The backgrounds deserve special mention, or rather, flogging. Swifty himself somewhat resembles Danny the Cat from Cats Don’t Dance, but with none of that character’s expressivity or facial flexibility. The character designs are horrendous: enormous eyes tend to sit above flattened cheeks and low-set chins, and the mouth movements are frequently out of sync or crimped. This is possibly the worst use of CGI I have ever seen, at least as late as 2019. I wrote in a review not long ago that all studios were reaching equality in technical skills: I recant that now. The plot to destroy the world is neither logical nor believable, and there are enough continuity errors to render it all moot anyhow. OVW himself is as evil genius, kind of like this guy named Dru, and he has an army of minions – oh, sorry, I meant puffins – who are not nearly as cute or amusing as the ones they are patterned after. OVW has a mobile mountain that houses a superweapon, kind of like the one in Angry Birds 2. This is an incredibly derivative and senseless film. Unbeknownst to all, OVW plans to destroy the arctic and thus the world by drilling through the Earth until he releases a noxious gas that will melt…but why go on? Swifty circumvents the rules by secretly delivering a package that his love interest Jade (Heidi Klum) is sending to a mysterious client (who turns out to be the dastardly Otto Van Walrus, voiced by John Cleese). He is forbidden to do this by his boss, a female Russian-accented Caribou named Magda (Angelica Huston).
OK, the hero of this film is Swifty the Arctic Fox (Jeremy Renner), who aspires to be a package delivery superstar like his idols, three mighty huskies (who hate their jobs, BTW).
One or two of you may remember this movie. It was directed by Aaron Woodley, who formerly directed Spark: A Space Tail (2007). Based on the results, they all need to go into another line of work. Yes, even Pokemon: Detective Pikachu.Īrctic Dogs is the product of AIC Studio/AMBI Media Group, and Assemblage Entertainment. How could any animated film in wide release this year be so unrelentingly putrid? 2019 has not been a banner year for mainstream theatrical releases, but Arctic Dogs makes any one of them look like candidates for inclusion in the Library of Congress. Community and trust win in the end, earning this snowy, funny adventure Dove-approval for All Ages.Twenty minutes after leaving a showing of Arctic Dogs, I remained in a state of disbelief. However, Arctic Dogs offers themes of resilience, friendship, girl power, and loyalty, paralleling concepts and plot lines with the 1995 Arctic tale, Balto. Unfortunately, a mild cartoon party scene loosely alludes to adult content, such as alcohol abuse, but the aftermath creates important conversation about honesty and responsibility. Friends, family, and faith in others matters most. Thanks to his loyal friends and determination, Swifty learns that landing a dream job isn’t what life is about, that big titles only count when there’s a true heart behind the big mission. The Top Dogs team delivers important packages with food and medical supplies to Swifty’s remote Arctic village, but when the Top Dog team is stolen by an evil, power-hungry walrus threatening to melt away their village, Swifty earns the chance to be the ultimate Top Dog. Swifty the Arctic fox was raised to blend in: “Out of sight, you’re all right.” But Swifty doesn’t want to blend in he wants to earn a spot as a Top Dog sledder. To prove he can do it, he commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a mysterious package to a secret location. He yearns to become one of the Top Dogs, the Arctic’s star husky couriers. Swifty the Arctic fox (Jeremy Renner) works in the mailroom of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service, but he has much bigger dreams.
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