Very well executed

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

i love animation movies for the following reasons, 1.its fun 2.the characters are memorable 3.the emotions are much more vivid than real characters 4.the plot is wonderful 5.wonderful sense of humor 6.its great to sit back and watch a wonderful story unfolding with beautiful visualizationsbut this movie has failed on all.. there are irritating songs, dumb dialogues , really bad characters that try so hard to make it fun . humor and creating wonderful characters should come naturally, but in this movie, they are trying so hard to make it funny and interesting , a absolute waste of time and really quite painful to watch , i had to push myself to survive every scene to make it to the end..., so much dumb and please for gods sake, the directors and producers should stop making animation movies like these!shrek, ice age, despicable me, megamind, etc have set the standards for the quality of animation movies. Either u make as good as them or for God's sake STOP! AND RETIRE!

This film is absolutely amazing. i have been forced to watch it over 15 times by my younger brother and i must admit i now cannot get enough of it. i may sound childish but it is just such a wonderful film. the casting is excellent i think the voice of Dylan maybe the best in the whole film. i particularly enjoyed the scene in which Dylan and Urmintrude sang together, i have never laughed so much in my whole life. nobody would look at the front cover and want to buy it as it is quite plain but once you are into the film you are INTO IT!!! the storyline is moving as well as funny. there is love, romance, comedy, action AND adventure. but beware one viewing of this film is not enough. but it now i promise you this is not a waste of money. this is a film for all the family not just the children.

OK, I loved it, and yet I was (slightly) disappointed too. Tom Baker voicing the part of the villainous Zeebad was absolute genius. His crazed, maniacal lines were wonderful. And Dylan was brilliant too - Bill Nighy was just the right choice. But I missed Dougal's cynical, world-weary quips from the original Magic Roundabout. And Ermintrude was disappointing too.The animation is certainly very good, although again I missed the original 'cardboard cutout' feel of the garden backdrops. (It was very good, but just not like the original!) I'm glad they kept the train the same! The 70's soundtrack was very welcome. It's not entirely obvious what music would work well, but I think they got that right.Generally, the original show's short format is not an easy task to expand upon, and I think they did pretty well really.

My friends dragged me to see this with them for a joke. The cinema was full of kids and I was really embarrassed! But I definitely don't regret seeing it.The plot was, unfortunately, the weakest part of the movie. It was just so Saturday-morning-cartoonish (complete with evil twins, magic diamonds and walking skeletons) that anyone in the cinema over the age of nine is unlikely to be interested. But anyone under that age will be delighted from start to finish.It's the cast and music that really did it for me. Robbie Williams, despite his complete lack of experience as an actor, pulls off his role as Dougal with natural skill and emotion, which is pleasantly surprising. Jim Broadbent and Joanna Lumley seem to have great fun in their roles (as Brian the snail and Ermintrude the cow respectively) and Bill Nighy, well, lets just say there's no one else in the world who could've done Dylan the drug-addled bunny like he did ("no way man! I'm in, like, a higher state of unconsciousness..."). Kylie Minogue did well enough, but she only has about three lines. Tom Baker and Sir Ian Mackellen also seemed to enjoy giving very camp performances as the arch rival jack-in-the-boxes Zebedee and Zeebad (though Sir Ian sounded a little too much like Gandalf). The music, which seems to include vocal performances from Kylie and Robbie, is fantastic and well above average for a kids film today. If you've seen the film, I think you'll agree the soundtrack is a must-buy! But still, it's not all great. The plot is full of gaping holes, and while it mostly works with a very young audience in mind, the jokes aimed at adults are not laugh-out-loud funny, they just raise a knowing smile. There are some rather strange movie references too. It features references to Pulp Fiction, LoTR, and The Matrix (courtesy of some unexpected kung-fu fighting on Dylan's part) and I'll be damned if I saw a Dragon Ball Z reference in there! (Watch the scene where Zebad fights Zebedee for the first time - then again maybe it was just cheesy...) I never saw enough of the original 5 minute episodes to be a fan, but really, it seems very different from the original, so old-time fans may be disappointed, or maybe they'll appreciate seeing their old favourites in some new action-packed situations. It's up to them.Yes, it falls flat in MANY places, but it's also got a childish, endearing charm that may make you wish you were seven again.