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The Ugly Duckling and Me

Never trust a film poster like this.

The Ugly Duckling and Me is a 2006 Danish movie (made in English) that tells the story of a rat, Ratso, who gets saddled with a very ugly duckling who thinks Ratso is his 'mama'. Ratso plans to exhibit Ugly (as everyone starts calling the duckling) as a sideshow freak, thus a portion of the movie deals with their journey to the carnival where Ratso's cousin Ernie works, with all sorts of bumps along the way.

This film contains examples of:

Amazingly Embarrassing Dad: Bemoaned by Ugly when Ratso starts provoking him to conclude that he's become a teenager.
Beautiful All Along: Of course.
Cats Are Mean: Subverted with Ernie.
Calling the Old Man Out
Children Raise You
Completely Different Title: The Brazillian dub of this movie is known as "Putz! A Coisa T� Feia" (translating to something like "Damn! Things Just Got Ugly").
Falling in Love Montage: Jessie and Ugly
Feather Fingers: Gets a bit silly after a while...
Four-Fingered Hands
Funny Animal
Great Escape: Ratso's escape from the duckyard.
Hand Puppet: "William".
Happily Adopted
Heel Realization
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Swan-Ugly and Jessie.
Informed Ugliness: Just about everything and everyone reacts this way to Ugly.
Love Redeems
Mouse World
My God, You Are Serious: Jessie's reaction to Ugly's amazing 'dancing'.
My Name Is Not Durwood: "Jeff".
Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer made it appear that Ugly was being exhibited as the world's ugliest duckling right from the start (and as more of a routine thing than in the film). Not the case in the movie.
No Cartoon Fish
Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Done to Ugly (twice)
Rule of Funny: Probably the only reason why a cat can be a rat's cousin.
Shout Out: To both Aliens and Titanic. Someone on-staff must've been a James Cameron fan.
Showdown at High Noon: Ratso prepares for one of these when he goes to rescue Ugly.
Runaway Fianc�: Ratso.
Stage Dad
Shotgun Wedding: Between Ratso and Phyllis
Talking To Themself: Ernie and William.