Screenplay: Brannon, Zheng Jun, based on the graphic novel “Tibetan Rock Dog” by Zheng. Executive producers: Wang Zhoungjun, Zheng Jun, Deng Feng, Angela Wu, Andrew Yang, Wang Zhonglei, Jerry Ye, Xu Xiaoping, Liu Shengyi, Tan Fei, Chuck Peil, Uri Fleming, Mike Bundlie, Lauren Selig.ĭirector: Ash Brannon. Producers: Amber Wang, Joyce Lou, David B. (Animated - China-U.S.) A Summit Entertainment release and presentation of a Huayi Brothers Media Corp., Mandoo Pictures production, in association with Huayi Tencent Entertainment Company, Eracme Entertainment, Dream Factory Group. 22, 2017. (In Shanghai, London, Dubai film festivals.) MPAA rating: PG. Reviewed at Rodeo Screening Room, Beverly Hills, Feb. DeVille-esque leopard (Matt Dillon) have been pared down nearly into nonexistence, and the film comes to an end just as it’s about to find its footing. Supporting characters like Mae Whitman’s bass-playing fox and a C.C. Izzard does the best work among the otherwise unenthusiastic voice cast, placing Angus somewhere between Russell Brand and Noel Gallagher on the louche British peacock scale, and even giving something resembling an edge to lines like “what the fudge-cakes?” But the film’s various narrative strands never manage to harmonize. After repeatedly rebuffing his aspiring young apprentice, Angus hears Bodi improvising a catchy melody on the street outside, and invites him in to become an uncredited co-writer. Holed up in a home studio with his robot butler, Ozzy, Angus is desperate to cook up a new hit single by the end of the week. Once in the city - a strange conflation of New York and Beijing, with billboards in both English and Mandarin - Bodi flubs an audition with a local band, and resolves to seek out his hero Angus for music lessons. Meanwhile, alpha wolf Linnux (Lewis Black), still angling to make a mutton meal out of Sheep Mountain, spots the departing Bodi on his surveillance cameras, and dispatches his henchmen to apprehend him. Bodi builds a makeshift guitar out of an old lute and learns to play, and after initially resisting his son’s artistic inclinations, Khampa soon relents and buys him a bus ticket to the big city to follow his dreams. His dreamy young son Bodi isn’t keen on keeping up the ascetic family tradition, especially when a radio falls out of the sky and introduces him to this film’s hazy simulacrum of rock and roll. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, he resolves to keep the wolves at bay by banning all music from the village.
Simmons) defends a town full of not-so-bright sheep from a wolf attack with his super-powered Deadly Mastiff Paw technique. The confusion begins with the opening credits, as hand-drawn-style animation introduces us to the Tibetan enclave Sheep Mountain, where a hard-nosed warrior-monk guard dog named Khampa (J.K.
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