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Doogal (2006)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:3
Rotten:44
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Overloaded with pop culture references, but lacking in compelling characters and plot, Doogal is too simpleminded even for the kiddies.
Theatrical Release:Feb 24, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $7,308,609
Synopsis: The origins of the characters in DOOGAL stretch back to 1964 and a TV program called THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT (or "Le Manège Enchanté" as its French creator Serge Danot called it). The show became a... [More]
Starring: Ian McKellen, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley
Director: Frank Passingham, Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval
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Reviews for Doogal
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 1/4 |
A sheer waste of priceless talent. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Too often those behind the slick 3-D animation spectacles aimed at children imbue them with too much adult humor. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The slapdash dialogue and smug vocal talent detract from the visual appeal of the most energetic sequences (like a raucous train chase) and what's left of Danot's designs. Full Review |
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A delight for very young children and any parent who'll get the Attorney General joke of "Geneva Convention? I don't care if it's a Star Trek convention!" Full Review |
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1/4 |
A jumble of bad movie cliches strung together into an overly simplistic tale of a pooch who gets in trouble over candy. Full Review |
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1/5 |
For U.S. audiences the voices have been dubbed by the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Stewart, Chevy Chase and Jimmy Fallon, who add nothing; in fact, the movie drags them down with it. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
I can only assume that half the movie got lost in translation, and that's how we ended up with the bald mess we have today. Full Review |
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0/4 |
The characters (a snail, a cow, a rock-n-roll rabbit, a train, a wooden soldier) and voice actors (Whoopi Goldberg, Judi Dench, Chevy Chase) seem chosen at random... Full Review |
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The laziest, most disheartening kind of animated children's film. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Doogal is definitely a dog. Full Review |
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0.5/5 |
A wretched experience from start to finish. Full Review |
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Unoriginal and only sometimes cute, DOOGAL is mostly harmless, but dull. Full Review |
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1/5 |
This isn't dumbing-down. This is a full-scale lobotomy. Full Review |
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F |
Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence? Full Review |
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D- |
Hungering for more references to the 'Wassup' commercials, Dr. Phil, 'Bling Bling,' The Lord Of The Rings, MC Hammer, or The Matrix? Don't worry, Doogal contains nods to all of these. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Doogal tries to be part of the hip CGI-animated club, with all the pop-culture references and feel-good messages. But unfortunately, it fails on all levels. Full Review |
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1/4 |
It's a movie that scrounges so desperately for laughs, it features both a flatulent moose and a flatulent train. Full Review |
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1/5 |
It's easily the worst kid's movie since Spy Kids 3-D, a confusing blur of a magical quest based on an ancient British stop-motion animation TV show. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Doogal has a few moments of wit, but they're largely lost thanks to inconsistent direction and an uncertainty about who or what the movie is for. Full Review |
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0/4 |
The titular canine hero has all the appeal of a talking bathmat. The animation is ugly, and the American re-write -- which, in typical Hollywood fashion, confuses topicality with humor, as if simply namedropping is enough -- adds nothing. Full Review |
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