The Outback
From Zero to Hero
2012 · 1h 25m · PG
Adventure, Animation, Family
Directed by
Kyung Ho Lee
Overview
Being teased for his color, Johnny the white koala joins a traveling carnival with Hamish, a Tasmanian devil, and Higgens, a photographer monkey as talent agents. On the way through the Australian outback desert, the trailer they are in comes loose and crashes. Johnny must live up to the hero status Hamish presents him as while the outback locals try to rescue a kidnapped koala from Bog, a giant crocodile and his dingo lackeys.
Director and cast
- Kyung Ho Lee Director
- Jenni Pulos as Charlotte (voice)
- Frank Welker as Higgens / Bull (voice)
- Tim Curry as Blacktooth (voice)
- Alan Cumming as Bog (voice)
- Chris Edgerly as Boris (voice)
- Nolan North as Hex (voice)
- Charlie Bewley as Loki (voice)
- Neil Ross as Monty (voice)
- Eric Lopez as The Wild Bushman / Bill / Merlin (voice)
- Norm Macdonald as Quint (voice)
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