Doogal Reviews

A sheer waste of priceless talent.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Too often those behind the slick 3-D animation spectacles aimed at children imbue them with too much adult humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 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 | Original Score: 2/4

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!"

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A jumble of bad movie cliches strung together into an overly simplistic tale of a pooch who gets in trouble over candy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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 | Original Score: 1/5

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 | Original Score: 1.5/5

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...

| Original Score: 0/4

The laziest, most disheartening kind of animated children's film.

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A wretched experience from start to finish.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5

Doogal is definitely a dog.

| Original Score: 1/4

Unoriginal and only sometimes cute, DOOGAL is mostly harmless, but dull.

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This isn't dumbing-down. This is a full-scale lobotomy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence?

Full Review | Original Score: F

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 | Original Score: D-

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 | Original Score: 1/4

It's a movie that scrounges so desperately for laughs, it features both a flatulent moose and a flatulent train.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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 | Original Score: 1/5

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 | Original Score: 1.5/4

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 | Original Score: 0/4