Doogal
by Jean Duval (III), Dave Borthwick, Frank Passingham
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Actor: Daniel Tay, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, William H. MacyDirector: Dave Borthwick, Frank Passingham, Jean Duval (III)
Brand: Genius
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 78 minutes
Published: 2006-05-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Model: 79169
Studio: Weinstein Company
DVD Reviews of Doogal
DVD Review: HORRID AND REPREHENSIBLE 2 OUT OF 10
Summary: 1 Stars
Wow, what a bad animated film! This is easily one of the worst animated films I've seen in quite some time, and it has also found a place among twenty-five of the worst films I've seen. Not only is this a really crappy and badly made film with few redeeming aspects, but it also teaches terrible lessons to children (Which will be explained later in the review).
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Ten thousand years ago, a good wizard (Who seems to be part spring-like) named Zebedee imprisoned his evil wizard brother Zeebad (Also spring-like and has the powers of freezing things) in a magic carousel(Why is he placed in a carousel used by the public is confusing and makes no sense). Now, many years later in the happy little village, we are introduced to Doogal (The weird, hairy mop mutation of a dog you see on the cover), a selfish, totally unlikable candy addict. Ermintrude, a terrible, opera-singing cow. Brian, a snail who has a crush on Ermintrude. And lastly we are introduced to Dylan, a rabbit who appears to be stoned (Um...Why?). During this day, Doogal has a craving for candy, so he decides to take a nail, place it on the road, and it flattens the tire on the candy cart passing by. The candy cart operator leaves Doogal in charge to watch over it (Doogal is hoping for a candy reward. You know, he's such a great role model for kids!). But then Doogal climbs on the cart and accidentally starts it up, which causes it drive out of control and crash into the magic carousel and explode. Because of this, the evil Zeebad is released from his prison, steals a toy soldier, and goes out to search for three magic diamonds to use for his evil plan to freeze the world. Meanwhile, Doogal's owner and three other people are trapped inside the frozen carousel, so the group calls for Zebedee to aid them, and when he appears he tells them the only way to stop this freezing across the world and re-imprison Zeebad is to find the three diamonds scattered across the world and place them inside the carousel. So the group, with the aid of a magical train to help them travel set out on a journey to find the diamonds and stop Zeebad.
MUSIC: This is one of the few good things about this wretched pile of dog s***. The musical score is nice, and it also features various songs which are also great. It's so regrettable that such a good score and selection of tracks went to this waste of time.
ACTING: The film-makers managed to get a good cast assembled for this film, and they give it their best (Which is also one of only three positive things about this film). For the most part I liked all the actors like Jon Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Fallon, and many others (I didn't even mind Daniel Tay as the voice of Doogal), and I don't in anyway blame them for this horrendous mess. They even had some random surprises like Kevin Smith (The creator of the Clerks films which were hilarious and other comedy classics), but he's wasted because he is forced to play a flatulent moose (I can still enjoy occasional fart jokes, but this film couldn't even do that right!). Unfortunately the dialogue is horrid since it is filled to the brim with endless pop culture references (You know Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's god-awful parody films? Doogal is like those as well! Have fun with that!).
ACTION: I will say this, I did like the animated look of this film. I felt it had a charming look to it, and this is the last of the three positive things I have to say about this film. This film is incessantly boring and never allows anything to be interesting. This film somehow makes fights with possessed skeletons and a chase sequence involving two trains incredibly boring and relentlessly stupid. There was no sense of adventure at all, because adventures are supposed to be exciting (Nor is it action, since it decides to even throw in explosions which also suck). I did not like these characters, and to quote one of my friends who watched it with me, "JUST DIE! PLEASE!" Needless to say, he hated it even more than I did (He wished to give it a negative rating, and it's also possibly the worst film he has ever seen. A place previously held by a tie between Battlefield Earth and Alone In The Dark! It's that bad in some cases for people!). I hated these characters because they were not interesting or developed (Or in the case of Doogal, he was selfish and never came to the aid of his friends until the end), and this film does not let anyone die (At one point the protagonists are dropped from a height of half a mile and don't die). I was bored, hating it, reminiscing about much better animated films I could be watching instead, and hoping it would all be over soon.
COMEDY: And you thought Batman And Robin made a lot of puns! There was not a single laugh or even a slight chuckle that came from me. This film was completely unfunny since it relies entirely on pop culture references and many terrible puns. In fact, I'll even give you a list of pop culture references.
1. Pirates Of The Caribbean
2. Harry Potter
3. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
4. Star Trek
5. Aretha Franklin
6. Pink Floyd
7. Paul McCartney
8. Phil Collins
9. Wu Tang Clan
10. Geneva Convention
11. Thomas The Tank Engine
12. The Matrix
13. The Lord Of The Rings
14. Pulp Fiction
15. Disney reference
16. Speed (I can't fully confirm it, but a track jumping scene during the train sequence reminded me of the road jump scene in Speed)
17. Excalibur (Possibly, since Dylan says, "Axe-caliber!")
18. Halo
AND MORE! If you can believe that nonsense!
OVERALL: This is one terrible film. It was boring, badly made, filled with bad storytelling, bad dialogue, a horrible sense of humor, and filled with bad messages to children which read as follows:
1. If you cause all the problems to begin with, don't do any work at all and instead make your friends do all the work for you and cause various problems along the way.
2. To get your way and what you want, lie to people around you.
3. Be as selfish as possible and contribute nothing (Even if you're the protagonist!).
4. Be consistently annoying to everyone around you, and even wander off from the group to get kidnapped so they have to come rescue you, and then still cause problems during the rescue.
THE GOOD: The music is good, the voice-cast tries so hard, and I like the animated look.
THE BAD: EVERYTHING ELSE.
Description of Doogal
Meet Doogal, an adorable candy-loving mutt on a mission to save the world. In this delightful 3D computer-animated adventure, Doogal must prevent the evil sorcerer Zeebad (Jon Stewart) from freezing the earth forever. Joining Doogal (Daniel Tay) on his quest are pals Dylan (Jimmy Fallon), a guitar-playing rabbit, Ermintrude (Whoopi Goldberg), an opera-singing cow, and Brian (William H. Macy), a bashful snail. Hopping on a magic train (Chevy Chase), they travel over ice-capped mountains, navigate fiery pits of lava, and sail across vast oceans on the journey of a lifetime. Along the way, they learn that the most powerful weapon of all is their friendship ? which even Zeebad?s magic cannot destroy.Bestsellers in DVD
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