Blue, mon chien d'Australie

Animal abandonment hits me hard.

I did not see the first movie and I do not know the story about this dog.

I was lured in by the description. Boy finds scruffy dirty puppy that later becomes a legend.

I waited all movie to find out when the legend part was going to happen only to see a broken hearted dog chasing the helicopter the boy was in as he left to live with his mom.

The boy who is now a man with his own family narrates the story.

As the movie ends he reveals that he never seen his dog again. Which means the dog wandered for the rest of his life looking for the boy and was never reunited.

Meanwhile the boy grew up and had a fulfilled life. Lots of great education, fell in love, got a great job and had his own children.

The first movie of Red Dog tells more of the adventures of the Red dog which shows him helping people. Yet the dog searched for his boy until he died.

I feel bad having to give only a five rating as the lead character was a young person who acted his heart out and did so well but the movie doesn't deserve a higher ranking. I would have enjoyed it ever so much more if it didn't have the feel of movie-making by numbers: we must have some homosexual characters, we must knock Christians (this time mission nuns), we must have mystical Aboriginals etc... political correctness will be the death of good story telling. There is nothing wrong with each of these individually but it felt contrived as if the director had to get them on screen somehow.

And as much as I love stories about dogs I felt this one tried to milk that good will too much. The dog chasing the plane when the boy leaves, it was all too much. Maybe I would give it a higher rating if it hadn't been called Red Dog as it felt like a blatant cashing-in on that crazily enjoyable film.

This wasn't a story about the dog it was a story about a boy becoming a man. Great scenery, great acting and great dog it just didn't come together as a good story.

Good family movie and sad at the end....................

A father takes his two young sons to see Red Dog. After the movie he describes to his oldest son how Red Dog is based on the story of a dog he had as a boy - Blue. From this we see the period in the man's childhood when Blue was his dog, their trials and tribulations living on a farm in a remote part of Western Australia.

The first Red Dog was interesting, engaging and very emotional. This movie just seems like an attempt to cash in on the success of that movie.

The story is quite lightweight and unengaging. Quite clumsy too, especially the segue from the father and sons watching the movie to it turning into a prequel to Red Dog. Even the adventures the boy and the dog go on seem very unexciting. While the original movie worked for both adults and children, this one was definitely made for kids, and kids only.

A charming friendship story, a love story, good acting, supernatural events, humor and magic and few sadness and the perfect end. A film for entire family, inspired by an Australian legend. It is difficult to say more because it is one of films with precise purpose , precise target and precise...dog. So, a charming film. And the best part , for me, remains the great Australian landscapes.