Customer Reviews

Atomic Dog [VHS]

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This incredibly cheap sci-fi made-for-TV outing isn't good sci-fi, isn't good horror, and isn't even particularly good for animal lovers. Here's the goofy set-up. A janitor's puppy is left behind at a nuclear power plant that's being shut down for "low-level radiation leaks." Instead of doing what he'd do in real life, which is die horribly, he grows into a Superdog with human intelligence. Now some years later, a family moves into a house, evidently not caring that it's just down the street from an evacuated nuclear plant, and the Atomic Dog gets their dog pregnant. When the Atomic Dog tries to claim his pups, all heck breaks loose. Sort of. The Atomic Dog (who gives the movie's only good performance) is never really menacing because the filmmakers don't want to frighten kids or upset PETA, and, of course, at the end (SPOILER WARNING) he turns out to be a misunderstood hero. Sniff. The direction is purely workmanlike, the script never offers anything original when it can just take the obvious route, and, for a kids' movie, I can't even recommend it, since there are four dogs in the movie altogether and three of them end up dead. Anyone who thinks this is a five-star movie needs to get out of the house more. Casablanca is a five-star movie, people.

this movie made me jump, made me cry, and made me laugh. i love dogs and this movie only deepend my appriciation for the nice tame dogs. a radio-active dog who gets it on with a family dog finds himself in a whole new tangle. with the death of his wife he's looking to get his two puppies back and nothing is gouing to stand in his way.

I haven't seen this movie in while, but I remember it. I've seen "B" movies and this isn't one. A REAL B movie is Frogs. I like the Atomic Dog because he was so smart. My fav. part is when the women shoots him with a tranq. dart and he just looks at her as if to say,"I'm not an idiot" then pulls the dart out.

A friend and I are bad movie fans, and one day decided to give this one a try. I think it's a made-for-TV movie. If you like bad films, you'll like this. One thing that stands out is that it has a lot of lines that could be taken "the wrong way", i.e. with sexual innuendo that isn't intended. We riffed on it the whole way through, and by the end it was just too easy.

Anyway, I'm giving it 4 stars for its (unintentional) comedic value.

A bright well-written script and fine performances (canine and human alike) help make "Atomic Dog" a great film to watch. Alongside its sci-fi fantasy and thriller action, there are very truely scary moments and yet also some charm and sweetness. And it all comes flowing together at appropriate times of the film. The film is about the Yates family, who moved into a small town with a shut-down nuclear plant. They own a dog named Trixie, which one is missing to her owners, due to that she has puppies with a stray dog. But this other dog is no other dog -- he is a super-mutant due to radiation leaks at the nuclear plant he lives at! Soon the Yates children find a dying Trixie with the pups and adopt the latter mentioned. Soon the father mutant dog tracks down his offspring's whereabout's and desires to reclaim them... which leads him into a rip-snarling rage of terror, threating the lives of the Yates, or any human in his way!! A lot of action and fear ensures, along with the Yates being asisted by an animal-biologst. A very entertaining prodution. It's more watchable and intresting than "Cujo". It helps that the title role animal can be conviningly scary, and also presents some more eye-opening surprises.

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This movie is the funniest movie that I have seen in the longest time. It is a great family story that deals with a puppy that was abandoned in a Nuclear Power Plant and a few years later gets it on with a local golden retriever (TRIXIE!!). And then he wants to avenge his lover once she dies and get back his puppies.
Even though it doesn' tlook like the best movie you'll have so much fun laughing at it (just be sure you watch it understanding not to take it seriously). Act as if it was a DVD and you get to make the commentary on it.
The only bad thing about this movie is that it isn't on DVD. Enjoy watching it, cause I saw it twice, and then decided to buy it.

It's true- this movie has a good family story. Think about it: that dog isn't really so "evil", he just wants his kids back- hey anyone would. I just LOVE this show, for its storyline and primarily because of the dogs :) They're great actors and they're real cute! And for those of you who think Cujo is better, that movie had NO plot except for a dog ripping people apart; this one has a whole family-love story as the base, which gives it a lot more interest. Cujo was just a snore compared to this one!