Gwinnett Daily Post film critic Mike Clark and I frequently sit next to each other at screenings for movies like the Disney cartoon feature Bolt. Consequently, I know that Mike’s funniest line about the movie does not appear in his review. The film’s premise depicts a TV show about a super-powered canine (voiced by John Travolta) who protects spunky young Penny (Miley Cyrus) from high-tech evildoers. Bolt doesn’t realize the show is fiction, so when Penny is kidnapped on-screen, he ends up lost in the “real” world trying to find her. Penny, despite being an actress, genuinely misses Bolt, whose disappearance holds up the filming of the show.
About halfway through the movie, Penny’s unctuous Hollywood agent shows up with an American White Shepherd and tells her “We found your dog!” Penny embraces the dog with delight, then pauses and says “This isn’t Bolt,” rightly identifying the new dog as an imposter. When that happened, Mike leaned over and said to me “Just like Changeling!” — i.e., the Clint Eastwood film in which the LAPD return a kidnapped boy to his mother (Angelina Jolie), even though they know he’s not the right kid.
Once, our across-the-armrest quipping nearly got us into trouble, which I’ll describe after the jump, because it spoils the ending of Nights in Rodanthe.
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1) The World’s Toughest Rodeo rides into the Arena at Gwinnett Center.
