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  • Awesome Art: The film's animation is very good to look at, not to mention the very lush backgrounds. Shows how much Wizart has improved compared to the first Snow Queen movie.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "Sheep And Wolves" apparently takes place in a magical universe populated by mythical creatures as well as anthropomorphic animals. During a montage at the end of the second act, where Grey is traveling through the mountains alone, he comes across giant, fifty-foot tall beasts roaming through the misty countryside. These creatures add absolutely nothing to the plot of this movie, and are never acknowledged again after this scene. Never mind the random non-anthropomorphic giraffe in the middle of the forest.
  • Complete Monster: Ragear is a vicious and feared member of Grey's pack who detests the ancient laws that prevent him from killing as much as he wants for fun, regularly flouting these rules to hunt prey for the thrill of it. Angered by his leader Magda's refusal to step down as leader, Ragear murders him and takes over by force, directing the pack to slaughter the nearby settlement of sheep to the last while knowing his rival Grey is among them. Even after his life is saved by Grey and the sheep's efforts, Ragear doubles around and tries to have his pack kill all the sheep anyway, threatening to kill the youngest of them if they stop him from doing so.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Even though there are plenty of minor characters who became amongst fans. Bianca’s friends, Sarabi and Leah stand out the most.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: It's safe to say the only reason most people watch this movie is for Bianca.
  • Moment of Awesome: There's a lovely Foil between how Ragear leads and how Grey leads. Ragear has an entire pack of wolves he rules using fear. They're pretty okay as an army. And Grey has an army of sheep (and is one himself). Yet, Grey leads the sheep to near victory! As an old saying would go, "A lion leading an army of sheep would have better chances of winning than a sheep leading an army of lions."
  • Moral Event Horizon: Ragear starts off as the typical antagonistic Foil to the hero, but it becomes quite clear later on that he won't follow Magra's rules to who will get to become a leader. What puts him past the point of no return is his murder of Magra whereupon he declares a tyrannical rule over the wolves.
  • Narm: It can be a bit hard to take the antagonists of the second movie seriously when they're called the "Dark Wolves", a name that sounds like it's trying way too hard to be edgy.
  • Popular with Furries: Almost by design, the movies have a certain amount of appeal to the internet's furry fandom, particularly the character designs for the wolves like Grey, Bianca and Ragear (with sleeky, curvy female lupines, and beefy, muscular male lupines). Whenever the movies are discussed, there are usually jokes made about them giving the furries of the world what they want.
  • Sequelitis: The general consensus of the second film is that it's a fairly unnecessary sequel, outside of giving Grey some more Character Development, that suffers from juggling too many characters (new and old) and really drags during the second act, when the main characters are mostly bumbling through their own plans, waiting for the antagonists to actually make good on their threats to attack them.
  • So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus about the original film is that it is a pretty standard morality tale about a cocky hotshot undergoing a Karmic Transformation, so he can walk a mile In Another Man's Shoes and grow as a person. It's rarely ever labeled a great film or a terrible one, it’s simply considered a decent family movie with some cute and sweet moments - the sequel on the other hand, tends to split the base more.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: People have criticized this movie's character designs for combining animal and human qualities in a way they find creepy rather than endearing.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: It starts off like a comedic animated movie with a foolish wolf who gets turned into a sheep, but it gets darker later on, with its antagonist intentionally killing his ailing leader to take his position. And the female wolves, including the main characters' Love Interest, are heavily sexualized.

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