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		List Price: $14.95		Label: Weinstein Company Salesrank: 15709 Released: May 16, 2006
		Our Price: $1.39
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		MPAA Rating: G (General Audience) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
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.

Description of Doogal:
A herd of American celebrities--from Whoopi Goldberg to Kevin Smith--have been corralled to redub Doogal, formerly a CGI cartoon from England called The Magic Roundabout based on a French stop-motion tv show from the 1960s called Le Manege Enchante. The title character is a dustmop with a face--presumably a dog of some sort--whose craving for sweets inadvertently traps his beloved owner Florence in a frozen carousel and unleashes an evil wintry wizard named Zeebad (voiced by Jon Stewart, The Daily Show). Doogal and his ragtag group of friends--singing cow Ermintrude (Goldberg, Sister Act), hopeful snail Brian (William H. Macy, Fargo), slacker rabbit Dylan (Jimmy Fallon, Fever Pitch), and a choo-choo train (Chevy Chase, Fletch)--must find three enchanted diamonds to stop Zeebad and bring spring back to the world. Presumably, Doogal's target audience is the very young, yet the dialogue (rewritten for the American market) is crammed with allusions to adult fare like Saturday Night Live and Pulp Fiction. In fact--though it may have seemed differently with the original script--the entire movie comes across as an ungainly patchwork stitched together from scenes fromThe Wizard of Oz, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Ice Age, and much more. The effect is not so much funny as inexplicable. Also featuring the voices of Judi Dench (Iris), Ian McKellen (X-Men), and pop star Kylie Minogue. --Bret Fetzer

Doogal Reviews:
The worst movie of all time.
2009-11-29 - Oh, so bad. I wish there was a way to give it no stars. Everything this company produces stinks.

Don't Bother
2009-11-15 - Ridiculous. First of all, why would anyone take something that is based on a show that holds great affection in one country and then try to sell it another where it has no relevance at all? I bought the British version from England because of my interest in Robbie Williams, and I have to say it was okay. Being American, I didn't have any childhood memories of this show to make me really interested, but the humour was definitely British and Robbie Williams was good as were the other voice talents (all actors I have seen before), but the American version...what a travesty? There is a simple charm to the British version, we Americans can't do charm. The pop culture references are lame (a bit like the Shrek series) and it loses entirely everything that made the original watchable. Show your kids something else...this will rot their brains and they won't develop a sense of humour.

Doogal
2009-11-05 - Yeesh, people expect so much from a movie these days. Relax and enjoy the film.
Many people think this movie stunk. Trust me, there are way worse. For me,I thought this movie was good. I watched it twice in a row. The acting was good enough and it was cool watching a snail, cow, shaggy dog,train,and bunny go on a little adventure. It was cool spotting out all the references in the movie as well. Give the movie a chance and don't get so into it. It's a short cartoon, not "Gone with the Wind".

Erase expectations, and it's great
2008-12-19 - This is a movie for kids that has a lot of...silly movie references and ad libbing thrown in for adult amusement. It's very well directed and animated, and it seems like the actors had a lot of fun making the movie. My 2 year old LOVES it, though neither he nor I were too impressed the first time we saw it. Upon subsequent viewing, the real..joy of the movie, the fun and spirit of it really set in. It's a well made, little kid movie. It's perfect for 2-4 year olds, emphasizing the strength of relationships and...love. Pure, unadulterated, friend-love. Not a lot of people are hip to that, and I can only imagine that that is why it received such poor ratings. That, and some of the puns are just...oh, my sweet heavens, they're awful, but that's just part of the charm...

A great game for adults to play while watching this movie- name the voice talent! I'll give the most obvious voice away- I think a lot of folks watched this movie expecting John Stewart to toss out political humor...Nope! Just mostly kid humor, because it's a kid movie. Almost all of the other voices are also very famous people, and my husband and I were surprised at some of the celebs we couldn't guess!

Not Shrek but not Master of Disguise either
2008-12-05 - Yes, this isn't the world's greatest animated movie but it's not even close to being the worst. The characters are cute and interesting to children and it's not really designed to appeal much to adults. Most children's TV series today don't appeal to adults either (with some notable exceptions like Kipper and Pocoyo). It's not a classic must have and do keep in mind it was based on a old TV series and like most movies based on TV series it's something that probably could have been done in 1/2 hour show and kept the kids happy. That being said I think anyone giving it 1 star (or less) is a bit off base for what the film was really intended. Not something I'd have paid money to see in the cinema at full price but wouldn't stop me from buying a copy for the house. It reminds me a lot of the Christmas TV specials we would wait each year to see - Rudolph, Frosty etc. At least the animation has improved a lot since then!