It was dubbed into English by Filmor and Cinélume in 1998 and was only released straight-to-video in Canada under the name Charlie and Froggy from Alliance Films and Australia under its original title from Rocvale Video.

Something strange has been spotted over the treetops in the forest where Charlie Strapp and Froggy Ball live, and Tin-Can Harry quickly builds Binoculars to examine it.

Charlie Strapp and Froggy Ball hang onto the landing skids, but eventually fall off high up in the air over a lake.

Luckily, it turns out that Charlie's tailcoat can be used as a parachute, and Froggy Ball even learns how to steer it by pulling the tails, so they can land on a steam boat.

In the city, Charlie Strapp and Froggy Ball walk up to Ericsson Globe and confront them, but are simply laughed at and disregarded.

The men try to capture the two friends, but then suddenly Phil the Fox , who had previously only been seen in a short cameo in the very beginning of the story, arrives and causes disruption.

[2] The general Swedish reception was positive, with more or less a critical consensus claiming that it stood out as the winner among the films competing over a similar target audience, being released around the same time as Rock-A-Doodle, The Rescuers Down Under and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

They also commented that the film is "pretty sophisticated" due to its sportively drawn characters appearing against a backdrop of aquarelle soft nature poetry.