Bolt is the newest Disney Animations movie with voices by John Travolta, Miley Cyrus and Malcolm McDowell.

Plot:
Bolt is the star of his own SciFi TV show, where he has various super powers. Each week he has to save his human, Penny, from unspeakable dangers. Because the film team doesn’t want to compromise his acting ability, they make him think that the show is actually real.
After a particularly cliffhanger-y episode of the show, Bolt manages to escape and tries to save Penny, helped only by his prisoner, the cat Mittens, and his biggest fan, the crazy hamster Rhino.

Bolt was really very funny. Not only did they have some good jokes, (and the premise itself is pretty cool) but they also had some brilliant parodies. Like the overexcessive use of slow motion in TV shows and movies (pretty in right now), which they portrayed at the same time spot on and in a way that made you wish that more movies were done this skillfully.

It’s definitely made so that adult can enjoy it as well, but I went with my little nephew and it didn’t shorten his experience, so they found the perfect mix.

The morale of the story is fine, too. Nothing spectacular that makes me want to high five anyone, but nothing that makes me want to beat the crap out of the writers either.

I can’t really comment on the voice performances as I saw it in German, but in German it was fine.

The only thing that irritated me was the song that suddenly started in the middle of the film. I’m guessing that you can’t have a movie with Miley Cyrus without her lilting in a microphone, but it really didn’t fit the whole thing. There were no songs before, no songs afterwards and that it was translated into German only made it weirder.

The pigeons were great!

But the best thing was Rhino… I love that hamster! This is his greatest scene (unfortunately, the picture quality is a little crappy). Rhino makes his appearance about 50 seconds in:

So, summarising: Definitely a movie one can enjoy, even if it is primarily made for kids. But I think that its chances to get the Oscar it’s nominated for are practically zero. Wall-E will get it, and no doubt about it.