The Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf film series is based on China's famous cartoon, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. Its first movie, The Super Adventure, premiered in 2009. Like the series itself, it is produced by Creative Power Entertaining.
The series is about the goats outwitting a wolf named Wolffy, at least before the writers decided to throw in some sci-fi and fantasy plots and place the "wolf wants to eat goats" plot by the wayside. The movies, like many film series based on comedy series, really amps up the stakes by having more intricate plots that force the goats to save the world, with help from the wolves.
The series consists largely of animated films, with the only two exceptions being a pair of experimental live-action films called I Love Wolffy that released in the early 2010's.
The following films are in the series:
Animated films- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Super Adventure (2009) - The goats shrink themselves to try and stop a bacteria war occuring inside of Mr. Slowy's snail.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger Prowess (also known as Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - Desert Trek: The Adventure of the Lost Totem) (2010) - To stop a tiger named Lord Japper from turning the area surrounding Goat Village into a desert from the energy his amusement park is using, Weslie and Wolffy have to co-operate to find a special totem.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - Moon Castle: The Space Adventure (2011) - The gang is greeted by a moon rabbit named Wandi, who brings them to the moon to defeat the Bitter Gourd King and prevent him from making the moon bitter.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf -- Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail (2012) - The gang is aided by a dragon named Xiao Shen Long as they go to save the Dragon's World from evil dragons.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf -- The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness (2013) - The goats must use a spaceship called the Ark to escape from a big flood affecting Goat Village, but have to have a snake - a species considered extinct - on board to activate it. As they learn, there are actually still snakes out there.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Meet the Pegasus (2014) - The gang wants their storybook to have a happy ending. To achieve this, they have to help Prince Pegasus to get married.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Amazing Pleasant Goat (2015) - The other goats must come to the rescue when Weslie, Paddi, and Wolffy all wind up in prehistoric times, and while there Weslie must also defeat a big stone dragon. This film was made to celebrate the Pleasant Goat franchise's 10th anniversary.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Dunk for Future (2022) - A tie-in to the season Dunk for Victories, in this movie, the goats must train for and play in an upcoming basketball game with Team Tiger.
Live-action films
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: I Love Wolffy (2012) - Wolffy, Wolnie, and Paddi end up in the real world thanks to Wolffy's newest gadget and must go locate it.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: I Love Wolffy 2 (2013) - Wolffy and his family go to the real world again to find the Wolf King Quartz and save himself from abdicating the Wolf King throne.
Tropes in the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf movies as a unit:
- 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The films mix CG into the traditional animation. For example, the panda family in The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness and the dragons in Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail are animated in CGI.
- And There Was Much Rejoicing: Whenever the Big Bad is defeated, others celebrate.
- Big Damn Movie: They all have very dramatic plots, much more so than the show, but to name a few examples:
- The first movie is about the goats going into the body of Mr. Slowy's snail to fight a bacteria war.
- The second is about everyone working together to save Qing Qing grassland.
- The third film is about them saving the moon.
- Canon Foreigner: The films feature characters that are made specifically for them and never appear in the original TV show.
- Covers Always Lie: A CGI movie was announced in 2016 (it would be replaced in its release by Dunk for Future, but the posters have the characters appear in 2D. The poster released in 2018 finally averts this by showing the CGI style.
- Eastern Zodiac: The various animals of the zodiac are the subject of the earlier movies. Creative Power Entertaining was originally going to make films for all 12 of the animals in the zodiac but stopped doing so after the seventh filmnote . Specifically, the animals represented by the films are as follows:
- The Super Adventure uses the bull as its associated animal. No actual bulls appear in the film, but the bacteria kingdoms are called the White Bull Kingdom, the Black Bull Kingdom, and the Yellow Bull Kingdom.
- The Tiger Prowess uses the tiger as its animal by featuring a tiger named Lord Japper as its antagonist.
- Moon Castle: The Space Adventure features the rabbit as its animal by featuring the goats helping Wandi the rabbit and his sister, Queen Luna, to save the moon.
- Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail as suggested by the title, prominently features dragons as characters and has one of the dragons, Xiao Shen Long, helping the goats to save the Dragon's World from evil dragons.
- The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness uses the snake as its animal by featuring a family of snakes as some of its main characters. The goats have to find a snake to activate the Ark spaceship and save everyone from a big flood, which is hard for them since snakes are believed to be an extinct species to them; the snake family comprises the last known members of the species.
- Meet the Pegasus features a horse as its animal, or more specifically the pegasus. The goats try to create a happy ending for a fairy tale involving a pegasus prince who wants to marry a princess.
- Amazing Pleasant Goat uses the goat as its animal by having the main characters traveling back in time and meeting a bunch of prehistoric goats.
- Enemy Mine: The films frequently feature the goats and the wolves teaming up to fight a common enemy.
- Face on the Cover: One poster of the CGI movie that got replaced by Dunk for Future is Wolffy's smirking face.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Up until the sixth film, the English titles of the films had "adventure" or "adventures" somewhere in them.
- The Super Adventure
- The Tiger Prowess has an alternate title, Desert Trek: The Adventure of the Lost Totem.
- Moon Castle: The Space Adventure
- Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail
- The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness
- Improvised Umbrella: One of the trailers for the ninth movie shows Paddi, shrunken to the size of an insect, using a leaf as an umbrella to shield him - as well as some ants who go under the umbrella beside him - from the rain.
- Minimalistic Cover Art: The CGI movie announced in 2016 uses the variant Single Object Focus. One version of the 2018 poster has Wolffy's face and pretty much nothing else.
- The Movie: It reached 10 movies in 2022 with the release of Dunk for Future. Production company Creative Power Entertaining intended to make films for every animal of the Eastern Zodiac but they stopped basing their films off it.
- Outside-Context Problem: The villains and conflicts often come so out-of-the-blue that it makes the goats team up with the wolves, something that never happens in the show prior to later seasons. To give some examples:
- The second movie has Lord Japper. He comes completely out of nowhere and turns Goat Village into an amusement park.
- The third movie has the Bitter Gourd King, who intends to turn the moon bitter and causes Wandi to appear on a spaceship and send the goats and wolves into space.
- The fourth movie has the Dragon World under threat, which has ramifications for the goats' world as well.
- Reaching Towards the Audience: The 2017 poster of the 2023 features Weslie reaching his arm out at the audience while looking fierce.
- Thanking the Viewer: The first, third, and fourth movies end with text saying "thanks for watching". In the first and third movies, the text is written on a clapperboard that Weslie brings into view and claps shut.
Tropes found specifically in the I Love Wolffy films:
- Antagonist Title: Both have titles referring to the series' main antagonist, Wolffy.
- Canon Discontinuity: Creative Power Entertaining ignores the two live-action I Love Wolffy movies whenever possible. They do not list the movies on their website
and they have not uploaded the movies to YouTube. - Humanity Ensues: Wolffy, Wolnie, and Paddi are transformed into humans in the first film. In the second film, Wilie is transformed into a human (he appeared in the first movie, but was transformed into a dog instead of a human).
- Live-Action Adaptation: Both are live-action adaptations with animation thrown into certain scenes.
- Live-Action Cartoon: The live-action bulk of the films retain the slapstick comedy that defines the original series, with barely a scratch seen on the characters after Amusing Injuries.
- Villain Episode: Both are wolf-centric.
