Arctic Dogs

Arctic Dogs (also known as Arctic Justice or Polar Squad in the UK) is a 2019 computer-animated comedy film co-written and directed by Aaron Woodley and co-directed by Dimos Vrysellas. The film stars the voices of Jeremy Renner, Heidi Klum, James Franco, John Cleese, Omar Sy, Michael Madsen, Laurie Holden, Anjelica Huston, and Alec Baldwin.

The film was released on November 1, 2019 by Entertainment Studios in Canada and the United States. It was panned by critics, and has grossed $3 million against its $50 million budget, making it a box office bomb, causing Entertainment Studios to be sold to Revolution Studios by March 2020.

Plot
Swifty the Arctic Fox (Jeremy Renner) works in the mailroom of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service, but he has much bigger dreams. He yearns to become a Top Dog, the Arctic's star husky couriers. To prove he can do it, he commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a mysterious package to a secret location. Once there, he stumbles on a hidden fortress overseen by the nefarious Otto Von Walrus (John Cleese). The blubbery evil genius commands an army of oddly polite puffin henchmen. Swifty discovers Otto Von Walrus' villainous plan to drill beneath the snow-packed surface to unleash masses of ancient gas to melt the Arctic and become the world's supreme ruler. To stop this sinister scheme, Swifty enlists the help of his friends: PB (Alec Baldwin), a neurotic polar bear, Lemmy (James Franco), a scatterbrained albatross, Jade Fox (Heidi Klum), a brainy engineer, Leopold (Omar Sy) and Bertha (also voiced by Heidi Klum), two conspiracy theorist otters and Magda (Anjelica Huston), his curmudgeonly boss.

Voice cast

 * Jeremy Renner as Swifty, an Arctic fox.
 * Alec Baldwin as PB, an introverted polar bear.
 * Heidi Klum as Jade, a red fox who is a tough as nails mechanic.
 * Klum also voices Bertha, a conspiracy theorist otter
 * John Cleese as Otto Van Walrus
 * Anjelica Huston as Magda, a Russian accented caribou
 * James Franco as Lemmy, a scatterbrained albatross.
 * Omar Sy as Leopold, a conspiracy theorist otter.
 * Michael Madsen as Duke, a Husky employed by Arctic Blast Delivery Service
 * Laurie Holden as Dakota, another Husky employed by the Arctic Blast Delivery Service
 * Donny Falsetti as Dusty, another, another Husky employed by the Arctic Blast Delivery Service
 * Nina Senicar as Countdown Inka, the countdown voice of Otto's machine.
 * Aaron Woodley as Puffins
 * Soraya Azzabi as Alma
 * Jason Deline as Naz

Release
Arctic Dogs was released on November 1, 2019, in both Canada and the United States.

Box office
In the United States and Canada, Arctic Dogs was released alongside Harriet, Terminator: Dark Fate and Motherless Brooklyn, and was projected to gross $5–10 million from 2,835 theaters in its opening weekend. It made $700,000 on its first day, and ended up debuting to just $2.9 million, finishing 10th.

Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 15% based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 3.02/10. Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 28 out of 100, based on four critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B–" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an overall positive score of 64% and a 41% "definite recommend".