Bolt (2008)

Rating: PG

Summary

Featuring the voices of John Travolta and Miley Cyrus, this animated adventure (nominated for a Best Animated Feature Oscar and Golden Globe) centers on a dashing German shepherd named Bolt, a canine actor forced into making an action-filled cross-country trek when he's accidentally shipped from Hollywood to New York. Believing that he and his fictional character are one and the same, Bolt gets a glimpse of what it takes to be a hero in the real world.

Bob's Review

I’m always amazed at the advances that they are making an animation anymore. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, but I was thinking about it a few days later, and it hit me why I liked it so much. It totally reminded me of the journey out of religion into relationship. The main character’s sense of reality turns out simply to be no more than just a television show. Sort of a take off of the Truman show concept. However, the story follows the character through the disappointment of his new realization, and through a series of relationships and adventures with some of other characters, the main character is able to develop real relationships and pass through the disappointment into the freedom of being who he really is.