Rock-A-Doodle

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Summary: This is one of the best musical movies we own.
Review: My kids and nieces LOVE this movie! (So do the adults) Notonly is it an easy and fun storyline, but the songs are great too! Acompliment to this movie is the soundtrack cassette tape (which I am looking for a replacement). We listen to the cassette in the van all the time. It is definately the favorite of all we have. Mom of 3, Aunt of 7

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Summary: My kids LOVE it..my 4-yr-old carries a mike & sings the song
Review: My kids love it...we've been renting it since it came out. My 4-year-old carries around a mike & sings the songs, saying "I'm the KING!" Even my 8-yr-old (who should be sick of it by now) still likes it a lot.

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Summary: Not Bluth's best
Review: None of Don Bluth's movies, the exception being The Land Before Time has been very good. Bluth was a former Disney animator, but the Disney magic he tries to hard to duplicate simply isn't there. A story of a Rooster who leaves a farm after a rejection by his fellow farm animals when he fails to "bring up the sun" leaves him to pursue his true calling (as Elvis-esque lounge singer no less) and a small band of his still-faithful friends to look for him and bring him home. The plot itself is reason enough not to watch. It's so unbelievable ludicrous, and even in an animated world where anything is possible, this premise is hard to swallow. The songs are cringingly bad, someone please dial 911 for composers Alan Menken or Tim Rice please! The characters are so two-dimensional and phony that the viewer fails to become attached and care for them, even as they get themself into dire circumstances. Yes, I know this may sound preachy and self-important for a review of an animated movie, but since I have a great passion for them, one that is this poorly made infuriates me greatly. If you MUST watch, rent it, don't buy it.

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Summary: An animated Trainwreck
Review: This movie is so awful, I watch it once a year just to sit in awe of its vomit inducing production. Like eighty-five percent of Don Bluth's movies it features extraneous story development, grotesque character designs and the worst songs in the history of the animated musical. Anyone who lists it as more than two stars needs to have a drug test. But, if you enjoy watching an animated film on the level of a movie from USA Up-All-Night(circa 1988) then this is the animated movie for you. You have to Bluth some credit though, anyone who would try to turn the classic story of Chanticleer into an Elvis Musical has balls, too bad his weren't big enough to pull it off successfully, "Rock-A-Doodle" is the beginning(and the best) of a downward spiral of Don Bluth's movies into the depth of B-movie oblivion.

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Summary: seriously moving
Review: this movie is the best first thing i thought about when i bought a dvd player the ending brings tears to my eyes anyone who says this movie is bad must have something wrong with them, like no emotions, if you have any children buy this movie

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Summary: Read the book!
Review: Too bad this awful movie wasn't closer to "The Book of the Dun Cow" by Walter Wangerin, Jr. The book is definitely worth a read! I just wish the story hadn't been so brutalized by this horrible animation.

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Summary: My Fav Movie as A Kid
Review: When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I remember going to the video rental store with my mom and getting this movie. I loved this movie and it was one of my favorite things to do as a kid. I reccomend it to anyone with a small kid.

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Summary: It's Very Disturbing But It's Certainly Entertaining
Review: When I was little, I watched this movie. Even then, I found it creepy. But the irony of this tale is the fact that I aspired to be the Duke. Those familiar with the film know that he is the villainy owl who likes to dine upon small animals. Not because fo that fact, you cad, but because he has style, wit, and a cool spectacle- thingy. I know, I know.. I'm crazed... But so is "Rockadoodle."

The plot is stupid, the songs are about ten seconds each and it is stereotypical as the day is long. But it makes up for it by not trying to disguise itself as anything else.

And it's got a great villain.

But, I'd like to know- has anyone else noticed that the Duke takes something out of his cloak that appears to be a mushroom, eats it, and then the room turns funny colors??? Please.. Don't tell me I'm insane. I think all of these animated films secretly want to drive us mad.

Anyway, it is highly disturbing but I'm certain you'll be pleased. (And no, I don't need a drug test! Though perhaps the owl does..) *cough* Oh, and there's a (...) pheasant. What more could you ask for?