Duck Duck Goose

PG

Released Apr 20, 2018

1 hr. 22 min.

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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Peng rejects the community of his tight-knit flock of geese in an attempt to live life on his own terms, but when he narrowly rescues two young ducklings from an eccentric but deadly cat, the two latch onto Peng like a parent. The makeshift trio embark on a beautiful and dangerous journey through mountains and lakes, bamboo forests, marble caves and deep river valleys to reach their respective flocks.

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Sheena L

Fun, entertaining, family friendly. Loved it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/24

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StephenPaul C

LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 22 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/14/23

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A fun, harmless adventure with good animation (nothing breathtaking but the few flying sequences are fun albeit lacking in the majesty of the How to Train Your Dragon movies; having a Welshman who used to work at Disney directing this movie helps), moments where I genuinely laughed out loud, some exciting set pieces and some amusing side characters but Jim Gaffigan feels miscast as "HJÖNK HJÖNK AM GOOSE" with an unfitting voice (Zendaya as a duckling I could roll with because her profile wasn't quite as large at the time as it is now, her voice acting is pretty good and she wasn't a case of blatant stunt casting like in Space Jam 2), the story's pretty generic feeling mostly like a ripoff of Despicable Me, - a [find: villain, replace: jerk] takes orphans under his, pardon the pun, wing for ulterior motives, planning to ditch them the first chance he gets once they're no longer useful only for them to grow on the protagonist as the movie goes along. It's more of a ripoff in terms of character dynamics rather than story and maybe Despicable Me didn't invent this concept but that was honestly the first movie that came to my mind, especially with jokes in the first act of how much the protagonist sucks at being a dad - the character development feels half-hearted and unearned, the movie has a bad habit of inserting pop songs that, even as someone who doesn't really get annoyed by them all that much, took me out of the movie and clashed with the nearly timeless setting the movie has (the revelation of what "Pleasant Valley" really is is the only indication that it's set in contemporary times; remove the human aspect from the movie entirely and it feels like it could take place at any point in time...at least, that's what I figured; maybe I'm looking too hard into this) and the villain isn't all that fun, mostly acting like a weird Gollum parody. His comeuppance felt surprisingly dark for this kind of film. Not the worst and not the first China-set animated movie to defeat their Big Bad this way but...yowch. Duck Duck Goose is by no means some hidden gem that did not deserve to be dumped on Netflix at the last minute in the U.S. (Europe, who did get to see it on the big screen, didn't seem to care either way) but I won't be lying when I admit that I had more fun than I was expecting from what was ultimately just a simple "it's ok" kind-of film. Guess having a guy who used to work at Disney back in the '90s directing had its benefits.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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anna c

Short, fun, easy to watch with a simple story, just the way family movies should be. Thoroughly enjoyed this movie, nice story and good animation and I love it!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

There were some funny moments, just not enough to make this a good movie

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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It's a terrible movie, I wouldn't recommend it for anyone, it says it's for kids, but it's full of racism, social rejection and adult jokes, like, for example, showing an erection in a romantical date, just watch it in a desperate parenting case.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Christopher Jenkins

Director

Jim Gaffigan

Peng

Zendaya

Chi

Lance Lim

Chao

Greg Proops

Banzou

Carl Reiner

Larry

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Rachel Wagner

rachelsreviews.net

Unfortunately Duck Duck Goose proved to be even worse than I could have imagined.

Rated: 0/10

Feb 26, 2019

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Renee Schonfeld

Common Sense Media

Sweet animated animal tale has peril, positive messages.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 2, 2018

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Shaun Munro

Flickering Myth

Your kids, nephews, nieces and proximate littl'uns - whatever their relation - deserve so much better than this, to say nothing of yourself.

Rated: 1.5/5

Mar 31, 2018

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Synopsis

Peng rejects the community of his tight-knit flock of geese in an attempt to live life on his own terms, but when he narrowly rescues two young ducklings from an eccentric but deadly cat, the two latch onto Peng like a parent. The makeshift trio embark on a beautiful and dangerous journey through mountains and lakes, bamboo forests, marble caves and deep river valleys to reach their respective flocks.

Director: Christopher Jenkins
Executive Producer: David Orecklin, Harley Zhao
Screenwriter: Rob Muir, Christopher Jenkins
Distributor: Open Road
Production Co: Open Road
Rating: PG (Rude Humor|Mild Action/Peril)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 20, 2018, Limited
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Jul 20, 2018
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 20, 2018
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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