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Doogal (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 3
Rotten:42
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.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
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 popular staple on British television, and this... [More]
Starring: Ian McKellen, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley
Director: Frank Passingham, Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval
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Reviews for Doogal
Top Critic
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!"
02/06/07
A jumble of bad movie cliches strung together into an overly simplistic tale of a pooch who gets in trouble over candy.
07/25/06
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.
05/12/06
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.
05/05/06
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...
04/14/06
Unoriginal and only sometimes cute, DOOGAL is mostly harmless, but dull.
03/04/06
Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence?
03/01/06
Top Critic 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.
02/28/06
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.
02/28/06
It's a movie that scrounges so desperately for laughs, it features both a flatulent moose and a flatulent train.
02/27/06
Top Critic 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.
02/27/06
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.
02/27/06
Top Critic 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.
02/27/06
Top Critic In Doogal, setting the world right again involves a badly paced quest for three diamonds, assorted jokes that don't land, and a daringly incoherent climactic confrontation.
02/27/06
Top Critic Doogal is an exceeding lame animated feature about a bunch of kids trapped on a magical carousel -- but it's adults forced to sit through this slow-moving, G-rated Lord of the Rings knockoff who will be begging for mercy.
02/27/06
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