Underplayed Gems

Dug's Special Mission (2009)

Dug's Special Mission poster
Directed by
Ronnie del Carmen
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
5 min
Rated
G
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 448 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Dug the dog gets silly and confusing instructions from three other dogs about how to capture a bird. The instructions are actually a trick to get rid of Dug.

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What happens

Dug's Special Mission is a 2009 American animated short film, directed by Ronnie del Carmen. It is tied into and included on the Blu-ray/DVD releases of Up and Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2. According to Jonas Rivera, the producer of Pixar's film Up, Dug's Special Mission "is a little bit of the backstory of what Dug was actually doing out there on this mysterious mission when we meet him [in Up]". In the short, Dug is instructed on how to catch the bird (which he names Kevin) by Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, but their instructions are really intended to keep Dug away from them. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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