Monthly Archive: September 2020

PawParazzi (2018)

Directed by Ari Novak

Something that’s become a running theme in these dog movies is that frequently they are not at all what they appear to be. As we saw in the previous Dog Days of Summer post, Doggie B was in no way what the box art advertised but viewing that was an amazing experience that would not have been possible had it not caught me so off guard. Tonight we’re facing a similar situation. Look at that movie poster. Look how front and center that dog is. I should have known. I should have known that this was a trick and that this adorable dog was not really what the movie was going to be about. I failed. And now you get to witness my shame. So please, join me on a journey through the incredibly deceptively named PawParazzi.

Doggie B (2013)
Directed/Written/Produced by Romanus Wolter

You’d think after what must be a few years of doing Dog Days of Summer reviews, I would know not to judge a movie by its poster. You’d be wrong. I avoided watching Doggie B since I began this series because I saw that poster up there and assumed this was some kind of dog music contest movie, and that it would be too similar to Pup Star, a movie series that I have covered most of. The amount of regret I have for doing that is insane because Doggie B is top tier dog nonsense. Not quite as good as movies like Quigley or Sox: A Family’s Best Friend, it’s too technically competent for that, but this story and these visuals are something that will stick with me, especially because Doggie B is not about music. It is about dancing with dogs, like this:

Let’s get started!