proceeds to shoot her, killing off the Space Beth character. Jerry, Summer and the clone Beth scream in terror, as they are kidnapped by Evil Morty's troops. It then cuts to Rick knocking on the door of the white house. The president opens up and says 'Sanchez! It's you again?!' Rick then asks if he could borrow the time machine, to which the president replies with a no. They continue arguing, until Rick kicks the president, Rick and Morty then quickly run over to the time travel machine to travel back in time, they then pressed the button labeled 'Let's Go' and they began their travel in time. They appear back at their house, as they ran to the garage, they see that the other Rick is gone, the duo then run upstairs and see that the other Morty is gone too. They then hear the sound of the space cruiser. Rick then says 'Well, there's nothing we can do. Let's go back home' but Morty is determent to get the C-137 dimension back, he then asks Rick if he still has the Sanchez ski shoes, to which Rick replies with a no, but Morty knows that Rick is lying thru his teeth. Morty then goes outside to destroy the time travel machine to get Rick to admit his possession of the ski shoes, Rick says 'Okay, okay, I had the ski shoes the whole time, but you do realize that we are putting in a lot of effort into something we can avoid easily?' Morty, however, says 'I am determent to get my dimension back, there were so much things that were going well for me there!' Rick says 'Alright, good point, let's just get this over with' as he gets his ski shoes ready. It then cuts to Summer. She wakes up tied to a operating table, Evil Morty then appears. Summer screams, however Evil Morty shuts her up. He turned on the light revealing Jerry and Beth tied up too. Evil Morty says that he needs Rick to give in and that he'll do everything just to get his intelligence, he'll do whatever it takes, including torturing Rick's family, he then takes a saw and says 'If Rick doesn't give in, then this saw is gonna go right thru you'. It then cuts to Rick and Morty on Rick's ski shoes, Rick attached a rope to the space cruiser, so he can follow it. Rick then asks Morty if he could walk on the rope to stop those versions of Rick and Morty from going to that planet. Morty says no and is too scared to walk on the rope, but Rick says that they'll fail if he doesn't and die of suffocation in space. Morty decides to brave up and walk on the rope. He jumps on the huge window and tries to get Rick to stop driving, but this ultimately makes Rick crash in a building, the other Rick and Morty are then unconscious due to the fall, Morty then panics if they are dead, but Rick reassures him that they aren't as they are still breathing. It cuts back to Evil Morty, Evil Morty asks for Beth to be interrogated, as he believes that she knows the most secrets Rick keeps, the guards take Beth and strap her down to a chair, and Evil Morty begins to interrogate her. Beth tells Evil Morty that she doesn't know anything, but then Evil Morty shocks her with electricity. Evil Morty then thinks of an idea that he'd probably whine about changing universes again, and that his whining will make Rick go back in time to stop the destruction of earth dimension C-137. Evil Morty then asks the guards to go to the white house and steal the time travel machine, so he could use it to capture Rick and Morty. Meanwhile, the other Rick and Morty wake up in the garage, and see their alternate selves. The other Rick immediately tries to shoot the normal Rick, however he misses, and an all out fight begins, all the while both of the Mortys try to make their Ricks not fight. After the fight, the original Rick tells the new Rick that the reason they made them crash into a wall was so they couldn't go on Suggmicrock. The other Morty questions this, and Rick replies stating that they encountered Evil Morty there and that he destroyed their dimension, and so they traveled back in time to stop that from happening. It then cuts to Evil Morty's army going thru the white house, and at the end killing the president. They then go back to Evil Morty's base and give him the time travel machine, Evil Morty's last request before traveling back in time was so they murder Beth, Jerry and Summer. Summer manages to get a near by scalpel near the operating table and destroy her restraints, as she does this she then fights Evil Morty's army, and manages to defeat all of them in the room she, Beth and Jerry were in. She then frees Beth and Jerry, however, the rest of Evil Morty's army shows up, leading to them having to fight them all. They take the weapons and begin fighting the army, killing them off one by one. It then cuts back to Rick about to go back to their dimension when suddenly Evil Morty appears and destroys his portal gun, and the rest of Morty's army shows up, Rick C-137 tries to attack them, but is terribly injured, leading them to believe that he is dead, Evil Morty was mad about that since the intelligence of a human body can only be sucked if the person is alive, however, the guards take the other Rick, Morty C-137 and the other Morty. Rick, badly injured, wakes up, his suit is all destroyed and coughs blood, he realizes that Evil Morty took the other Rick and the two Mortys. Rick, now fueling with rage, gets his duplicate clothing, makes another portal gun, and goes to Evil Morty's base. Evil Morty then straps down the two Mortys and straps the other Rick down to the intelligence sucking machine. Evil Morty places a Helmet on that Rick and begins sucking his intelligence. Rick, after running and killing lots of Evil Morty's guards, sees the other Beth, Summer and Jerry. Rick immediatly asks as to why they are there and where's Space Beth. They tell him why they're there and that Space Beth got killed by Evil Morty, Rick, is even more being fueled by rage. He immediatly tells them that 2 Mortys were captured along with a different Rick. They then instantly run to the experiment room. Rick's intelligence is almost completely sucked into Evil Morty, until Rick shoots the cord connecting the different Rick's helmet to Evil Morty's helmet, making the intelligence sucking process end. The other Rick gets his intelligence back. Rick then begins to fight Evil Morty, while the rest of the gang free the two Mortys and the other Rick. The rest of the gang join in on the fight, Evil Morty begins to scream, and then, he dies. Rick C-137 activates a self-destruct system, the gang then get out of there. Rick and Morty C-137 then say their goodbyes to the other dimension Rick, Morty, Summer, Beth and Jerry. The duo then go back to their dimension. Rick and Morty are finally back to dimension C-137, and they then hug their family, Rick then asks Morty if he could go in the garage for something. Morty says 'Gee, after all of that, you still want an adventure to go on?' Space Beth asks 'Wait, you guys went on an adventure?' Rick then says 'It's a long story.' Rick pushes Morty in the garage, and then Rick's garage rant begins. The shot then pans out of the house and the garage doors close, mimicking the ending of the first Rick and Morty episode. The film then ends.

Box Office

The film earned $204 million at the box office on a $42 million budget, making it a box office success.

Reception

The film received positive to mixed reviews

It has a 7.2/10 on IMDb, but a 56% on Metacritic and a 65% critic score and a 94% audience score on Rotten tomatoes.

Blu Ray

The film was released on Blu Ray on March 17th 2025.

Sequel

A sequel to this film was planned, but it was ultimately canceled, it was supposed to be called 'The Super Squanchy Rick and Morty Sequel'.