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.
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 PlayStation 2 port and Dalmatians 4 for its Nintendo DS and Wii port.
Not to be confused with 101 Dalmatians. Even though the creators really wish you would.
Tropes pertaining to both films:
- Author Avatar: The crow, who also functions as a narrator. However, she ends up doing more than most Author Avatars do by participating in a Deus ex Machina near the end of the first movie.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: 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.
- Department of Redundancy Department: 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.
- Dalmatians 1: Butcher introduces himself as "Butcher, that means butcher."
- Dalmatians 2: "I love you" means "just that: I love you."
- Hate Sink: 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.
- Limited Animation: Like the other Dingo Pictures films, the animation is very choppy and stiff, with character animations looped a lot.
- Oddly Small Organization: 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.
The Dalmatians tropes:
- Babies Ever After: The movie ends with three new puppies being born.
- In Name Only: Their first Dalmatian movie bears little similarity to 101 Dalmatians, and if anything, comes across more like a rip-off of Oliver & Company, as it involves the child protagonists befriending a gang of Lovable Rogue canines and the two villain dogs come across as Expies of Roscoe and DeSoto. And there are only three dalmatian puppies, until the end of the story.
- The Smurfette Principle: Vera is the only female member of the Backstreet Dog Gang.
Dalmatians 2 tropes:
- The Cameo: Several characters from other Dingo Pictures movies, including Anastasia, her adoptive father, Boris, Judy's owner and Esmeralda are seen walking through the market.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Kruemel, Tuepfelchen and Vera do not appear.
- Covers Always Lie:
- The cover for the 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.
- The cover for Dalmatians 3 note shows a woman that heavily resembles Cruella de Vil. No such character exists in the movie.
- Female Feline, Male Mutt: Inverted with Charlie the cat and Lucy the Dalmatian.
- Flashback: The movie includes an eight-minute long flashback of the events in The Dalmatians
- Flashback with the Other Darrin: 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.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: Castor and Pollux have gone from running a cannery to running a dog pound.
- Pounds Are Animal Prisons: Pino, Sasha, and the junkyard dogs do not like being at the pound and want to leave.
