Any closer resemblence to the Scorpion's "Wind of Change" would've made me sick.

2005 DVD release

Universal Studios

Extra Features: THE ULTIMATE RESCUE CHALLENGE GAME!111

A game where you help Balto choose the right path from scenes in the first Balto movie. No matter what I pressed though, it kept telling me it was a DEAD END, hyuk,hyuk,hyuk!

Oh yeah baby, you know it!

Well, it had ot happen...Balto was given the big ugly 3, and the theme here is FLYING. Balto comes back as a dumbed down dog who is obsessed with the new airplane arriving to town, all the while his son Cody (yeah, he has a son now, guess the pups who were given away in Balto II found a home in the mail business) takes a job as a lead in the US Mail service and strives to become just like his father. All the while Jenna keeps on making a cameo in small segments just like she did in the first two movies, offers a paw in emotional support when Balto keeps whinning like a little pup. Maybe this is why she has to sing to him everytime they talk instead of having a nice, comfortable chat like any other couple would. Songs are POWERFUL in animated films after all.

Unlike the great, heartwarming story of its predecessor, Balto III focus on the main character's selfishness and lack of personality. It seems that he was dumbed down enough to believe that he is now an ordinary dog who has nothing to do with his own heritage as a wolfdog. On an additional note, he tries to teach Boris how to fly in attempt to impress a busty female goose who appears early in the film. Balto seems very skilled at this sort of think so it seems, because he succeeds by putting a bag of flour over his head to do so. Oh yeah, that scarf of hers seems to be stretching quite a bit the more I see of her.

What about Aleu? Not a single word about her, nor any hint that the events in the second movie actually happened, but it is a fact that Cody is around to greet his dad and mom and that they aare both so proud that he is a loyal delivery huskie mailcarrier. I can only assume that Cody is actually a second generation Balto's bretheng that he *looks* younger than Aleu in the second movie.

Other characters include a pair of dogs who are paraniod abut the plane taking over the huskie's job of delivering mail (even though these dogs do nothing more than worrying and eating the whole time, quite a job they have there). The only bad guy here is the plane, being that Steele may have proven to be TOO much if someone of his character appeared here. The only reasonable way to settle this trouble? Why a race of course, only by beating the plane in a delivery can the huyskies prove that they can still be of use (or as if they put it in the movie "wanted"). This is where Balto joins in as the leader of the sledteam, and the reason why he is in this installement at all. After the confidence boost from Jenna's song, Balto now is ready for the challenge. It was funny to note that the delivery team was slowly resembling a Union in the rise, I wonder if they would get their food rations cut after dispolaying such actions against a flying machine.

One question though: Since Balto has no owner...how the hell did anybody ever knew he was the dog who got the medicine safely to the town in the first place? This is a giant gap here, being that it could;ve been ANY dog at that time, and well, Balto by now could be an old man to lead anything, and the fact that no person could just look for him to strap him on the sled and say "Hey! I found the mutt who helped us years back, we are SO gonna win this!" More importantly, WHO told them about the race? The dogs? Did people talked to the dogs so there could be a race, or was it because of some mystic coincidence that someone else happened to mention it at the same time the dogs were worried about said race? These questions may never be answered being that Balto is an American Hero, and that he will always have the win in the long run. To make things alot more in the hero business, Balto goes on a search to find the missing pilot who crashed his ass somewhere in the forest, all the while he avoids being rammed by an angry moose with a New York Accent. That's how half of the movie is spent, and I think I was asleep during the daring recue mission after he found that guy, I can't remember.

I noticed that the airplane is CGI'd , not sure if this was to make a point of dog vs machine, or that the animators were too lazy to draw one with a pencil.

I beg to differ.

Veridict: D, no need for solid storytelling here, just believe in yourself and you can accomplish everything! Even beat an airplane in a race.

The Good: Animation is quite nice, facial expressions seem to be more notworthy on the huskies than any other character here (duh)

The Bad: Like any other animated sequel nowadays, this movie could only be noticed by kids, being that it is about the only audience it will ever get.

The Ugly: Watching that female goose making sexual attempts at that old bird. I didn't find that attractive at all, and the sled racer named Simpson. Do'h!