![]() None of the voice actors give a shit and it feels as if they’re reading lines with no personality (Alec Baldwin, Heidi Klum, James Franco, John Cleese) and if they have a personality, they’re just doing an accent (Anjelica Huston). You’ve got big heads, big eyes, a skinny body… they’re just Nick Wilde’s designs from Zootopia with a few modifications to make it look more marketable in terms of cuteness because BIG EYES ARE APPEALING and boom, you got this bland fox. The character designs are as generic as any animated feature set on anthropomorphic animals. The settings are few and limited, but once you see everything to scale you notice how the characters look out of place amongst their environment. Now, I don't know how much was spent on animation services, but it surely wasn't enough. I’m not trying to pay too much attention to detail when it comes to this, but for a 50-million-dollar budget, consistency shouldn’t be so difficult. Early on, there’s a sequence where the leads go down a mountain on a sled and their trail is inconsistent. Some of the textures of the settings aren’t rendered to completion. There are a lot of continuity errors going on here and the majority of the issues involve the characters within their environment. A large sum of the animation is incomplete in terms of rendering, shadowing, and continuity. For a 3D CG animated movie, Arctic Dogs is an embarrassment. You got Frozen II around the corner, you know your kids ain’t clamoring to see Arctic Dogs, and if they are, disown them! Just kidding, but holy crap there is no need for this to be on the big screen. It only took a split second before I realized, “Holy shit, this is Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad! Why the hell did it go through a retitle?” When I went home, I looked through my EPK, found the trailer and just went: I think it was at AMC Lincoln Square where I came across the large standee… just sitting there and existing, looking like the most generic animated movie ever. The resurgence of this feature being “relevant” to me was so bizarre that it pulled the rug from under me. Then, it got picked up by Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures (the most redundant distributor name ever best known for the 47 Meters Down franchise). This was in the pipeline for over 4 years and it went through distribution hell! It was picked up by Open Road, but last September they filed for bankruptcy. ![]() When the sinister Doc Walrus hatches a secret plot to accelerate global warming and melt the arctic circle, a rag-tag group of inexperienced heroes must come together to foil his evil plans and save the arctic. Even the initial synopsis was interesting to me… AT THE TIME! I remember when I came across the concept art for Arctic Dogs, which was initially titled Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad (which you must admit is a badass title) and I was intrigued. I love rooting for animated features and seeing projects prosper from date of announcement to sheets of concept art and any form of progression that comes with them as they make their way to the silver screen. ![]() This ragtag group of Arctic misfits has to band together to stop Von Walrus' sinister plans and save the day.Every now and then, I go on Cartoon Brew and Animation News Network to find the latest updates in the field of animation for both television and film. Now, Swifty has to enlist the help of his friends: PB, a concerned polar bear, Lemmy, a scatterbrained albatross, Bertha and Leopold, two conspiracy theorist otters and Jade, a worldly fox. Swifty soon discovers Von Walrus' plan to melt the polar ice caps and flood the world in order to reign supreme. He stumbles upon a secret fortress where he comes face to face with Otto Von Walrus, a blubbery evil genius who walks around on mechanical legs and commands a loyal army of oddly polite puffin henchmen. To prove himself worthy of the Top Dog role, Swifty secretly commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a package to a mysterious location. Comedy | Cold Weather Synopsis Swifty the Arctic fox works in the mail room of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service but dreams of one day becoming a Top Dog (the Arctic's star husky couriers). Distributor: Open Road Films, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures Genre Animation. AMBI Group, Arctic Justice Movie, Assemblage Entertainment. ![]()
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