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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Not so much the final movie itself, despite some slightly dark themes with Mitten's backstory and Penny's agent, but the original version of the movie, ''American Dog'', would have featured elements such as a sexy ParentService waitress, extremely liberal firearms use, and an ''undead, radioactive Girl Scout serial killer'' who constantly stalks the protagonists. It's no wonder that it was called out for precisely this trope by test audiences and producers, and ultimately retooled into the much tamer ''Bolt''.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Not so much the final movie itself, despite some slightly dark themes with Mitten's Mittens' backstory and Penny's agent, but the original version of the movie, ''American Dog'', would have featured elements such as a sexy ParentService waitress, extremely liberal firearms use, and an ''undead, radioactive Girl Scout serial killer'' who constantly stalks the protagonists. It's no wonder that it was called out for precisely this trope by test audiences and producers, and ultimately retooled into the much tamer ''Bolt''.
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* WinBackTheCrowd: Bolt's decent box office returns and good reviews by critics heralded Disney animation's return to glory in the early 2010s. It's nowadays seen as the beginning of the Disney Revival.
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* WinBackTheCrowd: Bolt's ''Bolt'''s decent box office returns and good reviews by critics heralded Disney animation's return to glory in the early 2010s. It's nowadays seen as the beginning of the Disney Revival.
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** ''WesternAnimation/{{Iwaju}}'', a future Walt Disney Animation Studios production, has elements that at least superficially resemble Penny and Bolt's fictional show; The young female protagonist is given a pet (a lizard rather than a dog) that has been enhanced with powerful abilities by her father and faces a threatening villain who intends to capture her because he wants information from the father that would make him more dangerous and powerful.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The hugely fun opening action sequence of the ''Bolt'' TV show (along with the fact that it upstaged the entire movie) had a lot of people wishing that ''Bolt'' would've been a lot better as a high-octane action comedy instead. Not helping is the fact that the video game based on the movie is an action platformer that has its plot take place within the in-universe TV show.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The hugely fun opening action sequence of the ''Bolt'' TV show (along with the fact that it upstaged the entire movie) had a lot of people wishing believing that ''Bolt'' would've been a lot better as a high-octane action comedy instead. Not helping is the fact that the video game based on the movie is an action platformer that has its plot take place within the in-universe TV show.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Not so much the final movie itself, despite some slightly dark themes with Mitten's backstory and Penny's manager, but the original version of the movie, ''American Dog'', would have featured elements such as a sexy ParentService waitress, extremely liberal firearms use, and an ''undead, radioactive Girl Scout serial killer'' who constantly stalks the protagonists. It's no wonder that it was called out for precisely this trope by test audiences and producers, and ultimately retooled into the much tamer ''Bolt''.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Not so much the final movie itself, despite some slightly dark themes with Mitten's backstory and Penny's manager, agent, but the original version of the movie, ''American Dog'', would have featured elements such as a sexy ParentService waitress, extremely liberal firearms use, and an ''undead, radioactive Girl Scout serial killer'' who constantly stalks the protagonists. It's no wonder that it was called out for precisely this trope by test audiences and producers, and ultimately retooled into the much tamer ''Bolt''.
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* CommonKnowledge: Bolt's owner is assumed to be named Penny. That's just the name of the character she plays in the ShowWithinAShow, and her real name is never stated. Though her never being referred to by any other name over the course of the film [[ImpliedTrope implies]] she's TheDanza. There's also the fact that Bolt was Penny's pet ''before'' being on the show (given the scene of Penny adopting him that opens the film also shows Penny's actual mother), and since Bolt recognizes Penny as Penny, the EnforcedMethodActing would dictate that's her actual name.
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* CommonKnowledge: Bolt's owner is assumed to be named Penny. That's just the name of the character she plays in the ShowWithinAShow, and her real name is never stated.stated (though her name is given as Penny in the credits). Though her never being referred to by any other name over the course of the film [[ImpliedTrope implies]] she's TheDanza. There's also the fact that Bolt was Penny's pet ''before'' being on the show (given the scene of Penny adopting him that opens the film also shows Penny's actual mother), and since Bolt recognizes Penny as Penny, the EnforcedMethodActing would dictate that's her actual name.
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* SoOkayItsAverage: While it did earn acclaim at the time of its release, nowadays it's still good by many, but compared to the later Disney CG-animated movies, mainly ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', it was OvershadowedByAwesome. To add insult to injury, ''Bolt''[='=]s [[Creator/ChrisSanders original director]] would later go on to direct and write [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon a film]] for Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}} that too would garner much more critical and commercial acclaim than ''Bolt'' would ever achieve.
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* SoOkayItsAverage: While it did earn acclaim at the time of its release, nowadays it's still good by many, but compared to the later Disney CG-animated movies, mainly ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', it was OvershadowedByAwesome. To add insult to injury, ''Bolt''[='=]s [[Creator/ChrisSanders original director]] would later go on to direct and write [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010 a film]] for Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}} that too would garner much more critical and commercial acclaim than ''Bolt'' would ever achieve.
