Young audiences should be spared its obnoxious droning presence.

| Apr 29, 2009

Too often those behind the slick 3-D animation spectacles aimed at children imbue them with too much adult humor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 23, 2009

The slapdash dialogue and smug vocal talent detract from the visual appeal of the most energetic sequences (like a raucous train chase) and what's left of Danot's designs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2008

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!"

| Feb 6, 2007

A jumble of bad movie cliches strung together into an overly simplistic tale of a pooch who gets in trouble over candy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 25, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2006

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 5, 2006

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...

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 14, 2006

The laziest, most disheartening kind of animated children's film.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2006

Doogal is definitely a dog.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 11, 2006

A wretched experience from start to finish.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Mar 11, 2006

Unoriginal and only sometimes cute, DOOGAL is mostly harmless, but dull.

| Mar 4, 2006

This isn't dumbing-down. This is a full-scale lobotomy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 1, 2006

Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence?

| Original Score: F | Mar 1, 2006

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.

| Original Score: D- | Feb 28, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 28, 2006

It's a movie that scrounges so desperately for laughs, it features both a flatulent moose and a flatulent train.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 27, 2006

Doogal has a few moments of wit, but they're largely lost thanks to inconsistent direction and an uncertainty about who or what the movie is for.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 27, 2006

In Doogal, setting the world right again involves a badly paced quest for three diamonds, assorted jokes that don't land, and a daringly incoherent climactic confrontation.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2006

Doogal is an exceeding lame animated feature about a bunch of kids trapped on a magical carousel -- but it's adults forced to sit through this slow-moving, G-rated Lord of the Rings knockoff who will be begging for mercy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 27, 2006