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Irish Milkshake Murder

Carlene O'Connor, Liz Ireland and Peggy Ehrhart

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Raise a glass for St. Paddy’s Day but keep a shamrock handy because some of these minty milkshakes...

Kids ABC Letter, Spelling, Literacy & Phonics game

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Get your child ready for school with Boing and these fun Literacy learning and educational games for...

Cooking Games Pizza Fast Food Maker & Kitchen Chef

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Cooking Games Fever Kitchen Food Maker become a chef master & cook tasty dishes and become a the...

Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated A Dog's Way Home (2019) in Movies

Jun 22, 2019 (Updated Sep 25, 2019)

A Dog's Way Home (2019)

2019 | Adventure, Drama, Family

6.2

(9 Ratings)

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Being by the same author as A Dog's Purpose you basically know the sort of film you're going to be getting and it doesn't disappoint on that front.

All the real life floofs were amazing and Shelby as Bella obviously gets five stars. The CGI floofs however should probably get a minus amount of stars. You notice it right from the start but once you get to that cougar that's when you think "oh it really is that bad!" It kind of feels like they found a cartoon of a cougar instead of a photo of one to work from.

I don't know where Ashley Judd has been hiding but it was good to see her back in a film. It was a nice little role and she did well with what she was given.

Bryce Dallas Howard was the voice of Bella and she does manage to give her the right tone for all the different situations. It's exactly what you think a dog would sound like if it could talk.

Bella's script is quite fun. Snow is ice cream falling from the sky and cutting the grass is indeed taking the mower for a walk, she even dislikes playing "go to work"... so do we Bella, so do we.

This had potential to be a 3.5/4 star film if it hadn't been for the frankly awful CGI, but I don't think I could see my way clear to give it more than that. It's predictable, just from the synopsis above you can make guesses at what's going to happen... something/someone is the reason Bella is far from home, she'll run away the first chance she gets, danger and camaraderie will be the themes while she's on her journey, she will somehow make it back even though it looks like everything is lost and they'll all live happily ever after.

What you should do

There are probably a lot of classic family films to stream or you already own which do the same job so there's probably no rush to see this one at the cinema. If you do though... take tissues.

Movie thing you wish you could take home

Any amount of floofs will do me!