Cirrus@Austlit

Written around an original story by Yoram Gross, with the characters based on Edith Pedley's classic children's tale about a young girl and her friend, a large female kangaroo. In this sequel to the 1977 film Dot and the Kangaroo, Dot joins up with Santa Claus in order to help her friend the kangaroo find her lost joey. The pair take off into the air in Santa's sleigh (pulled by two kangaroos) and travel the world searching for the zoo where the joey has been sent.

Yoram Gross's original story (based on the characters from Edith Pedley's classic Australian children's story and adapted for the screen by John Palmer) continues the adventures of Dot and her native animal friends.

When Dot ventures out into the bush determined to finally locate the little lost joey and reunite him with his mother, she meets a silly rabbit who tries to convince her that he is the joey she is looking for. Dot is delighted by his antics and names her new companion Funny Bunny. Together, they continue the search for the joey. On the way, Dot learns that Funny Bunny is really a very lonely rabbit. His family were killed by hunters, and he has been on his own ever since. They find the mother kangaroo, and though she has not yet found her joey, when she sees the lonely bunny, she realises she has found someone else to look after.

When the building of a massive dam is announced, the local farm animals believe that it will catapult their small country town into the twenty-first century. However, when Bruce the koala tells Dot that the dam will actually destroy their environment, she sets about trying to help her native animal friends. With both sides fighting for what they believe is right, Dot's plans to wipe out the dam are jeopardised by the local detectives Sherlock Bones and his offsider Watson the cat.

'Dot's good deeds in rescuing a mosquito and a dragonfly from a spider's web pay off after she accidentally eats a magic root that shrinks her to insect-size.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 21/5/2014)

'In a desperate bid to rescue a whale stranded on a beach, Dot and Neptune, the dolphin, hunt the ocean depths searching for a wise old octopus called The Oracle who knows how to save whales.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 21/5/2014)

'A circus owner tries to capture a bunyip but Dot and her bushland friends foil his plans. When Dot discovers that the circus owner is running a wildlife smuggling operation, she goes on the warpath.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 21/5/2014)

When Dot's koala friend develops an eye disease that is devastating the koala population, Dot takes to Hollywood in an effort to raise the funds needed for an operation to cure him.

'Dot's latest romp takes her literally out of this world when she decides to rescue Whyka, the Russian space dog who is circling Earth trapped in a broken-down satellite. Trading places with Buster, the space monkey, Dot boards the American rocket, Atlanta, and is launched into orbit. She manages to save Whyka but then crash lands on the fantastic planet Pie-Arr-Squared which is ruled by a pompous dictator named Papa Drop. Dot overthrows Papa Drop and brings peace and democracy to Pie-Arr-Squared. Dot and Whyka return to Earth to a hero's welcome.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 11/4/2014)