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Avg. Critic Score: 23 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
6 OK for kids 6+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    Strictly for the small-fry set, lacking the visual style, wit or imagination necessary to entice adult viewers. Read full review

  • 40
    L.A. Weekly | Mark Olsen

    Doogal is one of those pickup-and-redub jobs, the original version having been made by European studio Path based on a 1960s British children's show, "The Magic Roundabout." And lacking even the minimal pop-cultural pizzazz of "Hoodwinked," the story, dialogue and animation here really are for-kids-only. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    A dreadful animated movie stuffed with bad puns and little internal logic. More dangerous than the world icing over is the danger of eyeballs rolling back into the heads of parents accompanying kids to this. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times |

    An animated clunker. Read full review

  • 25
    Boston Globe |

    Charm-free, incoherent, and heartlessly sentimental, this woodenly animated co-production by American, British, and French companies offers boredom and irritation for parents, needlessly scary images for tots, and, for the pubescent boys who apparently run mass culture, a flatulent blue moose. It's ugly to look at, too. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

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

  • 25
    Chicago Tribune |

    The polite word for all this is "repurposing," a euphemism for "hauling someone else's garbage." Read full review

  • 16
    The Onion A.V. Club | Nathan Rabin

    It'd take more than potentially lethal amounts of alcohol to make this derivative trash endurable. Read full review

  • 11
    Austin Chronicle | Steve Davis

    A wretched experience from start to finish. Read full review

  • 0
    Entertainment Weekly | Scott Brown

    An animated movie designed with very young children in mind. And very young children should be very angry about that. Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence? Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 6+ So-so kids' movie about animals saving the world.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this film features an evil wizard (a jack-in-the-box without his box, bouncing on a spring), who wants to freeze the world and rule it, by means of gathering together three magical diamonds. Characters are afraid, fall off cliffs, crash vehicles, fight skeletons with glowing eyes, face scary situations (and say they have "pooped" or "slimed" themselves when frightened), and occasionally carp at one another. Crude humor includes farting and slapstick violence.
  • Families can talk about the primary lesson learned by Doogal, that friendships are more important than his desire for candy. How do his friends, who help him save the world and Florence, show their loyalty to him even when he seems lazy or selfish?
The good stuff
  • message true3 Positive messages: Puppy learns that friendship and loyalty are most important, even more than candy.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence and scariness: Animated crashes, falls, explosions, and a diabolical plot to rule the world.
  • sex false0 Sexy stuff: Not an issue
  • language false0 Language: Not an issue
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Jokey references to candies, characters, and texts (e.g., Three Musketeers, Harry Potter, "Thriller," Lord of the Rings, Wutang Clan, CSI).
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue
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