Movie Thoughts: Arlo the Alligator Boy (2021)

• Released: April 16 2021
• Directed by: Ryan Crego
• Running time: 1 h 30 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A boy, half man, half alligator, goes to look for his father in the big city.

Movie Thoughts: The Great Alaskan Race (2019)

• Released: October 25, 2019
• Directed by: Brian Presley
• Running time: 1 h 27 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

When the town of Nome is struck by a diphtheria outbreak, a relay of mushers is organized to travel through the harsh Alaskan wilderness to deliver the antitoxin. 

Movie Thoughts: Silver Wolf (1999)

•  Released: January 10 1999
• Directed by: Peter Svatek
• Running time: 1 h 39 min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

A boy named Jesse and his uncle take in a wounded wolf, and the bond between the boy and the wolf in turn helps him cope with the loss of his father.

Movie Thoughts: Wolf Summer (2003)

• Released: February 28 2003
• Directed by: Peder Norlund
• Running time: 1 h 27 min
• Rating 2.5/5

Synopsis

During a rock-climbing trip she's taking all by herself, a girl named Kim finds herself caught between a friendship with two wolves and the sheep farmers who are deadset on killing every last one of them.

Movie Thoughts: Kayla: A Cry in the Wilderness (1999)

• Released: February 25 1999
• Directed by: Nicholas Kendall
• Running time: 1 h 36 min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

A boy named Sam moves north and befriends a wild Malamute which he names Kayla, who in turn helps him deal with the disappearance of his father.

Movie Thoughts: The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997)

• Released: June 22 1997
• Directed by: Peter Svatek
• Running time: 1 h 31 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

A dog named Buck is taken north to work as a sled dog in during the Gold Rush era.

Movie Thoughts: Misa Mi (2003)

• Released: 13 December 2003
• Directed by: Linus Torell
• Running time: 1 h 20 min
• Rating 3/5

Synopsis

After the death of her mother, a girl named Misha goes to live with her grandma in the Swedish wilderness, where she happens to befriend a lone she-wolf and her pups.

Movie Thoughts: Barbie as Rapunzel (2002)

• Released: October 1 2002
• Directed by: Owen Hurley
• Running time: 1 h 24 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

The story of Rapunzel retold through a creative lens, which happens to involve Barbie.

Movie Thoughts: Togo (2019)

• Released:  December 20 2019
• Directed by:  Ericson Core
• Running time: 1 h 53 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

The story of one of the heroes of the Serum Run: the dog Togo and his musher Seppala, as they must travel the longest and most difficult leg of the relay to get the antitoxin in the town of Nome in time.

Movie Thoughts: Alpha (2018)

• Released:  September 13 2018
• Directed by:  Albert Hughes
• Running time: 1 h 36 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

After getting separated from his tribe during a hunt, a young prehistoric man and the wolf he befriended must make their way back home.

Movie Thoughts: The Matrix (1999)

• Released: 31 March 1999
• Directed by: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachaowski
• Running time: 2 hr 16 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

Hacker Neo gets enlisted by an underground movement to fight against the fictional reality he lives in.

Movie Thoughts: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

• Released: March 5, 2021
• Directed by: Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada
• Running time: 1 hr 54 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

The world of Kumandra was once unified under the protective rule of the dragon species, but discord eventually took over, splitting the people up into different groups and causing a plague known as the Druun, which petrifies anyone it comes into contact with. A girl named Raya seeks to unify the world by summoning the supposed last dragon: Sisudatu.

Movie Thoughts: Mamma Mia! (2008)

• Released: 18 July 2008
• Directed by: Phyllida Lord
• Running time: 1 hr 48 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

The soon-to-be married Sophie invites three men who could possibly be her father to her wedding. Chaos obviously ensues.

Movie Thoughts: The Golden Compass (2007)

• Released: 7 December 2007
• Directed by: Chris Weitz
• Running time: 1 h 53 min
• Rating 4.5/5

Synopsis

In a world parallel to our own where people’s souls live beside them in animal form, an orphan named Lyra inherits a special tool that can make her see the truth. When her best friend Roger gets captured, Lyra sets out on a quest to free him from the group known as the General Oblation Board.

Movie Thoughts: Up (2009)

• Released: 29 May 2009
• Directed by: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
• Running time: 1 h 36 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

An old man tries to literally fly his house to South America to cope with the passing of his wife, only to end up in a grand adventure that involves protecting a rare cryptid.

Movie Thoughts: Wolf Totem (2015)

• Released: 19 February 2015
• Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
• Running time: 2 h 1 min
• Rating: 3/5

Synopsis

A Chinese student named Chen Zhen goes to stay with a group of Mongolian nomads, where he learns about their ways of shepherding and how they deal with the local predators, wolves. Eventually, he adopts one of the wild beasts as his own.

Movie Thoughts: Wolfwalkers (2020)

• Released: 13 November 2020
• Directed by: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
• Running time: 1 h 43 min
• Rating 4.5/5

Synopsis

A wolf-hunter girl named Robyn befriends a “Wolfwalker” (person that turns into a wolf when sleeping), named Mebh, and now must face tough decisions.

Movie Thoughts: The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)

• Released: 30 July 2020
• Directed by: Tim Hill
• Running time: 1 h 31 min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

Spongebob and Patrick embark on a journey to get Gary back when the snail gets kidnapped by king Poseidon.

Movie Thoughts: Soul (2020)

• Released: 25 December 2020
• Directed by: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
• Running time: 1 h 40 min
• Rating 4/5

Synopsis

A jazz-musician dies and has to find his way back to his body, a quest which involves mentoring an unborn soul named Twenty-Two.

Movie Thoughts: How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

• Released: 26 March 2010
• Directed by: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
• Running time: 1 h 38 min
• Rating 4.5/5

Synopsis

In a culture that’s deadset on destroying dragons, a young Viking boy befriends one of the ferocious beasts.

Movie Thoughts: Dances with Wolves (1990)

• Released: 21 November 1990
• Directed by: Kevin Costner
• Running time: 3 h 1 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

Lieutenant Dunbar grows to learn about the culture of a Native American tribe, turning on his old colonialist views.

Movie Thoughts: Sleeping Beauty (1959)

• Released: 25 December 1959
• Directed by: Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
  
• Running time: 1 h 15 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A newborn baby grows up while being unknowingly cursed to fall asleep on her seventeenth birthday, with the only escape from this fate being true love’s kiss.

Movie Thoughts: Air Buddies (2006)

• Released: 12 December 2006
• Directed by: Robert Vince
• Running time: 1 h 20 min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

Five puppies run away from home on the day before their adoption, only for their parents to be kidnapped by a dealer of exotic animals who plans to tell them to a rich kid.

Movie Thoughts: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

• Released: 16 May 2008
• Directed by:  Andrew Adamson
• Running time: 2 h 30 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

The Pevensie children return to Narnia to help its inhabitants defeat the Telmarine soldiers that took over the realm.

Movie Thoughts: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

• Released: 9 December 2005
• Directed by:  Andrew Adamson
• Running time: 2 h 23 min
• Rating 5/5

Synopsis

Four children discover a magical realm in a wardrobe where they are the prophesied heroes said to be the ones to aid in the defeat of the White Witch.

Movie Thoughts: King Fang (1978)

• Released: 23 September 1978
• Directed by: Eiji Okabe
• Running time: 1 hr 10 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

A girl rescues and raises a wolfdog named Taki while a man-eating bear preys on the villagers. In the end, it is up to Taki and his pack to take down this predator.

Movie Thoughts: Ringing Bell (1978)

• Released: 11 March 1978
• Directed by: Masami Hata
• Running time: 47 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

After his mother gets killed by a wolf, the young lamb named Chirin sets out on a quest of vengeance.

Movie Thoughts: The Croods: A New Age (2020)

• Released: 25 November 2020
• Directed by: Joel Crawford
• Running time: 1 hr 35 min
• Rating 3.5/5

Synopsis

The Croods family has trouble fitting in with the new people they come across called the Bettermans, who are trying to do anything within their power to get rid of the cavemen.