Doogal |  | Directors: Dave Borthwick, Frank Passingham, Jean Duval
Actors: Jon Stewart, Judi Dench, Daniel Tay, Jimmy Fallon, Whoopi Goldberg
Studio: Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.93
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 37314
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 78 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 796019791694
UPC: 796019791694
EAN: 0796019791694
ASIN: B000F0V0KO
Theatrical Release Date: February 24, 2006
Release Date: May 16, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
A dog named Doogal and his friends join forces to stop an evil sorcerer from freezing the sun and ruling the world.
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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
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 Pop Culture Reference: The Movie July 19, 2010
Del Keyes (In the middle of the Sunshine)
As mediocre as "Vailant" was, at least Disney was kind enough to keep the British flavor intact. For some reason, this movie was dubbed in English when it was already in English in the first place.
I remember fondly of a movie called "The TV Set". That movie described a writer who made a TV pilot for a big network studio; it was a tragic drama much to his vision, but the network executives had drastically changed his vision over the course of test screenings and vague marketing profiles. In the end, the tragic drama became an overly-commercialized, off-beat romantic-comedy where the cancerous sibling from the writer's original vision was now a prison inmate who made a fart when he arrived. That's exactly the sodomized, mangled treatment that "Doogal" has: from the cast, the story, to even the animal creature that farts when it moves.
Did I see "The Magic Roundabout", the original UK version? Nope, so I can't judge it by its own merits, but it's obvious to how different the US version is just by eyes and ears only. The Weinstein Company hired comedian actors to redub many characters, and these actors made sure that their characters has to make as much one-liners about existing shows and movies as possible. I am serious, the entire dub script is just them making pop-culture references, and the problem with such a treatment is that they're poorly-implemented. Lousy lip-synching is an obvious flaw to this version, but the actors make references that don't even connect to the mood and action of their characters; one example has the jack rabbit making a Gollum reference while holding a diamond, but when he said 'My Precious', the character doesn't physically imitate Gollum, he just said it. Heck, the good guys faced a skeleton crew where every line they said is related to "Pirates of the Carribean", even the movie title itself. Sometimes, the verbal references don't even make sense, like when they're on a train sequence, and a slug mentioned Mini-Me when he saw the bad-guy chasing them in a drill; what does the bad guy on the train have anything to do with Verne Troyer? The only characters that don't seem to spout one-liners are the few voiced by the original British actors. It makes you wonder, don't it?
I hated the main character, Doogal. He's selfish, destroys things, and only brings inconvenience to his fellow team of farm animals on a quest to save the world; I don't know if that's how he really is originally, but just looking at him gets on my nerves. The whole story is insulting, just by how the premiseis : Doogal mistakenly reawakened the big bad spring toy, Zeebad, who then freezes everything, including his friends who are stuck inside a frozen carousel, so he and his friends get help by a wizard. Y'know, the gang could've just grab a bark, make a fire from it and use it to melt the ice to rescue their friends. Even if they couldn't with their bare paws, they have a wizard who can burn things with his hands...AND THEY DON'T USE HIM TO GET THEIR FRIENDS OUT FOR SAFETY! And they got a deux ex machine pocketbox which they hardly use. I hoped the UK version explained these obvious plot holes, because it was so dumbed down, which didn't help by the actors spouting puns.
This is probably the worst animated localization I've ever seen since "Digimon: The Movie". The US version of "Doogal" made what's apparently a par cartoon movie, into one of the worst animated films I've seen; even worse than "Shark Tale". Not recommended for even the most adoring of dog lovers.
 Doogal March 29, 2010
Francisca Clemente (LA, CA USA)
Great movie for Kids. Shipping was not what I expected but still good enough to buy from this company.
The worst movie of all time. November 29, 2009
Kate (montclair, nj)
Oh, so bad. I wish there was a way to give it no stars. Everything this company produces stinks.
Don't Bother November 15, 2009
C. Williams
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 November 5, 2009
A. Szarka (Hawaii)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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".
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