I wanted to but couldn't!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I usually do my best reviews with lists. So here are all the mistakes the movie made, sealing its doom at the box office: 1) Just right off the bat, never EVER say "From the creator of 'The Fairly Odd Parents'" because not only is that show horrible for children, but that just shouts out "HEY! WANNA COME AND HEAR SOME FART JOKES?!" instead of just a regular trailer. I mean, I was a kid when I saw that in the trailer and even then that was a foreshadow for a plain old suck movie.2) The humor just bombed. And I am not kidding (seriously, I'm not) when I say Beverly Hills Chihuahua or The Cat In the Hat is ten times funnier than this tall glass of diarrhea. Most of it is just references to movies and shows, but they're poorly placed and poorly written. Christ, at least Family Guy manages to make me laugh when they make references like that. And after stocking up the shelves with failed attempts at references, they plug up every last nook and cranny with farts and stupid puns (For instance- "I've got a BONE to pick with you" while fighting with skeletons). Jesus, I did not laugh once, not even when I was seeing this for the first time when I was a kid! No lies! 3) The acting was horrible. And that's saying something, considering this was an animated movie, because it is near impossible to overact in a cartoon. Yet, this was an all-star cast! So how could they have completely hammed up the movie? My guess would be in the writer's department. Sometimes it's not the actors, it's the dialogue. But, the bottom line is a pig could be roasting a pig that's eating another pig and it would still be less hammy than this movie.I will say that the British version of this movie (the original, actually) has better acting and better jokes/dialogue, so if you were going to see one of the movies, see that one. But all I see this movie as is another reason Butch Hartman is just a hack that thinks jotting down any poop joke that pops into his head and turning it into an episode of The Fairly Odd Parents counts as writing a children show. This movie deserves a 1/10, because I will say in its defense that it does take a lot of work for a movie this horrible to get such an all-star cast. They must have some kind of dirt on all of them or something because something tells me none of them participated in this movie deliberately. Christ Almighty, this movie was crap.

I made the mistake of watching the British and American versions back to back. The 2005 film of The Magic Roundabout was flawed but perfectly decent, and certainly seems like an Oscar winner compared to this dog of an animated movie. Doogal is simply terrible, with none of the wit and charm that made the 1960s show so enjoyable and made the Magic Roundabout decent viewing. It is worse than the animated version of King and I, worse than Pokemon:The First Movie and worse than Secret of NIMH 2:Timmy To the Rescue. In fact, Doogal could very well be the worst animated movie I have ever seen, though I will some credit it isn't quite the worst movie ever, this dishonour goes to either Disaster Movie, Home Alone 4 or Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.Okay, Doogal does have minor redeeming qualities. One is that the animation, while not quite as colourful or as striking as the animation in Magic Roundabout, is at least okay if a little choppy and forced to look at. The other is that there are two members of the voice cast that are visibly trying to give the film some energy and verve. They are Judi Dench as the narrator and Ian McKellan as Zebedee, then again these two are exceptional actors and rarely disappoint. But to be fair, both deserved much better than this.The other members of the voice cast lack energy or don't appear to be trying. First off, I thought Daniel Tay did a horrible job as the voice of Doogal. Doogal wasn't the cheeky and charming dog he was in the 1960s show or the Magic Roundabout, instead he was whiny and very unlikeable with one of the most irritating voices I have heard ever in an animation. Kylie Minnogue is merely wasted in a small role, and Whoopi Goldberg's warbling as Ermintrude eventually started to grate as the film wore on. Jimmy Fallon and William H Macy do their best but just can't get past the weak material. Finally the casting directors I felt should have kept Tom Baker as ZeeBad, in comparison Jon Stewart, a very talented actor, just wasn't malevolent or believable enough in a role that Baker made his own. Conseuquently due to lack of character development and poor characterisation, the characters completely lacked the simple charm and likability that made them so endearing.Another major problem was the script, a vast majority of it was little more than corny jokes and lame pop culture references that went well overboard and suffered from sub par comic timing. Not even Kevin Smith's Moose's digs at personal hygiene raised a laugh. As a matter of fact, the humour in general was so lame, I found myself groaning. Not to mention the fact that it is riddled with clichés. The plot wasn't necessarily a strong point in Magic Roundabout, but at least that movie went along at a more skippy pace and maintained interest. Not only did Doogal take a while to get going, and never got over how predictable and contrived it all was but I actually felt bored at the halfway mark. Also the film teaches some very negative lessons.All in all, awful and quite frankly a bastardisation of a timeless 1960s show and a decent animated film. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Where do I begin with this. Where do I begin. Now, keep in mind I was forced to see this when it came out, since I was 14 at the time with a 3-year-old brother, so why not? I mean, I honestly went into the theater with optimistic expectations, hoping for an OK-to-decent film. In fact, I enjoyed the short right before the film a little bit. But then the film begins. When I heard that some human girl was friends with some stuffed animals, I expected something along the lines of Toy Story, you know, they just sit there, then spring to life when no one's around....then the film shows Doogal sneaking up to his owner....What happened afterward scarred me for life. This film still brings back awful memories 2 years after I saw it. I mean, the story's awful. In a nutshell, there's some carousal ride at the center of town, home to a bunch of children and stuffed animals, where some evil spring guy lives, and once Doogal sets him free, the town is freezed up, trapping the children, including Doogal's owner, and a snail just randomly says the stuffed animals need 3 crystals to stop him. No explanation of why the spring guy was put in a carousal, more importantly why that same carousal is STILL BEING USED when there's some bad guy in there, and why the 3 crystals are needed, or how they came into existence. What a bunch of plot holes for a film, and that's in the first 20 minutes. We're in for a good movie, ladies and gentlemen!Now, I'll be honest, my memory is a little fuzzy of what happens next, but I remember a slew of bad pop culture jokes that makes DreamWorks' references seem restrained in comparison, the group of stuffed animals nearly getting a crystal until Doogal messes it up, and a bunch of farting jokes, and when I saw it, the only jokes I heard any laughter in the theater were from the farting jokes, which is always a bad sign if that's the only joke type that even gets a chuckle.Now, some people know that this film was originally called The Magic Roundabout in the UK, based off of a cartoon series I believe, with, obviously, British actors, but when it came to the US in its current title, it was re-dubbed with celebrity actors, like Whoopi Goldberg and Jon Stewart, and I have to say, Jon Stewart is sadly the best actor here, with the other actors' talents going to waste here. I know these aren't the most helpless of actors, but you have to wonder what inspired them to do something like this.In conclusion, this is a really bad film from beginning to end, even if its audience was for kids, that's not a good excuse when you consider some of Dreamworks and Pixar's works. I know this isn't the worst movie of all time, but it's the worst I've seen, and I think I would explode if I saw anything worse than this piece of crap.

People are giving this movie negative reviews and of course, I don't blame them, but there are some reviews blames ALL the people involved in this film when it is in fact the victim of terrible American dubbing. I British version(the magic roundabout) is a great film which i saw first (thank god) and I thought it was delightfully charming, they even pulled off the whole "snail loves the cow" thing while the Americans just made it creepy. And also the reason the moose's lips don't move is because He didn't talk in the original! There was also no toilet humour (which i find dire) and no crappy movie references. "Pirates of the Carrabien." Although i'm not a fan of Robbie Willeims he made Dougal (Not Doogal) quite likable and why the **** did they take out Bill Nighy who was absolutely Fantastic as Dylan. Jim Broudbent is a very sweet Brian. And Ermintrude was okay... but not the best. It seems like I'm reviewing the wrong movie, but there is simply nothing good to say about Doogal, It is a disgrace to the original film makers and the Original Magic Roundabout series. Don't bother with Doogal, is your kids or smaller sibling want to see it. Hunt down the British version. We don't disappoint.