The Definitive Guide to Living in the Capital , Cairo , Egypt

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In a sea of animated movies, some features make it big, becoming unforgettably iconic, while others sink, joining the multitude of forgettable, generic films. Let’s see how Arctic Dogs fared:

Arctic Dogs follows Swifty (Jeremy Renner), a fox who lives in an isolated snowy town where he works at the post office, with a dream to deliver packages like the town’s top dogs. Consistently rejected for the job, simply because he’s a fox, Swifty finds that his time to shine has arrived when he uncovers a devious plan by Otto Von Walrus (John Cleese) that could destroy the whole town.

The flow of the plot isn’t the smoothest for a children’s animation; the characters’ motives are unclear, with some of them nonsensically deviating from their typical behaviour. The confusion manifests itself in how Swift idolised the top dogs’ lead while wanting to take over his position. The same confusion strikes in when, all of a sudden, the entire town start to hate Swift for no apparent reason.

The inconsistency runs through the plot from the beginning until the very end, serving a set of mixed signals and incomplete messages that never get through; swinging back and forth between ‘never give up on your dreams’, and ‘people matter more than anything’. The comedy aspect of the animation is also nothing outstanding, with barely any laughable moments.

As for the animation, the characters are colourfully distinctive; however, it does not reach the point of making its characters loveable or unforgettable.

For the voice acting, Jeremy Renner did a decent job, even if he could have shown more enthusiasm and emphasis. John Cleese’s performance, which, reminiscent of a Bond villain, was adequate, giving his character more memorability than most. Playing Swifty’s love-interest, Jade, Heidi Klum’s performance was the most plausible, believable, and true to character.

Your kids probably won’t remember what it was about after it is over, and will sit through it mainly for the animation and nothing more.