I guess I haven't reviewed a lot of family films so far. This one is a CG animated feature about a pack of wolves in a Canadian wildlife park. The title of the film refers to the delineation between the alpha wolves (the hunters and warriors, more physically strong and agile) and the omega wolves (the peacemakers who remind the rest of the pack to play, more clever and creative). Do I detect some social commentary? The main character Humphrey (voiced by Justin Long, who you might know from Dodgeball or Jeepers Creepers) is an omega male and he was puppy-hood friends with Kate (voiced by Hayden Panettiere, the cheerleader from Heroes) the alpha female daughter of the pack leader Winston (voiced by Danny Glover from Lethal Weapon). Winston tries to remind a young Humphrey that "alphas and omegas don't... uh..." (he doesn't want to discuss mating with the impressionable young cub, nor do they use such harsh language as "mate" or "reproduce" in the film, though they do say "repopulate" at one point), which I found clever and amusing. Winston's other daughter is an omega female Lilly (voiced by Cristina Ricci, also from Black Snake Moan and The Adams Family) showing that the castes are determined by individual proficiency rather than lineage, which I feel does add a sense of legitimacy to the existence of the roles if not the fraternization rules.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Alpha And Omega (2010 , PG)
I guess I haven't reviewed a lot of family films so far. This one is a CG animated feature about a pack of wolves in a Canadian wildlife park. The title of the film refers to the delineation between the alpha wolves (the hunters and warriors, more physically strong and agile) and the omega wolves (the peacemakers who remind the rest of the pack to play, more clever and creative). Do I detect some social commentary? The main character Humphrey (voiced by Justin Long, who you might know from Dodgeball or Jeepers Creepers) is an omega male and he was puppy-hood friends with Kate (voiced by Hayden Panettiere, the cheerleader from Heroes) the alpha female daughter of the pack leader Winston (voiced by Danny Glover from Lethal Weapon). Winston tries to remind a young Humphrey that "alphas and omegas don't... uh..." (he doesn't want to discuss mating with the impressionable young cub, nor do they use such harsh language as "mate" or "reproduce" in the film, though they do say "repopulate" at one point), which I found clever and amusing. Winston's other daughter is an omega female Lilly (voiced by Cristina Ricci, also from Black Snake Moan and The Adams Family) showing that the castes are determined by individual proficiency rather than lineage, which I feel does add a sense of legitimacy to the existence of the roles if not the fraternization rules.
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Did you know that Bruce Campbell is 8% dog? And not that wimpy lap dog stuff. More of the icey blue eyes wolf dog variety. I have seen him on occasion howl at the moon with two heads.
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