The six year old we were taking to the pictures insisted we watched this - in retrospect I wish I had pushed harder for Pickachu.
This is a lovely idea for a film and it has some great images of cute dogs running through fields of golden corn and it will tug at every heart string you have.
Unfortunately this is very much a film of the times.
In lieu of a story this film has a series of modern moral lessons stitched together with a collection of dead dogs.
The stereotypes are rolled on one after the other: look there is nice-guy Nigel, sexually aggressive Steve, superficial Susan, controlling Colin. Oh hello drinky Dora - but remember that some people are forced into their stereotype and can change to a new one if they are virtuous enough.
Me and my partner did have a little grizzle at some parts and the acting and filming were solid - but overall it was a bit painful.
As this is from a dog's point of view it watches like a six year old writes about their summer holiday: "we went there and had an ice cream but I dropped it so mummy brought me a new one, then we went here, then we went there, I like sausages."
The child we took got an hour in before she started asking when this was going to end (personally I think she did rather well.) This is probably for older children but I worry it is a bit dull and simplistic for pre-teens - there is no way I could have sat through this when I was ten years old.
This is a lovely idea for a film and it has some great images of cute dogs running through fields of golden corn and it will tug at every heart string you have.
Unfortunately this is very much a film of the times.
In lieu of a story this film has a series of modern moral lessons stitched together with a collection of dead dogs.
The stereotypes are rolled on one after the other: look there is nice-guy Nigel, sexually aggressive Steve, superficial Susan, controlling Colin. Oh hello drinky Dora - but remember that some people are forced into their stereotype and can change to a new one if they are virtuous enough.
Me and my partner did have a little grizzle at some parts and the acting and filming were solid - but overall it was a bit painful.
As this is from a dog's point of view it watches like a six year old writes about their summer holiday: "we went there and had an ice cream but I dropped it so mummy brought me a new one, then we went here, then we went there, I like sausages."
The child we took got an hour in before she started asking when this was going to end (personally I think she did rather well.) This is probably for older children but I worry it is a bit dull and simplistic for pre-teens - there is no way I could have sat through this when I was ten years old.