REVIEW
Truestory of an American Hero -------------------------------------BY: TIFFANY DITTO Staff Writer -------------------------------------Disney?s Togo is a tale of adventure, heroism, and the love between a man and his dog. Togo
will
team reaches the city, they find that the
paths with one of the relay teams. The
children have fallen ill as diphtheria
journey takes its toll on Togo, who has a
wreaks havoc on the townspeople.
heart of steel and a will that won?t quit,
Doctors and city officials plead for
but
Seppala to go and retrieve lifesaving
The team takes on blistering winds, a
medicine nearly 674 miles away. Due to
not so frozen body of water and their
the storm, the government was unable
own body?s will to rest at a time when
to send a plane into the city with the
they simply can?t. Togo is a story that will
medication ?
make you appreciate the love you have
meaning Seppala was
their only hope.
on
the
viewer?s
the trip
and
takes his best
dog,
heartstrings as it evokes a fury of
12-year-old Togo, with him. Throughout
emotions from frustration, pride and
their journey, we see flashbacks of a
hope to sorrow, laughter and, most of
young Togo and the trouble he caused
all, love. Viewers will be rushed away on
his master. Viewers will laugh at the
musher Leonhard Seppala?s sled as he
pup?s
travels 261 miles across the Alaskan
dedication
wilderness with his team of Husky sled
hopes
dogs.
selected as part of
antics as
an
older
dog.
them a little tighter. It?s a story full of great triumph, love and heartbreak, and for all of those reasons and more, we give Togo a perfect four paws up.
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to
he be
Seppala?s sled team.
on Disney+ on Dec. 20 as one of many
We see a stubborn
promised pieces of content exclusive to
dog who ultimately
the streaming platform. The movie aims
knows
to set the record straight as to which
loves
and,
dog historically saved the city of Nome
time,
proves
in the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska.
worth.
who
he with his
A perolis journey
another team, stole the fame and credit
unfolds,
for bringing the lifesaving drugs the
officials decide to
children of Nome needed to fight the
send
help
to
diphtheria outbreak of the time ? so
Seppala.
much so that a statue was erected of
Unbeknownst
to
Balto in Central Park 10 months after
him, officials have
the 1925 run (yes, it?s still there).
decided to initiate a
The movie opens on Seppala mushing
of
and
Togo (based on a true story) premiered
Historically, Balto, a sled dog from
body
with your own pets and make you hold
Reluctantly, Seppala agrees to make tug
the
and
sled-dog
relay
to
his dog team across a snowy terrain. A
get the medication
storm brews in the distance, and we see
back to Alaska. It?s
that Seppala?s dogs want to chase a pack
only
of caribou, but instead choose to run for
happenstance, and
the city ? indicating that this storm is
after over 135 miles
one that animals know to fear. Once the
of
by
mere
mushing,
the team
that
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