“It’s hard to fault the movie’s earnestness Hallström’s canine cinema pedigree … shows through and Rachel Portman’s score is understandably sentimental without going completely saccharine.”įor You: The critics are dragging their butts on the carpet for this film. But what about the heart-warming stuff? Variety says the film’s director, Lasse Hallström, who’s dog film pedigree includes the beloved Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, really nails the sappy dog stuff. They say, “ have to be mature enough to be able to handle multiple emotionally manipulative scenes of dogs dying.” The AV Club warns those moments should be seen by older children. Kids will, unfortunately, see a dog Tom Cruise die quite a few times.
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Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.Some dog lovers will sit out the film because of the controversy, but can a film that’s intended for dog lovers find an audience despite the bad buzz?įor Kids: A dog who is reborn over and over sounds like a canine version of Edge of Tomorrow. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Festivals newsletter here. “A Dog’s Purpose” opens in theaters January 27. What is the meaning of life? Are we here for a reason? Is there a point to any of this? We may never know, but knowing this movie exists may bring some viewers one step closer to giving up on the whole damn thing. Buddy escapes, and his nose leads him to a familiar farm where he finds - can you guess? - old Ethan, played by Dennis Quaid, looking like the poor man’s Dennis Quaid, which he may be to have agreed to do this movie. In the final chapter, Bailey is reborn as a mutt named Buddy, who begins his life chained up outside a dilapidated split-level by owners (read: offensive stereotypes), sending a disturbing message that poor people abuse animals.
As their family grows, so does the Corgi, and we see his face fur grow grey in what is almost certainly cinema’s first time-lapse of an aging dog. Returning as the Corgi companion to a reclusive student, our immortal narrator falls in love with another dog who happens to belong to the friendly guy always flirting with his owner. READ MORE: ‘xXx: The Return of Xander Cage’ Review: Vin Diesel’s Action Reboot Bulks up on Cheap Thrills and Lean Plot In a scene that was apparently important enough to endanger a dog actor’s life, Ellie saves a hostage from drowning before dying from a gunshot incurred while saving her owner. This time Bailey comes back as, oh my god, a girl. After a joke that essentially amounts to “Where’d my thing go?,” Ellie the German Shepherd lives a pretty miserable existence as a police dog, overworked and underpaid. As Bailey frolics around town with them, he makes funny dog observations about how much they like to lick each other and look for things they lost inside each other’s mouths.Īfter middle Ethan heads off to college, Bailey gets so tired he loses the will to live. Apa, soon to become hot Archie Andrews of the CW’s “Riverdale”), and the lonely boy is now a full-fledged football star complete with adoring girlfriend, Hannah (Britt Robertson). Little Ethan turns into teenage Ethan (K.J. Ethan’s dad (Luke Kirby) is a traveling salesman who drinks too much, and his mom (Juliet Rylance) likes to garden. Little Ethan (Bryce Gheispar) names the puppy Bailey and trains him to do all sorts of crazy things, like springboard off of Ethan’s back and catch a deflated football like the Gabby Douglas of dog Olympics. It boils down to this: a boy loves his dog. But playacted suffering is no fun to watch.įrom there, the movie’s major narrative emerges. Yes, we know: No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. READ MORE: ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ Terrified Dog Video: Star Josh Gad and Director Lasse Hallström ‘Disturbed’ by Canine’s Treatment on Setįaster than you can say “PETA boycott,” he’s back in another puppy body, this time as a golden retriever. Determined to permanently scar the children who see this movie, the puppy then nearly dies of dehydration in an overheated pickup truck, neck hanging off the seat and tongue lolling out of his mouth, before a heroic mother/son duo smash in the window to take him home and nurse him back to health. “That was it?” says Gad, as the screen fades to a swirl of colors meant to represent the afterlife. In the very first scene, we’re introduced to a charming mutt before he is promptly trapped by the kind of net normally reserved for cartoons.
This is the setup: Our narrator, as voiced by Gad, is a dog whose soul is reborn in different dog bodies several times.
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