{"id":1535,"date":"2005-02-15T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1535.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","slug":"the-magic-roundabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/02\/15\/the-magic-roundabout\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Magic Roundabout<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out I&#8217;d forgotten pretty much everything about the original <i>Magic Roundabout<\/i> TV series apart from the characters&#8217; names.  Unfortunately the film doesn&#8217;t do a great job of re-introducing them.  Apart from the cliffhanger opening, the first ten minutes are muddled and uninteresting.  <\/p>\n<p>It does get better after that, though.  The story is little more than a dressed-up video game (the heroes have to find the three magic diamonds before the villain Zeebad does), but it&#8217;s the little character touches, the cinematic in-jokes, and the subtle asides that really bring a smile to your face.  Robbie Williams surprised me by being <em>excellent<\/em> as the voice of Dougal, and everyone (in Britain, at least) will love Tom Baker as Zeebad.  Just forget about the TV show, and enjoy it for the silly, simple kids&#8217; film it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out I&#8217;d forgotten pretty much everything about the original Magic Roundabout TV series apart from the characters&#8217; names. Unfortunately the film doesn&#8217;t do a great job of re-introducing them. Apart from the cliffhanger opening, the first ten minutes are muddled and uninteresting. It does get better after that, though. The story is little more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_3_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}