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* LighterAndSofter: Believe it or not, the weirdness and surrealism has been notably toned down from the novel. The novel, while still mainly a wacky comedy, was also a good deal DarkerAndEdgier, with a fair bit of NightmareFuel; the villains were scarier and more competent, and the perils were a lot more tenseful. THe movie takes on a much more lighthearted tone with goofier villains and more cartoony perils.
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A....VERY strange Norwegian animated film from 2015 about two silly, but musically gifted friends named Tootson and Ludiwood (Knutsen & Ludvigsen in the original Norwegian), and their badger roommate Badgero, who live in a tunnel. The film describes their meeting with a pretty woman named Amanda, and the adventure they embark on to help save her scientist father from the diminutive but dangerous Rasputin and his henchmen, who want to... you guessed it... TakeOverTheWorld. Tootson and Ludiwood aren't exactly what you'd call traditional heroes, though, and so the rescue mission quickly turns out to be more of a series of goofy shenanigans. (The movie is loosely based on the novel ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen og den gale bergenser'' ("Tootson & Ludiwood and the Madman from Bergen.")
2020 saw an even stranger sequel, ''Two Buddies and a Badger 2 -- The Great Big Beast,'' in which Tootson and Ludiwood (and Badgero) have to deal not only with the fact that a mysterious, big and potentially dangerous beast has taken up living in their tunnel, but they also face the threat of being evicted from that tunnel when a strange female conductor shows up and tells them the government has decreed living in tunnels is illegal. In desperation, they set out to look for Tootson's grandfather, an old retired pirate named Captain Tootson, to ask for his help. What follows is a series of absurd and surreal adventures that takes them to such diverse places as the North Pole and FluffyCloudHeaven. (This movie is loosely based on the strage play ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen''.)
The universe of the movies is based on the caricatures of Øystein Dolmen and Gustav Lorentzen, a real-life duo of children's songwriters and comedians who got their start in the 1970s, and who over the next couple of decades released seven music albums, starred in a couple of radio dramas for children, been in sketch shows and books and featured in a stage play (which was later made into a live-action movie which disappointingly enough did not feature Dolmen and Lorentzen as the titular characters). The duo were popular enough in Norway to be awarded two ''Spellemannprisen'' -- the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy -- and several of their songs are known to pretty much all Norwegians.
In recent years they've gained something of a CultClassic following, which spawned these movies, which could best be described as ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''-very Lite, mixed in with some catchy tunes.
2020 saw an even stranger sequel, ''Two Buddies and a Badger 2 -- The Great Big Beast,'' in which Tootson and Ludiwood (and Badgero) have to deal not only with the fact that a mysterious, big and potentially dangerous beast has taken up living in their tunnel, but they also face the threat of being evicted from that tunnel when a strange female conductor shows up and tells them the government has decreed living in tunnels is illegal. In desperation, they set out to look for Tootson's grandfather, an old retired pirate named Captain Tootson, to ask for his help. What follows is a series of absurd and surreal adventures that takes them to such diverse places as the North Pole and FluffyCloudHeaven. (This movie is loosely based on the strage play ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen''.)
The universe of the movies is based on the caricatures of Øystein Dolmen and Gustav Lorentzen, a real-life duo of children's songwriters and comedians who got their start in the 1970s, and who over the next couple of decades released seven music albums, starred in a couple of radio dramas for children, been in sketch shows and books and featured in a stage play (which was later made into a live-action movie which disappointingly enough did not feature Dolmen and Lorentzen as the titular characters). The duo were popular enough in Norway to be awarded two ''Spellemannprisen'' -- the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy -- and several of their songs are known to pretty much all Norwegians.
In recent years they've gained something of a CultClassic following, which spawned these movies, which could best be described as ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''-very Lite, mixed in with some catchy tunes.
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A....VERY strange Norwegian animated film from 2015 about two silly, but musically gifted friends named Tootson and Ludiwood (Knutsen & Ludvigsen in the original Norwegian), and their badger roommate Badgero, who live in a tunnel. The film describes their meeting with a pretty woman named Amanda, and the adventure they embark on to help save her scientist father from the diminutive but dangerous Rasputin and his henchmen, who want to... you guessed it... TakeOverTheWorld. Tootson and Ludiwood aren't exactly what you'd call traditional heroes, though, and so the rescue mission quickly turns out to be more of a series of goofy shenanigans. (The movie is loosely based on the novel ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen og den gale bergenser'' ("Tootson & Ludiwood and the Madman from Bergen.")
shenanigans.
2020 saw an even stranger sequel, ''Two Buddies and a Badger 2 -- The Great Big Beast,'' in which Tootson and Ludiwood (and Badgero) have to deal not only with the fact that a mysterious, big and potentially dangerous beast has taken up living in their tunnel, but they also face the threat of being evicted from that tunnel when a strange female conductor shows up and tells them the government has decreed living in tunnels is illegal. In desperation, they set out to look for Tootson's grandfather, an old retired pirate named Captain Tootson, to ask for his help. What follows is a series of absurd and surreal adventures that takes them to such diverse places as the North Pole and FluffyCloudHeaven. (This movie is loosely based on the strage play ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen''.)\n\n
The universe of the movies is based on the caricatures of Øystein Dolmen and Gustav Lorentzen, a real-life duo of children's songwriters and comedians who got their start in the 1970s, and who over the next couple of decades released seven music albums, starred in a couple of radio dramas for children, been in sketch shows and books and featured in a stage play (which was later made into a live-action movie which disappointingly enough did not feature Dolmen and Lorentzen as the titular characters). The second movie is very loosely based on this stage play, while the first movie is very loosely based on on the novel ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen og den gale bergenser'' ("Tootson & Ludiwood and the Madman from Bergen.")
The duo were popular enough in Norway to be awarded two ''Spellemannprisen'' -- the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy -- and several of their songs are known to pretty much allNorwegians.
Norwegians. In recent years they've gained something of a CultClassic following, which spawned these movies, which could best be described as ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''-very Lite, mixed in with some catchy tunes.
2020 saw an even stranger sequel, ''Two Buddies and a Badger 2 -- The Great Big Beast,'' in which Tootson and Ludiwood (and Badgero) have to deal not only with the fact that a mysterious, big and potentially dangerous beast has taken up living in their tunnel, but they also face the threat of being evicted from that tunnel when a strange female conductor shows up and tells them the government has decreed living in tunnels is illegal. In desperation, they set out to look for Tootson's grandfather, an old retired pirate named Captain Tootson, to ask for his help. What follows is a series of absurd and surreal adventures that takes them to such diverse places as the North Pole and FluffyCloudHeaven.
The universe of the movies is based on the caricatures of Øystein Dolmen and Gustav Lorentzen, a real-life duo of children's songwriters and comedians who got their start in the 1970s, and who over the next couple of decades released seven music albums, starred in a couple of radio dramas for children, been in sketch shows and books and featured in a stage play (which was later made into a live-action movie which disappointingly enough did not feature Dolmen and Lorentzen as the titular characters). The second movie is very loosely based on this stage play, while the first movie is very loosely based on on the novel ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen og den gale bergenser'' ("Tootson & Ludiwood and the Madman from Bergen.")
The duo were popular enough in Norway to be awarded two ''Spellemannprisen'' -- the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy -- and several of their songs are known to pretty much all
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A....VERY strange Norwegian animated film from 2015 about two silly, but musically gifted friends named Tootson and Ludiwood (Knutsen & Ludvigsen in the original Norwegian), and their badger roommate Badgero, who live in a tunnel. The film describes their meeting with a pretty woman named Amanda, and the adventure they embark on to help save her scientist father from the diminutive but dangerous Rasputin and his henchmen, who want to... you guessed it... TakeOverTheWorld. Tootson and Ludiwood aren't exactly what you'd call traditional heroes, though, and so the rescue mission quickly turns out to be more of a series of goofy shenanigans.
2020 saw an even stranger sequel, ''Two Buddies and a Badger 2 -- The Great Big Beast,'' in which Tootson and Ludiwood (and Badgero) have to deal not only with the fact that a mysterious, big and potentially dangerous beast has taken up living in their tunnel, but they also face the threat of being evicted from that tunnel when a strange female conductor shows up and tells them the government has decreed living in tunnels is illegal. In desperation, they set out to look for Tootson's grandfather, an old retired pirate named Captain Tootson, to ask for his help. What follows is a series of absurd and surreal adventures that takes them to such diverse places as the North Pole and FluffyCloudHeaven.
2020 saw an even stranger sequel, ''Two Buddies and a Badger 2 -- The Great Big Beast,'' in which Tootson and Ludiwood (and Badgero) have to deal not only with the fact that a mysterious, big and potentially dangerous beast has taken up living in their tunnel, but they also face the threat of being evicted from that tunnel when a strange female conductor shows up and tells them the government has decreed living in tunnels is illegal. In desperation, they set out to look for Tootson's grandfather, an old retired pirate named Captain Tootson, to ask for his help. What follows is a series of absurd and surreal adventures that takes them to such diverse places as the North Pole and FluffyCloudHeaven.
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A....VERY strange Norwegian animated film from 2015 about two silly, but musically gifted friends named Tootson and Ludiwood (Knutsen & Ludvigsen in the original Norwegian), and their badger roommate Badgero, who live in a tunnel. The film describes their meeting with a pretty woman named Amanda, and the adventure they embark on to help save her scientist father from the diminutive but dangerous Rasputin and his henchmen, who want to... you guessed it... TakeOverTheWorld. Tootson and Ludiwood aren't exactly what you'd call traditional heroes, though, and so the rescue mission quickly turns out to be more of a series of goofy shenanigans. \n\n (The movie is loosely based on the novel ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen og den gale bergenser'' ("Tootson & Ludiwood and the Madman from Bergen.")
2020 saw an even stranger sequel, ''Two Buddies and a Badger 2 -- The Great Big Beast,'' in which Tootson and Ludiwood (and Badgero) have to deal not only with the fact that a mysterious, big and potentially dangerous beast has taken up living in their tunnel, but they also face the threat of being evicted from that tunnel when a strange female conductor shows up and tells them the government has decreed living in tunnels is illegal. In desperation, they set out to look for Tootson's grandfather, an old retired pirate named Captain Tootson, to ask for his help. What follows is a series of absurd and surreal adventures that takes them to such diverse places as the North Pole andFluffyCloudHeaven.
FluffyCloudHeaven. (This movie is loosely based on the strage play ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen''.)
2020 saw an even stranger sequel, ''Two Buddies and a Badger 2 -- The Great Big Beast,'' in which Tootson and Ludiwood (and Badgero) have to deal not only with the fact that a mysterious, big and potentially dangerous beast has taken up living in their tunnel, but they also face the threat of being evicted from that tunnel when a strange female conductor shows up and tells them the government has decreed living in tunnels is illegal. In desperation, they set out to look for Tootson's grandfather, an old retired pirate named Captain Tootson, to ask for his help. What follows is a series of absurd and surreal adventures that takes them to such diverse places as the North Pole and
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* AscendedExtra: People who aren't familiar with the original ''Knutsen & Ludvigsen'' songs and stories (i.e. most people who aren't Norwegian) might be surprised to learn that Badgero isn't really a character in any of them. He's not even mentioned in the audio dramas or the original stage play, and he only appears in one song -- the song "Badger in Our Roof," which starts off this movie. However, since "Badger in Our Roof" was one of the most successful and well-known songs Øystein Dolmen and Gustav Lorentzen ever did, the idea of a badger living in the tunnel ceiling was already quite established (to the point where, when Dolmen and Lorentzen did in-character interviews as their characters, a pretty common question was "how's the badger doing?"). This movie has turned him into a full-fledged character and even makes him the big hero in the end.
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* GRatedDrug: At one point, Tootson and Ludiwood eat some 40 year old liqourice, and afterwards act like they're totally stoned; complete with hallucinations and a DisneyAcidSequence where they sing a song about a dog and a cow which barely makes sense in context. (Interestingly enough, the part about the licorice is cut from the English dub of the movie.. but the song ''isn't,'' meaning it comes totally out of left field with no explanation.)
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* GRatedDrug: At one point, Tootson and Ludiwood eat some 40 year old liqourice, licorice, and afterwards act like they're totally stoned; complete with hallucinations and a DisneyAcidSequence where they sing a song about a dog and a cow which barely makes sense in context. (Interestingly enough, the part about the licorice is cut from the English dub of the movie.. but the song ''isn't,'' meaning it comes totally out of left field with no explanation.)
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* DerangedAnimation: Exaggerated compared to the previous movie. {{Disney Acid Sequence}}s where people trip on bad liqourice, teleporting to the North Pole to find out that it's made out of ice cream, tropical bars manned by fish who only serve cod liver oil, and casual visits to FluffyCloudHeaven to break out dead relatives is just the start. One online reviewer described it as "the most 'yes, and' movie you'll ever see this year."
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* DerangedAnimation: Exaggerated compared to Even more than the previous movie. {{Disney Acid Sequence}}s where people trip on bad liqourice, teleporting to the North Pole to find out that it's made out of ice cream, tropical bars manned by fish who only serve cod liver oil, and casual visits to FluffyCloudHeaven to break out dead relatives is just the start. One online reviewer described it as "the most 'yes, and' movie you'll ever see this year."
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* DerangedAnimation: Taken UpToEleven compared to the previous movie. {{Disney Acid Sequence}}s where people trip on bad liqourice, teleporting to the North Pole to find out that it's made out of ice cream, tropical bars manned by fish who only serve cod liver oil, and casual visits to FluffyCloudHeaven to break out dead relatives is just the start. One online reviewer described it as "the most 'yes, and' movie you'll ever see this year."
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* DerangedAnimation: Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated compared to the previous movie. {{Disney Acid Sequence}}s where people trip on bad liqourice, teleporting to the North Pole to find out that it's made out of ice cream, tropical bars manned by fish who only serve cod liver oil, and casual visits to FluffyCloudHeaven to break out dead relatives is just the start. One online reviewer described it as "the most 'yes, and' movie you'll ever see this year."
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* AnachronismStew: To a bigger degree than the first movie, which just kind of took place in a vague time period. Here we get a lot more mixing and matching of various time periods, played for laughs and surrealism. For example, mobile phones with cameras exist, but they're rotary phones and the cameras attached are polaroids. That's not to mention the [[APirate400YearsTooLate heavy involvement of pirates in the plot]] despite the movie taking place ''long'' after TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy.
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* AnachronismStew: To a bigger degree than the first movie, which just kind of took place in a vague time period. Here we get a lot more mixing and matching of various time periods, played for laughs and surrealism. For example, mobile phones with cameras exist, but they're rotary phones and the cameras attached are polaroids. That's not to mention the [[APirate400YearsTooLate heavy involvement of pirates in the plot]] despite the movie taking place ''long'' after TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy.
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* APirate400YearsTooLate: Captain Tootson, who's a classic type pirate with a saber and a peg leg and everything, in a movie that takes place in what's at least approximately the modern day. Of course, with a movie as surreal as this he doesn't really feel terribly out of place.
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* DerangedAnimation: Taken UpToEleven compared to the previous movie. {{Disney Acid Sequence}}s where people trip on bad liqourice, teleporting to the North Pole to find out that it's made out of ice cream, tropical bars manned by fish who only serve cod liver oil, and casual visits to FluffyCloudHeaven to break out dead relatives is just the start.
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* ArtShift: In some parts of the movie the visuals briefly change. In the "Great Big Beast" song, we get a DisneyAcidSequence where a 3D-animated Tootson and Ludiwood interact with 2D-animated backdrounds and surroundings, and in one sequence, Tootson, Ludiwood and Captain Tootson are teleported through several animation styles, and complain about how cheap it looks.
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* ArtShift: In some parts of the movie the visuals briefly change.
** In the "Great Big Beast" song, we get a DisneyAcidSequence where a 3D-animated Tootson and Ludiwood interact with 2D-animatedbackdrounds backgrounds and surroundings, and in surroundings.
** When Tootson is chased by a polar bear at the North Pole, the visuals briefly take on the look of a 2D PlatformGame, complete with video game sound effects.
** In one sequence, Tootson, Ludiwood and Captain Tootson are teleported through several animation styles, and complain about how cheap it looks.
** In the "Great Big Beast" song, we get a DisneyAcidSequence where a 3D-animated Tootson and Ludiwood interact with 2D-animated
** When Tootson is chased by a polar bear at the North Pole, the visuals briefly take on the look of a 2D PlatformGame, complete with video game sound effects.
** In one sequence, Tootson, Ludiwood and Captain Tootson are teleported through several animation styles, and complain about how cheap it looks.
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* GRatedDrug: At one point, Tootson and Ludiwood eat some 40 year old liqourice, and afterwards act like they're totally stoned; complete with hallucinations and a DisneyAcidSequence where they sing a song about a dog and a cow which barely makes sense in context. (Interestingly enough, the part about the licorice is cut from the English dub of the movie.. but the song ''isn't,'' meaning it becomes even more of a BigLippedAlligatorMoment with zero explanation.)
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* GRatedDrug: At one point, Tootson and Ludiwood eat some 40 year old liqourice, and afterwards act like they're totally stoned; complete with hallucinations and a DisneyAcidSequence where they sing a song about a dog and a cow which barely makes sense in context. (Interestingly enough, the part about the licorice is cut from the English dub of the movie.. but the song ''isn't,'' meaning it becomes even more comes totally out of a BigLippedAlligatorMoment left field with zero no explanation.)
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* TheUnintelligible: One of the Great Nig Beast's heads is a little baby head which mainly speaks in incomprehensible baby babbles. The other heads understand it perfectly, though, and occasionally it does say some comprehensible words.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Conductor -- ''kind'' of, and after a rather long and complicated character history. In the original radio drama and the initial albums, the Conductor was portrayed as a friend of Tootson and Ludiwood, who chanced to meet them after falling off the train, and afterwards came by the tunnel for the occasional visit. However, for the stage musical which this movie loosely adapts, he underwent AdaptationalVillainy and became a FalseFriend and TheMole (though also a bit of a PunchClockVillain who was JustFollowingOrders). In this movie, the {{Gender Flip}}ped Conductor has lost the FalseFriend vibes and is openly on the side of the bad guy, but turns out to have quite a bit of sympathy for Tootson and Ludiwood and is really working against them because her older sister is bullying her into it. At the end of the movie she doesn't ''quite'' undergo a HeelFaceTurn, but she ''does'' get enough of her sister's bullying at the very end and pulls a ScrewThisImOuttaHere, upon which her role in the movie is essentially over.
