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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 8:01 pm
This looks very, very funny! Check out the trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/bolt/
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 9:55 am
I want to see this movie just for the hamster. "STARVING!" and "I'll go break his neck" sent me into convulsions hahaha
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 10:13 am
LOL, every time he says anything about his "hamster ball" I die laughing. I usually don't seek them out films like this (though they are harmless) but I find a lot of the jokes in Bolt very funny.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 10:31 am
"Ball?" "ball" "Ball?" "Ball?" "ball?" "Ball?" "Ball?" Makes me laugh, every time I see it.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 3:22 pm
LOL It reminds me of the seagulls in "Finding Nemo"
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 10:39 am
We saw this in 3-D yesterday. The 3-D effects added more depth to the picture, it's wasn't so much about gimmicky tricks like stuff coming at you. The animation was quite stunning and detailed (you could even see scratches on Rhino the hamster's plexiglass ball). Puppy Bolt was SO adorable. The part explaining him being a tv star was a little slow but once he got lost and began trying to find his way back to Penny, his person, the story picked up. My favorite character was Mittens, the Alley Cat (with a heart of gold, of course). There was a lovely sequence of Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino traveling across the country while Mittens teaches Bolt how to be a proper dog. I guess they have to do those sort of things in montages now because modern audiences don't have the patience for the quieter, character-type moments. I still remember being traumatized by the Witch in Snow White so I'll just mention that there are a few scenes that might be a bit intense for little kids but there's nothing too bad. The movie is refreshingly light on the scatological humor that is so common in animation and family entertainment nowadays (there's a scene where dogs greet each in the doggy way that they do but that's about it). The East Coast, Hollywood, and Midwest pigeons are very funny. ETA: The voice acting was just fine and there's a couple nice songs in the movie/over the credits too. Oh and there was a hysterically funny trailer for Ice Age 3, plus ones for Up (Pixar's next movie - looks fantastic), Return to Witch Mountain (very different from the original but I kinda want to see it), and a couple others too.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Monday, November 24, 2008 - 10:44 am
The other trailers I skipped mentioning...Inkheart, Coraline, and Bedtime Stories. I've read the books for the first two so I guess I ought to have remembered them. I try to ignore box office stats but couldn't help hearing that Twilight crushed the movie competition this weekend. I read that book too but wasn't as enamored of it as others were. Oh well. While Bolt may not be a masterpiece like WALL-E (which I love, love, love), it's a solid family-friendly film with beautiful animation. ETA: Oh and not that it matters but it was actually the Evil Queen before she transformed into the old Witch who scared me so much in Snow White.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, November 24, 2008 - 11:02 am
We really enjoyed it. We'd skipped it the first week because something else was on, and we thought it would just be ok, but we were very pleasantly surprised. Wasn't the animation something? I know they're all good these days, but Penny's hair could have been real. I don't think we had a trailer for Ice Age 3, but it might have been there and I wasn't paying attention. Up looks like a bizarre concept!! I love Brendan Frazer (Inkheart), he seems to have found his niche in family friendly adventures.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Monday, November 24, 2008 - 11:19 am
The Ice Age 3 trailer had Scrat being outfoxed by a female squirrel for an acorn. You have to see how, it just cracked the entire theater up. I found it online here. And yeah, they may not be that much of a professional stretch for him but Fraser's roles in family friendly films have served him well. His sense of humor and self-deprecation just work in them. ETA: I love Pixar's movies & shorts and animation in general so I'm looking forward to Up.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Monday, November 24, 2008 - 2:36 pm
Oh, one other thing I meant to mention. We had a "regular" German Shepherd when I was a kid but our neighbors two houses down had a white shepherd (his name was Dino). It was a long time before I learned they were both shepherds because I never knew they could be any other color than black/brown. I hope there's not a run on breeders for white shepherds like what happened with dalmatians.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, November 24, 2008 - 7:04 pm
So, do you think it's necessary to see the 3D version? Or is the regular screen one fine. We'll probably see this Thanksgiving day.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, November 24, 2008 - 11:05 pm
We wondered about seeing the 3D version (we saw that last Brendan Fraser movie on 3D) but chose the regular version as that cinema is nearer. I'd say the film was definitely good enough that it didn't need the 3D gimmicks. On the other hand 3D gimmicks are fun...
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 6:25 am
The Breakout Star of Bolt--and It's not the Dog
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 6:53 am
Awww, that's a nice story...and the guy himself seems so nice. Good for him 
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 2:27 pm
Brenda1966: I think the regular version should be fine. The 3-D in this movie was more about adding depth between the foreground and the background which gave a real sense of movement and, well, dimension. It was lovely but subtler than this summer's Journey to the Center of the Earth which had all those fun old time 3-D tricks such as stuff floating in the air or flying at the audience. (I just so wanted to see a string of T-Rex drool hanging over me, you know! *Ick*, lol.) I'm glad they kept that guy's voice. He did a great job. Sometimes familiar/famous voices can be distracting.
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