For all its undeniable promise, this take on The Magic Roundabout is just plain disastrous in its execution.
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02/22/06
Doogal (2006)
7 %
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
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 full-length movie is the first attempt to acquaint... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Ian McKellen, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley, Kylie Minogue
Director: Frank Passingham, Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval
Screenwriter: Paul Bassett Davis
Producer: Laurent Rodon
Composer: Mark Thomas
Screenwriter: Paul Bassett Davis
Producer: Laurent Rodon
Composer: Mark Thomas
Reviews
In short, Doogal (The Magic Roundabout) is an enjoyable family film that will delight young audiences and is liable to send nostalgic 30-somethings on a (sadly, futile) quest to find the original series on DVD.
02/22/06
It's a shame more effort wasn't made to come up with a storyline as bracingly original and anarchic as the TV series was.
02/22/06
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
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
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
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