The Magic Roundabout (fixed and improved re-dub)

***The Magic Roundabout*** (fixed and improved re-dub) (currently under its working title ***The Magic Roundabout: Fixed and Improved Redub***) is an upcoming French-British-American-Canadian computer-animated adventure fantasy family film based on the television series of the same name created by Serge and Martine Danot and serves as a fixed and improved re-dub of the original 2005 film of the same name (which was re-dubbed for American audiences as ***Doogal*** in the United States by The Weinstein Company).

This re-dub will contain all lines of dialogue from Butch Hartman’s American English screenplay of the 2005 film and a couple of new lines of dialogue from Rob Renzetti while remaining faithful to the original. Both Deviantart members DropBox5555 and Rock-on-USA suggested that Paramount Animation, Nickelodeon Movies and Renzetti Studios release the new dub in movie theaters as soon as it was completed.

## Plot

The film begins as the wizard Zebedee, a red jack-in-the-box-like creature, is having a nightmare about being chased and killed by a rampaging blue jack-in-the-box creature in the middle of a snowy terrain.

The next day, Dougal desperately sneaks around the titular magical carousel in hopes to find some candy. However, he is eventually caught red-handed by his young owner, Florence, who requests that he joins in the fun of Ermintrude’s opera-singing concert. He ignores her request and continues to search for his candy. He goes so far as to place a tack in the road to pop a sweet cart's tire, thinking to be rewarded for watching the cart. After convincing the driver, Mr. Grimsdale to leave, Dougal attempts to raid the cart and accidentally starts it up again and causes it to crash into the carousel at the center of the village. A blue jack-in-the-box creature named Zeebad (the same one from Zebedee's nightmare) emerges from the top and flies away, followed shortly after by a Foot Guard figurine that is thrown off the carousel. The carousel soon freezes over, trapping repairman Mr. Rusty, Dougal’s young owner Florence, and two other children named Basil and Coral within an icy cell.

The remainder of the villagers, who are all animals, are horrified by this development, and call upon Zebedee for help. He explains that the carousel served as a mystical prison for the evil ice wizard Zeebad. With it broken, 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's freedom from freezing the world again is by collecting three magic diamonds (one of which is supposed to be hidden on the carousel, while the other two are hidden at separate locations far beyond the village); placing all three diamonds in their respective slots on the carousel 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 the well-meaning cheeky chappy but slacker dog, Brian the cynical snail, Ermintrude the opera-singing cow and Dylan the hippie rabbit, to accomplish this mission along with a magic train who can be summoned by a magic remote. Meanwhile, when Zeebad crash-lands into a snowy and icy terrain after escaping the carousel, he brings to life the Foot Guard figurine, Sam the Soldier, to be his henchman and enlists him to find the enchanted diamonds first. Meanwhile, as soon as the Train runs out of steam while on the way to all three diamonds, Zebedee's fellowship makes camp in the icy mountains near Zeebad's old lair. Dougal wanders off during the night and is captured by Zeebad, who interrogates him about the diamonds. Ermintrude breaks him out of his prison; after a short chase throughout an icy slide, the gang reaches the dead end of a cliff near Zeebad’s fortress and Zebedee shows up to battle his evil counterpart. Zeebad eventually gains the upper hand, freezing Zebedee and collapsing the cliff on which he stands, presumably killing him.

Mourning for their friend, Dougal and his friends embark to recover the diamonds. This task takes them to a lava-bordered volcano and an ancient temple filled with booby-traps and evil skeleton guards (at which point Dylan reveals an exceptional knowledge of several types of martial arts), but Zeebad captures both the diamonds (and the map, which he uses as a cheat sheet) from these respective locations; leaving the gang's only hope of stopping Zeebad freezing the world in ice to be getting back to the carousel and to the final diamond before Zeebad does. The gang is forced along the way to leave Train behind when his wheel is broken, leaving them to return to the village on their own through the snowy barren wasteland the world is now freezing into. Zeebad, after having abandoned Sam the Soldier to die wounded in the snow, beats the gang to the now-frozen village but is unable to find the third diamond anywhere. Sam then arrives on a moose, having realized he's been following the wrong commander in Zeebad and that his true duty is to protect the carousel against Zeebad, and tries to make a stand and charge against Zeebad but is easily defeated. Having learned Sam was in fact on the carousel, Zeebad discovers that the third diamond is and always was hidden inside Sam, and removes it from him (ending Sam's 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. However, Ermintrude, Brian, Dylan, and finally Dougal refuse to give up and intervene to stop Zeebad; getting past Zeebad's attacks to the diamonds, and getting each of them one-by-one into their places on the carousel 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 out of Zeebad's reach and gives Dougal the chance to place it in the carousel's final slot, restoring its magical power. With all three diamonds placed on the carousel, Zeebad is reimprisoned, and the world is thawed and turned back to normal; restoring Zebedee to his friends, and freeing the people.

Of those trapped in the carousel, Florence is unconscious but is revived by an anxious Dougal. The moose (whose color had been changed from brown to blue by Zeebad and helped Dougal’s friends find Dougal in the earlier scenes of the film), is restored to his true color by Zebedee. As everyone goes for a ride on the carousel, they discover it still doesn't work, because Sam is still lifeless. At this point, Sam is restored and then reverted to his inanimate form, and placed back on the carousel which functions once again. Dougal, who vowed to give up sugar when it seemed all was lost, forgets his former pledge completely, but now realizes the true value of his friends and the good qualities of selflessness, courage, and humility.

Two mid-credits scenes follow: one reveals Zeebad back in his prison, which, to his chagrin, is a molten lava cave. In another, Zebedee delivers his famous catchphrase to the audience, "Time for bed", before disappearing.

## Cast

The voice cast for this new re-dub is a mix between a few celebrities, and mostly regular cartoon voice actors.

1. Tom Holland as Dougal (using his normal British voice, but also with Americanized lines)
2. David Kaufman as Dylan The Rabbit (using a mix between his *Danny Phantom* voice and a hippie/California-surfer voice)
3. Carlos Alazraqui as Brian The Snail (using a western/southern accent)
4. Moira Quirk as Ermintrude The Cow (using her normal voice, which is also her voice for Brit Crust from *My Life as a Teenage Robot*)
5. Cristina Vee as Florence (using a British accent since she’s very good at doing one)
6. Ian McKellen as Zebedee The Good Wizard (reprising his role from the original 2005 UK dub, but also with Americanized lines)
7. Matt Berry as The Train
8. Bill Hader as Soldier Sam (reprising his role from the original 2006 U.S. dubs, but also with new and fixed lines)
9. Liev Schriber as Zeebad (using a mix between his voices of The Storm King from *My Little Pony: The Movie*, and Kingpin from *Spider-Man: Into The Spider Verse*)
10. Rob Paulsen as Mr. Grimsdale (using his French accent/ZeFronk voice)
11. Jeff Bennett as Mr. Rusty (using his old man voice)
12. Kath Soucie as Coral and Basil
13. Dee Bradley Baker, Richard Horvitz, Grey DeLisle, and Janice Kawaye as The Skeleton Guards (which will be moaning, groaning, growling, laughing, and giggling)
14. Kevin Michael Richardson as The Giant Skeleton

## Production

Besides all the redubbing for the characters of the movie and screenwriting to make it more appealing towards American audiences, there will also be some new additions in this movie as well. For example, during the scene where Zebedee explains to Dougal and the gang about Zeebad, a flashback showing how Zebedee used the power of all three Enchanted Diamonds to trap Zeebad within the carousel will be shown. However, unlike the rest of the movie, this scene will be 2D animated in an art style similar to that of *My Life as a Teenage Robot* (since the show’s creator, Rob Renzetti, will be directing this redub).

The original soundtrack by Mark Thomas will be kept the same, but there will also be additional music by James L. Venable. And the additional music will be added in scenes where there’s either no music at all or scenes that, in the original UK Dub, used to have either some orchestra music (In The Hall of the Mountain King and also sprach Zarathustra) or songs by other artists (Spinning Around and We Love to Boogie) that didn’t always entirely fit the certain scenes they were used in. However “Mr. Blue Sky” by Electric Light Orchestra and “Magic Roundabout” by Kylie Minogue will be one of the only three songs sung by an artist used in this new dub; along with a new addition, “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting” by Karl Douglas, which will be used in the scene where Dylan fights off the skeleton guards.

This redub will also remain faithful to the original 2005 UK dub, retain the same lighting from the theatrical trailer of the 2006 Studiopolisian U.S. dub (the Simtopian U.S. dub was advertised on national television), and contain American terminology instead of the original British terminology; for examples, “roundabout” will be changed to “carousel”, “I thought he was just a shaggy dog story” will be changed to “I thought he was fake like wrestling”, and “Two-nil” will be changed to “Two to nothing!” It will also be correctly advertised as an action-adventure movie.

## Release

Although this film is still being worked on, DropBox5555 and Rock-on-USA suggested that Paramount Animation release it in movie theaters upon completion.

## Reception

This upcoming U.S. edition of the film will hopefully score much better reception than the final Simtopian American edition of *Doogal* created by Harvey Weinstein (issues from the original French, UK, and Studiopolisian American dubs notwithstanding).

## Home media

Being an upcoming film released by Paramount Animation, it is most likely that Paramount Home Entertainment would release *The Magic Roundabout: Fixed and Improved Redub* on home media platforms.

## Fun Facts

* Ian McKellen will reprise his role from the original 2005 UK and 2006 U.S. editions of this film, but now with Americanized lines.
* Bill Hader will reprise his role as Soldier Sam from the original 2006 U.S. Dub, but now with new and different lines.
* Emma Watson and Dee Bradley Baker were previously requested to provide the voices of Florence and the Skeleton Guards for NicThic Cinemation Studios’ upcoming 2021 film *The Magic Carousel: Doogal Returns*, which is a reboot of the 2005 film that was also initially titled *The Magic Roundbout*. On January 2nd, 2020, however, Fredbear Studios acquired NicThic and its assets, and the original all star cast of the reboot was replaced with stars from NicThic alumni.
	+ Surprisingly, throughout the upcoming reboot, **no one ever stops talking!**
* In this upcoming U.S. redub, no one will get flanderized. For example, instead of creepily exaggerating his crush on Ermintrude by calling her his “girlfriend” like he did in the final Simtopian American edition of *Doogal*, Brian will successfully confess that he loves her.

## External links

* The Magic Roundabout (2005 film) on Wikipedia
* The Magic Roundabout (2005 film) on the Magic Roundabout Wiki - FANDOM
* The Magic Roundabout (2005 film) on the NicThic Wiki - FANDOM
* Doogal (final Simtopian American edition) on Awful Movies Wiki - MIRAHEZE
* The Magic Roundabout (remake) on the NicThic Wiki - FANDOM