Bolt is a 2008 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and is the 48th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animation Studios canon.
The film stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Claire Holt, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Greg Germann, Susie Essman and Mark Walton. The film’s plot centers around a small white dog named Bolt 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. The film is directed by Chris Williams, who previously worked on Mulan and The Emperor’s New Groove.
Bolt was released on November 21, 2008, and received an 85% “Certified Fresh” approval rating from review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes [2] and was rated PG by the MPAA for some mild action and peril, and is Walt Disney Animation Studios’ first computer-animated film to be rated PG since 2000’s Dinosaur. As with earlier CGI Disney films, such as Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons, Bolt was also distributed in Disney Digital 3-D in the theaters equipped for it.
The film was released in the UK on February 6, 2009 in 3D format on approximately 100 screens, and will be widely released in 2D the following week.
