Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger Prowess (喜羊羊与灰太狼之虎虎生威), also known as Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - Desert Trek: The Adventure of the Lost Totem, is a 2010 movie based on the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf series, and the second in the series. It premiered on January 29th of that year.
Lord Japper, an evil tiger, attacks Goat Village by turning it into an amusement park and having everyone work there endlessly. In order to undo the drought his amusement park is causing, Weslie and Wolffy have to go find a special totem located in the desert.
The official Pleasant Goat YouTube channel has uploaded the film here
with English subtitles.
A third film, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - Moon Castle: The Space Adventure, premiered the following year.
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger Prowess contains the following tropes:
- All Deserts Have Cacti: Lord Japper creates an amusement park right where Goat Village is. The amusement park uses up energy from the ground, causing the surrounding area to dry up and become a desert... which somehow has cacti growing everywhere despite the series taking place in China which doesn't have cacti.
- Amusement Park: Lord Japper the tiger builds an amusement park right where Goat Village is. The goats have to put a stop to the amusement park when it uses up enough energy from the ground that it quickly dries up the surrounding area.
- Animal Mecha: The Tigbot King, the large robotic tiger powering the amusement park, is controlled by one of the villains near the end to attack the goats and wolves.
- Art Shift: The animation becomes a Mario-style video game when Weslie and Wolffy enter the temple. The Mario-esque sequences became commonplace in the show afterwards.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The villains consist of Lord Japper the tiger (big), Leopold the leopard (thin), and Counselor the gecko (short).
- Bullet Time: One scene emulates this effect when Wolffy throws a bunch of arrows at Leopold. When Leopold dodges the arrows, the scene slows down and the camera moves around him, complete with a rippling trail coming from the arrows.
- Chained Heat: Weslie and Wolffy end up chained together in the middle of the desert and must cooperate, trying to be set free.
- Evil Overlooker: One of the official pieces of artwork features the goats, Wolffy, and Lord Japper's assistants in the foreground, with Lord Japper himself above them, overlooking the scene while lightning appears above him.
- Hamster-Wheel Power: Lord Japper has Weslie run on a large hamster wheel-like apparatus to power the ferris wheel at his amusement park. Wolffy plays a prank on Weslie by spinning the wheel the other way, causing Weslie to lose balance and spin along with the wheel as Wolffy laughs at him.
- Hollywood Mirage: Lord Japper throws Weslie and Wolffy into the desert, where they try to find a pyramid described Mr. Slowy as having a special totem that can make them invincible. They come across several pyramids that they think is the one they're looking for, only for them to turn out to be mirages.
- Life Meter: Near the end of the film, the wolves and goats battle the Tigbot, a giant tiger mech serving as the power source for Lord Japper's amusement park. Throughout the entire sequence, every time the Tigbot is visible on-screen, it has a health bar which slowly depletes as the goats and wolves attack it.
- Magic Carpet: The sphinxes guarding the pyramid containing the totem give Weslie and Wolffy a flying carpet so that they can get back to the amusement park that was built where Goat Village is.
- Mobile Shrubbery: Wolffy walks around under a bush to avoid the various spotlights at Lord Japper's amusement park.
- Our Sphinxes Are Different: The two sphinxes guarding the temple of the totem have odd animal-centric heads, one resembling a goat and the other meant to be a wolf.
- Pain-Powered Leap: Weslie and Wolffy are in the temple containing the totem they are looking for and are suddenly surrounded by flames. Weslie jumps up to a pole that is hanging on the ceiling, but Wolffy cannot reach it, so he grabs a cactus and jumps on it to boost the height of his jump.
- Riddling Sphinx: Two sphinxes guard the temple of the totem and ask Weslie and Wolffy how many stars are in the sky. Weslie replies by saying there are as many stars in the sky as there are grains of sand in the desert, prompting the sphinxes to start counting the grains of sand. By the time Weslie and Wolffy make it out of the temple with the totem, the sphinxes are still counting the grains of sand.
- Stacked Characters Poster: A poster shows the different characters stacked on top of each other, with Lord Japper as an evil overlooker with lightning near him.
- Sudden Video-Game Moment: A scene where Weslie and Wolffy traverse the temple is made to look like one of the Super Mario Bros. games.
