Had anyone notice or seen this movie on advertisment? Yes it is called

BOLT.

A non pixar movie about a dog who thinks he has powers. His life was always on a t.v. set, but now he had to make a journey across America to find his owner, Penny.

If you don't know what this movie looks like, you could see this trailer on youtube.

Yes, another talking animal movie. The white german shepard (yes, movie reviews says it is a german shepard) doesn't even look much of its kind.

 and the animation....

As moving on here, you could see that the two dogs are completely different. To my guess, I bet Disney only did little study on dogs. (probably not as much from Balto) Here are some differences about these two pictures.....

1st pic is more muscular and tall. Its legs are sturdy and good built. The tail is down while standing in that position.

2nd pic has a rounder head shape with the ears of a chihuahua! The nose is bigger than usual.

Also, the 2nd pic has scrawny legs, a less muscular body, the paws seem to be more complex, and the tail is short.

Yes, it is an animation movie, but would it hurt to do some research? The movie does look good, but look at Balto's work.

Here is a website about wolf-dogs, yes it is wikipedia. Seems pretty descent on the work the person had displayed on there.

But let's continue.....

 and here's Balto!

Look at these similarities!

In both of the pictures, the paws are simple.

Back structure looks pretty much the same, sturdy.

The tails look almost the same! Both of the fur color seems like to reach at the same point of the tail.

The ears are both pointy, and Balto's seems very realistic just like the upper picture.

The legs are well- built like the upper picture.

Lastly, Balto's nose is simply just like the upper picture.

When I was reading the article in wikipedia, I saw something very interesting!

The interesting thing that said in the pretty decent article was that female wolves usually will mate with the male dogs. In the movie of Balto, his mom was wolf and his dad was dog. Since that Universal studied on dogs, maybe they did this research about the female wolf and male dog. Appealing, isn't it?

My point here is that I feel bad that Balto didn't have much respect and honor when released into the theaters. Such beautiful work I think was put into this movie very well. Then, you're going to have this Disney movie with little and less research, and more and more little children will hear Bolt's name then Balto. This movie would probably get more respect because it is well..... Disney! It is now getting iratating that these two companies are attacking by the throat, trying to make a better animation movie than the other.

In my opinion, Bolt seems a movie of less detail. Yes, I think it does seem fun to watch, but the story plot does not trigger me. I wonder what the reviews would be for this movie when it will come to theaters...

Thank you for reading my article! I hope you can understand my point here, because I did a lot of work into this article! Here are some resources I had gotten my pictures from.

Mainly I had gotten my pictures from google images.

Please tell me if you liked my article or not! I want to here from you guys if I should improve it from next time I write another article similar like this.

(No, I did not copy off this from anyone. This is purely from myself. I made it and I did not copy. So don't go commenting to me saying I had copied off of some one. Thank you very much.)

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Saphire Wolf {Star}, August 03, 2008 at 14: 32 Member

good article; but it was sort of hard to follow. but good job anyway. good detail.and... Bolt is a...GERMAN SHEPARD?! Wow, I thought he was a mutt!!! ^^

Balto676, August 03, 2008 at 16: 25 Member

Wow! good artical! hmmm, um is that secend pic the real balto?? and umm, i agree that bolt dose not realy look like a germen sheperd, weird, never saw a white one............... and i agree with saphier, i thought he was a mutt too! you and your artical ROCKS! hey, ummm, a qustien: who do you like better? balto, or bolt?! Hey, thanks for reading my comment! BYES! HOWL!

Saphire Wolf {Star}, August 03, 2008 at 23: 28 Member

no, the real life picture of a husky is NOT the real Balto. look under "The True Story" under 'Balto' here on BS for a real pic.

Dakota The Black Wolf, August 03, 2008 at 23: 37 Member

*smacks head* I thought you were talking about the animated one.

catwhohas14tails, August 04, 2008 at 03: 48 Member

Good article, however, Bolt is a CARTOON and certain features are going to be EXAGGERATED. German Shepards have large noses and ears and they simply brought them out more in the character. Movie "reviewers" weren't MAKING the movie, so how would they know Bolt was a white German Shepard? (Tho its the most plausible, even if he was either a puppy or had stunted growth) Maybe he's a mix-breed? Like Balto *snicker* Even tho I think Bolt is gonna suck and I don't support 3-D Disney movies in the slightest, your arguments against it could be better. Tho its a nice change from a mere one-paragraph comparison on Balto and some movie no one really cares about.

aleu45, August 04, 2008 at 04: 24 Member

woah...I didn't know there was a movie about a dog named Bolt..yet one of my fan arts is a wolf doing graffiti with the tag being Bolt. haha that just struck me funny. sorry. good article though

Natticat8, August 04, 2008 at 13: 51 Member

Ha! Balto is so much better.

Rain24, August 04, 2008 at 19: 11 Member

good article. hum i thought Bolt was a mini american askimo dog i've seen a few his size that were full grown. diseny is starting to slack up they used to have movies that applied to all ages these days its only for 3-10 year olds who really care less about how accurate they are. its messed up their all about the money now

Funky_Dog_63, August 04, 2008 at 21: 50 Member

Bolt sounds like the most stupid idea for a film i've ever heard in my life....i'm glad i don't see kids movies anymore!

Wolf girl, August 05, 2008 at 23: 52 Member

Yes. I know what you mean. But... Balto is a realistic movie. Where as Bolt, it is just a cartoon. Bolt is also a pup, so he has to look young. And they are more like a cartoon.

Copper., August 06, 2008 at 13: 23 Member

Great article! i agree with everything you wrote, companies nowadats are cutting corners everywhere as long as it makes money!

SouthPaw, August 06, 2008 at 20: 08 Member

Ok, this was a nice article, don't get me wrong but really. Cartoon movies, or really even movies in general are NOT accurate. Cartoon characters always look different from the actual thing, it usually because cartoon are amied at young childern, so Of course the real dog is not going to look like the cartoon and vise versa and besided Balto was just based on his true story Bolt is just another cartoon being made that hopefully a lot of little kids will like so disney can make another million, accuracy is not going to happen in cartoons movies are not based on how it happened or who was what or even what looks right, it's based on what appeals to the public, if the public likes it it dosen't matter if it was right if the public opinion says it's good then disney or who ever gets paid and no one really cares, thats just how movies work.

Wysteria's Immortal Suicide De, August 06, 2008 at 22: 39 Member

I want to see Bolt so badly. I do, however consider Bolt to be the biggest rip off of the Thunderbolt Adventure Hour from 101 Dalmations II: Patch's London Adventure.

Snowdog00, August 08, 2008 at 01: 24 Member

Bolt is a shepherd?! he looks exactly like a chihuahua XD

DragonWings, August 08, 2008 at 18: 15 Member

It's an animated, 3-D "G" rated movie. It's gonna be bad. And when it's for people who are around three to six, I can assure you, they really don't care.

xxxjennaxxx, August 10, 2008 at 10: 44 Member

i looked up the trailer on you tube it looks good

Iditarod, August 10, 2008 at 19: 15 Member

Very good job on this article! I can tell you worked hard on your research! Please do another!

Raptire, August 12, 2008 at 02: 58 Member

... no comment

drawolf, August 12, 2008 at 16: 00 Member

Bolt does not look like a German Shepherd at all. he's a MUTT for dog's sake! Balto rules.

letranger, August 15, 2008 at 02: 42 Member

What SouthPaw said. OK...interesting, and I agree with you about the care and research put into Balto, but...I don't think you can really compare it to Bolt. Being that nitpicky when comparing Bolt to the real white German Shepherd is unncessary, IMO. Especially since that's only one example of a living one. Clearly, it's SUPPOSED to be a very cutie-cartoony and caricaturish film, while the Balto animation and character design is more realistic. Still, Balto isn't exactly like a real wolf-dog because he *isn't* one, and you could list a whole bunch of reasons for that, too, if you felt like it. I think you've got a good article with good points but I don't concur with all of the ones you made regarding the images (ie, what do you mean by "complex" paws-they look as "simple" as Balto's to me, and how's Bolt's tail short?) Personally, I think that despite seeming weirdly small, Bolt looks enough like a white German Shepherd--of course he's different from the photo! But you can pretty well tell it's what he's modeled on; there've been far worse character/breed IDs given by filmmakers. But why would they need to copy him directly from a real one anyway? Have you seen how unrealistically cartoonish all the people and other animals from that movie are? Even without knowing he's meant to be a Shepherd, I'd probably guess just that. The resemblance is sufficient in this case. (I mean, really! How many cartoon animals are as real-world accurate as you seem to desire? If Bolt were a Chihuahua or Eskie or something else, you'd likely be able to tell that, too.) I myself don't really care for this overly exaggerated animated animal style that's been used so often lately, but it IS the beauty of animation that you can stretch and get creative with character designs so that, whatever degree of realism you incorporate, you end up with something different that's still recognizably based on something real. I'm sure they could've done better research, but they are doing a cartoon, not live action.

baltorules!2341, August 15, 2008 at 17: 56 Member

I really want to see that new movie!

wolf_girl_772, August 28, 2008 at 00: 26 Member

AMAZING article! I totally agree with you on the fact that Balto will top this movie. Then again, Balto has always been one of my favorites. As soon as I saw the trailer for Bolt in the movies, it automatically reminded me of 101 Dalmatians II, as Wysteria's Immortal Suicide De said. However, I thought that it looked cute (I grew up with Disney). So it won't be as good as Balto, but I still want to see it. As for Bolt being a White German Shepherd, he looks much too small, but if that's what the movie said... Anyway, your articles are AWESOME and I enjoy reading them very much! Excellent work on gathering information!

TLKandBaltofanatic, September 01, 2008 at 02: 32 Member

Yes, I have heard of bolt. Yet it does have simalarities.

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