Alpha and Omega
Alpha and Omega
PG | 17 September 2010 (USA)
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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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Channeleven

Since the late 2000s, animated features for families have begun to decrease in quality. With blatant rehashes, cookie cutter plots, horrendous animation (it's rare to see a 2D feature animation these days), crappy musical numbers and a motive centered around breaking box-office numbers without any regard for quality, I'd have to ask this. Are we reaching the end of good family cinema, and are companies this uncaring for creating quality products? Apparently so.The problems with this movie become blatant from the get-go. The title of the movie represents a short-lived trend of Romeo and Juliet carbon copies. This is made apparent through the clichéd "two lovers from separate tribes who want to be together regardless" trope. With an aesthetic so paper thin, it's not worth describing in full detail.The animation is stale, and not distinctive from its competition, and given how significant good animation is when it comes to an animated feature (one that came out at the start of this decade mind you), what's the excuse?Another big thing about this movie is that it can't tell the difference between feral models and anthropomorphic models. There're times when four-legged wild animals would stand on their hind-legs and make allusions to stuff only humans or animals close to civilization would know about.Sadly, this has attracted a fandom who has proved to be more devoted (borderline obsessive) than any other fanbase, and they'd fight to defend A&O's furry allusions. You can't defend what is hardly present.It's a little better than the horrendous sequels that followed this particular movie though, but that's a review for another time.

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Peter Santos

What really spoils this film are some (or all) characters that are weird, ugly men and children, his film's protagonist is a skinny and Wolf animated beast, I also don't really like the way he has child, who saves the whole picture is his mate, the movie didn't give me interest for the most part, got bored for a while seeing strange animations and children , only the end I liked it,gave me a certain emotion, but it does not save the whole movie, I didn't think the film very interesting, is optional only for children 10 years down, nor do I think to see the proceedings as in pictures, I can see the animations have worsened and on top of that they changed the main characters by their puppies, leaving the film even more childish , Alpha and Omega was a deception has altered your intentions for me

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rbn_lrk-1

2010 was a great year for movies.Supernatural thrillers, including more Shrek and Karate kid.Toy Story 3 was some of the animation highlights.In the mist of all this Alpha & Omega came out.Well received by the Youtube crowd, but not by critic and Box Office.Lots of Alpha & Omega AMV came out those days.Anyway, this is a movie about Humphrey and Kate two wolves that are send out to Idaho to repopulate.The two wolves must fight bears and escape from humans in Idaho before coming back to their park by train at last.This ends with a fight between two wolf Clans.The animation is detailed, but not fine to look at sometimes.It's not any How to train your dragon, but worth a rent if you and your Family is having nearly 1 hour and 15 minutes to spare.8/10

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Angels_Review

As anyone around me can tell you, I love wolves (hence my name, Angel Wolf) and so when I heard about this movie coming out, I was dieing to go see it. It's like a Romeo and Juliet story of two lovers separated by class. One is from a high class and the other is of the lower class but each one has there strengths.I fell in love with pretty much all the characters from the charismatic Kate to the very shy character Lilly. I couldn't stop thinking about how Lilly reminds me of me a bit. She's quiet mostly and hides in the shadows like myself. Even though I'm loud online with my opinion, if you see me in real life, I'm quiet and in the background of a lot of parties. I'm really just a wallflower when it comes right down to it. Her character really spoke to me for the small time it was up on screen. I'm not so fond of Kate and Lily's mom much. She just seems like a rather quiet, yet harsh character who controls the pack threw her husband. Her husband might not actually do all that she says, but she has a very harsh concept of justice. There are times she has a right to say what she says but then other times it just feels like they pushed her character to an extreme.The animation is rather beautiful, everything pretty much working together. Some textures seem slightly more detailed then they should be but that's all a matter of taste since it doesn't mess up the over all picture. Rock textures are really hard to get right anyway without making them overly bumpy. The rest seem really nice with a larger look at the fur textures. I love how they made the fur into hair up on top of their heads and styled it depending on what personality the character had. For example, Lilly is a very shy girl and so her hair cut is over her eyes a bit and makes her look rather quite while her sister Kate has a rough cut hair that makes her more like a tomboy type with a girly side. Humphrey is a rather easy going personality so his haircut is sort of a messy thrown together look while Garth is more of trying to be smooth jock type so he has a bit of a curl in his face while the rest is slicked back. It makes it a bit easy to pick out who the characters are when the fur is so similar.The voices are really nice, well, except for Garth's howl that sounds like a dieing animal. But that's really what they were going for from what I got. The spin they did on all the howls reminded me a little of what they did in 'Happy Feet' since one of the characters couldn't make the right sound as well and how all the others had there own style of howling like singing. If you have ever listened to a wolf howl, you will understand what I mean when I say that a wolf has many different emotions they can convey as they howl. If there is a lone wolf howling, his howl may sound a bit sad compared to if he is howling with a group. Same for if it loses someone special against finding the mate he has been looking for. They use their howl to show all these and more so I wish we had even more of the howling aspect. He comes out alright in the end but its how he did that that made me like his story. Though the dialog was a bit rough in some aspects, the over-lining meaning was as clear as day making it so much better.

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