Posted on Saturday, 1st November 2008 by astronomius
A small German Shepherd (voice by John Travolta) is the star of a wildly popular TV show about a super-powered (only onscreen, by special effects) dog named Bolt who fights crime with his human partner, Penny (voice by Miley Cyrus), but offscreen gets shipped to New York by accident and teams up to fight real crime in his natural, non-superpowered abilities with a TV-loving hamster named Rhino (voice by Mark Walton) and a jaded female cat named “Mr. Mittens” (voice by Susie Essman).
As with Disney’s “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” (currently playing) and many others, Disney has put together another “talking animal” movie where the animals all communicate directly using spoken (human) language with each other and the people in the story just hear animal sounds come from the animals; also, “Bolt” looks like another example of animals “finding the hero within”.
Unlike “…Chihuahua”, however, “Bolt” is entirely CGI-animated and Disney is using a new animation process called “Non-Photorealistic Rendering”; the movie has a painterly, dimensional look.
Writer / Director Chris Sanders (”Lilo and Stitch”) helped begin the project, but the film is directed by Byron Howard and Chris Williams and written by Dan Fogelman (”Cars”) and Chris Williams (”Mulan”).
John Lasseter is the Executive Producer.
Other voice talent actors in “Bolt” include Malcolm McDowell as the evil “Dr. Calico”, Greg Germann (from “Ally McBeal”) and J.P. Manoux (from Disney’s “Phil of The Future” and the “Emperor’s New Groove” TV series).
“Bolt” is rated PG for some mild action and peril.
US Release date: Nov. 21
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