Running time 96 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $150 million Box office $310 million Bolt is a 2008 American - produced by and released. It is the 48th. Directed by and, the film stars the voices of,. The film's plot centers on a white dog named who, having spent his entire life on the set of a television series, thinks that he has super powers. When he believes that his human, Penny, has been kidnapped, he sets out on a cross-country journey to 'rescue' her. Despite a relatively marginal box-office performance, Bolt received a strong positive critical reception and is renowned for playing an important role in instigating what is widely referred to as the, as well as setting the studio in a new creative direction that would lead to other critically acclaimed features such as (2010) and (2013).
Bolt was also Disney Animation's first feature film to be produced under the complete creative guidance of then- executive in his role as chief creative officer for the studio, as well as the first computer-animated feature film to implement. The film was nominated for a series of awards, such as the,. Contents. Plot A puppy named is adopted by a seven-year-old girl named Penny. Five years later, Bolt and Penny star in a hit television series called Bolt, in which Bolt uses various to protect Penny from the villain.
To gain a more realistic performance, the show's producers have deceived Bolt his entire life, arranging the filming in such a way that Bolt believes everything in the show is real and that he really has superpowers, including a devastatingly powerful sonic scream-like 'superbark'. After a episode causes Bolt to believe Penny has been kidnapped, he escapes from his on-set trailer in but knocks himself unconscious and is trapped inside a box of which is shipped to. In New York, Bolt resumes his search for Penny and quickly finds that his 'superpowers' are useless. He encounters Mittens, a who out of their food.
Bolt compels Mittens to guide him back to Penny — Mittens being convinced her captor is a lunatic — and the two start their journey westward by truck. Meanwhile, in Hollywood, Penny is distraught over Bolt's disappearance but is convinced by the studio to continue filming with a less experienced dog. Surprised at his first feelings of hunger, Bolt is shown by Mittens how to act like a cute but needy dog, obtaining food for them both at an. They are joined by Rhino, a fearless and fanatical Bolt fan. Rhino's unwavering faith in Bolt substantiates the dog's illusions about himself, but allows Mittens to figure out Bolt is from a television show. She tries to tell Bolt this, but Bolt simply becomes frustrated. Attempting to 'superbark' her repeatedly, the noise draws the attention of an patrol and Bolt and Mittens are both captured and taken to an animal shelter.
Bolt, freed from the patrol van by Rhino, finally realizes and accepts that he is just a normal dog, but regains his confidence after Rhino (oblivious to this revelation) exhorts him to. They rescue Mittens from the shelter, and as they continue west, Bolt and Mittens form a close friendship in which she teaches Bolt how to be an ordinary dog and enjoy typical dog activities. Mittens makes plans for the three of them to stay in, but hearing that Bolt is still drawn to find Penny, she tells him that Penny is only an, and that humans never truly love their pets, and evenutally betray and abandon them, as happened to her. Bolt refuses to believe her and continues on alone to Hollywood; with Rhino's encouragement his two friends follow shortly after. Bolt reaches the studio and finds Penny embracing his lookalike, unaware that Penny still misses him and her affection for the lookalike is only a part of a rehearsal. A broken-hearted Bolt leaves, but Mittens, on a gantry in the studio, sees Penny telling her mother how much she misses Bolt.
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Mittens follows Bolt and explains. At the same time, the Bolt lookalike panics during the show's filming and accidentally knocks over some, setting the sound stage on fire with Penny trapped inside. Bolt arrives and the two reunite inside the burning studio, but are unable to escape before Penny begins to.
Penny begs Bolt to go but Bolt refuses to leave her. Bolt uses his 'superbark' through the building's, alerting the firefighters to their location and allowing both of them to be rescued in time. Penny and her mother quit when their overeager agent proposes they exploit the incident for publicity purposes. The show continues with a replacement 'Bolt' and 'Penny' and involving. Penny adopts Mittens and Rhino, and she and her family move to a rural home to enjoy a simpler, happy lifestyle with Bolt and her new pets.
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The film's previous plot told the story of a dog named Henry, a famous TV star, who one day finds himself stranded in the Nevada desert with a testy, one-eyed cat and an oversized, radioactive rabbit who are themselves searching for new homes, all the while believing he is still on television. In 2006, after becoming Chief Creative Officer at Disney Animation, along with other directors from and Disney attended two screenings of the film and gave Sanders notes on how to improve the story. According to Lasseter, Sanders was replaced because he resisted the changes that Lasseter and the other directors had suggested. Lasseter was quoted as saying 'Chris Sanders is extremely talented, but he couldn't take it to the place it had to be.' After Sanders left and the original title was removed, the animation team was told to complete the filming in 18 months instead of the usual four years that is normally required to produce a computer-animated feature.
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On June 8, 2007, Disney announced that the film, now under its current name, would be released on November 21, 2008 in. Animation The look of the film was inspired by the paintings of and the cinematography of. New technology in (NPR) was used to give it a special visual appearance, a technique later used in (2010). To give the film's 3D backgrounds a hand-painted look, the company artists used new patented technology designed specifically for the film. Bolt's characteristics are based on an amalgam of breeds, although the designers started with the. Joe Moshier, lead character designer, said, 'they American White Shepherds have really long ears, a trait that I tried to caricature in order to allow the animators to emphasize Bolt's expressiveness.'
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