Arctic Dogs – NOVEMBER 1st, 2019

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Swifty the Arctic Fox works in the mailroom of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service but dreams of one day becoming a Top Dog (the Arctic’s star husky courier). To prove himself worthy of the Top Dog role, Swifty secretly commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a mysterious package to a secret location. He stumbles upon a hidden 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. Swifty soon discovers Otto Von Walrus’ plan to drill beneath Arctic surface to unleash enough ancient gas to melt the Arctic, in order to reign as the world’s supreme leader. Now, Swifty has to enlist the help of his friends: PB, an introverted polar bear, Lemmy, a scatterbrained albatross, Sal and Weez, two conspiracy theorist otters and Jade Fox, a tough as nails mechanic. This ragtag group of Arctic misfits has to band together to stop Otto Von Walrus’ sinister plans and save the day. 

MOVIESinMO REVIEW

This has to be the worst animated movie I’ve ever seen. How did this piece of crap get past quality control? How did they get those voice actors to agree to this crap? Who thought this was good enough for a theatrical release? Nothing in this movie is redeemable. Arctic Dogs has a mediocre to horrible story. The animation is amateur simple. You don’t care about any of the characters, and the characters’ voices are all over the place. Some sounded like they recorded them in a cheap studio, while others were so horrible, they must have read their lines over the phone. The story was so simple, it had to be the idea of one of the grandkids of the producer or director. It’s more of slap in the face of every American child if the production company, Assemblage Entertainment, thinks this is all it takes to appease them. As a new company (December 2013), they got lucky because of their ability to animate, and the industry thought they would be a strong contender when compared to DreamWorks (Kung-Fu Panda), Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age), or Aardman Animations (Shaun the Sheep Movie). They were wrong. Assemblage Entertainment produced its first movie, Blinky Bill the Movie, in 2015. It was OK. . .just ok. Three films later and they haven’t made anything close to their first film’s mediocre success since. Norm of the North (2016) sucked, Elliot the Littlest Reindeer (2018) sucked, and now Arctic Dogs is riding the same sucky wave as the others. I don’t like to wish anyone ill-will, but if this is the best Assemblage can do, they need to close shop or at least stop wasteing their money trying to make feature films. Don’t waste your money or time on this horrible half-done film.  

DVD/BLU-RAY/DIGITAL

Genre – Animated Family

Street date

Digital – January 28^th 2020

DVD/Blu-Ray – February 4^th 2020

Video – 1080p

Screen size – 2.39:1

Sound – English: DTS-HD MA 5.1

Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish

Extras

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