Borrowed this from my Grandma, cause I loved the original. Nice try! Movie went in too many directions. It was not consistent with the book or the original movie. It was a good effort. One good thing I can say is that the movie is clean and okay for the family to watch, so I give it 3 stars.
It does have a few anti-war references at the beginning when he talks about his leg being amputated. Then they tried to recreate the feelings you had for the Billy and his dogs as an adult Billy and it just did not work.
Lots of unanswered questions: Where did his parents go? Where was his other sister? Was Rainie Pritchard the kid whose brother died in the original? Why was that not mentioned? Whose story was this? By the time you get to the end you don't really care too much about any of the characters and it just stopped being fun.
It does have a few anti-war references at the beginning when he talks about his leg being amputated. Then they tried to recreate the feelings you had for the Billy and his dogs as an adult Billy and it just did not work.
Lots of unanswered questions: Where did his parents go? Where was his other sister? Was Rainie Pritchard the kid whose brother died in the original? Why was that not mentioned? Whose story was this? By the time you get to the end you don't really care too much about any of the characters and it just stopped being fun.