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A DOG\u2019S PURPOSE<\/strong>
\nUniversal Pictures<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya<\/strong>
\nGrade: B+<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m<\/strong>
\nWritten by: Cathryn Michon from W. Bruce Cameron\u2019s novel<\/strong>
\nCast: Britt Robertson, Josh Gad, Dennis Quaid, K.J. Apa, Peggy Lipton, Logan Miller, Bryce Gheisar<\/strong>
\nScreened at: Regal E-Walk, NYC, 1\/23\/17<\/strong>
\nOpens: January 27, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not only does the movie \u201cA Dog\u2019s Purpose\u201d answer that very question: Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m, who directed, is wrestling with another, one that must have been puzzling Hindus and Buddhists for centuries.\u00a0 That is: when a dog dies, a good dog mind you, into what living thing is it reincarnated?\u00a0\u00a0 To find the answer to the first question, you have to see the picture.\u00a0 The intriguing, albeit not original, answer is revealed near the conclusion.\u00a0 As for the second, the Golden Retriever named Bailey is so good, so really good, that he returns to earth after his demise as\u2026you guessed it.\u00a0 A dog!\u00a0 Remember what \u201cdog\u201d spelled backwards is, and you\u2019ll realize that the highest form of life for a dog that has (temporarily) gone to his Great Reward, is to come back as another, but always a different breed.<\/p>\n

The novel of the same name by Bruce Cameron was on the New York Times best-seller list for forty-nine weeks, the novelist presumably happy that this film is directed by Hallstr\u00f6m, who has good credentials.\u00a0 He was at the helm for \u201cHachi,\u201d the heartbreaking, sentimental tale based on a real life of a stray Japanese dog taken in by a college professor who bonded so exquisitely that the dog met his human companion after work daily at a train station and stayed with the man many years after the professor died.\u00a0 \u201cA Dog\u2019s Purpose\u201d is more like a two-hanky fable than \u201cHachi\u201d\u2019s four-hanky but it sits well on the shelf of pup films at least since my favorite \u201cLassie Come Home.\u201d (One may wonder whether Hallstr\u00f6m was named for the collie.)<\/p>\n

The tale of reincarnation focuses on four principal dogs; Bailey, Buddy, Tino and Ellie.\u00a0 After each one dies (the demise occurs offstage), the new incarnations are fully aware of their previous lives despite being of different breeds.\u00a0 The most lovable, Bailey, a golden retriever, is taken in by young Ethan (Bryce Gheisar) who implores his dad to adopt him.\u00a0 Since they live in a rural area,that should have been a no-brainer, though dad\u2019s good will is to be tested later when he becomes a drunk and fights with his wife.\u00a0 Ethan throws the football; Bailey retrieves.\u00a0 Ethan meets cute Hannah (Britt Robertson) at a festival site.\u00a0 They like each other, the dog interferes with their kissing, Ethan gets a full football scholarship to a college in Michigan, but tragedy strikes.\u00a0 When Bailey becomes too old to play and ultimately dies, he is reincarnated into a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, who is later reborn, and then again and again: d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/p>\n

Considering that a large dog has a life span or at least eight years and a young dog can have up to fifteen, you would think that forty or more years would have passed from the film\u2019s introduction to the conclusion.\u00a0 As a German Shepherd, Ellie is in the K-9 corps, monitored and trained by Carlos (Juan Ortiz), in one incident doing his duty in chasing down a kidnapper.\u00a0\u00a0 In any case Bailey, who decades later returns as Buddy and is coincidentally adopted by Ethan (Dennis Quaid), tries mightily to convince his new owner that he still responds to the name Bailey.\u00a0 Happy ending.<\/p>\n

Why do people have dogs?\u00a0 Kevin Kline\u2019s character Otto in the 1988 film \u201cA Fish Called Wanda\u201d wondered about dog ownership: \u201cI don\u2019t get it!\u201d\u00a0 The answer could be human loneliness as Carlos, the policeman in the K-9 corps is a widower dining at home alone, the middle-aged Ethan (Dennis Quaid) had split with his girlfriend, and is also alone, while young Ethan is at a loss when his parents continually fight and his drunken father embarrasses him in front of his friends.<\/p>\n

All is told from a dog\u2019s point of view, as we watch the human beings from the ground up in many cases.\u00a0 With the help of Josh Gad, who takes on the voices of all the dogs, we are made privy to each dog\u2019s psyche. Each wonders at first what\u2019s going on, though never challenging the fact of reincarnation.\u00a0 Each likes food, which means that in a children\u2019s movie inevitably tables are turned over, adults are tripped, cheeks are licked.\u00a0 This is a delightful interpretation of the novel, perhaps too long for a children\u2019s dramedy, so maybe one of the dogs should have been left on the cutting room floor.\u00a0 One scene that I thought was omitted was the video that went viral of the attempt by the crew to drop a dog into the rapids.\u00a0 Though the German Shepherd did well at rehearsals, we watch as the crew people tried to force the reluctant dog into the water while the American Humane Association monitor must have been asleep. (He was suspended.)\u00a0 The premiere had to be canceled, but in the current incarnation we do see the Shepherd jump merrily into the rapids to save a drowning woman.<\/p>\n

The movie was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba to evoke the rural scenery.<\/p>\n

Rated PG.\u00a0 100 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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