History WesternAnimation / PoundPuppiesAndTheLegendOfBigPaw

* MacGuffin: The [[JustForPun Bone of Scone]] is the object the film's plot hinges on.

The film was a BoxOfficeBomb and forgotten immediately after it’s released. Most people who have seen it aren’t fond of it, with having a cheesy and stupid plot, poor voice acting, lame musical numbers, and animation that looks more suited for television than theaters are among the criticisms this movie frequently faces. Because of the commercial failure and lukewarm reviews, this was the last media related to the franchise [[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 until 2010]]

* OffModel: Aside from changes made to the character designs, there is a particularly noticeable animation error in which Cooler's nose disappears from his face. The creators confirmed that the film's animation was done in only six months and with little preparation. This could help explain the rather sub-par quality.
** [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51grlakLKbL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg The DVD cover]] depicts Cooler with his jacket colored red and blue, which ''is'' how it looks in the original animated series but ''not'' in the movie.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: All the animals in the pound sans Cooler, Colette's children, and the two Pound Purries end up going through the Mean Machine and turning into vicious attack dogs under [=McNasty=]'s control.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Reflex's reflexive reaction to the ringing of a bell later comes in handy in reversing the effects of [=McNasty=]'s Mean Machine]].

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* NowDoItAgainBackwards: The Mean Machine was designed to make nice, innocent puppies evil. Putting someone evil into The Mean Machine, on the other hand, makes them good. [[spoiler: Guess what happens to the bad guys.]]

* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Averted for the most part, where the pound is a very humane animal shelter that runs pet adoptions and brings up the responsibilities about caring for a pet. [[spoiler: It very quickly falls into this trope when [=McNasty=] takes it over and brainwashes the animals inside.]]

* EvilOverlooker: Done surprisingly cleverly on the main poster. The shadowy figure looming over the character has a hairy head and sharp teeth so at first one could think that’s the titular Big Paw. However, on close inspection, one can make out a long pointy nose, making it clear it’s McNasty.

* TheFifties- One of the stories takes place there.

The film was a BoxOfficeBomb and forgotten immediately after it’s released. Most people who have seen it aren’t fond of it, with having a cheesy and stupid plot, poor voice acting, lame musical numbers, and animation that looks more suited for television than theaters are among the criticisms this movie frequently faces. Because of the commercial failure and lukewarm reviews, this was the last media related to the franchise [[''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010'' until 2010]]

The main story took place in the 1950's, [[FramingDevice told by an adult Whopper]] as a story for [[ChasteToons his niece and nephew]] in the present (or at least the present back when the film was made). In Whopper's tale, the Pound Puppies and their human friends are organizing an adoption bazaar, only taking time out to admire the Bone of Scone: a mysterious bone that bestows puppy power and lets dogs and humans communicate. However, a [[ObviouslyEvil mysterious man]] named [=McNasty=] turns up to adopt some puppies a day early and also seems to have some plans of his own for the strange artifact...

* KingArthur: Apparently, it was his dog who was the first to have Puppy Power.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Lumpy and Bones are [=McNasty=]'s henchmen and are never seen apart.

The film did poorly with both critics and audiences and these days is largely forgotten. However, it did manage a DVD release in 2006.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[FreezeFrameBonus In the background of the museum]], you can see a statue of a [[NippleAndDimed completely]] [[FullFrontalAssault naked]] woman with a seductive smirk. The (male) paintings around her look extremely scandalized.
** This trope and HaveAGayOldTime are both noticeably averted by the Pound Purries, when you think about what the more obvious alliterative name for the cats could have been...