{"id":14188,"date":"2006-12-23T20:31:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T01:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=14188"},"modified":"2006-12-23T20:31:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T01:31:12","slug":"doogal-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/23\/doogal-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Doogal (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/doogal-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/doogal-1.jpg\" alt=\"doogal-1\" width=\"562\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoogal\u201d is basically representative of everything that\u2019s wrong with CGI animation. Everyone is out to be as hip as possible and mimic the success of \u201cShrek,\u201d that they lose touch with story, characterization, and plot elements the audience can enjoy. I always tend to give the animated films the benefit of the doubt and half the time I&#8217;m rewarded. &#8220;Doogal&#8221; was punishment. It has all the basic principles of a kid\u2019s film but no idea how to get in touch with the heart animation should have. There\u2019s the rabbit Jimmy Fallon singing \u201cYou Really Got Me,\u201d and the leader of the land watching the landscape while \u201cIt\u2019s Magic\u201d blares in the background. By the time the eighteenth pop culture reference was spewed out in the first ten minutes, I was ready to pack it in.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A cute puppy named Doogal is trying to prove himself, while teamed with a bunch of interchangeable goofy characters. All of whom are looking for a diamond to keep the villain from doing something bad to the world. Or the land. I wasn\u2019t quite clear. But, \u201cDoogal\u201d makes every such attempt to be utterly hip by\u2014well\u2014referencing pop culture from twenty years ago right down to two years ago. Nothing here is current. Every such pop culture nugget you can think of is featured: Su Su Sudio, \u201cStar Trek,\u201d The Kinks, \u201cPimp My Ride,\u201d &#8220;Thriller,&#8221; and \u201cLord of the Rings,\u201d wow, what sheer originality. Speaking of \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d did I mention how awfully derivative this is of the aforementioned novel series? A young innocent figure teams up with a group of his allies to journey across the land to look for a mystical object being held by a supernatural force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoogal\u201d is the example of a film that tackles every fad two years too late just for the intent of bringing the audience to its level hoping to cash in on the cool factor vainly. Forget an engaging story and likable characters, just include a lot of tired pop culture references and audiences will be entertained. Meanwhile we\u2019re subjected to a bland Bunny, a boring snail, a ghetto-fabulous cow, and a selfish repugnant sheep dog who is supposed to be our hero. The worst crime the film commits it creating a hero who is both unoriginal and rather unlikable in many ways. \u201cDoogal\u201d is a sheer waste of priceless talent, as Jon Stewart, William H. Macy, and the like are all put to shame in a stock CGI film that really should have been released straight to video in the first place. &#8220;Doogal&#8221; is awful and young audiences should be spared its obnoxious droning presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDoogal\u201d is basically representative of everything that\u2019s wrong with CGI animation. Everyone is out to be as hip as possible and mimic the success of \u201cShrek,\u201d that they lose touch with story, characterization, and plot elements the audience can enjoy. I always tend to give the animated films the benefit of the doubt and half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[71,99,219,249,340,349,367,580,835],"class_list":["post-14188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-d","tag-family","tag-fantasy","tag-foreign","tag-kids","tag-remake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}