Review by sjwestbrooks

I'm rating this movie four stars, but if I could rate it in half stars I'd give it three and a half.

The cinematography and music are professional, and George Hamilton acts very well here. These elements help keep the movie from being completely bad.

The main culprits in Pets to the Rescue are the story and the production value. The plot basically throws logic in the trash bin, from a security unit being defeated via laughing gas to a young boy building a working tank out of scrap metal in minutes. The filmmakers try to be clever to no avail, from having all the gold in the movie have the word "GOLD" branded on them to dressing about twenty mannequins up as soldiers for one scene (seriously). The animatronic animals are quite ugly and fake-looking. The movie tries to get political at one point ("That's what guns do! They hurt people!"), but of course flubs that one too. Et cetera, et cetera...

I gotta say, though, Pets to the Rescue is quite an entertaining movie. Families are sure to hoot and holler with laughter at nearly every scene. However, they'll probably be laughing for the wrong reasons.