Middle America's Worldview

Friday night we decided to have a rare going out family night. The four of us went out to eat and the kids wanted to watch Doogle.
So starts the 76 minutes of my life lost forever in a horacious film.

I snagged the tickets (26 bucks please) and we made it in with no issue. I wondered if it will be alot of kids in there since it's Friday night and the only movie place in town showing it. We had our choice of seats. I think maybe 12 were in the whole theater. Hmm. OK.

The wife and kids settled and I went back out and grabbed 2 large drinks (for each of us to share), large popcorn, bag of skittles and bag of m&m's (19 bucks please).

I balanced it all deftly back in the theater, still 12 people.

The movie started and by the end of it, I am looking for some lemon juice to burn it out of my retina's. Yes, it's that bad.

Take the last 2 trilogies (matrix, lotr) quotations, slap some adult attempted humour and you have Doogle.

Throughout every camera scene there is a quip from another movie. Not a movie my less than 10 year olds would recognize, but every scene. The only thing holding the storyline together is a narrater.

Let me give you a couple of exciting scenes.

The train is alone in the underground railroad tunnel looking for Doogle and his friends. He states "Why do I always get the shaft" followed by "Good thing I have tunnel vision" as his eyes light through the tunnel.

The leftover 60's hippy rabbit pretty much sleeps all through the movie and is slooooowwwww ggoooooing. "Peace man". The rabbit is on some kindof barbituates or taking heroin off camera. The gang finds themselves in a 'Temple of Doom' place. They actually refer to 'Temple of Doom'. Like I said, every scene comes from another movie. Anyway, skeletons come out and the drug out rabbit becomes.....Neo. "There is no spoon." He proceeds to kick all the skeletons butts, which falls apart on his matrix moves. During this time bone and skelton jokes fly. Once all are apart they magically come back together. What does the rabbit say? "Now that's what I call pulling yourself back together".

Sigh, yeah, it's like that throughout the whole show.

I will say, the kids laughed at some of the scenes. So it should be worth watching them laugh, but that was the only enjoyable thing of the movie.

The only thing I can see the movie was about was 'leaning on your friends, finding inner strength, and never give up.' At least, that is the only thing, I could see.

There is a love between the snail and cow. Now, I mentioned it could be a underlying message of men are slime and women are fat cows, but not sure on that one.

As we left the movie theater, my wife said it reminded her of PBS. I looked at her and said, it reminded me of POS.