Anssi Vartiainen The fifth movie by Don Bluth, and probably the first one where his signature moves really got the best of him. It once again features anthropomorphic animals acting out the plot, with lots of gorgeous animation, nonsensical songs, bratty child characters and extremely jumpy storytelling.Chanticleer is a rooster living on a farm, and his job is to bring out the sun every morning with his crow. Unfortunately the Grand Duke of Owls prefers the night and tricks the other farm animals to see Chanticleer as a fraud and chase him away. But then the long night settles in and suddenly it's the mission of the animals and one little human boy named Edmond to find their missing friend and bring back the sun. Sounds pretty basic when you put it like that. But it's not. It's unbelievably weird in execution. Chanticleer has become Elvis, the Duke's magical powers are expressed through his breath, Edmond starts out as a live-action character but is turned into a kitten, et cetera, et cetera.And nothing really connects with anything. It's full of interesting little touches, but the plot itself is nonsensical and moves with the speed of a freight train, not allowing anything to sink in before we've already moved to something else. The songs are also pretty lame, though there's a catchy tune every now and then.All in all, I'd call Rock-A-Doodle a passable film. It's weird and hard to follow, but the characters are nice, the animation is still great and at least it's memorable.

chiibiprincess Ha.......beware of the long rant of a hugely biased Bluth fan...Fine, warned ya, didn't I? ^_-First of all, I don't really see why people hate this movie so much. I don't see what's so bloody confusing about it....unless people are really that simpled-minded that they can't understand a plot as simple as "a live-action boy joins the animated world in order to bring back a hero who can save them from darkness and destruction." That's it. ........yeah, what exactly is so hard to understand about that?And.....they're criticizing the animation? LOL These same people who love American Tail and the Land Before Time are actually criticizing a film WITH THE EXACT SAME TYPE OF ANIMATION!? Seriously, use your common sense, people!! No, rather, use your EYES! It's the SAME!! Okay, fine, the live-action parts MIXED with the animation does look cheap. But it's old!! And of course it doesn't look as good as it did with Roger Rabbit! That movie was one of the most expensive movies ever made in all of film HISTORY!! Bluth didn't have that kind of budget, okay?! Besides, it lasts for all of twenty seconds, so suck it up and fast-forward if you hate looking at it so much, geeze!!Don't believe all the bad reviews you have read on here. The animation is not horrible, the characters are not annoying OR ugly, the songs are not bad, and the voice actors are CERTAINLY not untalented! Believe you me, being a fan of animated classics from the time I was barely able to talk to now, (in my 20s) adults can appreciate this movie JUST AS MUCH if not more, than a child can. I have sat through BAD voice-acting, (early dubbed anime, anyone!?) horrible songs, terrible characters, awful, FLAT animation, the whole lot....and Rock-a-Doodle shines like a gem next to these. Another reviewer on here just asked, "Why watch this when you can be in a world with Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Pinnochio?My answer is simply this:"Because it's DIFFERENT and I'm freaking sick of those fairy tales that everybody's seen a thousand versions of before they have even reached the age of TEN, damn it all!". The problem is, everyone's treating this as a Disney film when it's not. It's Bluth. Bluth is not Disney. He never WILL be. And I don't want him to be, either! See, this is why I adore Don Bluth so much and consider him to be the finest animator and director in America. Don Bluth's films are SO different, SO sophisticated, SO unique, SO non-cliché, and above all, SO magical. Yes, "magical" is really the best way to describe a Bluth film...and ever single one he's directed delivers the magic...so much that just from watching a couple seconds of random animation, you can immediately recognize that Bluth had something to do with it.I will say that Disney can take you on a journey through storybooks...even through history, perhaps...but you still feel like you're just watching something.....artificial? It's meant to entertain, be bright, happy, make you laugh and dance then cry..then laugh some more...and then it's over. But what Bluth does.....it's something much more valuable...much more surreal: he takes you on a journey through DREAMS. Yes, watching a Bluth film is very much like being in a dream. It's beautiful...yet bizarre...bright...yet dark...calming...yet terrifying.... Rock-A-Doodle is exceptionally GOOD at being a film that feels like a dream. Its awesome random, wonderful strangeness is right up there with "The Secret of NIMH" and my eternally top-favorite, "All Dogs Go To Heaven". And I can tell you right now: every single scene feels more memorable than an entire Disney movie. When I watched this movie just last week to relive my childhood, I found out that I appreciated it even MORE and that it was much more enjoyable to watch than the Disney movies that were created around the same time!!I can understand that some people don't like this just because it's too...WEIRD for them...which I agree. It IS weird. But see, I love weird. I love bizarre. I love strange. I love being treated as an adult and actually having to use my brain.....during a KID'S film.If you're tired of that same-old-same-old protective Disney bubble that doesn't really let you think outside the box and want something really interesting and out of the ordinary, PLEASE give this movie a look. You won't regret it. If you're a Bluth fan, THIS IS A MUST-SEE.My rating for each aspect of Rock-A-Doodle:Animation: 10 It's Don-freaking-BLUTH Characters: 8 All main ones are likable, unique, and fun. The Duke is a GREAT villain especially!Sound: 10 It's a musical of course! Not all the songs are given attention like in most musicals though. Some are very short to give you a short laugh or two and some just serve as background music while main points about the characters are being pointed out to you. This is refreshing for those who get tired of song after song in animated movies.Story: 7 There's a plot hole or two, seemingly but based on what's revealed at the end, that's entirely excusable!! (and all the critics totally ignored this!!) Voice-actors: 10! Nothing to complain about here! Ganger's (Edmond) childish voice is adorable, Duncan (Peepers) and Deezen (Snipes) are priceless, Reily's (Hunch) hysterical, Campbell as Chanticleer just plain rocks and Chris Plummer should have gotten an award as The Duke because he's outstanding.

bijoukaiba The last time I saw this movie, I was probably about 3-4. I actually just finished watching it on Youtube, so I thought I'd leave my comments.I loved Chanticleer (Glen Campbell) and the Grand Duke (Christopher Plummer) in this. I loved the majority of the musical numbers in this- Chanticleer knows how to rock and crow! The only really bad songs were the ones involving the owls in my opinion, and even then they were at least tolerable.As many people have mentioned, Edmund was completely unnecessary, and the live action footage was terrible. At the musical number at the end (spoilers), seeing the live action boy amongst the animated critters was poorly carried out.If it had just been Patou, Peepers, and Snipes on the adventure, I probably would have rated this higher. Any fans of Dexter's Lab will grin when they realize that Snipes sounds exactly like Mandark because they are voiced by the same actor. Anyone familiar with Disney (then again, who isn't?) will recognize Phil Harris's voice as Patou and the narrator, who also voiced Little John in Robin Hood, Thomas O'Malley in the Aristocats, and Baloo in The Jungle Book. It was his last film role, but he did a good job with it.If not for the poor live-action quality and Edmund's involvement in the story, I would've given this at least a 6.

thedarkjackal101 This film is one of the most undeservedly underrated of the good old Bluth movies, I think. It takes the classic fish out of water idea to another level. This is a theme I noticed with a lot of movies of that time, where creativity was much more free. The archetype of a lone hero who is thrust into a strange place with no way back and has to make fight or flight of the situation.In this story, Edmond, the protagonist, is transformed into a tiny kitten against his will and taken from all that he knows with little more than the shirt (And fur) on his back, having to use his human mind to aid the clutch of critters that have been dispatched to retrieve the exiled Chanticleer and get him to sing the sun back.This also introduces the theme of the hero stacked against towering odds... Not only is danger around every corner for one as small as him, but the very person he seeks to coax into returning doesn't want to come back.This isn't one to pass up, folks. To Hell with Rotten Tomatoes' rating!