Pound Puppies and Legend of Big Paw is an animated adventure movie of 1988 distributed by TriStar Pictures. The film is based on the Tonka line of toys and the Hanna-Barbera television series of the same name. The film was directed by Pierre DeCelles, and starred by the voice of Brennan Howard, B.J. Ward and Tony Longo, this is the only fully animated Carolco movie to date.
The Legend of Big Paw is a theatrical animated feature released last from the late 1980s to promote the main toy line, a general trend in the American cartoon industry during that time. The film has received negative reviews from critics and movie fans during its original release in 1988, therefore, the film has a box office writtingown.
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Plot
Whopper brought his nephew and nephew to the museum. Along the way, he tells them the origins of Puppy Power, the human ability to understand Pound Puppies and Purries. In the Dark Ages (precisely 958 AD), a boy named Arthur and his dog, Digalot, discovered a rock containing the mythical sword of the Excalibur myth and the magical Bone of Scone. While Arthur pulls a rock sword, Arthur's dog, Digalot, pulls the Bone of Scone off the same stone, and soon Arthur discovers that the dog can speak. Sir McNasty, who has witnessed the Excalibur withdrawal and the coronation of Bones and Arthur as King of England, plans to conquer the world by taking Bone. However, it was hidden by the giant guardian, Big Paw.
Then in 1958 the Bone of Scone was in a museum in an unnamed city of America. Tammy and Jeff are pound owners and hold a press conference and announce that the pound will hold an adoption bazaar. A genuine McNasty descendant appears and declares he wants to adopt the puppies. Tammy and Jeff told her that she had to sign a letter of adoption. The boy knew what McNasty would do with the four puppies. With Machine Means, McNasty will change them and the rest of the Pound becomes a cruel guard dog, steals the Bone Scone from the museum, and uses his dog's strength and troop to conquer the world. Soon, Collette and Whopper escape from their cage inside McNasty's lab, and briefly reunite with the rest of the Puppies. However, Lumpy and Bones took it back. The Puppies chase, but almost everything ends up in a rat-infested cave, hanging on a rope, before Purries pulls them to safety. The Puppies and Purries keep looking for their friends. When they are trapped in a patch of mud, they are rescued by the legendary Big Paw, who agrees to find Bone with them. Later, McNasty's men turned Puppies into guard dogs, except for Cooler. Big Paw brings him and Purries back to town to stop the evil trio, as the trio truck heads to Pound.
Big Paw and Cooler chase McNasty and his men all over the city and eventually return to their museum and Mean Machine, which turns him into a good man. Big Paw and Nose Marie finally get back the Bone of Scone.
Whopper and his nephew and niece find themselves in the museum. The Bone of Scone has returned for another visit, and Whopper introduces Big Paw as a little surprise for the young, who does not believe in the past that he is real. As long as he's here to protect Bone, Whopper says, Puppy Power will never disappear again.
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Cast and Character
Pound Puppies and Pound Purries
- Cooler (Beagle) (voiced by Brennan Howard) is the leader of Pound Puppies, and works with other Puppies and Purries to help solve the Bone of Scone mystery. The sound of the song is done by Ashley Hall.
- Nose Marie (Bloodhound) (voiced by Ruth Buzzi) is one of the Puppies. He has a very keen sense of smell, and always "knows what his nose knows".
- Howler , (Jack Russell Terrier) (voiced by Hal Rayle) and other Puppy, is an inventor who always speaks his name, and helps spread the word about "puppynapping" with his "Grapevine". Vowel howling is done by Frank Welker.
- Whopper (Golden Retriever) (voiced by B.J. Ward) is a naughty mischievous boy who gets into trouble with Marvin McNasty. As an adult, he shared the story of Puppy Power to his nephew and niece at the beginning and end of the movie.
- Collette (American Cocker Spaniel) (voiced by Cathy Cavadini) became the mother of six Puplings children early on. Along with Whopper, he was kidnapped by McNasty. Her puplings come to rescue her later in the movie.
- Bright Eyes (King Cavalier Charles Spaniel) (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is a cheerleader among groups, and stamps the paper during Bazaar Adoption when the movie ends.
- Reflex (a mixture of Schnoodle/Old English forcibly dogs) (voiced by Hal Rayle) turns into a lovesick dog every time a bell rings, kisses everyone he meets and shouts, "I love you! " each time, and then used to change other Puppies back to normal.
- Beamer (Scottish terrier bird) (voiced by Greg Berg) is a happy-go-lucky puppy.
- Florence (voiced by Susan Silo) is a nurse who announces, and attends, the birth of Colette's Puplings.
- Big Paw (a mixture of Newfoundland/Old English shepherd dogs) (voiced by Tony Longo) is the old guardian of the Bone of Scone. She was introduced to dogs and cats as a lonely puppy who has no home and no friends. The sound of her singing was done by Mark Vieha. Hairball (voiced by Frank Welker), who always coughed his name, and his girlfriend Charlamange (voiced by Cathy Cavadini), are Pound Purries featured in the film.
- In the Dark Ages scene, Sealed (voiced by Brennan Howard) pulls out the Bone of Scone while its owner, Arthur, takes out Excalibur and then becomes King of England. Cooler can trace his family history back to Digalot.
Man
- Marvin McNasty (voiced by George Rose) is a movie villain, and a descendant of Sir McNasty. Like his ancestors, he always wanted to conquer the world with Bone. She also suffers from cat allergies.
- Lumpy (voiced by Wayne Scherzer) and Bones (voiced by Frank Welker) are two of McNasty's awkward henchmen, and spend some of his plans.
- Tammy (voiced by Janice Kawaye) and Jeff (voiced by Joey Dedio) are two teenagers who run the Pound Puppies and Adoption Bazaar. Sir McNasty (voiced by George Rose) is Evil Knight who tries to claim the Bone of Scone in the Dark Ages segment.
- King Arthur (voiced by James Swodec), as a boy, pulls Excalibur out of the rock in the same scene.
Music number
The music for The Legend of Big Paw was directed by Steve Tyrell, with the original score compiled by Richard Kosinski, Sam Winans, Bill Reichenbach Jr., Ashley Hall and Bob Mann. Six film songs, influenced by popular and standard songs from the 1950s and later, were composed by Ashley Hall and Steve Tyrell, written by Stephanie Tyrell, and recorded at Tyrell-Mann and Tempo Recording Studios in Los Angeles.
Production
The Pound Puppies and Legend of Big Paw were produced by Carolco Pictures and Atlantic/Kushner-Locke along with The Maltese Companies, financed by Tonka, the original owner of the Pound Puppies franchise, and distributed by TriStar Pictures. Film director, Pierre DeCelles, is also an art director and director of storyboards during production.
According to DeCelles, the film takes 5 and a half months to complete, starting in the fall of 1987. The first two months are spent preparing the layout and storyboard, and the time left for animation, background and shooting. The overseas work was done by Wang Film Productions and Cuckoo's Nest Studio, two Taiwanese companies known for their contribution to the children's animated television series.
Animated films and character designs are different from what is featured in the Hanna-Barbera series, and do not contribute to the last continuity. A new set of characters was introduced for the film: Pound Puppies Collette, Beamer, and Reflex, and Pound Purries Hairball and Charlamange, along with two teenagers, Tammy and Jeff, who replaced Holly 11 years.
Release
During the short term in theaters, The Legend of Big Paw plays mainly in matinees and only earns US $ 586,938. It is the only Carolco family film and also the only animation distributor of TriStar until 2001's The Trumpet of the Swan . The film is among the last in a 1980s animated production line for a wide screen featuring toy properties that were established as their main characters. Previous examples include films based on Care Bears, My Little Pony and Transformers.
Family Home Entertainment, a division of Video Entertainment International, a distributor of Carolco films, released the Pound Puppies and Legend of Big Paw in VHS format on September 14, 1989. His successor, Lionsgate, released a movie on DVD in United States on October 24, 2006. Like previous Hanna-Barbera TV shows, the film also aired on the Disney Channel in the early to mid 1990s. The 26th anniversary of the film was completed on March 18, 2014. The Blu-Ray release of the movie has not been released yet.
Reception
Critical response to The Legend of Big Paw is negative during the run of the theater. The Hollywood trade magazine, Variety , calls it "uninvolved and endlessly derivative". The Sacramento Bee considers it "sadly withdrawn" compared to what Disney has to offer at the time, and the San Francisco Chronicle assigns it an "empty seat". A reviewer at Detroit Free Press found it "boring and unoriginal," but praised the songs written for it.
Martha Baker from St. Louis Post-Dispatch also denounced and started his review as follows:
If you are in the 40th year and not the fourth, Pound Puppies and Legend of Big Paw require an additional dose of insulin provided for such a trip into celluloid and [sweet] commercially. But even 4-year-olds have trouble swallowing the whole cartoon.
Writing for Animated Movie Guide by animation expert Jerry Beck, Stuart Fisher gives the movie one star out of four, and sees the artistic quality of the film as a "mixed bag". "[While] the background is somewhat imaginative and colorful, the characters' animations are flat and lifeless.The rapid cuts to new corners of the same shots seem to be trying to mask the limitations of animation techniques," he continued. In addition, Fisher and The Philadelphia Inquirer recorded their purpose as a toy commercial, a trend prevalent in the animation industry during the late 1980s.
See also
- List of American films 1988
- List of long animated movies
- Pound Puppies
References
External links
- Pound Puppies and Big Paw Legend on IMDb
- Pound Puppies and Legend of Big Paw in The Big Cartoon DataBase
- Pound Puppies and Big Paw Legend at AllMovie
- Pound Puppies and Big Paw Legend in Box Office Mojo
- Pound Puppies and Big Paw Legend at Rotten Tomatoes
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