I hope this one does as well so some kid out there can rescue a needy animal just waiting to find a home.Ī Dog’s Purpose‘s producer is Gavin Polone. ![]() I am so glad that movie provided the inspiration. The very first movie I ever saw was a dog romance, Lady And The Tramp, and right after I got a Cocker Spaniel puppy named Lady. None of those dogs in those movies were computerized, they were actors, and despite what PETA hopes, their performances, and the work of their trainers, are worthy of Oscars not boycotts. Kirby and Miller are given thankless roles but overdo it anyway.Ī little less human, and a little more bark would have been the ideal recipe, but Hallstrom has provided a nice addition to the great Hollywood tradition of dog movies that include Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, the great My Dog Skip, Uggie in The Artist, Greyfriars Bobby, Old Yeller and on and on. There’s nice work from Robertson, and Peggy Lipton as the older Hannah. I only wish the human actors were just as compelling, but Apa does well as the teen Ethan, as does veteran Dennis Quaid who inhabits the role in later years. The stars of the show are clearly the dogs as well as the right-on-the-mark voice-over of Bailey by Josh Gad, who invests his performance with just the right touch of whimsy and curiosity. Bruce Cameron’s book by the author himself along with Audrey Wells, Cathryn Michon, Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky. When the time comes for Bailey’s life to end (no spoiler, as this is all in the trailer) he comes back again as Ellie, a German Shepherd police dog teamed with his human partner (John Ortiz), then as another dog named Tino who is loyal to his college student owner (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), and then finally as Buddy, a lunk of a canine stuck initially with a bad owner only to come full circle where the core message, and love of animals, is delivered in a film that to quote the old cliche will have you laughing through tears.įortunately, Hallstrom uses great restraint in showing the doggie deaths that are a necessary component of the screenplay, which has been adapted from W. There is also a budding romance between Ethan and Hannah (Britt Robertson) that the dog sweetly lands right in the middle of. This section veers from slapstick silly antics such as the comic disruption of an important business dinner party, to pure melodrama with the over-the-top alcoholic father (Luke Kirby) as well as a school bully (Logan Miller) that drag down the proceedings from the real star of the show, Bailey, who like all the dogs in the film is magnificently trained and appealing on screen. ![]() The first hour of the movie is in fact Bailey’s as we see a rather traditional boy-and-his-dog tale unfold when the pooch grows up with Ethan, first as an 8-year-old (Bryce Gheisar) and then a teen (K.J. There can be no doubt based on that film, and now this one, the man is a real dog lover and he brings that to the forefront here with a series of highly emotional, sometimes funny and thrilling scenes in this story of a dog named Bailey who keeps finding himself reincarnated as many different four-legged friends after his first natural death. The film is directed by Lasse Hallstrom, who also did the wonderful dog movie Hachi: A Dog’s Tale that starred Richard Gere. It would be a shame if all this kept moviegoers from the flawed but emotionally satisfying A Dog’s Purpose, which is tailor-made for families and probably will do more for real dog adoptions and rescues than any movie in a long while. ![]() Breakout Australian Sitcom 'Colin From Accounts' Season 2 Goes Into Production
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