Category: Dog Days of Summer

Ally and Obie

Directed by Alfred Robbins

Welcome back to this week’s entry into the Dog Days of Summer, my favorite time of year where I get to write about the best bad family dog movies I can find! After the rousing success that was last week’s film Quigley, I had to think long and hard about what could possibly follow that insanity. Instead of trying to top the weirdness of Quigley, I decided that we needed to get back to the bread and butter of the Dog Days of Summer, talking dog movies! After seeing that magical poster up there and reading about how in this film, Ally gets by with some help from her talking dog Obie, I thought we had a real winner. In a way I think we do, because Ally and Obie is one of the most bafflingly written “dog” movies I’ve encountered, starting with scene one.

Quigley (2006)
Directed by William Byron Hillman

Welcome back everyone to the latest chapter of Dog Days of Summer, a special time of the year where I cover wholesome family dog movies instead of the usual fare of horror. You may recall the last movie I covered, Avenger Dogs, nearly broke me. I managed to finish it, but its repetitive nature, crude pseudo-animation, and lack of anything resembling a story cemented that movie as the least enjoyable thing I have watched for Dog Days of Summer, period. I needed to get back in the groove this week so I chose some low hanging fruit, a faith-based children’s film about a dog named Quigley, starring Gary Busey. You may have heard of Quigley, it has already made its rounds on the internet, but if you haven’t then oh boy, are you in for a treat, for Quigley is a deep tale of atonement, faith, and the never-ending comedy of people falling down.

Greetings, friends! Welcome back to this week’s entry into the Dog Days of Summer series, a yearly event where I punish myself with terrible family-friendly dog movies. After covering the largely samey and uninspired Alpha and Omega series last week, I thought that Avenger Dogs might be the fun and energetic bad movie that I needed to get back in the Dog Days spirit! Just look at that poster! That poster promises fun dog superhero action and me, being the fool that I am, turned this movie on expecting a good time. I did not find a good time. Instead, I found the most insulting bait and switch scam that I have come across since starting the Dog Days of Summer series years ago, one that almost broke me. But I finished this movie. For you. So please join me as I warn everyone who will listen about the evils of Avenger Dogs.

Welcome, one and all to the official beginning of the Dog Days of Summer! If you’re an old hand, you know the drill, but if you’re new, the Dog Days of Summer is a yearly event where I take a break from talking horror to talk about my second favorite weird genre of movie, terrible family-friendly dog movies! I had originally envisioned this year starting with a rundown of the entire Alpha and Omega franchise, that is still happening, but I thought it might be better to start off covering just the first one so we all have a bit more context for why the next seven movies are even more terrible than they already are. Please join me as I talk about no one’s favorite animated feature, Alpha & Omega!