Rock-A-Doodle is one of Don Bluth's earlier films. They had just finished All Dogs Go to Heaven, which flopped at the box office. Unfortunately, Rock-A-Doodle would be just another movie in a string of flops.

Chanticleer, a rooster, calls the sun up each morning. One night, an owl attacked him to prevent him from crowing and the sun rose anyway. Everyone thought that Chanticleer never actually called the sun and he left the farm. After he left, the sun never rose and it never stopped raining. All of this is a story that a mother is reading to her son, Edmonton. It's also night and about to flood on their farm. When everyone else goes to protect the house from the flood, Edmonton has to stay behind because he's too little. Edmonton calls for Chanticleer to call the sun and stop the flood, but the Duke of Owls shows up instead, transporting Edmonton into the world of the book and turning him into a cat. Once there, he scares the Duke away with a flashlight and meets a bunch of other animals. They all decide to go to the city to find Chanticleer and bring him back to the farm.

The biggest problem with this movie is its hero, Edmonton. He is unnecessary. He doesn't serve any purpose that any of the characters couldn't have served. Most of the time, he is sitting there complaining that he's too little to do anything. On top of all this, he has this awful little kid voice that really gets on my nerves. Actually, good voices seem to be a problem. Goldie has a terrible, nasally falsetto and Peepers has a lisp. On the subject of voices, Patou narrated more too much. At times, he'd unnecessarily explain something that was just shown. At other times, they'd have him tell us something rather than actually showing us.

The music ranges from forgettable to terrible. I couldn't stand the song they played at the beginning of the film, so of course they had it again over the credits. For the most part, the music is in the style of Elvis except for the Duke's songs, which are closer to classical music.

The animation itself looked good. It's on par with all of Bluth's other work.

Over all, I didn't really like this movie all that much. I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it again, but I might watch it if I happened to come upon it on TV.

This is one of the weirder Don Bluth movies, but certainly not the worst(I think that dishonor goes to A Troll In Central Park). If I'm not mistaken, this movie actually begins briefly with a live action sequence and goes into animation when, once again, the hero gets knocked unconscious. The characters are actually very cute, but what the point of having the main character being transformed into a cat is, I'll never know. The villain is unmenacing, but his sidekick is just flat out annoying, with his constant need to say everything that rhymes with "ation."

This film is the start of Don Bluth's downhill descent.Everything from NIMH to ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN was great but ROCK-A-DOODLE,while it certainly is still a fun movie,is one of Bluth's weaker efforts. The animation is wonderful,as are most of the characters,but the storyline is flawed. The 50s' style songs are OK,my favorite being 'Kiss and Coo',(Glen Campbell does a nice Elvis impersonation as the voice of the barrel-chested Chanticleer)and it was nice to see the late Phil Harris lend his voice to one more animated movie.

As I have stated before,ROCK-A-DOODLE marked the start of the decline in quality in Bluth's movies,which lasted until ANASTASIA. But it is still worth watching.

This movie, parsay, wasn't Don Bluth's best or anything, but there really wasn't too much wrong with it. If you can look past the Elvis impressions, you might be able to enjoy it for what it is.

Animation is right on par with the style of Don Bluth. It's easily recoginizable. Had no complaints there. It looked pretty good.

The story wasn't too bad either. I actually liked the way it was presented. My complait is the characters. They weren't as well rounded as I thought they'd be. I don't know what the deal there is, but they could've been better.

About the music, like I said, if you can forget the Elvis-like stuff here, you'll get through it. If not, you might want to put in something else.

Rock-a-doodle may have it's problems, but don't let that stop you from checking it out. It'd be a bit more enjoyale had it not be for the characters and the music.