Review of Balto (1995) by Zachary R — 17 Feb 2013

This is a good children's movie about a half wolf/dog who saves a town in Nome Alaska with children sick with diptheria. This movie starts out with live action sequences with Miriam Margolyes who is an elderly lady looking for the famous Balto statue where then she goes into a story to tell her granddaughter about what happened in that time.

We then cut to the animation portion where we see the wolf Balto, played by Kevin Bacon wanting to be accepted by society. Balto's friend Boris is telling him that he doesn't need them because the town is afraid of him and all the other dogs treat him horribly as well.

All throughout the movie Balto tries to gain acceptance finding it nowhere accept in Jenna a husky dog, played by Bridget Fonda and a town girl named Rosy. When the children in Nome Alaska become sick Balto wants to help but all the other people and dogs of the village don't trust him, so they don't let him be a part of the team.

When Rosy gets sick, and the original sled team with the medicine in hand gets lost, Balto takes the initiative to help the team out and find their way back home to save the children. As always this film has it's corny moments but it is a good film with a message at heart.

There are however a few annoying characters, and the movie is way, way, to short but with good voice actors like Bob Hoskins and Jim Cummings this film is worth any family checking out. 8 out of 10.