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Balto II: Wolf Quest Review


Pro's

- Funny Seance of Humor
- Well Drawn Textures

Con's

- Musicals are a joke.
- Annoying Characters
- Poor Voice Acting
- No Good Storyline = No Interests
- Poor Quality, 3D animation
- Kids in the ages of 3 - 7 will loose interest.
-Poor Animation

(Sorry This Review Should Of Been Done Along Time Ago)

Yes! Its the most loved animated Character of the Emblin Entertainment and Universal Studios, Balto. For those who havent known Balto II is the sequal and part 2 of the original movie Balto.



The Story

After being accepted in the little snow town of Alaska Balto returns in his second movie, Now that Balto and Jenna are together they make off springs. (And let me ask you a question before you make a reply. WOULD you actually give away about six mutts away for free? Not Likely.) When the old grizzly couple sadly and High School Musically sell there pups there daughter "Alue" is left sad and lonely in the box, because she looks more like her father. Throughout the movie Alue grows up and Balto tells her the truth why she doesn't have a home, maker her sad and runs away heading for trouble accidentally. (Balto II takes up 10% of Alue Growing up , 40% of Balto finding her , 20% getting into fights with a wolf pack , and the last 30% with talking and credits.) Now Balto must find her, and bring her home... but fails to. And leave her with her *purpose in life. To me the storyline seems a bit poor.

Graphix

It probably wouldn't even matter to you about the poor 3D animated textures and backround. Almost all of the scenes in this movie have 3D backrounds. The 3D textures in the movie are so poor it has the same kind of graphics like that movie Space Chimps (2008), it looks like the background of a Dell Screen saver.

Sound/Audio

Well this is Amblin Entertainment's biggest improvement. I have to say this but it has much better sound Quality then "Balto". The dynamic range of these tracks is fairly good with some decent deep bass.

Errors/Misc.

- Alue is actually Quarter Wolf, not half wolf.
- Jenna's eye's change shape from Asian look to BIG eyes.
- The anonymous dog in the beginning of the movie is actually in the Balto deleted scenes.
- Balto II seems Off Topic: They should of made Balto II continue with Balto... it would of been better if you could see the team getting fame for their job , see them build that statue in Central Park and see Balto die. Which would of spiced up the series. Then show Balto's offsprings from Jenna. *Don't steal this example or make this idea a fanfic or use any simularities. Or I WILL report it.*



Terrible Voice Acting

Of course everyone was wondering why there voices sound so messed up. And some of the voices don't even suit them. Balto's voice makes me want to clear my throat.


Balto II: Wolf Quests gets 2 starts out of 5.

RATING


**

I'll have to agree with you on a few things, but here are some things that I think about.

First of all, the fact is that the first Balto was released in 1995, with the sequel following in 2002. Of course the voices would change because they want to make the charatcers sound the same and look the same. The people back in the first movie would have changed voices, depending on when the idea of a sequel was developed. And of course the animation would change. Computer technology has changed much in the recent years and are still changing now. People would've had a different view on the design of Balto since they weren't probably the same people, or just make it a bit more simple to get. Although some of it was kind of crummy.

Second, they thought that adding songs would be more interesting since there was only one song in the first movie, and the rest were instrumentals. I thought a couple of the songs were really good, and a couple of them had the meaning of their culture and understanding of the world. Of course, they're kind of like the eskimos, singing about the Great Spirits and all that jazz.

And third, they made annoying characters for a reason. Without it, there would be no point to the original story, which, by the way, wasn't as bad at all. I like the movie, but I'm not a real crtic. If I was, I'd take everything I've watched into consideration before making my personal opinion. (No actual offence intended.)

I know it's not the best movie in the world, but I'd give it a four out of five! ^^

****

The worst thing about it, in my opinion, is that it's the sequel to something it is very different to. As a movie on it's own I think it's pretty good, and I enjoy watching it. I really like the whole mystical/spiritual thing, and Balto's dream sequences. But yes, as the sequel to a film about sled dogs it does seem a little off-topic. It's nice on it's own, though.

While I didn't mind the voice acting too much (it wasn't amazing, but it wasn't bad in my opinion), I do agree with you on how Balto's voice didn't really suit him. I think they could have made a better choice and found someone who sounded more like the original. In WQ his voice was too "low" in my opinion.

The songs and soundtrack are pretty good for a sequel. I love the opening theme, and there are some really nice songs. I personally prefer the songs in WOC but I do think it's nice to add a few little songs here and there to an animated movie. I think the actual songs suited the film too.

I think that the backgrounds could have been done better in places, but I got the impression that the reason why they weren't enhanced was because it was a low budget movie. They may have run out of time/not had enough money to hire more background artists.

Overall, I give Wolf Quest 3 out of 5.

* * *

I was fairly disappointed with it to be honest.

I can understand that some more music with lyrics would have been okay but they over-did it.

The voices were tolerable and they weren't as bad as in WoC.

The plot was just garbage and was totally un-relatable to the original. Also not only did the original have a great plot that had some historical accuracy but it was some thing that people could kind of relate to and WQ's plot had neither of those elements.

The animation should have been like the original. It was stupid of them to change it and it only got worse with WoC.


Absolutely.

**

i just watched this last night and i was very let down im not big fan on squels but this one had so many problems to me i couldnt count but my mains one would be its poor animation half the time i got lost what just happened and muk n luk arnt the same and worst yet to me Jenna had only 3 Scenes! and they all wernt right her voice was off her animation was that was a big disapointment =( but i dont totaly hate i i did like the story alittle and that balto and boris still the same like but stil i giving it a low score, i dont blame anyone for not agreeing its just my opinion

~OH and theres one more that reaaaaaly got in my head.. theres songs!! Ah its disney all over again

This reminds me that I will definitely have to add a "review" section on the site(s)...

Almost all? No, only the nightmare scenes...And one or two others. But most of the backgrounds really are paintings.
Remember that it's a sequel with a low budget. I personnally don't mind 3D used for backgrounds, AS LONG as the characters remains 2D...

This is not a good review. It is one-sided and barely addresses any good points of the movie at all. There is nothing wrong with negative reviews, but this is just disrespectful.

At many points, you fail to explain yourself. You said musicals are a joke. Very well. Why are they a joke? Why is the voice acting bad? Why is the story bad?

Steet, I think a review section would be great...but I sincerely hope reviews such as this one would fall into the rejected pile.

I rate it 2 stars. The animation was horrible in comparison to the first movie (and the third movie doesn't get any better, in my opinion). For one thing, Jenna's eyes were not the same. Instead of making her look beautiful the "new" eyes made her into a teddy bear kinda character (also in my opinion). Not a great storyline. It was kinda good, but not the greatest idea. And for me Aleu was my least favorite character. But the songs were pretty good, and the voices weren't all that bad either (except for the fact that most of the voice actors changed :/ But I guess they had to make it seem as if they matured or something...)

So I rate it 2 stars for good music and voices. Other than that the movie really sucked for me.

**

hm i have to redo my review, Most of the time i judge films way to early but sooner or later i get a different though, Heres my updated Review

Well the movie still aint great but i think it was quite good and probably be great if they had better aniamtion and the same voice actors. The likes about this movie is mostly near end in the wolfpack With Balto and Aleu together and the packs life, I enjoyed this and oddly enough i liked the song and it got stuck in my head for a few days =/ The start of the movie wasnt bad either. The dream was alittle weird but it was nice to see Balto and Boris again, And Who elsE? Jenna! Being my favorite character in th first movie, You can tell i was mad as heck when she was in no more then 5 scenes in this movie. I say around 5mins were some of her.. thats IT! Fans of Jenna wont be pleased with this movie, Yet i still enjoyed the movie for the last half. The first half however really put me off.. Aleu is a.. I not sure how to call her but shes my least favorite.. She was oook at the end but first half she was just a brat =/ but onto the points of the movie of my likes and dislikes

Likes:
Balto
Wolf pack
Jenna (even though she was rarely seen)
The story (Yeaah.. kinda enjoyed it alittle to..)
Aniu
Songs (Yea i liked the two main ones)

Dislikes:
Boris, Muk n Luk (Forced comedy..)
Aleu
Bear scene (Was like a conversation crossed with a deadly fight scene..)
Aleu's Howling (It was like some catchphrase or something, i didnt like it much when she used it)
Animation
Change of Voices

Thats as much i can know right now, been a few weeks since i re-watched but meh this all i remember

Ah, to each his or her own . . .

Personally, I thought that despite the low-budgetness of WQ, it was still rather intriguing as a continuation. Yeah, Aleu is a little annoying, but she's supposed to be that way. Aren't all children that way at one time or another?

I thought the only voice that didn't work for me was Jenna's . . . At much as I love Jodi Benson's work, I really wasn't feeling anything from her version of Jenna. Maybe that was because Jenna ended up being the cookie-cutter mama character that most sequels want.

But I will have to agree that this review is rather one-sided . . . I mean, there's gotta be something good about the film . . . because it seems that we can't stop talking about it. I'll admit that when I first watched WQ, I hated it . . . SHOCK! . . . but the more I watched it and saw through the flaws, I realized that WQ was actually a great movie that I couldn't stop watching over and over (why else would I have TWO copies of it?). The characters aren't perfect . . . they aren't supposed to be. The plot for Aleu isn't fair . . . it's not supposed to be in the beginning because it helps guide the story to a conclusion. And Balto . . . well, at least we get to see him return to his wild roots, as well as having to deal with being a new parent.

(Personally, I still think that WQ is the better sequel than WoC, no matter how good it looks. But that's another topic, I'm sure . . .)

- Juuchan17

I prefer musicals from the second Balto movie than the third one. But I still enjoy one & two the most because Balto had no interest in flying until the third movie came out(which I found that kinda odd that he wants to fly,instead of wanting to be a sled dog).

I must say I agree with this completely. I honestly think a lot of the fanbase was likely the same way on this matter too.