Rock-A-Doodle (1991) on Netflix
G19911h 14mAnimationComedyFamilyFantasyMusic
Chanticleer, a farm rooster, believes his crowing raises the sun. Tricked by the Grand Duke of Owls, he leaves in shame for the city. Edmond and the farm animals follow him.
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- IMDb6.0/1011,659 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes20%
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Chanticleer, a rooster on a farm, crows at dawn to bring up the sun. The Grand Duke of Owls sends a stranger to fight him. Chanticleer wins but forgets to crow, and the sun comes up without him. The other animals laugh, so he leaves the farm and becomes a singer in the city. Rain pours without stopping and floods the country, and the Duke's owls move in on the barnyard. Edmond, a boy whose mother is reading him this tale, calls for Chanticleer when a storm threatens the family farm. The Duke appears instead and his breath turns Edmond into a kitten. Patou, a Basset Hound, saves him, and Edmond drives the Duke off with a flashlight. Patou, the magpie Snipes and the mouse Peepers then set out with Edmond for the city to find Chanticleer.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
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- Before Rock-a-Doodle, Disney artists pitched an animated Chanticleer film that mixed in the Reynard the fox tales, and character designs by Marc Davis survive. Walt Disney personally rejected the pitch in 1961 and passed on it in favor of The Sword in the Stone.
- Rock-a-Doodle took in $11,657,385 at the US box office, and the failure forced Don Bluth's studio into liquidation half a year after the film's release.
- Goldie the Pheasant was designed with traits like Jessica Rabbit's, and after mothers reacted at test screenings, Goldcrest had Sullivan Bluth reanimate her scenes, covering her chest with feathers as cel overlays or painting her cleavage out.
- Victor French, who had directed episodes of Get Smart and Highway to Heaven, was set to direct Rock-a-Doodle's live-action sequences until terminal lung cancer forced him out; Don Bluth, who had never worked in that field, took over, and little of the footage made the final cut.
- To avoid a PG rating, Don Bluth cut the showing of the Duke's "skunk pie", swapped Chanticleer's glass of wine for a transparent cup of soda in the "Kiss and Coo" sequence, and had colored effects drawn into the Duke's breath to make him less scary. Confused test audiences also led to narration by Patou, voiced by Phil Harris.
- Rock-a-Doodle was the first feature-length live-action/animated film since 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Edmond, the farm boy, is the only live-action character who shares the screen with the animated farm animals.
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