Miley Cyrus (Hanna Montana) brings excitement to Walt Disney Pictures’ new animated adventure Bolt as she provides the voice of Penny, the title character’s beloved owner. The singer-actress added sincerity and believability to the proceedings.
“One reason I really wanted to do this movie is because I love animals,” says Cyrus. “I have five dogs of my own and I know if one ran away I would not be able to do anything. And that’s the way Penny is. When she loses Bolt, she can’t work. She can’t sleep. She can’t eat.”
In the film, for super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue—at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet—a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny. Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions—a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino — Bolt discovers he doesn’t need superpowers to be a hero.
Cyrus says she liked the story’s built-in diversity. “It really is an emotional roller-coaster ride. You start out kind of scared of this evil villain, but you’re excited at all of the action in the TV-show sequences. Then you’re sad because Bolt leaves. And then you’re laughing at Rhino.”
Opening across the Philippines on Nov. 26, Bolt is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International.