Criminally Underrated Childhood Movie?

No big article this time.

I grew up LOVING Disney's Bolt, from 2008. And I'm not much of a Disney person, but I am an absolute sucker for heartwarming stories and dogs. Bolt is a beautiful movie because it's basically a deconstruction of what you'd expect it to be. Dog thinks he's got superpowers, learns he doesn't and has to go on a road trip to get back home. Leading up to the studio fire scene, you expect it to lead into the resolution of "Oh, they're gonna say he can be a hero even without his powers". And sure, he DID save Penny in a way, but the fact that him doing that isn't the "point" is kind of an amazing thing. The crescendo isn't that he can continue being a hero even without the superpowers he thought he had. The crescendo is that his life up until then has been an orchestrated lie but now for the first time he's got the power to make his life what he wants it to be. More importantly: He gets to be a dog. Not an actor, or a superhero, or a tool for profit, but a girl's pet, running around in some big open field or terrorizing squirrels or being scared of lightning. And in the end, he's happier doing that than he ever was being a "hero". The resolution has Bolt more or less losing everything he thought he needed to be himself just to gain a whole new meaning instead and it's genuinely such an amazing movie for it. I'll love it till the day I die.