Ratcliffe in Disney’s “Pocahontas”) orders Bill to clear the forest of the wild dogs.Īs a girl, Robyn is expected to stay at home, doing scullery duty, but she sneaks out instead. The Lord Protector (who looks and acts an awful lot like the barrel-chested Gov. The walled city is being oppressed by an Oliver Cromwell-esque Lord Protector (Simon McBurney), who has come from England to “tame” the locals - as well as the woods where Mebh and her mom live. The story takes place in mid-17th-century Ireland, in and around Kilkenny (where Moore’s company, Cartoon Saloon, is headquartered). The way things turn out, instead of killing wolves, Robyn becomes an important ally in their survival. His latest, co-directed by longtime collaborator Ross Stewart, brings the last two living wolfwalkers - Moll (Maria Doyle Kennedy) and her wild-eyed daughter Mebh (rhymes with “Babe,” and voiced by Eva Whittaker) - together with the only person who might understand them, a tomboy named Robyn Goodfellowe (Honor Kneafsey) who is eager to join her stern but concerned father, Bill (Sean Bean), in the hunt. (Moore has barely softened the appearance of the vicious wolves seen in “Kells,” with their pointed faces and saw-sharp teeth, but entirely rethought the way we see them.) But in “Wolfwalkers,” it’s the humans who are frightening, and these special guardians - gifted with the ability to shape-shift between human and canine form - who serve as our heroes. Just ask Little Red Riding Hood her experience with the species wasn’t exactly a positive one. When wolves feature into fairy tales, they’re nearly always the source of wickedness and deceit.

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