Strong outing from Disney - voices a bit weak

Rating: 8/10 (29 November 2008)

Overall I thought Bolt came together very well, hitting all the notes of humour, action and some genuinely poignant moments. The only area which I found a bit weak were the two voice leads, Travolta and Cyrus depend far too much on their physical personas in their acting to convincingly inhabit their characters, frankly they are a bit boring.
The exception was Mark Walton as the hamster Rhino. Who is this guy? He nailed his part, and obviously had a lot of fun with it, a very impressive performance.
As others have mentioned, this movie was much better than the trailers suggested. Or perhaps it is because the trailer itself didn't try to include all of the "best bits" of the movie, like so many do. Not a bad idea to tone down the trailer a bit so that the audience can still be surprised by the originality and spunk of the script.