Product Details

• Actors: Thomas McHugh, Fred Newman, Chris Phillips, Constance Shulman, Frank Welker
• Directors: Maurice Joyce
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 21, 1999
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305515042
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,409 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

From Parents' Choice®

Doug is presented with a classic dilemma: save the town or win the girl. As we see, the dilemma unravels to be much more complex-the town's leadership is not what it seems, the monsters are more than mythical and the right thing to do isn't the most fun.

But our resourceful Doug waves into the sunset having learned that standing for one's principles is much more attractive and rewarding than slick talk and a hip hairdo. A 1999 Parents' Choice® Silver Honor.

Reviewed by Parents' Choice® 1999

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fine showcasing of what went wrong with Doug, February 18, 2004

By	TrezKu13 (Norfolk, VA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

I used to watch the show Doug on Nickelodeon religiously as a little kid. At the time I was entertained by its charm and honest humor, but later on in life I realized some thing truly special about the show: all the things Doug went through as a teenager, I went through too. The show really did showcase a lot of real life situations through its characters. That was probably what the real joy of the show was.

Then things went wrong. Disney bought it.

What got changed? Patty gets a lesbian hair-do (I seriously thought at first she had suffered from leukemia and was regrowing her hair). Roger is rich (why?!?!? why make the school bully rich?). Skeeter gets cheeky (literally). Smash Adams is a clown. The Beets leave. Their grade jumps around from what it originally was in the TV show. Finally...there is no longer that honesty that I saw in the original show. There is no great metaphor for life, just the typical whacky adventures that have become so redundant. In the end all we get is a dried-up moral we've seen before. If I want that, I'll catch an after-school special. Or any thing else the Disney company has done.

I realize there was a reason Nickelodeon never made a Doug movie. It just wouldn't work. It was fine as a TV series back on Nickelodeon, then it was nabbed and butchered, and now we have this horrid hour and a half travesty on its name. This is truly a sad day for animation...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Dissappointment wrapped in a Let Down, June 25, 2002

A Kid's Review

This was the worst Disney movie I have seen so far. I usually enjoy the cartoon, but this movie had none of the program's charm and wit. It stole many ideas from old movies, especially the situation with the Lucky Duck Lake Monster. It was an all around horrible movie, and I reccomend you not see or buy it. I was terribly dissappointed with the creators of this movie.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Doug's first (and last) movie, October 9, 2005

A Kid's Review

I saw this at the movies one day, and I can't believe that Disney turned my favorite Nick show into THIS!!!
Disney changed the charachers' looks and personalities...(Patty became a girly-girl who forgot who to kick a 'beetball' , Connie got skinny, etc...) Oh, and the monster that lives in Lucky-Duck lake is lame! He looks like he's related to Barney!
I'd rather watck NICK Doug, because it has better quality that Disney's Doug!