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1.0 out of 5 stars
Not my favorite movie, May 23, 2009
I know, I know! Not every movie has to have a character building lesson. This movie however, celebrates the opposite-lying, stealing, breaking and entering, and cheating. In the end, the children were celebrated as heroes dispite their bad behavior.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very weak, January 5, 2011
Most of the details of this movie have been covered in other reviews. There three issues with this movie. First of all, the kids exhibit criminal behavior from beginning to end of the film. Apparently, this is all completely excused by the end of the film, because it was all in a good cause. I would have felt a lot better about the kids if they had actually gone out and got a job and taken care of their dog in that manner. Second, the whole plot is really weak. The kids have no money, but some how have enough money to put together an amazing number of contraptions and get the power turned on in an old hotel. If they had that money to begin with, why are they pawning rocks for twenty bucks? Finally, the acting is not very good. Kids exhibit little emotion and the adult characters are two dimensional, to say the least.
The only saving grace of the movie are the dogs which are well trained and cute.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
foster parents from hell and their dog friday, January 13, 2010
A friend of mine made the comment that modern people care more about stray dogs than homeless people.
Orphans and foster parenting for older children has been a bad western cultural
problem since before Dickens. Wars and accidents have secondary casualties.
Here a boy and his sister have a dog that their foster parents don't allow,
so they go to a lot of trouble to take care of it.
The result is they find a run down old hotel that already has two dog residents.
Together with the young high school boy from the pet store
they take on the pound system of killing stray dogs.
The ending is happy here as with many kids movies.
I didn't really like the movie much: the parallel of orphans with stray dogs
is just a little much for me.
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