"Sheep and Wolves"

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This 2016 Russian animated film is coming to American soil for the first time and adapted into English from some well known American actors. Yet no matter what language you speak, a fun family movie is the same in any language, family time.

Far off in the country side, there is a sheep village living a peaceful and fairly uneventful life until it is learned that a wolf pack has moved into the area. Magra (Jim Cummings) the leader of the wolves and enforcer of the ancestor's traditions and philosophies announces that he is going to step down as leader and must pick a new leader. The two candidates are Ragear (Rich Orlow) a fierce controlling wolf who doesn't share the same ideals as leader Magra and Grey (Tom Felton) a popular, but goofball wolf who is the preferred choice of the pack but leaves Magra unsure that he is ready for the responsibility. 
While Grey is positive he'll win the right to be leader, he neglects the feelings of his love interest Bianca (Ruby Rose) leaving Grey feeling he needs to change. By chance he comes across some traveling rabbit gypsies and one Mami (Jennie Grace) gives Grey a potion that ends up changing him into a ram.
Finding himself now amongst the sheep, he befriends Moz (Peter Linz) Lyra (China Anne McClain) and her little brother Shia (Alyson Leigh Rosenfield). As he tries to figure out a way back to his old life, he learns Ragear has taken over the pack in his absence and plans to wipe out the sheep village. Now Grey must take charge and convince the sheep to be more like wolves and fight back to save their home.

Funny and heart-warming. This film is a reminder that it is who we are on the inside that matters and the choices we make. A perfect family movie with a positive moral that earns it four G.M.Stars. So if you need a good wholesome movie, this is no wolf in sheep's clothing, or maybe it is.

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