Posted by Niall Leonard on 02/26/06 17:38

On 26 Feb 2006 14:54:17 +0000, "Angus Manwaring"
<angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>On 26-Feb-06 12:04:41, Covenant said
>>"the dog from that film you saw" <dsb@REMOVETHECAPITALSbtinternet.com> wrote
>>in message news:46bqmcFabgtcU1@individual.net...
>>>
>>> "Angus Manwaring" <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>
>>>> Who was the original British guy? Eric Thompson? The name seems to ring a
>>>> bell. I can't personally conceive of it being done "better" than that.
>>>
>>>
>>> in theory the french one would be better, as the guy who did the british
>>> one admitted to paying no attention whatsoever to the real scripts -
>>> entertaining, but not faithful.
>
>
>>Better than the French ones.
>>Just cos it's *original* doesn't make it better! ;' )
>
>
>Which is kind of why I phrased the question the way I did.
>
> All the best,
> Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)
>
Eric Thompson was Emma Thompson's dad. As I recall he improvised
storylines for the English-dubbed version of Magic Roundabout because
the original French version made no sense whatsoever. In that respect
the movie might be seen as a sequel to the original, as it's complete
garbage.

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