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| A poster for Chris Williams and Byron Howard's Bolt |
QUICK REVIEW:
It's no problem as an adult to get moved and blank-eyed by a story as Bolt, which is about a Hollywood super-dog, who goes on an American adventure with a cat and a hamster in a plastic ball.
- That hamster, BTW, (voiced by Mark Walton (Little Chicken (2005)) is a really funny character!
Bolt is full of action, songs and narrative that is all balanced very successfully. It is moving and a lot of fun. A fine piece of entertainment.
The film was Disney's first film to be conceptualized in 3D. It was Oscar-nominated as Best Animated Feature but lost to Disney-Pixar's WALL-E (2008).
Bolt was first developed by Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch (2002)), who had creative differences with Pixar executive John Lasseter, working as a Disney producer on Bolt, and was removed from the project. Sanders left Disney and went to DreamWorks, where he has since directed major hits as How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and The Croods (2013). He is also doing The Croods 2 (2017).
Disney went along with two in-house people as directors instead; Byron Howard (Tangled (2010)), who hadn't directed anything before Bolt, and Chris Williams, who had only directed a short. Williams is now working on Big Hero 6, an animated Marvel adaptation for Disney.
Bolt was released in a week with a box office already packed by a Twilight movie and a Bond movie and fell in 3rd place in the US. Internationally, it became much bigger, but its success still hasn't garnered talks of a sequel.
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Budget: 150 mil. $
Box office: 309.9 mil. $
= Flop
What do you think of Bolt?
Do you have an exciting premise for a Pixar/Disney-type animated movie?
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