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Post by wifeofsmartass on Jul 9, 2008 3:21:17 GMT -5
Dot and the Kangaroo is a film that has animated characters set upon real backgrounds of the Australian brush. It's about a girl who gets lost and a female kangaroo helps her get home. It is based on a book, 19th century i think. Has anyone seen this movie?
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Post by Greasy on Jul 9, 2008 4:25:48 GMT -5
No, I don´t know this movie, but as I was a child, I have seen a similar cartoon like that, but I can´t remeber for the name.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Jul 9, 2008 6:47:05 GMT -5
They made a sequal to dot and the kangaroo called dot and the bunny, but i don't like it much. The first one is great! Or i think so anyways.
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Jul 10, 2008 0:32:40 GMT -5
I've got a bootleg DVD of another sequel called Dot and Santa Claus. Boy, is it ever weird. I mean, the way it goes randomly from place to place without much purpose made me all confused. It's hard to describe- I've only seen it once last Christmas. It's pretty bad, but in a funny way.
It's about how Dot is rescuing the kangaroo's Joey and for some reason needs the help of Mr. Aussie Outback G'day-mate transformed into Santa and riding on a kangaroo driven sleigh. They travel all over the world, or at least the stereotypical version of it.
The best parts are the sarcastic, cyncical lines given to one of the kangaroos pulling the sleigh, named Grumblebones or something like that. Then the credits have a swing version of the Australian national anthem.
One part demonizes the circus by comparing it to a prison for animals.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Jul 10, 2008 1:50:54 GMT -5
Whoa! That sounds like quite the trippy movie! Dot and the Kangaroo has always had a strange vibe to it, which is one reason why i like it. Its sad at the end when the kangaroo cries as dot is reunited with her family, for the kangaroo loved her like a joey. Apparently she used to have one but it was killed. The only sequal i have seen is dot and the bunny, and its horrible, plus the animation isn't as good as the first one.
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Post by Greasy on Jul 10, 2008 4:28:41 GMT -5
I have seen a cover from a DVD of Dot and the bunny.
Looks like a typical children´s cartoon.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Jul 10, 2008 5:19:53 GMT -5
Yep, that's exactly what it is. Whenever i see it, i think to myself, 'what the h*** is going on!!?'
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Post by Greasy on Jul 10, 2008 5:30:59 GMT -5
hehe, some movies are stupid.
I have seen some movies created in China or India.
But the movies are not based on their original stories.
I have seen a cover of one of those movies.
There was shown a little lion.
It looked like the story of Simba, but the lion had an other but familier name.
That is very strange, but stranger is that this movies you can buy in cheep stores where you can buy all things you need in usual life. Toys, clothes, kitchen tool and so on.
are there in the USA shops like this, too?
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Jul 10, 2008 7:36:06 GMT -5
Yeah, we have lots of those stores. They are sort of randomly everywhere.
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Post by Greasy on Jul 10, 2008 9:42:41 GMT -5
Yes, I don´t like them.
For me originals are better in quality, but to buy some things you need now and having not so much money are these shops like heaven.
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Jul 10, 2008 16:59:47 GMT -5
You should see some of the shameful knock-offs this company has of all the latest CG-animated movies. They've ripped off Ratatouille, Cars, Bee Movie, and Transformers- and possibly more. And worse, there are idiotic suckers who actually believe they're the real Disney or whatever movie- so they're sorely dissapointed.
Anyway- yeah, it's kind of a trippy movie. It's pretty amazing how bizarre and disorienting- sometimes downright surreal or creepy- animated kiddie cartoons can be.
Which kind of makes me glad that I mostly watched cartoons that were made purely for comedy's sake as a kid. Although I admit there are some pretty strange things on the gray-market dime-a-dozen VHS collections I watched as a kid. If I watched something like Dot and Santa Claus as a kid, I'm not sure if I'd be quite as sane- so to speak- as I turned out to be.
To name a couple I've seen off the top of my head, there's Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue! and Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure. I swear, animators are insane... XD
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Jul 11, 2008 2:31:46 GMT -5
OMG! I remember raggedy ann and andy! Soooo strange! And Gumby! Geez, those animators must have been high on something! I had not seen a gumby episode since i was 2, so a year ago my brother got a dvd of it for a laugh. And indeed, it was a huge laugh! It was the strangest thing ever! Then there was this looong episode of chunks of clay moving around to form abstract designs with the most bizarre music consisting of loud drums.
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Jul 13, 2008 13:30:47 GMT -5
Yeah, Gumby- when it dispenses with a linear storyline, and quite a bit of dialogue- is often the stuff of nightmares. I remember one in particular where a golf ball kept growing bigger and bigger. That one always gave me butterflies in my stomach. Gumby was totally psychedelic before psychedelic was even invented- sort of like The Three Cabelleros.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Jul 14, 2008 1:25:25 GMT -5
Ah, yes! The Three Cabelleros! I have very few memories of that cuz i've must of seen that like, 17 years ago! I remember mostly loads of bright hued backgrounds.
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Jul 14, 2008 19:14:30 GMT -5
That is pretty much the majority of the movie, besides the not so interesting "educational" segments about Latin America.
Anyway... the fact that the main characters in Dot and Santa Claus change from live action to cartoon without much explaination (it's maaaagiiic...) and the ambiguity of whether or not the Aussie-Outback guy is really Santa is especially confusing to me.
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