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The International Animated Film Society announdced the nominations (December 1) and Dreamworks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda leads the pack.

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 36th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best animated features, television productions, commercials, videogames and short subjects. DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda leads the field with 17 nominations out of 27 overall for the studio, including Best Animated Feature, and individual nominations for character animation, character design, directing, music, production design, storyboarding, voice acting and writing. Walt Disney Animation Studios and its Best Animated Feature Bolt received 9 nominations and Pixar Animation Studios and its Best Animated Feature WALL•E received 8 nominations. Completing the Best Animated Feature category is Sony Pictures Classics Waltz With Bashir and Sherman Pictures/Lama Films $9.99.

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Bolt gets 8 out of 10 stars for being smart and insightful.

Thanks to a string of commercial disappointments (or at most, underwhelming successes), Disney Animation has been in dire need of a revamp for several years. Notwithstanding the fact that computer-animated movies as a whole have dominated the family-film market for a decade or more, the looming presence of their cash-cow Pixar has overshadowed virtually every project during that time – which is no doubt one of the major reasons Pixar CEO and major-domo John Lasseter was appointed the chief creative officer for WDA a few years back.

Because of the labyrinthine production schedule of animated films, the official first effort under Lasseter’s auspices hasn’t arrived until now and perhaps unsurprisingly it bears many of the hallmarks of Pixar’s classics. Unfortunately, however, it doesn’t quite live up to their overall quality, which is why Bolt is a good but not great film which should earn Walt Disney Animation a deserved hit even if it won’t quite return them to the heights of their own creative and commercial heyday.

John Travolta plays Bolt, the canine star of a hit TV series about a girl named Penny (Miley Cyrus) who escapes capture by the evil Dr. Calico (Malcolm McDowell) with the help of her superpowered dog. When a mix-up results in Bolt being shipped to the rough-and-tumble streets of New York, he begins to make a valiant trek back across the country to Hollywood for a reunion with Penny. Because he has been deluded into believing that everything in the show is real, Bolt targets an alley cat named Mittens (Susie Essman) as a minion of Dr. Calico and enlists her to help him get home. In the meantime, the duo picks up a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (Mark Walton) along the way who helps inspire Bolt to feats of greatness after he begins to realize that he is just an average dog.

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For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue-at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet-a cross-country journey through the real world. Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and with the help of two unlikely traveling companions: a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster in a plastic ball named Rhino, Bolt discovers he doesn’t need superpowers to be a hero.

Bolt debuts in theaters, November 21st.

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Release date: Friday November 21, 2008
Genre: Family/Animation/Adventure/Comedy
Director: Chris Williams, Byron Howard
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Screenplay: Dan Fogelman, Chris Williams
Producer(s): Clark Spencer/John Lasseter
Cast: John Travolta, Thomas Haden Church, Woody Harrelson, Bruce Greenwood, Bernie Mac, Miley Cyrus
Official Site: disney.go.com/disneypictures/bolt
Rating: PG for some mild action and peril
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Synopsis
From Walt Disney Pictures comes an animated comedy adventure featuring a super-dog named BOLT (voice of JOHN TRAVOLTA), whose days are filled with danger and intrigue-at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet-a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of MILEY CYRUS). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions-a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of SUSIE ESSMAN) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of MARK WALTON)-Bolt discovers he doesn’t need superpowers to be a hero.