Alpha and Omega: Journey to Bear Kingdom

Alpha and Omega: Journey to Bear Kingdom
More like "Journey to my Bare-Ass"!
Genre: Animation Fantasy Directed by: Tim Maltby Written by: Tom Kane Dean Stefan Starring: Ben Diskin Kate Higgins Lindsay Torrance Hunter Swan Chris Smith Josh Tomar Xander Mobus Distributed by: Splash Entertainment Release date: March 9, 2017 Runtime: 44 minutes Country: United States Prequel: Alpha and Omega: The Big Fureeze

Alpha and Omega: Journey to Bear Kingdom (simply known as Journey to Bear Kingdom) is a 2017 American computer-animated comedic-fantasy film, produced by Splash Entertainment and distributed by Lionsgate Films. It is the sequel to the 2016 film Alpha and Omega: The Big Fureeze and is overall the eighth/final installment in the Alpha and Omega franchise.

Plot

Stinky, Runt and Claudette spring into action in defense of the royal bears threatened by wolves. With courage, wisdom, and help from their friends, the cubs must protect the queen and princess and save their forest home.

Why It CAN'T Find The Bear Kingdom

1. The animation (outsourced to Digitales in India) has degraded the same way as its prequels, although not as degrading this time, but still degraded.
2. False Advertising: On the DVD cover, the bears wear golden crowns, whereas in the movie, their crowns are made of twigs.
3. The pups are still awful as they are in previous films.
   1. Speaking of, Fleet is barely in this movie, as he doesn't do anything to help them besides having two voice lines before vanishing completely until the end.
4. Brent still has bird allergies and never mentioned again for the rest of the movie.
5. The lip sync is mediocre, just like Alpha and Omega: Dino Digs.
6. The new characters in this movie are just as bad as the old ones.
   1. The Scottish Squirrel is a blatant rip-off of McSquizzy from Open Season.
   2. The Queen can actually be an unintentional villain because she ordered her guards to drop the wolf antagonists into a waterfall, presumably killing them.
   3. The King has an unfitting realistic-like model that doesn't mesh well with the film's cartoony artstyle.
   4. The princess is completely pointless.
   5. Dumbsville compares the Rogue Wolves to modern Assassin's Creed AI as there's a scene where one of the goons accidentally hits himself in the head onto a wood log during a chase scene. Also, their motivations are generic as you can get.
   6. The rival bears aren't much better either.
7. Humphrey and Kate were the main protagonist and "faces" of the Alpha and Omega series from the start, but in this movie, they have been turned into support/background characters and their pups have more screen time than them, made even worst by the fact that this film is the final installment of the Alpha and Omega franchise.
8. King and the Rogue Wolfs keep returning, however, it's way hard to take them serious since King never accomplished anything other than being a "big loser" villain throughout the sequels and his Rogue Wolfs are very comparable to him since they also never accomplished anything and they get defeated way easily from anything.
9. Like the sequels in this franchise, they lazily reuse character models and backgrounds from the first, second and sixth movies. One notable moment can be found in the opening credits, where they literally use a concept art in one scene. Where not making that up.
10. The movie never answered where are the missing characters from the previous sequels. One of the worst offenders is when fans wanted to see Lilly and Garth one more time, only for them to never appear, and near the final act, a pack lead by Kate, one of the wolfs has the same color as Garth running closely alongside a white wolf with no hair model.
11. Fleet is one of the missing characters that have return, only for him to never contribute in the movie in any shape.
12. Cringy and dumb lines like "Another one bites the dust!" and "She's definitely the queen".
13. In order to make the evil bears and rogue wolves jealous of each other, Humphrey dons a disguise and "compete" with the evil bear in a bad rapping number while moonwalking like Michael Jackson with reused geese models as his back-up dancers, and for some reason, it kind of worked, but ends up pointless anyway when the Queen shows up.
    1. By the way, the disguised Humphrey's British accent is a poor man's Numbuh 1 from Codename Kids Next Door, right down to have the same voice actor(Benjamin Diskin), and its painful to hear.
14. Plot hole: How does the Queen know about Kate and Humphrey?! This also contradicts the rocky relationship between wolves and bears in the early films, as well as adult bears suddenly talk now like in Big Fureeze.
15. Paddy and Marcel, like in previous films, are completely useless and they are only there to make bad jokes and fall in love with a female bird.
16. The movie ends on a clichè dance party sequence that lasted for 4 minutes while the characters are doing an uncomfortable dance, just like the Moonlight howl of the first film.

The Only Redeeming Quality

1. Decent voice-acting, except for Humphrey's british accent.

Trivia

• Originally meant to be the ninth movie in the franchise.
• Josh Tomar of Oney Plays fame had a voice role as both Storm and the King Rogue Wolf. He has since regretted starring it.

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