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Well I didn't watch it so I wouldn't know.
If you want a quick no spoilers, centre-line summary, it's set in Frontier Alaska, 1925, Wich is already awesome, because it's a lot more relevent than the shitty middle-ages that all modern kid's movies seem to revolve around. (seriously, It's called the middle ages for a reason. Because the entire time-period was mediocre as hell, and nothing significant happened)
It features two dogs, Jenna and Balto, and for some reason two Irish polar bears, and a geese called Boris, because ytf not.
At some point "Jenna's human", wich, I'm not even joking, is actually what they call it in the movie, wich is hilarious, And a bunch of, pretty much every child in the settlement gets sick and needs medicine.
But, since this is frontier Alaska, today's weather forecast is blizzardy as the lord's wrath, with a chance of imminent death, the dog-sled team that they send out to get the medice, (and the boat, and the aircraft, and the train) all got stuck, Soo the two dogs, polar bears and the random geese have to work together to beat lethal, muthahubbin' Alaskan wilderniss to go get the meds...
This is, for starters, why this movie isn't stupid. Unlike most kids movies, the story isn't centered around the main character's own desires.
"Ooooooh, I wanna build a restaurant!" -Princess and the frog
"Ooooooh, I'm a cat and am having a mid-life crisin in middle-age new-Mexico, look at meee!" -Puss-in-boots
"Ooooooh, I'm a princess with magical powers who freezes everything she touches, Soo I turned it into one gigantic drama of a sufficient scale to make a movie of!" -Frozen "And I'm some random dude that's bff with an elk and want to get it on with your sister!" -Also Frozen.
Unlike this, Balto's story line is actually about saving bloody lives.
Wich then brings me to the next point. This movie has a realistic look on life!
There's no magic, no fairy's, no heroes coming to help out. No, mate, In this movie you're all on your bloody own!
And yeah, The world is filled with arseholes! Arseholes that do stuff just for women, and personal gain!
And it's dangerous!There's soo many direct life treathening-situations in that movie that it's gonna make you doubt if it's even appropriate as a kids movie. Seriously, getting sick and dying, giant, feral, bear attacks, Almost drowning and then almost dying of hypothermia, Litterally having your bloody legs broken. It's all in that movie!
But no, they don't die! Like hell! Because these guy's are [Redacted] Badasses! They're working together as a team, they're not giving up and because of that, they're wrecking the entire world that want's to stop them!
And that's the message of this movie, guys...
The world is [Redacted] horrible, no excuses.
But if you're a badass, and you make friends and dedicatedly work together with other badasses as a team, you can bloody save lives, wanka!
(Oh, and not to forget mentioning. This is a bare-bone summary... soo besides that, it actually has a good movie with quality animation and voice acting and such, included in the package.)
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