Line #9 WesternAnimation/TheDalmatians


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3	''The Dalmatians'' (original title ''Auf der Suche nach den Dalmatinern'') is an animated film by Creator/DingoPictures.
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5	Kruemel and Tuepfelchen are two puppies who live together along with Tuepfelchen's brothers Toby and Timmy. While playing tag one day, Toby and Timmy go missing. Kruemel and Tuepfelchen encounter a junkyard dog gang that help them look for Toby and Timmy.
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7	A sequel was released titled ''Dalmatians 2'' (original title ''...noch mehr Dalmatiner'') about Kruemel and Tuepfelchen's puppies Pino, Sasha, and Lucy, and their encounter with the junkyard dogs. ''Dalmatians 2'' was also repackaged as ''Dalmatians 3'' for its Platform/PlayStation2 port and ''Dalmatians 4'' for its Platform/NintendoDS and Platform/{{Wii}} port.
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9	Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. Even though [[TheMockbuster the creators really wish you would]].
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11	!! Tropes pertaining to both films:
12	* AuthorAvatar: The crow, who also functions as a narrator. However, she ends up doing more than most Author Avatars do by participating in a DeusExMachina near the end of the first movie.
13	* BigBadDuumvirate: Castor and Pollux serve as the villains of both films. In the first flim, they kidnap Toby and Timmy and force them to work in their cannery, and in the second, they run the dog pound and abuse their captives.
14	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Each film has an example of an English word used as-is and then translated into the language of the dub. This creates redundancy in the English version.
15	** ''Dalmatians 1'': Butcher introduces himself as "Butcher, that means butcher."
16	** ''Dalmatians 2'': "I love you" means "just that: I love you."
17	* HateSink: Castor and Pollux are child slavers that constantly brag about how they beat the puppies and seemingly intend for Timmy and Toby to work until they drop dead. Their reappearance in ''Dalmatians 2'' don't make them anymore likable, given their treatment of the dogs at the dog pound.
18	* LimitedAnimation: Like the other Dingo Pictures films, the animation is very choppy and stiff, with character animations looped a lot.
19	* OddlySmallOrganization: In both of Castor and Pollux's workplaces (the cannery in ''Dalmatians 1'', and the pound in ''Dalmatians 2''), they seem to be the only employees. It's unknown why they didn't just hire more employees for the cannery, instead of snatching puppies off the street to be child laborers.
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22	!! ''The Dalmatians'' tropes:
23	* BabiesEverAfter: The movie ends with three new puppies being born.
24	* InNameOnly: Their first ''Dalmatian'' movie bears little similarity to ''Franchise/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', and if anything, comes across more like a rip-off of ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'', as it involves the child protagonists befriending a gang of LovableRogue canines and the two villain dogs come across as [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Roscoe and [=DeSoto=]. And there are only three dalmatian puppies, [[BabiesEverAfter until the end of the story]].
25	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Vera is the only female member of the Backstreet Dog Gang.
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28	!! ''Dalmatians 2'' tropes:
29	* TheCameo: Several characters from other Dingo Pictures movies, including Anastasia, her adoptive father, Boris, Judy's owner and Esmeralda are seen walking through the market.
30	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Kruemel, Tuepfelchen and Vera do not appear.
31	* CoversAlwaysLie:
32	** The cover for the Platform/PlayStation port shows a pair of Dalmatians and their puppies. Only two Dalmatian puppies appear in the movie, and their parents (who don't appear) are a Dalmatian and a cocker spaniel.
33	** The cover for ''Dalmatians 3'' [[note]]a repackaging of ''Dalmatians 2'' for the Platform/PlayStation2[[/note]] shows a woman that heavily resembles Cruella de Vil. No such character exists in the movie.
34	* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Inverted with Charlie the cat and Lucy the Dalmatian.
35	* {{Flashback}}: The movie includes an eight-minute long flashback of the events in ''The Dalmatians''
36	* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: Castor and Pollux have different voices from the first film, and during the flashback to the first film, they are portrayed as using the new voices, including different dialogue for some scenes.
37	* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Castor and Pollux have gone from running a cannery to running a dog pound.
38	* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Pino, Sasha, and the junkyard dogs do not like being at the pound and want to leave.

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