It was brought to my attention in the comments of an older post that an animated feature film starring coatis is a thing now.
Jungle Shuffle isn't the greatest, but I always root for little animation studios that try their hand at a big project like a full length film.
Available on Netflix,
Jungle Shuffle is about a rambunctious young coati named Manu who keeps messing things up. When his girlfriend Sacha is captured by a human, its up to him to rescue her and the typical sidekicks and antics of a bunch of cartoon animals vs bad humans ensues.
At first I thought, "That's awesome! A cartoon with coatis!" Then I was kinda glad that the film wasn't really that great. If the film was any good and became popular coati might've become the fashionable pet-of-the-week for a little while.
I'm glad you were able to find the movie --- I haven't got a Netflix streaming account so have only the trailer to see.
ReplyDeleteBut if that isn't enough, there's another coati-starring movie come out: Quatsch ind die Nasenbaerbande, which, I say without understanding the language, appears to be a low-cost, low-expectation Disney animals movie from the 60s. It's got an official web site that's almost unnavigable and unreadable, too.