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''Robin Robin'' is an animated ChristmasSpecial by Creator/AardmanAnimations and streamed on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Like most Aardman productions it's stop-motion, but instead of the usual plasticine look, the characters have a felted appearance.
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''Robin Robin'' is an animated ChristmasSpecial by Creator/AardmanAnimations and streamed on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Like most Aardman productions productions, it's animated in stop-motion, but instead of the usual plasticine look, the characters have a felted appearance.
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'''''Robin Robin''''' is an animated ChristmasSpecial by Creator/AardmanAnimations and streamed on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Like most Aardman productions it's stop-motion, but instead of the usual plasticine look, the characters have a felted appearance.
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* ADogNamedDog: Robin, Magpie and Cat.
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* ADogNamedDog: Robin, Magpie and Cat.
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* TheComicallySerious: Magpie acts very dignified, but his obsession with little trinkets is comical to us human viewers. For example, Magpie thinks Robin is silly for wishing for crumbs or a sandwich, but to us, the objects he wants are just as insignificant, if not moreso.
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* TheComicallySerious: Magpie acts very dignified, but his obsession with little trinkets is comical to us human viewers. For example, Magpie thinks Robin is silly for wishing for crumbs or a sandwich, but to us, the objects he wants values, including buttons, strings, and keys, are just as insignificant, if not moreso.even more so.
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* BlackComedy: Twice in Magpie's song, some roaches crawl out of the woodworks to provide backup vocals. Both times, Magpie suddenly eats one alive.
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** Cat is associated with a sinister bassoon.
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** The mice are associated with plucky pizzicato strings.
** Magpie is associated with elegant brass instruments.
** Cat is associated with a sinisterbassoon.bass clarinet and cello.
** Magpie is associated with elegant brass instruments.
** Cat is associated with a sinister
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* VillainSong: Cat's "The Purr-fect Place" is a HannibalLecture about how Robin isn't good at being a bird ''or'' a mouse, yet it also contains some [[DeadlyEuphemism cleverly disguised]] hints that Cat wants to eat Robin. Near the end of the song, Cat sings about her intentions in a more direct way.
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* VillainSong: Cat's "The "[[https://youtu.be/2sQYJK8_rdA?t=76 The Purr-fect Place" Place]]" is a HannibalLecture about how Robin isn't good at being a bird ''or'' a mouse, yet it also contains some [[DeadlyEuphemism cleverly disguised]] hints that Cat wants to eat Robin. Near the end of the song, Cat sings about her intentions in a more direct way.
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* AvianFlute: Each main character is [[{{Leitmotif}} associated with a different instrument]]. Robin, [[ADogNamedDog a robin]], is associated with a cheerful tune on two flutes.
* DeadlyEuphemism: Cat's VillainSong, "The Purr-fect Place" is about how Robin doesn't "fit in" as either a bird or a mouse, and how Cat has a place where Robin ''will'' fit in. She is, of course, referring to [[SapientEatSapient her stomach]], and she makes this clear by the end of the song.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Similar to ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'', each main character is associated with a different musical instrument:
** Robin is associated with joyful, Christmas-y flutes.
** Cat is associated with a sinister bassoon.
** Robin is associated with joyful, Christmas-y flutes.
** Cat is associated with a sinister bassoon.
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* VillainSong: Cat's "The Purr-fect Place" combines a HannibalLecture about how Robin isn't good at being a bird ''or'' a mouse with her own intent to eat her.
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* VillainSong: Cat's "The Purr-fect Place" combines is a HannibalLecture about how Robin isn't good at being a bird ''or'' a mouse with her own intent mouse, yet it also contains some [[DeadlyEuphemism cleverly disguised]] hints that Cat wants to eat her.Robin. Near the end of the song, Cat sings about her intentions in a more direct way.
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* SoftSpokenSadist: Cat has a very gentle voice, even when tormenting her prey. Even her VillainSong is mostly sung (or [[SpokenWord spoken]]) in a very low-key manner.
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* SpokenWord: Cat's VillainSong is mostly spoken, although Creator/GillianAnderson does a little singing in some parts.
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* TheComicallySerious: Magpie acts very dignified, but his obsession with little trinkets is comical to us human viewers. For example, Magpie thinks Robin is silly for wishing for crumbs or a sandwich, but to us, the objects he wants are just as insignificant, if not moreso.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Cat loves to cruelly toy with her soon-to-be victims while keeping a mild-mannered demeanor. Creator/GillianAnderson, who voiced Cat, said in [[https://youtu.be/cOUunKYuwQQ a behind-the-scenes video]] that she was originally going to be more overtly sinister, but the directors encouraged her to make her performance more subtle. Even Cat's first "Hello" when meeting Robin is meant to sound very neutral.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Cat loves to cruelly toy with her soon-to-be victims while keeping a mild-mannered demeanor. Creator/GillianAnderson, who voiced Cat, said in [[https://youtu.be/cOUunKYuwQQ a behind-the-scenes video]] that she was originally going to be more overtly sinister, but the directors encouraged her to make her performance more subtle. Even Cat's first "Hello" when meeting Robin is was intentionally meant to sound very neutral.
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* CatsAreMean: Cat is the film's villain. She is intent on eating the heroes, who are birds and mice, and she acts downright sadistic about it.
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* CatsAreMean: Cat is the film's villain. She is intent on eating the heroes, who are birds and mice, and she acts is downright sadistic about it.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Cat loves to cruelly toy with her soon-to-be victims while keeping a mild-mannered demeanor. Creator/GillianAnderson, who voiced Cat, said in [[https://youtu.be/cOUunKYuwQQ a behind-the-scenes video]] that she was originally going to be more overtly sinister, but the directors encouraged her to make her performance more subtle. Even Cat's first "Hello" when meeting Robin is meant to sound very neutral.
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Cat]] is last seen being comically swept away in a stream, weighed down by Magpie's trinkets covering her body. She might have eventually drowned or died some other way, but it's also possible that she survived.
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It's the story of Robin (Bronte Carmichael), a robin who fell out of the nest as an egg, and was found by a family of mice. She is raised by them and joins them in the Sneak, their regular foraging trips to human houses, as a result of which, nearly all the human houses in the area have discovered them and set traps or got cats. Refusing to believe that she's bad at sneaking, she sets out on her own to the one house left, with the reluctant assistance of Magpie (Creator/RichardEGrant). But there's a cat (Creator/GillianAnderson) on the prowl, and Robin really isn't very good at this.
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It's the story of Robin (Bronte Carmichael), a robin who fell out of the nest as an egg, egg and was found by a family of mice. She is raised by them and joins them in the Sneak, their regular foraging trips to human houses, as a result of which, nearly all the human houses in the area have discovered them and set traps or got cats. Refusing to believe that she's bad at sneaking, she sets out on her own to the one house left, with the reluctant assistance of Magpie (Creator/RichardEGrant). But there's a cat (Creator/GillianAnderson) on the prowl, and Robin really isn't very good at this.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: One of the mouse kids is fascinated by cats, and needs to have the fact cats want to eat them explained to her repeatedly.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: One of the mouse kids is fascinated by cats, cats and needs to have the fact cats want to eat them explained to her repeatedly.
* CatsAreMean: Cat is the film's villain. She is intent on eating the heroes, who are birds and mice, and she acts downright sadistic about it.
* GoodParents: Dad Mouse cares equally for all of his children, even his adopted child, Robin.
* NiceMice: Played with. The mice are heroic characters, especially Dad Mouse, who is very kind and caring to Robin. They do steal food and cause trouble for humans, though they don't see anything morally wrong with it, and this story is not told from the humans' perspective.
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* WithCatlikeTread: The mice sing "The Sneak Song", about not being noticed and leaving no trace, as they enter houses. To be fair, they sing it quietly. Robin doesn't, belting out "The Rules of the Sneak are ''these''!" while pirouetting in the middle of the dining table, sending things flying.
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* WithCatlikeTread: The mice sing "The Sneak Song", about not being noticed and leaving no trace, as they enter houses. To be fair, they sing it quietly. Robin doesn't, belting out "The Rules of the Sneak are ''these''!" while pirouetting in the middle of the dining table, sending things flying.flying.
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* TheFaceless: The humans are always shown only in silhouette.
* FatalFireworks: Magpie's match accidentally sets off fireworks at the shed. He, Robin and Cat escape by the skin of their teeth.
* FatalFireworks: Magpie's match accidentally sets off fireworks at the shed. He, Robin and Cat escape by the skin of their teeth.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Magpie appears just in time to save Robin from Cat. Unfortunately, he also brought a lit match as a torch, which accidentally sets the shed on fire.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Magpie appears just in time to save Robin from Cat. Unfortunately, he also brought a lit match as a torch, which accidentally sets the shed on fire.fire and sets off the fireworks stored there.
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* ParentalAbandoment: The opening makes it clear, without spelling it out, that Cat ate Robin's parents.
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* ParentalAbandoment: ParentalAbandonment: The opening makes it clear, without spelling it out, that Cat ate Robin's parents.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Magpie appears just in time to save Robin from Cat. Unfortunately, he also brought a lit match as a torch, which accidentally sets the shed on fire.
-->'''Magpie:''' [[{{Understatement}} Oh, dear. That's made it worse.]]
-->'''Magpie:''' [[{{Understatement}} Oh, dear. That's made it worse.]]
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* TemptingFate: Magpie assures the mice that Cat can't get through the door of his house. Cat then tears the door down.
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* WishUponAStar: Magpie tells Robin about how once a year, the "hoomans" put a magic star on top of a tree inside their house, and the next morning get everything they wish for. So they steal a star from a Christmas tree and put it on top of Magpie's tree, hoping to get their wishes come true (in Robin's case, to become a real mouse). The next morning, [[spoiler:they don't get what they wish for, but Robin does get reunited with the mice.]]
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* WithCatlikeTread: The mice sing "The Sneak Song", about not being noticed and leaving no trace, as they enter houses. To be fair, they sing it quietly. Robin doesn't, belting out "And those are the Rules of the SNEAK!" while pirouetting in the middle of the dining table, sending things flying.
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* WithCatlikeTread: The mice sing "The Sneak Song", about not being noticed and leaving no trace, as they enter houses. To be fair, they sing it quietly. Robin doesn't, belting out "And those are the "The Rules of the SNEAK!" Sneak are ''these''!" while pirouetting in the middle of the dining table, sending things flying.
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'''Robin Robin''' is an animated ChristmasSpecial by Creator/AardmanAnimation and streamed on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Like most Aardman productions it's stop-motion, but instead of the usual plasticine look, the characters have a felted appearance.
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'''Robin Robin''' is an animated ChristmasSpecial by Creator/AardmanAnimation Creator/AardmanAnimations and streamed on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Like most Aardman productions it's stop-motion, but instead of the usual plasticine look, the characters have a felted appearance.
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'''Robin Robin''' is an animated ChristmasSpecial by Creator/AardmanAnimation and streamed on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Like most Aardman productions it's stop-motion, but instead of the usual plasticine look, the characters have a felted appearance.
It's the story of Robin (Bronte Carmichael), a robin who fell out of the nest as an egg, and was found by a family of mice. She is raised by them and joins them in the Sneak, their regular foraging trips to human houses, as a result of which, nearly all the human houses in the area have discovered them and set traps or got cats. Refusing to believe that she's bad at sneaking, she sets out on her own to the one house left, with the reluctant assistance of Magpie (Creator/RichardEGrant). But there's a cat (Creator/GillianAnderson) on the prowl, and Robin really isn't very good at this.
!!Robin Robin contains examples of
* ADogNamedDog: Robin, Magpie and Cat.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: One of the mouse kids is fascinated by cats, and needs to have the fact cats want to eat them explained to her repeatedly.
* AcrophobicBird: Justified, Magpie can't fly because he's got a broken wing. Robin can't fly because she was raised by mice. [[spoiler: Until she has to.]]
* BeYourself: Robin learns that, as a robin, she simply isn't good at sneaking, but then realises what she ''is'' good at. [[spoiler: Being a distraction.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Dad Mouse clearly loves Robin and is ''very patient'' with the fact she's terrible at sneaking. (Perhaps too much so, since she doesn't realise she is.)
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Robin's understanding of "normal" is mice, and her Christmas wish is to actually become one.
* InterspeciesAdoption: A robin raised by mice.
* TheKlutz: Robin is just ''really'' bad at sneaking.
* MissingMom: There is no Mum Mouse, and no mention of what may have happened to her.
* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescription: When Robin and Magpie sneak into the house, Robin tells Magpie to do exactly what she does. So Magpie carefully knocks things over, gets stuck, and falls over backwards, while singing loudly. Robin can't understand what he thinks he's doing.
* SeasonalMontage: The ColdOpening is in spring, when robin eggs hatch. The background shifts from a sunny day to a snowy one behind the title card.
* SpeciesSurname: The mice. Leads to confusion at the end when Dad Mouse says that Robin may not be a mouse, but she'll always be a Mouse.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Cat pursues them all the way back to Magpie's house.
* ThievingMagpie: Magpie has a whole song about the importance of the stuff he's collected called "Things Make You Happy". It's apparent, however, that they don't.
* VillainSong: Cat's "The Purr-fect Place" combines a HannibalLecture about how Robin isn't good at being a bird ''or'' a mouse with her own intent to eat her.
* WithCatlikeTread: The mice sing "The Sneak Song", about not being noticed and leaving no trace, as they enter houses. To be fair, they sing it quietly. Robin doesn't, belting out "And those are the Rules of the SNEAK!" while pirouetting in the middle of the dining table, sending things flying.
It's the story of Robin (Bronte Carmichael), a robin who fell out of the nest as an egg, and was found by a family of mice. She is raised by them and joins them in the Sneak, their regular foraging trips to human houses, as a result of which, nearly all the human houses in the area have discovered them and set traps or got cats. Refusing to believe that she's bad at sneaking, she sets out on her own to the one house left, with the reluctant assistance of Magpie (Creator/RichardEGrant). But there's a cat (Creator/GillianAnderson) on the prowl, and Robin really isn't very good at this.
!!Robin Robin contains examples of
* ADogNamedDog: Robin, Magpie and Cat.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: One of the mouse kids is fascinated by cats, and needs to have the fact cats want to eat them explained to her repeatedly.
* AcrophobicBird: Justified, Magpie can't fly because he's got a broken wing. Robin can't fly because she was raised by mice. [[spoiler: Until she has to.]]
* BeYourself: Robin learns that, as a robin, she simply isn't good at sneaking, but then realises what she ''is'' good at. [[spoiler: Being a distraction.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Dad Mouse clearly loves Robin and is ''very patient'' with the fact she's terrible at sneaking. (Perhaps too much so, since she doesn't realise she is.)
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Robin's understanding of "normal" is mice, and her Christmas wish is to actually become one.
* InterspeciesAdoption: A robin raised by mice.
* TheKlutz: Robin is just ''really'' bad at sneaking.
* MissingMom: There is no Mum Mouse, and no mention of what may have happened to her.
* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescription: When Robin and Magpie sneak into the house, Robin tells Magpie to do exactly what she does. So Magpie carefully knocks things over, gets stuck, and falls over backwards, while singing loudly. Robin can't understand what he thinks he's doing.
* SeasonalMontage: The ColdOpening is in spring, when robin eggs hatch. The background shifts from a sunny day to a snowy one behind the title card.
* SpeciesSurname: The mice. Leads to confusion at the end when Dad Mouse says that Robin may not be a mouse, but she'll always be a Mouse.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Cat pursues them all the way back to Magpie's house.
* ThievingMagpie: Magpie has a whole song about the importance of the stuff he's collected called "Things Make You Happy". It's apparent, however, that they don't.
* VillainSong: Cat's "The Purr-fect Place" combines a HannibalLecture about how Robin isn't good at being a bird ''or'' a mouse with her own intent to eat her.
* WithCatlikeTread: The mice sing "The Sneak Song", about not being noticed and leaving no trace, as they enter houses. To be fair, they sing it quietly. Robin doesn't, belting out "And those are the Rules of the SNEAK!" while pirouetting in the middle of the dining table, sending things flying.
