A review of the infamous Doogal film, and how the American dub killed any chances of the Magic Roundabout being well recieved. Please don't block this again Pathe. The original was actually a little entertaining.
A feature length documentary could probably be made on all the animated films that tried to ride the Shrek wave. Like Hoodwinked, Hoodwinked 2, Happily N’ ver After and Donkey X to name a few.
Hoodwinked tried to stay as far away from Shrek’s humor as possible so as to keep the twist on the Little Red Riding Hood original. The film was seen as a clever and hilarious crime twist on the Little Red Riding Hood. This was done by giving the classic characters a twist by making the wolf an investigative reporter, the woodsman an aspiring actor for a foot cream, and granny into an adrenaline junkie who does extreme sports. Little Red Riding Hood was also named Red.
Somehow as in american I ended up with the British version of doogal for my kids. We saw the American version on Netflix and everyone was confused and disgusted. Its just so wrong. They took a cute kids movie and turned it into pure crap.
While not a film per say, the failed Groovenians pilot could worth a second look. Apparently, from what I've heard, Warner Bros wanted nothing to do with this so much, that they dumped in the public domain.
The same dude who played Flint from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Fear from Inside Out, Leonard from The Angry Birds Movie, and Fire Water from Sausage Party
👍 The Magic Carousel (If You’re Wondering, Yes, A US Dub Of The Classic TV Show Exists, Episodes From Said Dub Were Featured As Segments On Nickelodeon’s TV Show, Pinwheel.) 👎 Doogal
I have actually a suggestion for an animated film for you to review on "Doomed to Fail" - it's from 2008 and is called Delgo. I haven't seen it for around ten years but what others such as Saberspark did say it is very bad - the plot is build entirely from fantasy cliches and tropes and animation was ugly even for late 2000s standards. And that movie had fascinating production history that spanned almost ten years, was fueled by its directors' will to make animated feature outisde Hollywood, killed two of its voice actors and as mentioned this didn't pay off as Delgo received awful reviews, became one of biggest box office bombs ever, breaking record for worst opening weekend for a wide release in American history (currently it's, IDK, second?) and the movie itself was quickly forgotten and fell into obscurity. Sounds like a good material to review? I can actually provide some bizzare sources.
To be brutally honest I don't mind the dub for having so bad its good levels of cringe comedy at least its not something so boring and average no one remembers. Perhaps because the source material was so terribl they decided to make the whole movie a shitpost.
My family regularly makes references to everything, especially from movies and shows we like. My siblings even specifically like to spend their time watching whole movies on silent sometimes just so they could voice the movie themselves, mostly just to make each other laugh as they shamelessly butcher the lines with no remorse. 😂 Compared to that, the American localization of Doogal is breath of fresh air for me. 😅
