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** I'm guessing nobody saw him do it, so they didn't have enough evidence to press charges. Prune juice isn't always unique to a specific jug like fingerprints or DNA, and it's entirely possible for a defense attorney to reasonably argue that a troublemaking kid was pulling what he thought was an innocent prank on the construction boss.

* How could Muntz have been out to catch one specimen of one species of bird and never have come close to catching it for '''70 YEARS?!'''
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*** Personally I always felt that the collars just interpret the dog's body language, obviously to a cartoony extreme, but still more credible for me than mechanical telepathy with 40s technology.
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*** Even if they were not poor and just middle class a trip to South America can be very expensive, particularly to an unexplored zone, in any case Carl did bought tickets to South America at some point as shown in the montage, but Ellie get sick before they can go.
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*** Muntz didn't jump, he was pulled out of the window while trying to grab Russel, but yes still it wasn't Carl's fault.
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*** Technically non of the dogs talks, the special collars whether interpret their body languages and translate it into human words (my personal theory) or read their brainwaves.

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*** Technically non of the dogs talks, talk, the special collars whether interpret their body languages and translate it into human words (my personal theory) or read their brainwaves.
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*** Technically non of the dogs talks, the special collars whether interpret their body languages and translate it into human words (my personal theory) or read their brainwaves.
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*** Then good thing Russell couldn't eat his!
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** We have squirrels here in South America, y'know?
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** He was going to, but when he saw that they were literally dragging an entire house along behind them, he presumed that someone wouldn't have go to such lengths to fool him and try to "steal" his bird, so he deemed they were innocent enough to ''not'' have to be torn apart by his dogs. It wasn't until Russel mentioned Kevin later that he changed his mind.

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** He was going to, but It's implied that he only murdered people he had reason to believe were after the bird - when he saw that they Carl and Russel were literally dragging an entire house along behind them, he presumed decided that someone wouldn't have go no one would've gone to such lengths just to try and fool him him, and try to "steal" his bird, so he deemed that they were innocent enough to ''not'' have to be torn apart by his dogs. trusted. It wasn't until Russel mentioned Kevin later on that he changed his mind.
mind, and it's possible (as suggested on the NightmareFuel page) that similar circumstances were what befell his other victims, to whom he was initially trusting, until a perfectly innocent comment or remark sent him over the edge.
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** He was going to, but when he saw that they were literally dragging an entire house along behind them, he presumed that someone wouldn't have go to such lengths to fool him and try to "steal" his bird, so he deemed they were innocent enough to ''not'' have to be torn apart by his dogs. It wasn't until Russel mentioned Kevin later that he changed his mind.

* If Carl was caught pouring prune juice into the gas tank of the head of construction around his house, why didn't the construction company press charges? Pouring foreign fluids into a car's gas tank can do a lot of damage to it.
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** I think it was kind of a rallying cry, as Russell and him were now a team (as opposed to a reluctant guardian and tagalong) facing grave danger.

* If Muntz was so off his nut and paranoid at this point, why did he spare Carl and Russell in the beginning? Since it is implied he murdered anyone else who stumbled upon his cove, why didn't he just wait in the shadows and watch the dogs rip them apart?
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* Was there anything significant to Carl using the "Caw-caw! Rawr!" call to get Russel's attention as he was climbing the outside of the blimp during the climax? I always thought it was meant as sort of like "Russel! Pick up the slack, take out those planes, and get me some help over here!", but I couldn't help but wonder whether there was something else to it that I missed.
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*** This seems improbable - through him asking "What do I do now, Ellie?", the film implies that it was something he hadn't come up with until the night before, and the officer who brought him home told him the folks from the retirement home would be there to pick him up the next morning.
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*** Adoption agencies have limited budgets themselves and a duty to the children in their care. They want to make sure the prospective parents are actually able to take care of the kids without needing help from others.
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*** "Hello, is this the FAA? Yes, the ''Spirit of Adventure'' is moored at our ice cream shop!... ''Spirit of Adventure?'' Charles Muntz flew it to South America around 1940 and was never seen again, but an old man and a Wilderness Explorer just flew it up to our ice cream... hello? Hello?"
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** Given that they both had to work, and were using loose change to save up for Paradise Falls, and they had to keep breaking into their Paradise Falls fund to pay for stuff, it seems that they were very probably dirt poor. Thus, as the above troper noted, their honeymoon was repairing the house. Actually (although maybe it was because I had seen this the day before), it reminded me of ItsAWonderfulLife more than anything, because the exact same thing happens.

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** Given that they both had to work, and were using loose change to save up for Paradise Falls, and they had to keep breaking into their Paradise Falls fund to pay for stuff, it seems that they were very probably dirt poor. Thus, as the above troper noted, their honeymoon was repairing the house. Actually (although maybe it was because I had seen this the day before), it reminded me of ItsAWonderfulLife ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' more than anything, because the exact same thing happens.
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*** After thinking about it for a bit, this is what I've come up with: Russell's parents are divorced because his father cheated on his mother. In the divorce his mom got custody, but Russell goes to live with his dad on the weekends. The time spent in South America was when he was supposed to be with his father, but his father didn't even notice he left to get a Wilderness Explores badge and never came back.//
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*** After thinking about it for a bit, this is what I've come up with: Russell's parents are divorced because his father cheated on his mother. In the divorce his mom got custody, but Russell goes to live with his dad on the weekends. The time spent in South America was when he was supposed to be with his father, but his father didn't even notice he left to get a Wilderness Explores badge and never came back.//
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Which would make his a terrible father.
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** I'd like to think that Carl told her that he'd be there to give Russel the badge. She didn't seem to make a commotion while Russel was standing onstage without his father.
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**That never happened. The old man was just imagining things.

* At the badging ceremony, we see a happy woman with Dug. That must be Russel's mom. If she was there, couldn't she give him the badge? Of course despite this his dad should have been there but still.
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* Soon after Carl lets Russell into his flying house, Carl tries to lower Russell down to the ground but accidentally lets go. Then we see Russell back in the house. How does Russell get back in?
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**** You're a monster, and you're going straight to hell.
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** [[GurrenLagann Spiral power]].

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** [[GurrenLagann [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral power]].
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** Well, Golden Retrievers are actually hunting dogs. Maybe Muntz wanted some soft-mouthed breed to, well, ''retrieve'' the bird after it had been caught. For all we know, he has spaniels around to help flush it out! And don't we see some hounds in there? They'd be better at tracking the bird. Alpha, Beta, Gamma should be team leaders, organizing the pack's hunts, rather than running around themselves. And why doesn't he have a Poodle or a Border Collie in there, too? Unless those breeds proved ''too'' intelligent and independent for Muntz's purposes . . .
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** Have you ever ''tried'' setting one of those things up? All those poles that keep hitting you in the head and elastics and the thing keeps falling over when you try to put the thing in it? And then there's those dealies on the bottom with the little holes in them that you're supposed to put those other doohickets into to hold the other stuff up and they never fit and then it starts raining and that thing that goes over the other thing keeps blowing away and ...

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** Have you ever ''tried'' setting one of those things up? All those poles that keep hitting you in the head and elastics and the thing keeps falling over when you try to put the thing in it? And then there's those dealies on the bottom with the little holes in them that you're supposed to put those other doohickets into to hold the other stuff up and they never fit and then it starts raining and that thing that goes over the other thing keeps blowing away and ...and THAT'S when you have a team of adults working on it. Doing it by oneself is nigh-on ''impossible''. And Russell's just a little kid ...
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*** Also, I think it's fair to quote the RuleOfFunny on this one.

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*** Also, I think it's fair to quote the RuleOfFunny on this one. Also, COATIMUNDI! isn't quite as succinct.
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**I'm definitely sure Carl would've found out about the house eventually anyway.
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** The biplane flying dogs are reminiscent of PorcoRosso.

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** The biplane flying dogs are reminiscent of PorcoRosso.''Anime/PorcoRosso''.



*** They would have been reminiscent if they were anthropomorphic dogs, like how [[PorcoRosso Marco]] was human in everything but his head. The reference is very distant at best.

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*** They would have been reminiscent if they were anthropomorphic dogs, like how [[PorcoRosso [[Anime/PorcoRosso Marco]] was human in everything but his head. The reference is very distant at best.
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** It was the same leafblower at the start of the movie. As for how he got it, I don't know.
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* Where did Russell get that leaf blower he uses to go after the Spirit of Adventure? The only thing remaining of the exterior of Carl's house is his porch, and we never see or hear him going inside the house while Carl is looking through the Adventure Book.

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