''The Ugly Duckling and Me!'' is a 2006 animated film directed by Michael Hegner and

Karsten Kiilerich Karsten Kiilerich (21 January 1955, Slagelse) is a Danish film and television director, screenwriter and animator. He is a co-founder of the Danish animation studio A. Film Production, for which he still actively works. Kiilerich has been involve ...

. Intended for a family audience, it is a modern adaptation of the 1843 fairy tale "

The Ugly Duckling "The Ugly Duckling" ( da, Den grimme ælling) is a Danish literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). It was first published on 11 November 1843 in ''New Fairy Tales. First Volume#New Fairy Tales. Fir ...

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Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...

. ''The Yorkshire Post'' described it as a "feel good" film for family audiences. The film follows over a rat named Ratsco who has a dream about having his own family. The life changes when an egg falls out of its nest revealing an ugly duckling with brushy wings, and he soon becomes a father. Smith, Damon. "Review, The Ugly Duckling and Me!" ''The Yorkshire Post''. 8 February 2008
Online. 23 June 2009. It also won an award at the China International Cartoon and Digital Art Festival. The film initially premiered in Denmark on April 6, 2006.

Plot

While working of a local army and finding a glass of ink, Professor Mukling the cat wins a nest full of eggs for a family of birds. A stork is assigned to deliver the nest, but due to his bumble antics, drops one egg after bumping into a nearby cliff. The egg rolls into a home full of chickens and is placed into a cage with the chicks. Ten years later, A pampered cheese-loving rat named Ratsco has a hard time finding a home for a puppy Natasha, a struggling dog finding her talent. He runs into the humble stork who panics over the

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