Doug's 1st Movie

Doug's 1st Movie (1999)

You'll Dig Doug!

Doug and his pal Skeeter set's out to find the monster of Lucky Duck Lake. Though things get really out of hand when some one blurts out that the monster is real.

Date of release
1999-03-26
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (107)
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Animation, Family, Comedy
Director
Maurice Joyce

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $5M
  • Based on: Doug

Doug's 1st Movie is a 1999 American animated comedy film based on the television series Doug created by Jim Jinkins. Directed by Maurice Joyce and written by Ken Scarborough, the film stars the regular television cast of Tom McHugh, Fred Newman, Chris Phillips, Constance Shulman, Frank Welker, Alice Playten, Guy Hadley, and Doris Belack. The plot follows Doug Funnie and Skeeter Valentine as they try to save a friendly monster, found in Lucky Duck Lake, from Bill Bluff, all while Doug tries to juggle his romance with Patti Mayonnaise and competition from Guy Graham before the school's Valentine's Day dance.

Production

Nickelodeon was originally making a Doug film adaptation in May 1993 when they made a deal with 20th Century Fox to make films based on their properties along with films like Rugrats and Ren & Stimpy. However, the plans evaporated when Viacom acquired Paramount Pictures in February 1994, and the deal expired in the following year. Only The Rugrats Movie materialized in November 1998.

In February 1996, when Disney bought Jumbo Pictures along with the cartoon, they decided to revive the project for the Doug film. This film was originally planned as a direct-to-video release under the title The First Doug Movie Ever as shown in trailers, but due to the success of The Rugrats Movie, they decided to make it a theatrical release instead and the title was changed to Doug's 1st Movie.

This is the last American theatrical animated film to use traditional cels; the title sequence used digital ink and paint.

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