What is Dot & The Kangaroo? - A Look At Australian Animation!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2023
- I return for 2023 to take a look at a bizarre yet oddly charming animated movie from Australia. I am unsure if I even like this or not, but...here we are!
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I rented this movie over and over along with other Dot films from my local independent video store as a young kid. I loved it and them so much. I got them (VHS tapes) from Ebay in my 20s and it was such a nostalgia trip. I have been watching them over and over as a form of comfort. I know that might seem weird because yes, they are somewhat creepy but...they just comfort me. Yay, Dot!
This has, hands down, the saddest ending in the movie -- but I do agree this is one of the most...offputting movie, yet the most compelling movie I've seen, and I only seen a clip of it >XD
Yeah, I don't like how the Kangaroo Leaves Before Dot Brings her Parents making her cry.
So this is where the Bunyip song comes from. I randomly got recommended the Murray bridge bun yip videos and the song in 2020, and now I know where the song comes from
This is one movie I watched at my grandparents
For some reason at 44 years old...after a nice bottle of wine..Saturday night..I decided to hunt down Dot and the kangaroo...just because I miss my childhood and wanted to feel how this movie used to make me feel...being a londonder...i cannot relate to the Australian Bush.. but I really wanted to get back to the place that as a 5yea r old this film took me to...I remember being quite freaked out all the way the through..but seeing Dot now as an animation was so different to how I remember believing that she was a real girl going on her journey with the kangaroo...such a different perspective..still cried at the end!! Maybe cos o had run out of wine though? X
It's cool to get someone's perspective having seen it from childhood! I know it may not seem like my cup of tea overall, but I do respect how unique and strange it is, despite it's serious pacing issues
Hahaha ,same I decided to hunt it down too .same reasons
This was my favorite movie when I was little. My mom said that when it was on, I wouldn't respond to anyone, you couldn't talk to me. I've seen it a thousand times, and cried at the end, every time.
I remember being a very young child and crying at the end.
I saw this movie as a child (around 10-ish) on vhs and boy, was it a trip!
As you said the pacing is bad, plus the live-action mix added to the reused footage makes a bit trippy (when is this song going to end? why did we just saw the dancing mouse from three scenes ago? etc).
The whole movie is mostly presenting different wild animals and the ending has a "wild animals should remain wild" message, which is good for little kids but that ending always hits like a truck, absolutely devastating.
Even so, I'm glad this movie is part of my childhood. Haven't watched any of the sequels (series?) lest they are as bad as the Swan Princess sequels or [some] Land before Time sequels.
Thank you for the review / analysis. Kudos!
My entire childhood, yet it wasn’t the best, it was my favorite
Dot and the Kangaroo is one of my favourite Yoram Gross films. Technically it was Yoram’s first animated movie and also the first Australian 2D Cartoon animated movie and his production team at the time was very small when compared to his later cartoons (like Blinky Bill, The Magic Riddle, Tabaluga, ect). It didn’t need to be made perfectly to make it good.
The sad ending I’m sure was to make room for the sequels (which there is about 8 of). Only a theory though. I am a bit of a nut with Yoram Gross cartoons and love finding out stuff about them.
It was altogether something of a Yoram Gross cartoon to re-use the same animation cels against different backgrounds which weirdly make sense to how it works in the storyline.
This is a triumph. It demonstrates animated versions of Australian animals which you don't often see animated -- and from an Australian perspective, back then that's pretty neat.
Also, imagine the kangaroo as a wild deer and Dot's family as rural graziers; they shoot the wild animals that break the fences and eat the grass. So, that could be a bit of the message of the 'boat' (white settler) girl being aided by a good-hearted nature.
Also, Manganinnie is another film from that era
I remember my grandma getting this movie for me from the flea market a long time ago and one of the thing i still remember till this day is the scene where the snake that was trying to eat the little girl get's absolutley bodied by that white bird with the woodpecker laugh.
For some reason younger me thought that was a really cool scene. 🤷♂️
i was in love with dot as a kid and i remember being excited every time i knew it was coming on. i still remember being mostly excited about it being part movie and part cartoon. i was a weird kid (no pun intended) and I'm still weird i guess but this movie was really one of my favorite.
Even though I'm not completely in love with it, there's something about it that just fascinates me. How odd it is, it's unique style, how...broken it feels lol it's a really interesting film of it's time
I really like this movie, unique animation not at its best, good songs and the moments when we're taken back from the wonderful fantasy world to the dark reality. The ending breaks my heart, don't know but it sounds like Dot is doing a Peach impression to me. Clickety Click is a really catchy song.
I want SteveReviews to watch this
I cried for 2 days after watching this in the early 90s and it's scarred me till today!!!!
Ah yes Flying Bark Productions' first feature animated film, formerly known as Yoram Gross Studios named after the founder himself until 2005 with their current name & logo & sigh 2015 which Yoram Gross passed away a few days after the 2015 Blinky Bill movie was in Australian Theaters. Before Blinky Bill and the Mischievous Koala in 1992 which is another popular series that was on until the 2000s & well more known stuff years later like Rise of the TMNT, Glitch Techs, Lego's Monkie Kid, 100% Wolf, Marvel's What If & Moon Devil & the upcoming Avatar & Stranger Things animated series.
✌️😃✌️My favorite Australian show is Bluey, for this movie it just need more improvement with its animals & plots.
That one song from Dot Goes To Hollywood is catchy. IMDb credits Barbara Frawley (Who voiced Dot in this movie) as Dot. Did she fill in for Robyn Smith during some parts?
I remember also being scared by several other elements. Some of the animation, probably because of how crude it was in some scenes. When the Kangaroo faced the screen like right there 8:10. And the climax with the Indigenous men (see how they look), combined with the eerie music that was played.
I grew up with this movie on HBO back in the 80s. When I rediscovered it on VHS in the 90s I found my longstanding terror of the Bunyip sequence justified. One thing you didn't mention is that Kangaroo is missing her Joey for the entire movie, and this ends... completely unresolved.
Later I also watched Dot and the Bunny (3rd in the series) which is basically a retread of D&TK, with whole songs and sequences reproduced. And Kangaroo is STILL searching for her joey, whom she never finds. (The titular Bunny pretends to be her lost joey.) This bugged me for YEARS. Why would you leave this unresolved in a kids film? It's not even unresolved in the BOOK FROM THE 1800s IT'S BASED ON.
Well, if you watch the 2nd movie in the series, Dot and Santa Claus, at the end Dot finds Kangaroo's joey, and then a bizarrely live-action Dot promises to return him to his mother. So the first two movies are the ultimate Dot setup/catharsis experience. I'm sure the other movies end up in even more unhinged places... there are 9 Dot movies in all.
Wow! That's very informative. Didn't realize the Dot lore went that deep 🤣 and yes, I completely forgot to talk about that plot aspect in the review. I was distracted by everything else that was happening lol
@@Themeowingsnail Yeah, it really excels at going from plodding to off-putting! The songs are in my kid-brain forever.
3:41 I got joked and clowned by my family for being scared of this, didn’t think other people were scared as kids too
Ow, that end. I felt the same way about Kiki's Delivery Service.
Dot's face 💀💀💀 5:27
Lmao, yeah the art style/animation changes almost every scene
@@Themeowingsnail You should review the other sequels once you get the chance!
@BrerKangaroo maybe some day! I have a lot of ideas of things I could review, but I'm often busy IRL or busy doing my art on Twitter. Thank you for subscribing though!
There's also a new dot and the kangaroo movie coming out but its not from yoram gross films.
@@BrerKangaroo i know its great i hope!!! :}
he needs to do the other movies
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Their sequels weren’t that bad though I just thought there were not as bad as the land before time sequels I’ve seen in my childhood.
I got the real Gary'your imposter
At the end, they used a male kangaroo for the life action scene instead of a female. I mean, his scrotum is clearly visible.
Lots of American children (Gen X) watched this on HBO, i must have seen it at least 20 times.
I loved it so much, I bought the dvd when my kids were little. This and Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas, were always my very favorites as a very young child. 😢
No wonder I have depression issues.😢🫤
What about the sequels?
Haven't seen them! I came across this years ago by chance and it was the only one I focused on.
The animation is bad