Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw is a 1988 American animated musical adventure film based on the Tonka toy line and the Hanna-Barbera television series of the same name, which aired around the same time.

The Legend of Big Paw was the final theatrically released animated feature from the late 1980s to promote a major toy line, a common trend in the American cartoon industry of the time.

The film received negative reviews from critics and audiences alike and was a major box office bomb, grossing only $586,938 against a $6 million budget.

In the Dark Ages (specifically the 950s AD), a boy named Arthur and his dog Digalot came across a stone which contained both the mythical sword Excalibur and the magical Bone of Scone.

Sir McNasty, the Black Knight, who had witnessed the withdrawals and Arthur's coronation as King of England, planned to conquer the world by retrieving the Bone.

Whopper then follows McNasty's henchmen as they attempt to steal the Bone of Scone, but they accidentally break it in two; this results in the loss of Puppy Power.

McNasty and his henchmen try to escape with the Bone, but Big Paw and Cooler chase them back to the museum, where the Mean Machine turns the villains into good men.

The film's music was directed by Steve Tyrell, with an original score by Richard Kosinski, Sam Winans, Bill Reichenbach Jr., Ashley Hall and Bob Mann.

The overseas work was done by Wang Film Productions and Cuckoo's Nest Studio, two Taiwanese companies known for their contributions to children's animated television series.

[4]: 209  The Sacramento Bee deemed it "miserably drawn" in comparison to what Disney was offering at the time,[9] and the San Francisco Chronicle gave it an "empty chair" rating.

[11] Martha Baker of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch also denounced it and began her review thus: If you're in your 40th year and not your fourth, Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw requires the extra dosage of insulin reserved for such treks into celluloid and commercial [sweetness].