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.

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[[Category:Animated Films]]

[[Category:Nickelodeon]]

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