The Ugly Duckling and Me



The Ugly Duckling and Me is a 2006 Danish movie (made in English) that tells the story of a rat, Ratso, who gets saddled with a very ugly duckling who thinks Ratso is his 'mama'. Ratso plans to exhibit Ugly (as everyone starts calling the duckling) as a sideshow freak, thus a portion of the movie deals with their journey to the carnival where Ratso's cousin Ernie works, with all sorts of bumps along the way.

Much Better Than It Sounds.


 * Amazingly Embarrassing Dad: Bemoaned by Ugly when Ratso starts provoking him to conclude that he's become a teenager.
 * Beautiful All Along: Of course.
 * Cats Are Mean: Subverted with
 * Calling the Old Man Out
 * Children Raise You
 * Completely Different Title: The Brazillian dub of this movie is known as "Putz! A Coisa Tá Feia" (translating to something like "Damn! Things Just Got Ugly").
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Tons, at the end.
 * Everything's Better with Chickens
 * "Falling in Love" Montage: Jessie and Ugly
 * Feather Fingers: Gets a bit silly after a while...
 * Four-Fingered Hands
 * Funny Animal
 * Great Escape: Ratso's escape from the duckyard.
 * Hand Puppet: "William".
 * Happily Adopted
 * Heel Realization
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl:
 * Informed Ugliness: Just about everything and everyone reacts this way to Ugly.
 * Love Redeems
 * Mouse World
 * My God, You Are Serious: Jessie's reaction to Ugly's amazing 'dancing'.
 * My Name Is Not Durwood: "Jeff".
 * Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer made it appear that Ugly was being exhibited as the world's ugliest duckling right from the start (and as more of a routine thing than in the film). Not the case in the movie.
 * No Cartoon Fish
 * Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Done to Ugly
 * Rule of Funny: Probably the only reason why
 * Shout-Out: To both Alien and Titanic. Someone on-staff must've been a James Cameron fan.
 * Showdown At High Noon: Ratso prepares for one of these when he goes to
 * Stage Dad
 * Talking to Themself:
 * Ugly Cute: Ugly to a T.
 * Ratso does so too.
 * Ugly Cute: Ugly to a T.
 * Ratso does so too.