Title: Shoot this dog - please!
Review: I have not read the original book, but this movie is the stupidest film I have seen in a long time. The subject, the dog, is a jerk with no redeeming feature whatsoever - at least none demonstrated by the film. This movie is nearly two hours long, spends about an hour and forty minutes demonstrating what a worthless turd he is, and then its final 15 minutes showing the family inexplicably decompensating as he - whom the family has heretofore always regarded as a pain - dies. (And good riddance, I say.) The tear-jerking doesn't work, because the dog has never been shown to have a single redeeming feature. In any other country in the world, this destructive, stupid, untrainable, unlovable animal would have been eaten about 30 minutes into the film. Then you could have used the next hour and a half of your life for something productive, like looking at a blank wall.
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