Arctic Dogs (2019)

This is a cute enough, but it’s definitely aimed at children and thus has little substance. In a little village way up North called Taigaville lives a group of arctic animals including our hero Swifty (Jeremy Renner). After an encounter with the delivery dogs of the arctic delivery service as a child, Swifty dreams of joining their ranks when he’s older.

As an adult he finally gets a job working for the service, but manning the conveyor built that leads the packages to be sorted. He begs his boss Magda (Anjelica Huston) to let him join the delivery team, but she continues to refuse his request as he’s too small. After a package misses the delivery deadline, Swifty decides to deliver if himself in order to prove his worth. 

Of course there is more to this story and it actually gets a little bloated as it tries to cram a message about environmentalism in the form of an evil walrus (John Cleese) who is determined to dig deep under the town to a reserve of natural gas. He’s of course defeated, changes are made in the delivery system and everything ends happily. It’s a lot to cram into a short running time, but the animals are cute and the story passable.