Koala Kid
Koala Kid (also known as Outback or The Outback) () in South Korea) is an animated action comedy film directed by Kyung Ho Lee and released on January 12, 2012. The English dub cast consists of Rob Schneider, Bret McKenzie, Frank Welker, Yvonne Strahovski, Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, and Chris Edgerly.

Plot
In Australia, a white koala named Johnny is teased about his color, so he joins a traveling circus with the help of Hamish the Tasmanian Devil, and Higgens the spider 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" which takes all the audience from the freak show. Johnny checks out the show and accidentally becomes part of it, and The Wild Bushman saves him.

While traveling to a new location, their wagon train car becomes unattached and crashes in "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 a pack of dingos, Blacktooth, Loki, Cutter, and Butch, as well as their thylacine ally Hex, chasing a bilby but is rescued by a kangaroo named Mac, a wombat army, and Miranda, a vine-swinging female koala talented at throwing a boomerang. A vulture named Boris reveals that the Saltwater crocodile Bog intends to take over the billabong. When their rescue goes wrong, and the dingos threaten to take over, Johnny then escapes and slips down the cliff and ends up rolling on top of a boulder, chasing the dingos away. Hamish introduces the now-famous white koala as "Koala Kid". Miranda is unimpressed, 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 out of that accusation but ends up suggesting he is an expert at the boomerang and is proven wrong when offered to try it himself.

Hamish plans to take photos of Johnny doing heroic stuff and make him famous as Koala Kid, so when they get back to the circus, they can get in the main act rather than the freak show and earn Hamish more money. Bog is not impressed with his gang getting chased by a koala, so he orders them to capture Koala Kid. In the chase, Miranda's younger sister Charlotte gets covered with cosmetic powder and mistaken for the Koala Kid resulting in her getting kidnapped. The billabong residents plan to rescue Charlotte but must cross the dangerous "Bungle Bungles" on their way to Precipice Lake, while at the same time, Johnny is almost devoured by the mulga snakes Monty and Merlin. This convinces Hamish to go along with Johnny's conscience and join the team to rescue Charlotte.

Johnny accidentally saves the day a few times during the trip, but Miranda is still not impressed. The two fall into a sinkhole and tell the rest of them to go on ahead. A giant monitor lizard befriends Johnny and names her Bull, he and Miranda ride it out of the caves. Just as Miranda starts to take a liking to Johnny, Boris then reveals that Johnny is just a freak show act and the "Koala Kid" thing is just a lie. Miranda tells him to leave but finds out that the gang will need to bring a koala to Bog instead of the real Koala Kid, and Charlotte will have to do. Miranda offers to take her place. Charlotte goes to find Johnny while the kangaroo and the wombat army manage to distract and capture all the gang but the vulture.

Charlotte finds Johnny along with Hamish, Higgens, and a prophetic peg-leg wombat named Quint, and they decide to help Johnny get what he wants: Miranda. Johnny calls Bull and rides off, saving Miranda. Bog shows up and gives chase, so they head to the circus hoping the Wild Bushman will be able to tame Bog. Bog proves too powerful until Johnny uses the boomerang to bring down the big top on top of Bog (and himself).

Johnny, Miranda, and Bull become the main attraction, and the bad guys are sold as pets. Johnny asks Miranda if she likes her new life, but she is unsure. Plan B is they ride off into the sunset together.

Cast
 Rob Schneider as Johnny, Mac, Boy No. 1, narrator
 Bret McKenzie as Hamish
 Frank Welker as Higgens, Bull, Bully Koala No. 1, Bully Koala No. 3, Ringmaster
 Alan Cumming as Bog, Bully Koala No. 2
 Yvonne Strahovski as Miranda
 Tim Curry as Blacktooth 
 Chris Edgerly as Boris
 Jenni Pulos as Charlotte, Lady, Old Lady
 Charlie Bewley as Loki 
 Norm Macdonald as Quint the Peg-Leg Wombat
 Eric Lopez as The Wild Bushman, Bill, Merlin
 Nolan North as Hex the Thylacine 
 Phil Proctor as Lug 
 Neil Ross as Monty 
 Fred Tatasciore as Cutter
 Lielle Tova Blinkoff as Little Girl

Reception
The film has grossed $4.6 million at the South Korean box office.

References

External links

 
 
 SC Films – The Outback
 Screen Daily Outback article

2012 films
2012 3D films
2012 action comedy films
2012 computer-animated films
2010s American animated films
2010s South Korean films
2010s children's adventure films
2010s children's comedy films
2010s children's animated films
2010s adventure comedy films
2010s English-language films
2010s Korean-language films
American 3D films
American computer-animated films
American children's animated action films
American children's animated adventure films
American children's animated comedy films
American action comedy films
American adventure comedy films
South Korean 3D films
South Korean animated films
South Korean children's films
South Korean action comedy films
South Korean adventure comedy films
Animal adventure films
Anime-influenced Western animated films
3D animated films
English-language South Korean films
Animated films about koalas
Fictional Tasmanian devils
Animated films about monkeys
Animated films about kangaroos and wallabies
Animated films about wombats
Animated films about lizards
Animated films about crocodilians
Films about canids
Animated films about birds of prey
Animated films about snakes
Animated films about talking animals
Animated films set in Australia
Films set in the Outback
Circus films
Films set in 2012
Films scored by Michael Yezerski
Lotte Entertainment films