Dot and the Kangaroo (film): Difference between revisions

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* [[A Boy and His X]]/[[Adventure Duo]]/[[Interspecies Friendship]]: The titular characters.

*** Averted in the book; the emus have their appearences. Including the one Dot and the Kangaroo interacted with.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The kangaroo shows Dot on how everything does.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Dot was finally home and tells her parents about where she had been and what she had been doing. She wants to show her parents the kangaroo, but the kangaroo is gone. Dot wants the kangaroo to come back, but the kangaroo didn't. Willy says to Dot to cheer herself up and reminds her that the kangaroo is going home and her home is the bush where she must have her freedom. Dot couldn't help herself and she still wants the kangaroo to come back, then she began to cry over the kangaroo as she will never see her again. After this scene, the credits roll.

* [[Big Bad]]: The aborigines.

** The bunyip counts this as well during The Bunyip Song.

* [[Big Good]]: The kangaroo.

* [[Book Ends]]: The opening and ending scenes feature Dot crying.

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Played straight in the book, where Dot, the kangaroo and her joey say goodbye to each other. Averted in the film, where the kangaroo just left for her home.

** Mr. Platypus is [[The Sword in the Stone|Archimedes]]: They're [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|grumpy, but helpful.]]

** Willy Wagtail is [[The Three Caballeros|The Aracuan Bird]]. They are birds and [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloudcuckoolanders]].

** The three kangaroo rats in the song "Clickety-Click" are [[The Andrews Sisters]]. They're singing trios.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]: The kangaroo got a cut and was bleeding after climbing off the cliff.

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: The bitterns are known to be little birds with loud voices.

* [[No Name Given]]: The titular kangaroo and the other animals.

* [[Oh Crap]]:

** Dot got lost in the gully and suddenly got scared of the noises.

** Even counts this as a [[Tear Jerker]] song.

* [[Pie-Eyed]]: Dot got those when thunder strikes and starts to rain.

{{quote|'''Bittern 2''': We bitterns maybe little birds...

'''Bittern 1''':...but we have (in a deep voice) '''''[[Large Ham|VERY. BIG. VOICES!]]'''''}}

** The animals running from the music stating that it's danger was similar to the dinosaurs running for their lives from the [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] from [[Fantasia]].

*** Another reference from the same film was that the kangaroo anxiously fights with one of the dingoes and getting herself injured after climbing off the cliff just like when the Stegosaurus fights with the Tyrannosaurus Rex and he wins with the Stegosaurus killed.

*** Another reference from Bambi was that the kangaroo says to the animals that her joey was gone just like when Bambi lost his mom and she gets shot and killed.

** The ending was the reference of [[Charlotte's Web]] where the kangaroo says to Dot that she has to leave but she wouldn't listen to the kangaroo very closely, quickly reunites with her parents and granduncle and wants to show her parents the kangaroo but she's gone. Dot wants the kangaroo to come back for a minute but she still won't. Willy says to Dot that the kangaroo is going home which is the bush where she must have her freedom and this time Dot listened very closely. Dot tries to cheer herself up; but she couldn't help it, she still wants the kangaroo to come back and then begins to cry over her as she will never see the kangaroo again just like when Wilbur wants Charlotte to come back to the barn with him and Templeton but she won't; she sings the sad reprise of "Mother Earth and Father Time" to Wilbur and then dies causing him to cry over her.

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