Too Disney

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2009)

Bolt is a star. He's an actor playing a superhero dog in a series in which he and his owner, a little girl, go through several ordeals trying to save the world and themselves. The good thing is, he's doing a fine job and everyone likes the series. The bad thing is, he doesn't know he's an actor and actually believes he's a superhero. When an event is created that takes his co-star, who he believes to be his owner, away from him he thinks it to be a true crisis and goes to the rescue.
So far the story. Good enough, it's only a simple animation film after all. And like most of todays animations it leans a lot on the actions of several side characters and their interaction. I love the cat best, and the hamster plays a good part too. But all in all the combination just doesn't work out too well. It is too much of a standard story packed into too much of light headed animation. The animation is up to par with what can be expected today, nothing wrong there, but it doesn't really add to the story and that makes the ending result just too thin.
Added to that is the fact that this is a pure Disney film and that is seen in the way the story flows - all the elements of the classics are there and it has to be said that the day for the classics is done and should be changed into a new rhyme instead of repeating it over and over.
5 out of 10 super barks.