Alpha and Omega

Alpha and Omega

Year: 2010

Country: US

Genre: computer animated comedy-drama

Director: Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck

Stars: Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Dennis Hopper, Danny Glover, Chris Carmack, and Christina Ricci

So today at lunch time I was like "I think I'll watch something on netflix... I turn on the netflix and don't see much... it's between Rango and this Alpha and Omega movie. I remember wanting to watch A&O at some point in my life, so I figured I'll just watch it now, it's short and shouldn't take me too long.

Alpha and Omega is every furry's wet dream.  A bucket-ton of anthropomorphic wolves sing-howling at each other and dancing... I also like how they get married and do other anthropomorphic things... NOT!  Really I should have expected this, but I'll claim didn't know any better.

Your typical Anthropomorphic Wolf art, complete with wolf wang.

The story goes like this, there are 2 types of wolves within each pack, the Alphas who hunt and are superior and strong, and the Omegas who are silly (Really, just silly; they don't give any other trait that these wolves have, just that they are jokers).  An Alpha goes to Alpha school to learn to be a sleek and strong hunter/pack leader.  The Omegas don't do much...  When a certain Alpha named Kate, voiced by Hayden Panettiere, goes off to Alpha school, she's taught how to hunt.  When she returns in the spring her Omega friend, voiced by Justin Long, is pleased to greet her and even tries to play with her, but Kate's totally Alpha now and has no time for fun and games...  Kate's dad, voiced by Danny Glover, is trying to unite their pack with the Eastern pack by marring Kate off to their Alpha, Garth, voiced by Chris Carmack.  Garth is awesome in every way an Alpha should be except he sucks at howling.

Party on, Garth!

The wolves have this creepy Howling ceremony and it gets a little... disturbing... I guess... I mean the wolves are singing with human voices and dancing on two legs... kinda weird if you ask me.  Anyway Kate finds Garth's howl to be lacking and wanders away from him.  She runs into her Omega pal, Humphrey (get it? HUMPhrey?) and they get tranq darted and shipped from Jasper Forest in Canada to Idaho (I da what?) at Sawtooth National Recreation area!  They are apparently supposed to "repopulate" and since they are an Alpha and an Omega, the two wolves say they can't.  They run into a bald golf-playing French(Canadian) Goose, voiced by Larry Miller, and his caddy duck, voiced by Eric Prince.  Kate and Humphrey need to find out where they are.  They see the birds and say "Let's ask them, and if they don't help us, we'll eat them!"  Wow.  That's a touch dark.  The birds are rightfully afraid of the wolves at first, but then agree to help them get home.

Pretty Lilly!

Meanwhile back at West Pack, it's discovered that Kate is missing... no one even mentions that Humphrey is missing, but he's an Omega, what should we care?  Winston blames Garth's dad, Tony, voiced by Dennis Hopper, and Tony blames Winston.  It's agreed that in two days if Kate is not back to marry Garth then the two packs will fight.  In the meantime Garth spends time with the West pack and Kate's Omega sister, Lilly, voiced by Christina Ricci.  What do you think happens? Garth falls in love with Lilly.  Honestly Lilly is my favorite character.  She's pretty and doesn't really do much anthropomorphic stuff like the other wolves.

And back to Kate and Humphrey, yeah they do get home, just in time for the big fight.  Right before they get home, Humphrey starts howling with Kate... I guess the secret's out.  He loves her.  She's betrothed though! Oh no! shenanigans!!  Since Kate has returned, she and Garth will marry the next morning.  They go through this weird wedding ceremony and right before Kate sniff's Garth's nose, she backs out... Seriously? I mean she didn't even think to stop the wedding sooner? Anyway, "blah, blah, blah, this is an outrage!" An Alpha and an Omega can never marry... well what they really mean is they shouldn't "repopulate"  Kinda, adult for a kids movie... so the two packs fight and a caribou stampede happens.  Winston and Tony are caught in the middle of the stampede so Humphrey and Kate must save the pack leaders... Which they do and Kate gets trampled in the process... but this is a kid's movie, no one dies.  Kate and Winston live happily ever after and Lilly and Garth live happily ever after and there's caribou for everyone.

The art is pretty, the animation studio is called Crest Animation Studio... I don't think they are like Crest the toothpaste, but still, they are lesser known than... well... Dreamworks or Pixar, but they aren't a bad studio.  They are just a small studio with 8 movies, including this one and two in the works for 2012 and 2013, including... oh dear lord... Alpha and Omega 2.... just... promise me it'll be a direct to dvd movie?  Please...  Ahem... The music is nice and fitting for the scenes... The voice acting is surprisingly good, half the time I forget I'm listening to goofy-looking Justin Long.  Perhaps he should continue a voice acting career.  If you gotta watch this movie, just try not to take it too seriously.  Which is easy to do with names like Tony, Kate, Garth, and Humphrey... Seriously? Who picked these names? They are kinda ridiculous!

All in all the movie's a little creepy... I just don't know.  It's a nice story and the art is very beautiful, but I'm just creeped out because of all the anthropomorphic wolves...  I swear I just watched a soft-core anthropomorphic wolf porno... So disturbed...

I forgot to mention how much I hate the West Pack's Female Alpha, Kate's Mom.  She's kind of strange and bitchy... She is a fan of ripping body parts off other wolves and stuffing them down their throats... I swear, she's the villain in this movie.  She's scary and off the wall crazy... Plus her hair is down right just... ugh... Oh yeah and the hair these wolves have is all part of the anthropomorphic shit, and I really think it's wrong and disturbing.