Spoilers: Balto II

[Barb Gordon]

Okay, well, I just finished watching Balto II: WolfQuest...couldn't help myself,lol. The story seemed really weak, at least to me. They really delved heavily into the Native American theme and I hadn't expected that. The bad wolf, Nanuk, or whatever his name was, wasn't really bad at all...and he reminded me of a rip off of Steel and Scar, from Lion King. Especially when he's gathered the wolves who are in his side, it reminds me of the scene in Lion King when Scar is with the hyenas. I thought the ending was just plain crappy...I dunno, I just expected something a little better. But, this is a sequel, so you can't expect it to be so great I suppose. Can someone answer me this though? (and yes, I know it's just a cartoon), but...if Balto is half wolf and half dog....how can his daughter also be half wolf and half dog? Wouldn't she be like a quarter wolf or something?

Barb^-^

[Mr. Obsession]

I thought about watching it but passed. Glad to find out that I didn't miss much.


Originally posted by Barb Gordon
Can someone answer me this though? (and yes, I know it's just a cartoon), but...if Balto is half wolf and half dog....how can his daughter also be half wolf and half dog? Wouldn't she be like a quarter wolf or something?

Barb^-^ If her mother was a half wolf/half dog like Balto it would work out. Unless her mother is that one dog from the first movie (like I said I didn't watch it) then it makes no sense.


But who ever said sequels have to make sense? ;)

[Squall]

There was a Balto I ?

[Ruffian]

I didn't watch all of it, but from the few scenes I did see, it did look weak. And I would agree with you that Aleu's a quarter wolf. Balto is half wolf and half dog, and Jenna (Aleu's mom, who is the husky from the first movie) is a purebreed husky, which Aleu mentioned when she's talking to the mouse.

The first movie was good though. Simple story, simple plot, and enjoyable. :)

[Jedigreedo]

Wasn't Balto based off of a true story though? Argh... I didn't even know they had a sequel out for it.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

There was a sequel, though I didn't find out about it until last night. I saw the ad for the dvd's about three times, then suprisingly enough, the movie itself was shown on Cartoon Network. Didn't watch it, though I thought the first movie was pretty good.

I think Balto was in fact based on a true story. Unfortunately I'm blanking out on what that story was. :o Something to do with the Iditarod race...

[Nightflower]

I always get Balto and White Fang mixed up :\

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by Singin' Stray Cat
I think Balto was in fact based on a true story. Unfortunately I'm blanking out on what that story was. :o Something to do with the Iditarod race... The story was the first Balto movie was Balto bringing urgent medical supplies to a town it the middle of nowhere through a storm.

[Ruffian]

Balto is based on a true story, he wasn't half wolf like in the movie though. Balto brought back medicine to help save children from an epidemic in a town. The route Balto took to deliver the medicine to the town became the route for the Iditarod dog race. :)

[Barb Gordon]

Yep, as you see and has been explained, Balto was real and saved a lot of kids. He was pure husky from what I remembered, obviously they took a lot of poetic license when writing Balto I. But there is a statue of him in NY, central park, I beleive. Now, making sequels to fairy tales is one thing, but I never like it when they make fairy tales to actual true events, I mean, it just doesn't work that way! The story is over and done with, you're really just having fun with the historical names when you make a sequel. Did you notice that they have a thing with three dogs? In the first movie, there were three dogs on Steel's team that were like his goons, but that stuck up for Balto in the end. And then the other dog, who looked a lot like Steel, Nanuk (something like that), had three goons too, who had characteristics of the dogs from the first movie. And they ended up supporting Balto's daugher in the end too. Back to the actual Balto, just to add more information to his story. The reason why he is so famous is not only the fact that he saved a town of very ill children, but it was how he did it. Sledding is hard enough, especially in some place as cold as Alaska, but this was during a very harsh blizzard. The only way to get the supplies to Nome, the town, was by sled-dog. There were teams stationed every so many miles and they would trade off till it finally got to the town. Well, Balto and the rest of the dogs and the sled guy made their run...but when they got to the next station, the other guy was asleep, and his dogs were unhitched from the sled. Knowing that it would take too long to wake the guy up, Gunner (the sled guy with Balto) decided to keep going. It took them about 5 1/2 days, but they made it to the town. It normally took a train 25 days to cover the distance which the dogs did, which no one has ever been able to do since. The storm had been so bad, the Gunner had trusted everything to Balto. And it was thanks to Balto internal compass, that he was able to lead the team through the blizzard to Nome. This is what is written under the statue of Balto in NY:

Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxins 660 miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the Winter of 1925.

Barb^-^