Alpha and Omega

Alpha and Omega is a 2010 comedy romance adventure film directed by Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck and stars Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Dennis Hopper and Danny Glover.

Plot
When two wolves, Kate and Humphrey (Justin Long and Hayden Pannetiere), get shipped from their homes to Idaho, they must get back home before their packs go to war.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Mediocre-looking animation. Even a deleted scene in the Blu-Ray's special features has animation that looks better than the film's final result.
 * 2) The script feels very bland and boring, and some of the lines feels very annoying.
 * 3) Predictable and overused plot and also has several overused cliches.
 * 4) Repeats an old, false idea about how wolf packs function that was based on how captive wolves which did not grow up together behave in zoos. Only somehow, this pack doesn't even have any beta wolves.
 * 5) Very terrible jokes, which mainly consist of sexual innuendos (infamously including what appears to be a pun based on the anatomical features of wolf penises) and urination jokes.
 * 6) Humphrey is supposed to be a good-natured prankster, but in his first interaction with Garth he comes across as spiteful and petty, for no other reason than he's jealous.
 * 7) The romance between Kate and Humphrey feels forced and poorly-written.
 * 8) The film's message is about love transcending rigid social roles, which is a pretty good message in itself. Unfortunately, the sequels retroactively ruin it by showing exactly why Kate and Humphrey should never have gotten together.
 * 9) Hollow logs do not, in fact, make good sleds (the same thing can be also said in Arctic Dogs).
 * 10) On that topic, this movie is infamous for spawning seven sequels from 2013 to 2017.
 * 11) *And because of this, they created corgi-looking wolf pups named Claudette, Stinky, and Runt that would later become the even bad protagonists of the sequels.
 * 12) Somehow a shotgun has enough firepower to rip a wired fence apart, which makes this scene impossible and unrealistic.
 * 13) The infamous Moonlight Howl scene, though the song is nice to hear, the dance numbers the wolves do is uncomfortable to watch.
 * 14) *And to make matters worse the lyrics of the song are just howling

Good Qualities

 * 1) While Kate and Humphrey's romance feel forced as they spend most of their screen-time arguing, the subplot focusing on Garth and Lilly is very well developed and genuinely sweet.
 * 2) Some of the characters are likable, such as Garth and Lilly.
 * 3) Despite most of the jokes being terrible, some of the one-liners can be genuinely funny.
 * 4) The "Love Train" sequence, which is easily the best part of the movie, and the entire franchise.
 * 5) Good voice acting.
 * 6) Some of the backgrounds, although a little blurry, are admittedly pretty beautiful.
 * 7) The depiction of humans as actually trying to help the wolves repopulate rather than as evil eco-thugs is somewhat more nuanced than most kids' films that have anything to do with the environment.
 * 8) The soundtrack is pretty good.
 * 9) Compared to the later seven sequels, this is the only tolerable film of the franchise.

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Trivia

 * This was Dennis Hopper's last film before he passed away of prostate cancer before the film was released and this film was dedicated to his memory.
 * It was Lionsgate's highest grossing animated feature, before 2017 when it was dethroned by My Little Pony: The Movie (2017).
 * The license plate on the camping couple's truck reads "A113". This refers to a classroom at CalArts, which they also use A113 in every Pixar movie as an "easter egg cameo".
 * Steve Moore originally intended to give the movie a slightly darker and more serious story, but Lionsgate wanted it to be aimed more towards children, leading the original script to be re-written.
 * It has it's own movie tie-in game on the Nintendo DS.
 * In the IMDb trivia, it's mention that the movie has a "cult following" and a "decent fanbase" that's completely both false and hilarious (in a stupid kind of way). Given that the plausible reason it has a "cult following" was because of not only furries, but it was the most talked about film on YouTube at the time (which it got mixed to negative reviews from both movie critics/reviewers). And the fanbase is the complete opposite of "decent", given that they reveled their more darker side on the internet. Some examples included drawing some very questionable content on Deviantart, and lashing out at movie reviewers on YouTube (more infamously, Bobsheaux) with their toxic comments.
 * Although it was never confirmed by Lionsgate, it's been said that the movie was originally meant to have only one sequel, originally planned for a theatrical release, with the same cast and crew from the first movie returning. And reportedly, the original script had nothing to do with Christmas OR the pups. However, it's unknown why this idea was cancelled to be replaced with the infamous seven sequels we know today.