Monthly Archive: July 2018

Sox: A Family’s Best Friend (2013)

Directed by Jason Horton

Viewed on Amazon Prime

Summary: A family having trouble getting along gets a little help(?) from a new dog who just happens to be telepathic. But this dog has problems of his own as a Federal Bureau of Dog Investigation agent is trying to track him down!

Is This A Thing?

So it seems that I have found myself a bizarrely specific niche of movies that I enjoy (?) watching and discussing. I was so completely baffled when I saw the first “A Doggone…” movie that I just had to keep exploring this strange, and relatively new, subgenre of dog based fiction. Part of what makes this so personally interesting is that the idea of a dog who has telepathic powers and essentially the mind of a human can get a little creepy especially when…well…we’ll get into that a little later.  Ah well, someone has to talk about telepathic dog movies, and if not me, then who?

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Dude, Where’s My Dog? (2014)

Directed by: Stephen Langford

Viewed On: Amazon Prime

General Summary: Dog appears. Dog leaves. Fart jokes happen. Dog appears again. Dog eats invisibility formula. Fat jokes happen. The children look for their dog. I beg for the sweet embrace of death.

Dude, Where’s My Title Ripped Off From?

Riding high on the totally relevant and not at all dated reference to the classic Dude, Where’s My Car?, Dude Where’s My Dog? Is…actually not really a rip off or even all that similar to the plot of the Ashton Kutcher movie. It’s just an excuse to make a “funny” title that could be a reference to a movie that’s….I haven’t seen Dude Where’s My Car? in more than a decade, so I don’t really remember it, but I can’t imagine it’s worse than this movie. Spoiler alert: This is probably the least enjoyably bad dog movie I have seen thus far into the Dog Days of Summer.

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A Doggone Hollywood (2017)

General summary: A telepathic dog befriends a suspiciously familiar group of children while evading pursuers. Hilarity does not ensue.

Which Idea is Top Dog: Christmas Vs Hollywood?

Upon viewing A Doggone Christmas, I thought I had found something unexpected. Though the movie was only tangentially Christmas related, it allowed me to laugh with a silly B movie rather than at it. In this enchanted state I chose to watch another movie from Jim Wynorski’s filmography, A Doggone Hollywood. Only moments into this movie, I realized that any goodwill I felt from the first movie had  quickly been squandered.

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