The Dove foundation seems to enjoy notoriety for giving positive reviews to extremely bad children's films. Generally, if a Dove review is featured on a film's artwork, it means the general reception was so bad that any positive review by a critic would be featured. This film is no exception to that rule.
The acting in this film is bad. It features bad child actors, bad adult actors and bad voice actors for the animals. The general premise relies entirely on the idea that an entire neighbourhood is happy to let their dogs roam the streets of San Francisco without supervision. There are scenes that build up to something that never happens, and only serve to pad the run-time. There are bizarre continuity errors that could easily be fixed by someone simply reviewing the footage.
There are only three positive things that come to mind about this film. Firstly, it's a film about animals, and the animals do seem to be well-trained. It's their on- and off-screen human counterparts that let them down. Secondly, whoever cast this film actually put some effort into ensuring a diverse cast. This is off-set slightly however by some slightly stereotypical representations. Thirdly, and this is a back-handed compliment, it is arguably so-bad-it's-good due to the ridiculous plot and the bad acting.
All in all, this is a bad film. Worth watching, but in the same way as another film that features out-of-place establishing shots of San Francisco accompanied by out-of-place orchestral music.
The acting in this film is bad. It features bad child actors, bad adult actors and bad voice actors for the animals. The general premise relies entirely on the idea that an entire neighbourhood is happy to let their dogs roam the streets of San Francisco without supervision. There are scenes that build up to something that never happens, and only serve to pad the run-time. There are bizarre continuity errors that could easily be fixed by someone simply reviewing the footage.
There are only three positive things that come to mind about this film. Firstly, it's a film about animals, and the animals do seem to be well-trained. It's their on- and off-screen human counterparts that let them down. Secondly, whoever cast this film actually put some effort into ensuring a diverse cast. This is off-set slightly however by some slightly stereotypical representations. Thirdly, and this is a back-handed compliment, it is arguably so-bad-it's-good due to the ridiculous plot and the bad acting.
All in all, this is a bad film. Worth watching, but in the same way as another film that features out-of-place establishing shots of San Francisco accompanied by out-of-place orchestral music.