The Movie: No, this is not a joke. There really is a movie called Doggy Poo, and it's actually a children's story based on a supposedly best selling Korean children's book from a few decades ago.

The story is, quite literally, about a piece of claymation doggy poo, "born" on the side of a street, having a bit of an existential quandary as he ponders what his purpose in life is. After enduring some ridicule, but also meeting some friendly mentors passing by, he realizes that life can be pretty complicated, but that everyone and everything has some kind of God-given purpose in life... even a lowly piece of doggy poo.

In case you were wondering, the Korean title of this film is "Gangaji Ddong" which also quite literally means... "doggy poo" so... don't go looking for any answers about this movie's origin or strange subject matter there :)

All in all, it's a nice little story for the kids, even if it is about a piece of poop (not exactly the first thing you think of for kids as far as subject matter goes), and it even made me want to shed a little tear of joy at the end. And even if you didn't end up enjoying it all that much, at least you can tell all your friends that you've actually watched a film called Doggy Poo

The DVD: This DVD includes both an English version, as well as the original Korean version, with optional English subtitles. While watching the Korean version with English subtitles, I couldn't help but think about how much less was actually being said in the subtitles than in the actual film... and this is a children's story with a pretty simple script. Makes me wonder how much I'm missing by reading subtitles in some other foreign films...

The quality of the video seemed to me to be representative of the original source -- that is to say that some parts of it were filled with quite a noticeable amount of film grain, while others (like some of the backdrops that were computer animated) seemed pristine with sparkling color. But overall, not a bad transfer at all.

Audio was clean, clear, and easy to understand, but beyond that, nothing to write home about. There are a number of special features on this disc, including a Korean behind-the-scenes documentary (with English subtitles), story boards, trailers for this movie, as well as trailers for some other ones.