Alpha and Omega – review

Here is a pleasant, undemanding animated family comedy – decent enough, but it feels like a reshuffling of dozens of films you've seen before. The debt here is mostly to The Lion King, together with a more basic classical precedent. Two Canadian wolf-packs, formerly ranged against each other in Capulet-v-Montague ferocity, are now considering arranging a marriage to keep the peace: Kate, voiced by Hayden Panettiere, is going to be hitched to Garth (Chris Carmack). But Kate is more in love with humble Humphrey (Justin Long) in her own pack and Garth is actually smitten with Kate's sister Lilly (Christina Ricci). As I say: reasonable stuff, but it looks as if it's being churned out of some factory line.