Alpha and Omega (2010)
Directed by Anthony Bell
Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.
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Directors Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck populate some decent looking scenery with Saturday morning cartoon wolves whose manes look more like Swiffer dusters than fur, then take the few concepts written by Chris Denk ("Shark Bait") and Steve Moore ("Open Season") and repeat them multiple times.
Directors Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck populate some decent looking scenery with Saturday morning cartoon wolves whose manes look more like Swiffer dusters than fur, then take the few concepts written by Chris Denk ("Shark Bait") and Steve Moore ("Open Season") and repeat them multiple times.
Since Alphas are only supposed to mate with other Alphas (indeed, Kate is already "engaged" to an Alpha named Garth) their romantic dilemma is very "Romeo and Juliet."
Attractive opposites, forced to travel together; it's just like " It Happened One Night ."
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(Think Lady and the Tramp but without the charm.)
And while all of those movies have surprises, you wouldn’t be surprised by anything else that happens in Alpha and Omega either, because you have seen movies like Ice Age, The Fox and the Hound, Happy Feet, Open Season and so on.
The voice work in "Alpha and Omega" isn't the problemJustin Long (2010's " Going the Distance ") and Hayden Panettiere (2009's " I Love You, Beth Cooper ") are lively enough as protagonists Humphrey and Kate, while Christina Ricci (2008's " Speed Racer ") manages to stand out as Kate's adorably dippy younger omega sister Lillybut what surrounds it is.
It's easy to (unfavourably) hold every animated feature up to Pixar's standards, but the movie that immediately springs to mind here is actually Disney's The Lion King.
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" Happy Feet ," it's not.
And while all of those movies have surprises, you wouldn’t be surprised by anything else that happens in Alpha and Omega either, because you have seen movies like Ice Age, The Fox and the Hound, Happy Feet, Open Season and so on.