A new dog movie to look forward to!!

I know we haven’t quite recovered from Super Bowl and Valentines Day and we have yet to make it to St. Patrick’s Day, but the year is moving on. Recently the American International Toy Show was held in the Javits Center in New York City revealed the toys that would be big for the Christmas 2008 season. You know when they are looking at toys for Christmas, they are also the planning the Christmas movie season.
One of the releases that will be out in November of 2008(just in time for the Christmas movie season and tons of merchandising) is a film called Bolt. This is a Disney animated feature movie about a German Shepard who is a television superstar hero. The television show is, of course, taped in Hollywood. Unfortunately, there is a shipping accident and Bolt ends up in New York City. He has to somehow make it back to California. But with this journey, comes the realization that he isn’t a superhero with super powers at all. However, there is much self-discovery for Bolt, who with his cross country journey realizes that he does possess many special abilities of which he wasn’t even aware. In his journey across the country, Bolt is accompanied by an abandoned housecat named Mittens and a TV obsessed hamster that lives in a plastic ball named Rhino.
The voices of the characters will add to the popularity of the film. Bolt will be played by the voice of John Travolta…my he has come a long way from Saturday Night Fever!!! Some other popular voices will be part of the film as well. They include Susie Essman, Thomas Haden Church, Woody Harrelson, Bernie Mac and Bruce Greenwood.
We have come to expect great things from Disney animated films. I would expect the buzz around this film to begin somewhere during the summer movie season and continue until the film’s release on November 26, 2008, Thanksgiving week, I beleive. I doubt that Disney will disappoint us. Hopefully, this as with the many other dog films (101 Dalmations, etc), will become a classic and one that we and the kids we love will enjoy for a long time to come.
Check out some old classic films with dog stars in this previous entry.

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