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Bolt


Bolt (John Travolta) is an animated pooch with an affable mug but a lightning tattoo to prove he means business. No ordinary dog, with his laser vision, battering ram skull and best of all super bark he’s able to fight the evil Green Eyed Man with the help of Penny (Disney darling Miley Cyrus) his turbo charged razor scooter ridin’ human. The trouble is he can’t really do all these things but he believes that he can because the genetically altered super dog he plays on TV has all those attributes. He’s constantly left sequestered in his dressing room trailer - the better to stay in character - but some hilarious cat taunting leaves him in a New York bound packing crate. In the Big Apple he encounters the street wise feline extortionist Mittens (wry veteran Susie Essman).Bolt is convinced that the Green Eyed Man is keeping penny hostage and is certain that he’s in league with Mittens so he forces her to lead him back across the country in order to save his co-star. Along the way they hook up with Rhino (Marvellously frenetic Mark Walton), a star struck hamster encased in a plastic ball who joins them enroute to their inevitable reunion with Penny. Disney has been doing this sort of thing so well for so long that it’s no surprise that this is another charmer even up against the current legion of pretenders making cartoon ka-ching. Bolt is going to leave a lot of families entertained during its run at the box office but more importantly over and over after the DVD release.

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