The Magic Roundabout

The Magic Roundabout (also known as Doogal) is a 2005 computer animated film produced by The Weinstein Company.
==Plot==
The film begins as the wizard Zebedee, is chased by the evil ice wizard Zeebad and sent plummeting off the ledge of his ice lair into the cloudy abyss below. He woke up only to have a bad dream before checking up on the magic garden to see if everything is still going fine.
The film then starts when Dougal sneaks around the titular Magic Roundabout unnoticed so he can swipe some sweets from the sugar cart, only for his young owner Florence to spot him, believing that he is come in time for Ermintrude's concert with Mr. Rusty and Dylan participating, prompting Dougal to join her to watch the concert. Ermintrude's concert started off as a opera, but quickly turns into a rock concert when Dylan begins strumming his guitar and singing "You Really Got Me" with Ermintrude joining in. During the concert and with Florence's back turned, Dougal sneaks away and takes a tack from one of the signs where he goes outside the village to place it in the road to pop one of the tyres of Mr Grimsdale's cart, thinking to be rewarded for watching the cart. After convincing Mr Grimsdale to leave to get the things that Dougal "needed" to fix the cart, Dougal is trying to decide which sweet he will request or rather take, when he accidentally starts the motorbike up again and causes it to drive around the village out of control until Dougal falls out when the cart goes flying where it crashes into the roof of the magic roundabout. The motorbike engines explodes shortly afterwards and severely damages the roundabout and its mechanisms so much that it spins out of control with Florence, and two other children Basil and Coral who have got on the roundabout out of harm's way, clinging on one of the horses. As Mr Rusty comes to the rescue by hopping onboard the roundabout and got to the scenic panels to shut it down, he discovers ice is forming on the mechanisms and a bright light shines at the top. Zeebad emerges from the bright light and flies through the hole in the roof and out of the village, followed shortly after by Soldier Sam who is thrown off the roundabout by the ice, which freezes the roundabout over, trapping Mr Rusty, Florence, and Basil and Coral within an icy cell.
Dougal, Dylan, Brian and Ermintrude are horrified by this development, and call upon Zebedee for help. He explains that the roundabout acted as a mystical prison for the evil ice wizard Zeebad to stop him from freezing the world again. But now with it wrecked, Zeebad is free to work his magic on the world again (it is implied he started the first ice age). The only way to stop Zeebad from freezing the world again is by collecting three magic diamonds (one of which is supposed to be hidden on the roundabout, while the other two are hidden at separate locations far beyond the village); placing all three diamonds in their respective slots on the roundabout will re-imprison Zeebad and undo his magic, but if Zeebad retrieves them first then their power will allow him to freeze the Sun itself. Zebedee sends Dougal and his friends on Train who can be summoned by a magic remote to accomplish this mission. Before Dougal leaves, Florence tells him not to blame himself. Meanwhile, when Zeebad crash lands after escaping the roundabout and changes a moose's fur colour from brown to blue, he animates Sam, to be his henchman and enlists him to find the enchanted diamonds first.
On the way to the icy mountains, the gang give Dougal a hard shoulder for releasing Zeebad where he tells them that all he wanted to do is to get some sweets. They make camp in the mountains for the night and leave Dougal out in the snow to be the guard dog. Dougal wanders off from the campsite and after encountering the moose, Dougal is then captured by Zeebad.
The next morning, the gang are looking for Dougal until they come across the moose. Brian asks the moose of Dougal's whereabouts and he leads them to Zeebad's lair. While being held hostage and interrogated by Zeebad, Dougal unwittingly lets slip of the information of the map which Zeebad forces him to spill more of the beans before ordering Sam to torture him when Dougal refuses to say anymore. However, Sam is told by Dougal to feed him sugar cubes in a way to torture him. With Zeebad's back turned and while he is busy monologuing to himself about his evil plans, Ermintrude breaks Dougal out of his prison. Zeebad discovers this and chases the gang to the cliff of his ice lair. The gang call for Zebedee and he shows up to battle Zeebad. During the battle with their magic from their mustaches and after seemingly defeating Zeebad, Zebedee spots Sam holding the gang at sword point and tries to stop him. As Sam tries to explain to Zebedee that he was told to be Zeebad's henchman, Zebedee informs him that while Sam wears a soldier's uniform but it's what's inside that counts. However, Zeebad had grabbed hold of the cliff and climbs back up where he zaps Zebedee in the arm. As the gang flee, Zeebad gains the upper hand and overpowers a weakened Zebedee, freezing him and begins to collapse the cliff on which he stands. Dougal and the gang turn around to save Zebedee, but he stops them for getting into Zeebad's way by using his own magic to cause some ice to fall and block their path. Zeebad watches in triumph as Zebedee falls into the abyss where he is presumed to be dead.
Mourning for their dispatcher, Dougal and his friends embark to recover the diamonds and save the world. They arrive at a lava-bordered volcano where they manage to cross the narrow and crumbling bridge. The gang arrive where the first diamond is held and see a vision of Florence and the children inside it. Afterwards, Zeebad and Sam suddenly show up and take the diamond along with the map (which all eyes from the gang were set on Dougal after they realized he had spilled the beans) before leaving them stranded in the volcano by destroying the bridge. However, Dylan comes up with a way to escape by using Zebedee's magic box to turn Train's carriage into a boat and using the tents to make a hot air balloon. Despite no longer having the map, they still follow behind Zeebad and Sam on the rowboat. Around the same time, the world is slowly starting to be freeze over since Zeebad is free to use his powers. That night, Dougal is still worried about Florence and tells Dylan that whenever she is woken up by thunderstorms, he climbs into her bed for her protection before he dreams about spending time with her and his friends in the village.
The next day, the gang arrive at the partially frozen island where an ancient temple is located. However, they didn't know that Zeebad and Sam had already beaten them to the temple and the duo encounter the booby traps. Upon seeing the gang landing from the distance, Zeebad and Sam hide out of sight to let the gang set off the booby traps so they can stroll in. As the gang start to go in the temple, they set one of the booby traps off before Brian slithers through, unknowingly setting off all the booby traps and getting through unscathed. As the gang enter the temple, Train, who is waiting outside, begins to enter the temple after being partially spooked by the jungle ambience, but due to his weight, he falls through the floor and into the mines.
The gang arrive in the room where Dougal activates a button the throne which reveals the second diamond, but it activates security laser beams. Unknown to the gang though, Zeebad and Sam secretly made their way into the room and were hidden out of sight. With no one volunteering to go through to the diamond, Ermintrude makes her way carefully through the beams, but Dougal was having his last gobstopper at the time, and when he begins to praise Ermintrude, he accidentally spits out his gobstopper that trips one of the laser beams. This causes the skeleton guards to burst into the room through the floor and corner the gang. Thankfully, Dylan reveals an exceptional knowledge of several types of martial arts where he takes them all down with the help of Ermintrude who takes out one skeleton that tries to attack Dylan from behind.
Meanwhile, Train was navigating through the mines until he spots the driller trains and hopes not to get on the wrong end of that. Before the gang can get the diamond, the shattered remains of the skeletons merge together to be one gigantic skeleton who chase after the gang, but Dougal pushes another button on the throne that sends the skeleton falling down into the mines below through the trapdoor. The gang make their way to get the diamond, but Zeebad had taken it first and advances on the gang to get them to tell him about the third diamond. However on Ermintrude's command, Dougal sends both Zeebad and Sam through the trapdoor into the mines. With Zeebad now in the possession of the two diamonds, the gang plan to rush back the roundabout before Zeebad and find Train in the upper part of the mines when Dylan leans on the pillar that opens a door.
As the gang were navigating through the mines, the giant skeleton attacks them again, but Train goes faster to shake him off and a low hanging beam smacks the skeleton off the carriage. Train speeds his way through the canyon where Zeebad gives chase in the driller train that was in the mines with Sam shoveling lots of coal in the firebox. Dylan, while observing the buttons on Train's controls to see what will slow Zeebad down, accidentally catapults Brian out of Train's cab after pressing the ejector seat button, causing the snail to land on the roof of the driller train. Because he is blindfolded by his scarf and having no idea where he is at the time, Brian unknowingly spills the beans of the third diamond within Zeebad's earshot. After openly gloating that he'll get to the roundabout to get his third diamond, Zeebad orders Sam to behead Brian, but the snail quickly jumps back onboard Train. As Train spots that both tracks merge at the junction, he goes in front of the driller train, prompting Zeebad to try drill into the carriage, but the driller train explodes due to the pressure on the boiler being overloaded. As the gang were relived, Train crashes into the buffers, sending him flying where he along the gang, crash into the snowy field.
After learning from Brian that Zeebad now knows where the third diamond is, the gang are forced along the way to leave Train behind when his piston is broken, leaving them to return to the village on foot through the snowy barren wasteland the world is now freezing into. As Zeebad makes his way out the wreckage, Sam is injured from the explosion, but Zeebad berates him for sparing Brian and instead makes his way to the village alone, leaving Sam behind for dead. Nightfall comes and the gang begins to lose hope during a blizzard before they pass out, despite Dougal trying to wake them up. Then Dougal drifts off to sleep too and has a nightmare of him with Florence in a sugar paradise where he sees multiple copies of Florence giving him lots of sweets. He instantly wakes up and screams Florence's name out of sorrow. Meanwhile, the moose from earlier wakes Sam where the soldier realises he's been following the wrong commander in Zeebad and that his true duty is to protect the roundabout, and rides the moose back to the village to face his former boss.
The next morning, the gang wakes up and Dougal manages to find the now-frozen village where they follow the signposts. However, Zeebad had arrived in the village first and is unable to find the third diamond anywhere on the frozen roundabout. Then, Sam arrives on the moose to confront Zeebad and tries to make a stand and charge against Zeebad. However, Zeebad quickly overpowers him by freezing the moose and striking Sam in the chest, fatally wounding him. Having learned Sam was in fact on the roundabout, Zeebad discovers that the third diamond is and always was hidden inside Sam, and removes it from Sam, which ends his life as a result.
Just as Dougal and the gang finally make it back to the village, Zeebad, with all three diamonds now in his possession, uses the diamonds to complete his powers' freezing effect on the world by freezing the sun. When the gang are ready to admit defeat and accept their fate, Dylan finally snaps and intervenes by pelting Zeebad with a snowball, causing the maniacal ice wizard tries to attack him. After Zeebad zapped Ermintrude's tail which makes her scream in agony makes a crack in the ice, Dougal discovers a way to break the ice off the roundabout and he and Brian get Ermintrude to use her singing to shatter most of the ice off the roundabout to free those who are trapped and uncovering the diamond slots, as well as freeing the moose.
With the gang ready to face Zeebad and refusing to give up, they get past his attacks to the diamonds, getting each of them one-by-one into their places on the roundabout until only the third diamond is left. Though Zeebad beats the gang to the diamond and seemingly secures his victory, the timely arrival of a healed Train knocks the diamond away and Dougal chases after it, wanting to reverse his mistake and redeem himself, while dodging Zeebad's ice blasts, and head-butts it in the roundabout's final slot. With all three diamonds placed on the roundabout, Zeebad is re-imprisoned by the magic of the diamonds and the roundabout which thaws the world back to normal. Meanwhile, Zebedee is revealed to have survived the fall from his battle with Zeebad and he manages to break himself free from the ice as it slowly melts before he springs his way back to village.
With the roundabout restored back to its former glory and the world thawed from Zeebad's icy magic with the sun shining again, the gang begins to celebrate until Dougal asks about Florence, who is seemingly lifeless due to the freezing conditions after being trapped in the roundabout. An anguished and desperate Dougal tries to wake her up, begging her not to leave him. When he licks her face, she begins to move. Seeing this, Dougal manages to revive Florence by licking her face until she wakes up and regains consciousness much to the relief of Dougal and everybody. Florence thanks Dougal for saving her life and everyone else's and offers him a reward, but he declines, saying that he has learnt his lesson. As Florence wonders where Zebedee is, he returns to the village to everybody's joy.
As everyone goes for a ride on the magic roundabout, they discover it still doesn't work, because Sam is still missing. As everyone turns to the lifeless Sam, Dougal still holds a grudge against him as he was Zeebad's henchman, but Zebedee tells him not to be too hard with Sam as he is the victim of Zeebad's maniacal magic. With that, Zebedee removes the third diamond from its slot on the roundabout and places it back inside Sam, resurrecting him back to life before reverting him to his inanimate form, and returning him back on his place on the roundabout, allowing it to function once again and for everyone to finally go for a ride. The moose is restored to his true colour by Zebedee just before Mr Grimsdale shows up with the things that Dougal has requested, only to discover the dog is on the roundabout and hiding awkwardly from him.
As the roundabout revolves, Dougal, who vowed to give up sugar when it seemed all was lost, forgets his former pledge completely when Florence nevertheless wants to reward him with a cube of sugar for saving her life and the world, but now realizes the true value of his friends and the good qualities of selflessness, courage, and humility.
In the mid-credits scene, Zeebad wakes up to find himself back in his prison once again, which to his chagrin, is a molten lava cave far underground.
== Cast ==
Character 	France 	United Kingdom (Original)	United States
Pollux/Dougal 	Henri Salvador 	Robbie Williams 	Daniel Tray
Margote/Florence 	Vanessa Paradis 	Kylie Minogue 	Kylie Minogue
Zabadie/Zeebad 	Michel Galabru 	Tom Baker 	Jon Stewart
Ambroise/Brian 	Dany Boon 	Jim Broadbent 	William H. Macy
Train 	N/A 	Lee Evans 	Chevy Chase
Azalée/Ermintrude	Valérie Lemercier	Joanna Lumley 	Whoopi Goldberg
Flappy/Dylan 	Eddy Mitchell 	Bill Nighy 	Jimmy Fallon
Soldier Sam 	Gérard Jugnot 	Ray Winstone 	Bill Hader
Zébulon/Zebedee 	Élie Semoun 	Ian McKellen 	Ian McKellen
Elk/Moose 	N/A 	N/A 	Kevin Smith
Narrator 	N/A 	N/A 	Judi Dench
Basil 	N/A 	Ediz Mahmut 	Eric Robinson
Coral 	N/A 	Daniella Loftus 	Heidi Brook Myers
Mr. Rusty 	N/A 	Jimmy Hibbert 	Cory Edwards
Mr. Grimsdale 	N/A 	Jimmy Hibbert 	John Krasinski
Skeleton Guards 	N/A 	Jimmy Hibbert 	Cory EdwardsJohn Krasinski
==Featured Music==
* Magic by Pilot
* You Really Got Me by Van Halen
* Goldust - Spinning
* Goldust - Watch Her Move
* Mr. Blue Sky
* The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
* The Magic Roundabout
* Goldust - Simply Wonderful
==Trivia==
* It is paired with Hoodwinked.
Category:2005 films
Category:The Weinstein Company films
Category:Computer-animated films
Category:Films featuring anthropomorphic characters
Category:British films