The Magic Roundabout

Director: Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval, Frank Passingham
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Computer Animation, Fantasy, Family Film
Year: 2005
Country: France, United States of America, United Kingdom
Language: English Language, French Language
Starring: Ian McKellen, Kylie Minogue, Bill Hader, Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Joanna Lumley, Lee Evans, Robbie Williams

The Magic Roundabout, (released in France as Pollux, le manège enchanté and in North America as Doogal), is a 2005 British computer-animated film based on the television series of the same name. The film was produced by Action Synthese and released by Pathé on February 11, 2005 in the United Kingdom and France, and The Weinstein Company on February 24, 2006 in North America. The plot concerns a dog named Dougal (Doogal in North America) who has to save his best friend, Florence, as well as the whole world, from being frozen by an evil spring named ZeeBad. The film was received positively in the United Kingdom, but the American edit was largely panned in the United States.

The film begins with a shaggy, candy-loving dog named Dougal trying to get sweets from a candy cart. He goes so far as to place a tack in the road to pop its tire, thinking to be rewarded for watching the cart. After convincing the driver to leave, Dougal is trying to decide which candy he will request when he accidentally starts the cart up again and causes it to collide with the titular magic roundabout at the center of the village. A blue jack-in-the-box-like creature emerges from the top and flies away,

More...

(This is information generated from a Wikipedia article, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.)


Internet Movie Database