aech-02177 I loved this movie when I was a kid, but watching it now as an adult I honestly don't know what I saw in it. So apparently, this movie was based on The Magic Roundabout, a French stop-motion series from the 60s. The movie has three different versions from France, England and the United States. I've seen the American version for those wondering. I have not seen the other two, but they can't be much worse than this. The story is standard kids movie material. A group of friends have to find magic diamonds to save the world from freezing completely. The animation is subpar at best, The novelty of seeing CGI versions of characters originally stop-motion wears off almost as soon as it's introduced. The characters are a mixed bag. They border on charming and friendly to just plain obnoxious. They hardly ever shut up. They are constantly bickering and making the situation worse for each other. The voice acting from almost everyone (Chevy Chase, Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Fallon, William H. Macy, etc) is lazy. The only person I felt was putting any effort was believe it or not Jon Stewart as the villain. I mean it's a generic villain who always loudly announces his plans to anyone listening, but Jon Stewart really put his all into it and I can see him pull the villain part in a much better movie. I should also add that there is a moose in the film who doesn't speak in the French and British versions but for some reason in this one has the voice of Kevin Smith. I wouldn't mind, but are his jokes funny? No. Oh, and the humor is dreadful. It mostly consists of fart jokes and random references to movies and tv shows we could be watching instead of this one. And wouldn't you know it, Butch Hartman (the creator of the Fairly Oddparents) wrote a completely different script of this movie for the American audiences, but the studio rewrote it without his knowledge or consent, which explains the farting and references to Star Trek and Pirates of the Caribbean. This movie is needles to say not very good. It feels weird watching a movie you loved as kid and realizing how awful it is now.

zachgabriel The trope of "cultural Marxism" has been steadily gaining traction among the broad and diverse entity that is the radical right (although, hating diversity, they would baulk at you saying so), where it serves as an umbrella term variously responsible for such un-American and anti-Western ills as atheism, secularism, political correctness, gay rights, sexual liberation, feminism, affirmative action, liberalism, socialism, anarchism and, above all, multiculturalism. The ultimate goal of cultural Marxism, we're led to believe, is to slowly and stealthily dilute and subvert white, Christian Western culture, thereby opening sovereign nations to rule by a one-world corporate government. Whether that's by Jews, lizards or communists isn't always clear.So the theory goes, "cultural Marxism" was the master plan of a group of émigré Jewish-German academics – widely known today as the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory – who fled Nazi Germany in 1936, decamping to New York. What's certainly true is that, in an attempt to understand why the objective conditions of the European proletariat had failed to trigger widespread revolt, they concluded that religion – that great "opium of the people" – and mass culture served to dampen revolutionary fervour and spread "false consciousness". So, adding a splash of Freud to their Marxism, the likes of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Walter Benjamin trained their eyes on the subtle intertwining of social and psychic/sexual repression, believing that a revolutionary consciousness could be engendered through psychic liberation and more enlightened cultural forms and attitudes.While these were the staunch views of a handful of left-wing thinkers writing in the middle of the 20th century, it does not follow that they have been the ideological architects of a wholesale takeover of Western culture. Yet those who believe it has already happened end up having to explain how George W Bush and the neocon hawks somehow served a leftist agenda.

zxTropSquadwz When i was younger I saw this movie and i thought I liked it but 7 years later i looked back in my life and realized it sucked. I looked it up and saw over 3,000 people agreed with me and i left it at that. Time passes and the movie was on HD Net and i decided to watch it and here is what I saw was wrong with it: 1. The movie makes so many references, the movie is full of references and the audience that this movie seems to be going after will definitely not know.The jokes that come with the references make you want to roll your eyes. 2.The animation is terrible the textures of the characters look exactingly so cheap. which is strange considering the amazing cast this movie has Ian McKellen, John Stewart, Jimmy Fallon, Whoopi Goldberg, Judi Dench, Chevy Chase, William H Macy, and Kevin Smith. you would think with such a cast the budget would have enough for a good animator, the entire time I was thinking how ugly it was and even the actual animation seemed lazy the snail(Brian) is almost always in the same position. 3. The story, jokes, and characters are confusing and terrible.When i say confusing I don't mean it's hard to follow, it just doesn't make since at all. I know i already complain about the jokes they are just so forced that they are terrible. The characters are incredibly 1-D you can put them any any other bad film and they could blend in, you could put them in the background and the movie would be better. Now the story and it's just weird I mean it doesn't make sense at all. There are many things to complain about (character designs are also strange and weird) and i cant talk about them all. The reason I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 is because i was fascinated in how bad it was i didn't immediately turn it off.

Astro_Nut It was on TV last night, and I thought, "I heard it was bad, but i'll watch it for the heck of it..."My mistake.The story is about a dog who I instantly disliked. He nearly ran a poor man off the road to steal candy, trapped the only person who cares for him in a cold death trap, that HE caused. And not only that, released an evil wizard. That's another thing, who in their right mind would trap a insane murderer IN A BLOODY ROUNDABOUT?!?! Well, anyway, 10 minutes into the film, dougal and a bunch characters we don't know anything about go off to save the world. Where's the substance?? No child could get this movie. I honestly could not watch the rest and left Dougal to be interrogated by Zeebad. Hopefully, Zeebad will realize where he is and teleport out of this movie. 2/10