Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

kylehaines96 Would you expect anything else With a film titled "Rock-A-Doodle"? I did. The film is animated by legendary animation legend Don Bluth who did films like The Secret Of Nimh and An American Tale. With a resume like that, where could he possibly go wrong with this? Well this film went everywhere wrong and more.The film follows the story of a rooster named Chanticleer voiced by Glen Campbell whose crowing makes the sun come up. One day he forgets to crow but the sun still comes up. The other barn animals shun and banish Chanticleer from the farm considering him to be a fraud. We then cut to a boy named Edmond played by Toby Scott Ganger who as been reading the storybook of Chanticleer and is realizing that his farm will be foreclosed. Edmond then meets The Grand Duke Of Owls voiced by Christopher Plummer who transforms Edmond into a cat and Edmond goes on a journey to find Chanticleer.Well the only good thing about this film is the voice work done by Campbell and Plummer who seem to be the only people involved with this film really invested. The other voice actors are abysmal and very dull. If it were not for those two this Picture would be dead on arrival.The animation is dull and not very pleasing to look at. It looks like a child's finished coloring book, with colors all over the place and dull mix of colors.This film also has a confusing and jumbled narrative with the film jumping from Edmond and his family to Chanticleer. This can be done well like in Pulp Fiction how it jumbles all over the place but eventually all of the stories come together. This film not only jumps around without warning but the story of Edmonds farm is never resolved yet it spends more time on Edmond then on Chanticleer. I guess they were waiting for Rock-A-Doodle 2: Rooster, What Rooster? Lastly the film mixes Live action and Animation together...Poorly, and I am shocked because Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out 3 years before this in 1988 and that was great. This mixes it very poorly and, quite frankly, looks unfinished.The Final Verdict for the 1991 film Rock-A-Doodle is 1 star out of 4. The film looks unfinished and rushed with poor mixing of live action and animation, dull animation and a confusing narrative. Glen Campbell and Christopher Plummer are the only reason to watch this.Rated G.1hr 17min/77min.Cost: $18,000,000.Box Office: $11,657,385.IMDb Rating: 5.6/10.Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 25% Rotten.My Rating: */****

dobrien4587 Don Bluth has made some great movies in the past. However, every film maker has his mediocre film, or in Don's case, several mediocre films. Rock-a-doodle is one of those films that could have been several times better than the end result.The story is somewhat passable, but it's full of plot holes, like the fact that the sun rose without Chanticleer, it sets almost immediately, and then it turns out he's needed for the sun to rise. That plot hole is inexcusable, and it bugged me. But the dialog, and some annoying characters are what got me. Edmund, our main hero may be cute, but he is just plain annoying, the Owls can't go five freaking minuets without singing, etc.The plot of the film is that this rooster named Chanticleer, (voiced by Glenn Cambell) has a job that is to wake up the sun by crowing. The Grand Duke of Owls (Christopher Plummber) sends an owl to attack Chanticleer and distract him so that he forgets to crow, the sun rises without Chanticller (then sets almost immediately) and everyone thinks Chanticleer is useless, so he sets off for the city, since the sun set, it starts to rain, and our villain the Grand duke is very happy.As it turns out, the story of Chanticleer is actually a story book that is being read to our Hero Edmund. its flooding where he lives and he calls Chanticleer for help. This makes no sense considering Chanticleer is just a character, but the Duke still appears to try and silence Edmund. After Edmund is rescued by a Dog named Patoo, Edmund and a bunch of the other animals go to find Chanticleer, because apparently his crowing DID bring the sun up, (plot hole alert) Thats all Im going to say about the story, while its not bad, it kind of drags after a while. the songs by the way are HORRIBLE, there all dull, repetitive and just annoying. But the movie had moments that made me smile, the ending climax made me smile, and there was some other moments.Bottom line, its not the worst, but its not the best.

Tommy Nelson Rock-a-doodle is one of the many poorly conceived animated films from ex-Disney animator Don Bluth, who was known through the 80s and 90s for making boring kiddie animated movies. This movie was different from Bluth's previous films, animation wise. In his previous films, the character designs were all very loose, and the animation was kind of dull. Here, the character designs are more solid, and though much of the movie has a weird sepia toned color, it still looks great. As for plot and dialogue, this is pretty terrible.Chaunticlare the rooster (voiced by Glenn Campbell) sings the sun up every morning, but after he is attacked by an evil owl named the Duke (Christopher Plummer), he is ridiculed and leaves the farm for the city. The next scene shows that this is actually a story, and the movie briefly switches to live action to introduce Edmund, the young protagonist. Edmund's mother is reading him the story of Chaunticlare during a storm, but stops to help her husband. During the height of the storm, Edmund shouts out Chaunticlare's name, which somehow makes the Duke become real and turn Edmund into an animated cat. Now Edmund, and a few barnyard animals, led by Patou, the hound dog (Phil Harris), are headed off to the city to find Chaunticlare and make him crow again to make the sun come up.This whole movie just doesn't make sense. The Duke's evil powers are confusing. Why can an owl magically shape shift animals and himself. He was more of a genie than an owl. Why was this story real, and why was Edmund turned into a cat, other than the purposes of making a cute cartoon character. Why did Edmund immediately forget about his parents and start only caring about the cartoon animals he doesn't know? The answer to all these...because this was a poorly written movie.Rock-a-doodle is a good movie for kids, meaning they will enjoy it. Adults will not. The plot makes no sense. The animated sets are the saving grace for me. Some of the sets in this film are really great looking, and are fun to look at...which makes eye candy the main attraction to this bizarre cartoon. The characters are kind of cute, and have odd chemistry together, but overall, this is a weird kiddie flick that adults will find very boring.My rating: ** out of ****. 75 mins. Rated G.

Lee Eisenberg As is often the case, I find these animated features more fascinating when I see who provided the voices. Among the people in "Rock-A-Doodle" were Eddie Deezen (of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "1941") and Christopher Plummer. As for the movie's plot line, I now find it somewhat hokey that some farm animals have to bring a rooster back to the farm to stop malevolent owls from taking over. When I learned - some time after first seeing the movie - that the rooster's celebrity persona was a sort of Elvis Presley, that also made the movie more interesting.So, in my opinion, this is no masterpiece by any stretch. I consider Disney's "Aladdin" the coolest animated feature ever (remember, it had Robin Williams as the genie), and consider the classic Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons the greatest cartoons ever. But this one's OK.