Dot & the Kangaroo

I surprised myself today. My favourite movie as a kid was Dot and the Kangaroo. For it's time, the animation was good, but to make it even better, they teamed animation with real life photography as well. Anyway, every time I saw it, I sang along to all the songs, felt chills up my spine in the billabong scene where the bunyip may have been lurking under the water and shared Dots journey with her. The final scene always ALWAYS made me cry. I remember promising a babysitter that I wouldn't cry once, but I still did. It was just tragic to a little girl! Anyway, I recently discovered the joys of youtube. I have been revisiting old favourites like Degrassi Junior High, Monkey Magic and Morph. I decided to check and see if my old friend Dot was on there. Sure enough, the entire movie, broken down into about 12 parts, is on there. I watched bits and pieces of the movie before deciding to revisit the final scene. I'm 27 years old, it has been at least 20 years since I watched it......I had to turn it off...I had tears welling in my eyes, the emotion after all these years is still SO raw! "Kangaroo! Come back! Come back Kangaroo!!!" Oh! Just blogging about it is making me choke up!!! Brilliant movie, any animation that can still make me cry after 20 years is a winner!!