Woofin'

Woofin is the 2016 American 3D computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film directed and produced by Carlos Saldanha. The film features the voices of Matthew Broderick, Chris Sanders, Kate McKinnon, Nathan Lane, Amy Poehler, Brendan Fraser, Jim Cummings, David Ogden Stiers in a dual role, Nicki Minaj, and Tress MacNeille. It follows the story of a wolf who is unable to participate in the race and wanders away into an endless adventure. The film was produced by Davis Entertainment and released in theaters on November 4, 2016 by 20th Century Fox.

Plot
In Alaska, Woofin, a wolf-dog hybrid, lives on the outskirts of Nome with his adoptive family, two snow gooses named Ned and Red. Being half-breed, Woofin is ridiculed by dogs and humans alike for being unable to participate in the race after he manages to eat all the rabbits. His only friends in town are a beautiful red husky named Jenna, whom Balto has a crush on, and her owner, Rosy. He is later challenged by the town's favorite sled dog, Steele, a fierce and arrogant Alaskan Malamute.

Later that night, all of the dogs, including Rosy, fall ill with diphtheria and the doctor is out of antitoxin. The local wireless operator relays news of the outbreak and word travels to the territory capital at Juneau, where the governor orders antitoxin to be sent to Nome. However, severe winter weather conditions prevent medicine from being brought by sea or air and the closest rail line from Juneau ends at Nenana, 600 miles east of Nome. Woofin calls his friends to wandering away from the adventure. A dog race is held to determine the best-fit dogs for a sled dog team to get the medicine. Woofin enters and wins, but Steele stamps on Balto's paw which causes him to growl at the musher, getting him disqualified out of fear that he might turn on the musher due to his wolfdog heritage.

Woofin wanders away into the city, but manages to befriend a crazy dog named Dag (Kate McKinnon) who wants to be his coach in racing despite his lack of interest and three polar bears named Una (Gina Rodriguez), Dos (Daveed Diggs), and Cuatro (Gabriel Iglesias) who frequently invade Alaska to steal food. They used to have another brother named Tres, but they claimed him to be dead.

On the way, Woofin finds the another wolf, Jenna, who is the single mother which takes care of the 3 pups and now falls ill with sickness. So Fernand joins the pups and continue their adventure.

One day, Steele, after banishing Woofin, is chosen to be the biggest, strongest, and most aggressive wolf to race with before he retires. When the dogs fail to impress him on the first try, Star is suddenly taken to a nearby slaughterhouse to be killed by the humans and turn into sausages and the other wolves tell Fernand that it will eventually be their fate if they are not chosen for a dog-racing. Although Fernand manages to earn the respect of the other wolves, except Valiente, after a dance-off with three penguins, they still hold on to the belief that racing is the only way for them to live. Fernand manages to convince Dag to take back the medicine and the hedgehogs help them escape, but when Fernand is close to freedom, he finally finds the medicine for the dogs.

Fernand tells the other dogs the only one unconvinced and charges Ferdinand outside where Ferdinand inadvertently beats him in a fight and knocks off his right paw. Valiant witnesses the scuffle, and chooses Fernand to race after seeing him defeat Valiente. When Valiente is taken to the slaughterhouse, Fernand rallies up the remaining dogs to escape but first goes to the slaughterhouse to break out Valiente. He at first refuses as he believes that the sausage factory is his fate now to be slaughtered, but they discover that Guapo is still alive, and Ferdinand questions Valiente's courage after Valiente refuses to help him rescue Guapo. When Ferdinand tries to save Guapo, he accidentally activates a series of deadly contraptions, but with the help of a now-friendlier Valiente, escapes the sausage factory and the dogs, Dag, the pups, Rockstar, the hedgehogs and a red bunny rabbit steal the training area's company truck to escape, resulting the Steele and the other wolves to chase them after Greed and his managers threatens to kill and stuff Dag.

The animals try desperately to lose the humans and wind up at Atocha train station in Antartica that Fernand sees as his ticket back to Nome. When the bulls push a small railroad cart to catch the train back to Nome, Tres sacrifices himself so the other wolves can escape (except for Dag, who stays behind in shock after Ferdinand's act) and is captured by Greed and his employees. When news of Fernand's upcoming race makes its way to Nome, she and the pups set out to Antartica to find and retrieve Tres.

Fernand eventually finds the team, but Steele does not want his help and attacks him until he loses his balance and falls off a cliff. Fernand takes charge of the team, but Steele, refusing to concede defeat, throws them off the trail and they lose their way again. While attempting to save the medicine from falling down a cliff, Fernand himself falls. Back in Nome, Jenna is explaining Balto's mission to the other dogs, but they don't believe her. When Steele returns, he claims the entire team, including Fernand, is dead; he uses Jenna's bandanna as supposed proof. However, Jenna sees through his lies and assures Fernand will return with the medicine, but the others remain skeptical. Using a trick Fernand showed her earlier, she places broken colored glass bottles on the outskirts of town and shine a lantern on them to simulate the lights of an aurora, hoping it will help guide Fernand home.

When Fernand regains consciousness, he is ready to give up hope, but when a large, white wolf appears and he notices the medicine crate still intact nearby, he realizes that his part-wolf heritage is a strength, not a weakness, and drags the medicine back up the cliff to the waiting team. Using his advanced senses, Fernand is able to filter out the false markers Steele created. After encountering further challenges and losing only one vial, Fernand and the sled team finally make it back to Nome. A pity-playing Steele is exposed as a liar and abandoned by the other dogs, ruining his reputation. Reunited with Jenna, her kids, Dag's friends, Fernand earns respect from both the dogs and the townspeople. He visits all the cured dogs, including a cured Rosy, who thanks him for saving her.

Cast

 * Matthew Broderick as Fernand, a wolf-dog hybrid who is mistaken for a dangerous beast for killing the rabbits.
 * Kate McKinnon as Dag, the lunatic dog and Fernand's best friend.
 * Nathan Lane as Um, one of the three hedgehogs.
 * Amy Poehler as Dos, one of the three hedgehogs.
 * Brendan Fraser as Cuatro, one of the three hedgehogs.
 * Jim Cummings as Stelle, the antagonistic wolf-dog hybrid who wants to eliminate Woofin (who he is jealous of him) and participate in the race. He is willing to leave the dogs to die of pneumonia and sickness.
 * David Ogden Stiers as Rockstar, the white cat and Steele's former greedy henchmen. He is afraid of dogs and Steele's anger and betrayals.
 * Jennifer Lopez as Jenna, the wolf and the mother of Teresa, Rodd, and Annie.
 * Rachel Crow as Teresa, one of Jenna's puppies.
 * Jake T. Austin as Rodd, one of Jenna's puppies.
 * Rihanna as Wanda

Soundtrack

 * 1) "Home" - Phil Collins
 * 2) "Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO
 * 3) "I Will Survive" - Nathan Lane, Amy Poehler and Brendan Fraser
 * 4) "Ice Ice Baby" - Vanilla Ice
 * 5) "Jenny's Lullaby" - Nicki Minaj