Alpha and Omega Movie Review
Review by qctimes
I love animated Disney movies. Generally speaking, they are among the finest films around, with intelligent story telling, memorable characters and beautifully wrought art.
But that doesn’t mean that other animated fare – movies that don’t have the luxury of expansive marketing campaigns – aren’t worthwhile. “Alpha and Omega” may be one of those shows that suffers from the lack of a Disney brand and Disney-sized advertising.
Review by susangranger
In Canada’s scenic Jasper National Park, the wolf pack is socially separated into two groups. The Alphas are the leaders, the disciplined hunters; traditionally, they only breed within their caste. The Omegas are followers, second-class slackers. A typical teenage Omega, Humphrey (voiced by Apple pitchman Justin Long) loves bobsledding down hills in hollowed-out logs with dim-witted buddies and video-gaming squirrels. He yearns for his Alpha wolf friend Kate (voiced by Hayden Panettiere) but she’s been promised by the lupine leader, Winton (voiced by Danny Glover), to mate with Garth (voiced by Chris Carmack), the scion of rival chief, Tony (voiced by the late Dennis Hopper). Then one day, Humphrey and Kate are hit by tranquilizing darts shot by forest rangers and shipped off to Sawtooth National Forest in Idaho as part of a wolf-relocation project. While their captors expect them to reproduce, Kate’s determined is to find her way home as quickly as possible.
Review by nycmovieguru
Humphrey (voice of Justin Long), an Omega wolf, has fallen in love with Kate (voice of Hayden Panettiere), an Alpha wolf who’s the daughter of the pack’s leader, Winston (voice of Danny Glover). The Omega wolf pack’s leader, Tony (voice of Dennis Hopper) persuades Winston to unite the two packs during a foot shortage in order to avoid an imminent war between both packs. Winston arranges a marriage between Kate and Tony’s macho son, Garth (voice of Chris Carmack), but Kate doesn’t truly love him. Before the marriage takes place, though, park rangers all-of-a-sudden capture Humphrey and Kate and ship them from Canada to a park in Idaho where they’re supposed repopulate. It’s now up to Humphrey and Kate to find a way to get back home before a war commences between the Alpha and Omega packs. Marcel (voice of Larry Miller), a French Canadian goose, helps them throughout their long trek. Christina Ricci provides the voice of Lilly, Kate’s younger sister whom Garth falls in love in the meantime.
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