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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.

Much Better Than It Sounds.

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 Tá Feia" (translating to something like "Damn! Things Just Got Ugly").
Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Tons, at the end.
Everything's Better with Chickens
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 Alien 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 Fiancé: Ratso.
Stage Dad
Shotgun Wedding: Between Ratso and Phyllis
Talking To Themself: Ernie and William.
Ugly Cute: Ugly to a T.
- Ratso does so too.