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(More customer reviews)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...
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