Bolt – A dog story for the whole family
Bolt – A dog story for the whole family
Rated: PG Time: 1:36
Stars – Voices of: Mark Walton, John Travolta, Susie Essman and others
Final Grade: A-
Summary: Ever believe a story so much that you think it’s actually real? Well, if you’re a dog that’s been raised your whole life with one loving little girl as your master and the belief that you’re a super hero because that’s the only thing you’ve ever done, you begin to think it’s reality. This is a loveable story of finding one’s lost friend and at the same time finding one’s true self and a lot about what life’s really about when you’ve lived a long sheltered existence, away from reality.
The main character of this movie is a loveable mutt named Bolt who ever week comes to the rescue of his loveable young master, Penny. This dog has been tricked by Hollywood special effects people into thinking he can stop bullets, run faster than a locomotive, jump over tall building in a single bound and generate a super bark shockwave that destroys almost everything in its wake. Eat your heart out, Lassie!
Well, as luck would have it, at the end of the current episode, Penny has just been kidnapped by the evil villain with the green eye and as they fade to black is being whisked away in a helicopter to parts unknown. Needless to say, Bolt thinks this is really happening in real life and his master is in grave danger. This starts his quest to save Penny from the evil villain with the green eye.
Starting off under the existing delusions that he’s a super powered mutt, Bolt quickly realizes, with the glad help of a defanged cat, that he’s not any more super than the next mutt on the street…
His trek takes him from New York across the US back to Hollywood. Along the way he meets several traveling partners that join him, voluntarily and involuntarily. Rather frankly, the extras he meets along the way that make this moving rock. The pigeons are hilariously a stereotypical strutty and stupid. And if it weren’t for Rhino (the hamster) this movie would be a dud. This hamster plays the ultimate TV groupie and hero sidekick and is the glue that holds this thing together.
During the course of their pilgrimage, Bolt has to reevaluate his super power status and soon realizes that there are other things that make for greatness which are more lasting and have more depth than a Hollywood special effects department. And, at the end, realizes where true greatness and friendship comes from.
I’m Don Rima and that’s the way I saw it, From Where I Stand.
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