!! For the 1995 film:
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is very beautiful. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8yTxDG_JyA&feature=related Case in point...]]
* CultClassic: The film was a critical and commercial failure on release, and critcs slammed it for its unusually downbeat tone for a family movie. Still, viewers who grew up watching it on home video have been somewhat kinder to it.
* FridgeHorror: According to the movie, everyone can reincarnate into someone else, particularly different species. Also, that fly you killed yesterday? Someone's reincarnated grandfather.
* TearJerker: The whole damn movie!
** Rumbo's sudden death can be upsetting for some.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Despite being targeted at a kids/family demographic and a similar feel to other talking dog movies of the 90's like Homeward Bound, it's chock full of NightmareFuel and [[TearJerker Tear-jerking]] moments, particularly in the first half.

!! For the original 1977 novel:

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Fluke's conversation with a frog, who proves dismissively indifferent to the very concept of the existence of anything beyond his glade home.
-> '''Fluke:''' You'll never turn into a handsome prince!
-> '''Frog:''' What's a handsome?
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