To me, this movie is perfection.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The acting in this movie is really good.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I just finished watching Dot and The Kangaroo with my 4 year old son. I would have been 5 years old when this weird combination of animation and camera footage was released. My mother in law bought the DVD at Walmart for $1.00 American. My son seemed to enjoy it and I thought it was strange enough to warrant a view. One of the things that I found disturbing was the two little mice playing patty cake while singing about their boyfriends eating snakes. The music was rather relaxing. I had no idea what this thing was when we popped it in. Mother in law bought all of these strange videos for a buck each and most of them are like Chinese cartoons that have been dubbed over in English. Since I like anything strange, I enjoyed this.

Well I must agree I haven't seen this in a long time since I was five, but now after seeing it again I understood everything.If you play close attention you might learn something, it's fun while it lasts though you gotta admit the scene when they sing about the bunyip is creepy especially the background music for it.But the rest is very enjoyable but fair enough although it doesn't exactly have a happy ending and it's a bit heart-wrenching when you do I should know after seeing it again when we got to the end, I couldn't help it, it was so sad it made me and my sister cry. Well who wouldn't at seeing how much Dot misses her friend already...But there's a moral for those after seeing the end don't be sad for all we know someday those two friends will meet again and she's not gone forever and would't want her friend sad plus she'll live in your heart no matter what.That's all that matters out of all the scale it's very lovely movie I suggest if kids are gonna watch this watch it with their folks for support and understanding

I remember watching this beautiful film when I was a little girl ... being captivated by Dot and Kangaroo's adventures in the Australian wild, and then being moved to tears at the end when they part. 20 years have now passed since my first viewing, and it still brings bittersweet tears to my eyes.

I totally agree. It was such a great adventure. Just the amazing idea of going around with different marsupials. I ALSO really got into Australian mammals in a big way as a kid because of this colourful set of films. Used to get up at 6 am to see this on the telly in Winter.My ambition was to have those adventures, and through Dot anyone could.That Bunyip, scary creature though!