Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey/YMMV

This movie contains examples of the following tropes

• Adaptation Displacement: Not many people are aware that this film is a remake of a 1963 film called The Incredible Journey.
  • Also, the original film was based on a book.
• Non Sequitur Scene: The Batdog scene near the beginning of the movie.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: This movie's got a nice (and often overlooked) soundtrack; this is arguably the best score.
• Magic Franchise Word: "Cats rule and dogs drool."
• Nightmare Fuel: The scary forest noises in the dark while the animals are trying to sleep.
  • Shadow's description of a moose to Chance & Sassy -- "A big, razor-toothed animal that comes out at night to eat the tails off smaller animals."
  • The scene of the animal rescue people removing the porcupine needles from Chance's face, while he screams for mercy. Even though they are clearly helping them, it damn well seemed terrifying to kids watching them seemingly torture him.

Chance: OW! Please stop, please stop, please stop. Oh, just let me die.
Shadow: They're killing him, Sassy.
Sassy: Gulp.

• Tear Jerker: Shadow falls into a deep pit only a few miles from home, and is too injured to continue.
  • Not only was he injured, but Shadow was willing to give up because he feels he's too old. Also, he tells Chance and Sassy to leave him. Chance tries to get him to keep going like he did during the journey, and tells him that he loves him.
  • It's rather upsetting to watch Sassy float rapidly down the river as she desperately calls out to Shadow for help.
  • Shadow - old, worn-out, injured, limping Shadow - finally tops that last hill, sees Peter - and runs. Cue the entire audience sobbing like children.
  • It is common knowledge that this movie has made several decades of children cry.
• What an Idiot!: "There goes the rabbit. There goes the pup. There goes breakfast."

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

• Sequelitis: Averted, this movie is a decent sequel to the original.

The original novel contains examples of:

• Values Dissonance: Bodger is an veteran of dog fights, which he found and finds great fun and the novel treats as a beautiful and noble sport.