Donnick

Donnick is a series of animated short films created by Xavier Shaquille, who also voices the title character, and produced by Paramount Animation. The animation is provided by Rough Draft Studios. The short films feature a similar art-style to that of Fleischer Studios, as well as borrowing comedic humor from Looney Tunes and The Three Stooges.

The shorts (Brat of the Bath, Donnick the Daddy, Private Eye Westley, I'm in the Army, Now, Donnick's Can Can and Doggone Donnick) are released theatrically with various Paramount Pictures films from 2021 to 2022.

The short films are followed by a feature film, Donnick's Major Motion Picture, released on April 21, 2023.

Plot
While Donnick vocalizes Largo al Factotum, he notices a couple trying to get their daughter to take a bath. He interferes and decides to help in their situation as the girl's mother and father go out. After they leave, Donnick takes the girl inside her house. Inside, Donnick gets the hot water ready for the tub. Not noticing, he finds the little girl missing, although finds her outside, having tea party, then gets interrupted as Donnick grabs her arm and takes her to the tub. The girl says to him she will take her bath if he buys her a lollipop.

After buying the lollipop, the girl now wants a soda. After she decides takes advantage of Donnick throughout the story, they go back home and the girl asks for one more thing: clean the bathroom. After cleaning, she still doesn't want to yet, making Donnick loose his temper and chase the girl around the town. The chase ends with Donnick luring her into the pier and fall into the water.

When he returns returns home, the parents are home and Donnick explains the chase scene. It ends with with her parents punishing her and Donnick walking off vocalizing the end of Figaro's Aria.

Cast

 * Xavier Shaquille as Donnick Westley
 * Grey Griffin as Bratty Girl

Plot
A mother goose was taking sitting on her egg, she gets shot by hunters (offscreen). They take the body for cooked goose. Meanwhie, Donnick tries to buy eggs for breakfast at the store, until he gets kicked out for taking a carton without paying. Later, he goes out to the woods (where the goose was shot) and finds the goose's egg. He takes it home as he thinks it is filled with yolk.

When he returns home, he gets a frying pan and cracks it open, revealing a baby goose. Sad as it wasn't breakfast, he takes it off the pan and puts it outside. He later feels guilty and brings it back inside. Having no clue of the mother's whereabouts, Donnick decides to take care of the baby.

Unknown about raising a baby goose, he decides to do it his own way. He feeds it bread for breakfast and sardines for lunch and dinner, gives it a walk in a stroller and tells it bedtime stories.

Months later, the baby goose is grown up. Donnick hugs it goodbye and it flies off. He then sees a baby duck making a cute face and slams the door on it.

Cast

 * Xavier Shaquille as Donnick Westley
 * Frank Welker as Baby Goose / Baby Duck / Mother Goose

Plot
When Donnick gets ready for bed, he uses a magnifying glass to check for bedbugs on his bed and is fine to sleep in, while holding the magnifying glass in. He gets in bed and has a dream sequence.

He dreams of himself as a detective in a black and white version of his world. A woman steps into his office and asks for help; Her husband has been kidnapped. Donnick gets his equipment, puts on his overcoat and goes out to find him.

During the whole story, Donnick finds his first clue and it is cologne, then a fedora and then a tie. He shows the evidence to several store owners who sell what Donnick has and they tell them where he is going.

He later arrives at a men's club, where a mafia have the woman's husband hostage. Donnick fights the men in a gunfight, using a spring loaded gun with a punching glove on it, taking out all the men. In the aftermath, he frees the man and her wife rejoice.

It ends with Donnick holding up his magnifying glass to his eye saying, "No payment is needed for solving mysteries."

Cast

 * Xavier Shaquille as Donnick Westley

Plot
Donnick sees a sign saying "Join the army, see the world! Or what's left of it.", making him go inside a recruitment office next to him and later is in the army.

After being recruited in the army, he wears a army outfit and sits on a bench to nap. His nap is interrupted by the Sargent and he tells him to fall in the line. The solders forward march to target practice, however with Donnick, he runs out of the line to get there quickly. The Sarge gives him one more chance, and if he disobeys him again, he gets kicked out.

Some time later, in a battlefield outside of the city, the solders get word that the Sarge has failed to return and send Donnick to rescue him. After he is sent, he surprisingly gets captured. He gets taken to the enemy base, where the Sarge is detained. He uses his somewhat unique skills to defeat the enemy solders and the enemy sarge. He frees the Sarge and slaps his face, then says "I quit!", and leaves the office, holding a white flag and whistles out of the battlefield.

Cast

 * Xavier Shaquille as Donnick Westley
 * Nick Offerman as Sargent Temp O. Mentel
 * Karl Wiedergott as Solder #1
 * Chris Edgerly as Solder #2
 * Simon Pegg as Enemy Sargent

Plot
Donnick goes to the local cathedral theater. Inside, he watches a magician preform magic tricks. His finale begins with the ending part of Offenbach's "Can Can", which makes Donnick jump out of his seat and onto the stage, interrupting the finale and makes the magician chase him around.

It ends with the song coming to an end, making Donnick stop dancing, followed him getting kicked out of the theater. The manager puts up a sign that has Donnick's face on it, crossed out. Donnick gets up and leaves.

Cast

 * Xavier Shaquille as Donnick Westley
 * Tim Curry as Merlin the Magician

Plot
Donnick is at his house watching TV when he suddenly hears the doorbell ring. Getting up from his chair to open the door, he finds an elderly lady who asks him to look after her pet Yorkshire Terrier, Mr. Poofy, while she goes out to play a game of bingo at the bingo hall, to which Donnick agrees. However, the moment his owner is gone, Mr. Poofy reveals himself to be aggressive to anyone who isn't her and starts attacking Donnick, who then tries several ways to earn his trust.

First, Donnick takes Mr. Poofy out for a walk in the park, but it does not go well as the Yorkie misbehaves towards the other dogs and starts attacking and chasing them.

Next, back at Donnick's house, the man tries to feed Mr. Poofy some dog food, only for him to reject it. Thinking that he prefers higher-class meals, Donnick then prepares a gourmet feast for the little dog, but that too gets rejected as Mr. Poofy tosses the meal at Donnick's face.

Then, Donnick tries to give the dog a bath in the bathroom, but Mr. Poofy, apparently not a fan of bathing, refuses to go in the tub and eventually tricks Donnick into falling into the tub.

Desperate to find something that will get Mr. Poofy to like him, Donnick searches the attic for a squeaky ball, eventually finds one and tries to entice the tiny terrier with it. However, Mr. Poofy bites onto the ball and Donnick's hand, causing him a whole lot of pain as he tries to get the dog off of him, wrecking the interior of his house in the process.

Eventually, the old lady returns from her game of bingo, and in an instant, Mr. Poofy reverts to his friendlier state and happily jumps into her arms to lick her. The old lady, oblivious to the damage done to Donnick's house, not to mention her pet's attitude towards him, thanks the man and leaves, and Donnick is now happy, both to satisfy the old woman and to be free from Mr. Poofy's wrath.

Cast

 * Xavier Shaquille as Donnick Westley
 * Phyllis Smith as the Old Lady
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Mr. Poofy