Wow! One of the greatest movies I have ever seen. Because of the great voice talent? Not really. For the amazing animation? Hardly. (Worse than 60's HB's). The animated characters on a live-action background? That helped convince me to rent it after my wife's reminiscing. But when she told me that it was a sad cartoon movie and doesn't have a standard happy ending, I said, "Oh, we must see this." Being an Austrailian film, it's not easy to find, (We wrote a few e-mails to Netflix before it became available) but well worth it. It is very touching and bold, and the characters are deeper than the animation leads you to believe. Yoram Gross's vision, assumably, was to expose kids to the Bush's' point of view which he did a swell job. Overall, a frolicking adventure that opens with a girl (Dot) crying because she is lost in the bush. The kangaroo that finds and helps her has also lost her joey. After the parents give up on her and the roo is almost killed protecting Dot, she returns home never to see her friend again. I have never in my life seen such a sad kids movie but my two young daughters were both moved and very much enjoyed it. A MUST on many levels.
Review of Dot and the Kangaroo
