Doug Preis Movies
- 1999
- G
Doug Funnie and his friends from Bluffington make the leap from TV to the big screen in the animated comedy Doug's 1st Movie, based on the long-running children's series. Doug (voiced by Thomas McHugh) is a good-natured 12-year-old who is chronically infatuated with his classmate Patti Mayonnaise (voiced by Constance Shulman). Doug's best friend Skeeter (voiced by Fred Newman) is convinced there's a monster in Bluffington's Lucky Duck Lake. Surprisingly enough, it turns out Skeeter is right -- pollutants dumped in the lake by cranky factory owner Bill Bluff (voiced by Doug Preis) have spawned a large but thankfully friendly beast Doug and Skeeter name Herman Melville. Doug and Skeeter both want to protect Herman -- Doug so he can look cool in front of Patti, and Skeeter so he can prove the damage Bluff is doing to the environment -- but that isn't so simple when Bluff sends his hired guns to track down the monster. Doug creator Jim Jenkins served as co-producer for this film adaptation, which like the TV series was created by the Jumbo Pictures studios. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas McHugh, Fred Newman, (more)
- 1996
A botched lab experiment in Pop Swellhead's shop on the planet Baloona has transformed five teenagers into buoyant superheroes. "Hubba, hubba, we're made of rubbah!" declared Baloonatiks Flator, Squeeker, Airhead, Bouncer and Stretch as they journey to Planet Earth, there to do battle against their arch enemy, the Needler. This time the bad guy has outdone his previous perfidies by (gasp!) kidnapping Santa Claus. An unexpected treat on the FOX network's standard Saturday-morning cartoon schedule, The Balloonatiks: "Christmas Without a Claus" was inspired by the comic books of Anthony Diloia and produced by Animagic. The 30-minute cartoon special first aired on December 14, 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Andrew Pearsons, Alexandra Rhodie, (more)
- 1986
Entering its second season as the top-rated animated half-hour series in daily strip syndication, Thundercats supplies its fans with 65 new adventures pitting the super-powered feline-like protagonists against the monstrous minions of Mumm-Ra -- and, as usual, shamelessly promotes the multitude of Thundercat toys and action figures churned out by Leisure Concepts, Inc. This season offers quite a few multi-part stories, all of them eminently adaptable as two hour "specials" , beginning with the five-part opener ThunderCats Ho!, which introduces several new good-guy characters: Pumyra the female puma, Bengali the white tiger, and Lynxo the blind lynx, all transformed into full-fledged ThunderCats by group leader Lion-O. This is followed by another five-parter, "Mumm-Ra Lives," wherein the titular villain, presumably destroyed in the previous adventures, returns for more deviltry with the help of his powerful alter ego Ma-Mutt and a race known as the Luna-Tacks. In the process, viewers are introduced to another new Thundercat: Snarfer, the nephew of longtime regular Snarf. Twenty individual, self-contained episodes go by before the next five-part escapade, "ThunderCubs," which finds Panthro, Cheetara, Tygra, Snarf, and Snarfer regressing to childhood while passing through the Canyons of Youth on New Thundera. Then, it's 15 additional "single" episodes before viewers are treated to the five-part "Return to Thundera, in which the Thundercats make a return trip to their earthquake-shattered (but still amazingly intact) home planet. The 130th and final episode, "The Book of Omens," boils down to the ultimate showdown between Lion-O and Mumm-Ra -- with neither opponent utilizing the magic powers that are traditionally at their disposal. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert McFadden, Earl Hammond, (more)
