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Directed by | Kyung Ho Lee |
Produced by | Daniel Chuba Mark A.Z. Dippé Ash R. Shah Joshua Sohn Alex J. Yoo |
Written by | Scott Clevenger Chris Denk Timothy Wayne Peternel |
Starring |
Rob Schneider Bret McKenzie Frank Welker Yvonne Strahovski Alan Cumming Tim Curry Chris Edgerly |
Music by | Michael Yezerski |
Edited by | Tom Sanders |
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Distributed by | Blue Sky Media (Europe) Zon Audiovisuais (Portugal) |
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85 min |
Country | Guatemala United States Aruba |
Language | English Spanish |
Budget | $5,300,000 (estimated) |
Box office | Q4.6 million (Guatemala) |
The Outback (also known as Outback or Koala Kid) is a 2012 Guatemalan American Aruban computer-animated action comedy film directed by Kyung Ho Lee. It was released in South Korea on January 12, 2012.
A white koala named Johnny is teased about his color so he joins a traveling circus with the help of Hamish, a Tasmanian Devil, and Higgens, a monkey photographer. He is disappointed that he is part of the freak show instead of the main acts in the big tent. The top act is "Wild Bushman" who takes all the audience from the freak show. Johnny checks out the act and ends up part of the act by accident and saved by The Wild Bushman.
While traveling to a new location, their wagon train car becomes unattached and crashes in the desert of "The Outback". On their quest to go to the next location of the traveling circus, "Precipice Lake", they come upon a billabong. They witness from their cliff location that a pack of dingos (and a thylacine) are chasing a bilby but rescued by a kangaroo, a wombat army, and Miranda, a vine-swinging female koala talented at throwing a boomerang. Boris, a vulture, reveals that Bog, a giant crocodile intends on taking over the billabong. When their rescue goes wrong and the dingos threaten to take over, the rock Johnny is on breaks free and he slides down the cliff and ends up rolling on top of a boulder that chases the dingos away. Hamish introduces the now-famous white koala as "Koala Kid". Miranda is not impressed but Johnny watches her from a tree as she practices. When noticed, Miranda breaks the branch he is on with her boomerang and complains about him watching in secret. He tries to lie his way out of that accusation but ends up suggesting he is an expert at the boomerang and proven wrong when offered to try it himself.