Instead of telling the OP to die, I'll simply respond with the subject.
It depends on what the child ordinarily watches, I can only say.
I was raised watching great staples of the 90's, like Tremors and Terminator 2, so I was used to the whole movie death thing at a young age (Real deaths, totally bothered me, not movie deaths.) Harry and the Hendersons, other family films like that.
I rarely watched Disney cartoons, although that doesn't mean I didn't watch them.
In any case, one of the movies I watched was this one, and I loved it as a kid, almost as much as now. When I did see this movie, I never had a problem with Hooch's death.
I'm currently watching it now, and I'm well aware the ending where Hooch dies, now that I'm a bit older, I'm a little bothered by it, since my dog passed away over 3 years ago, I've never been able to let myself forget that, but that's another story.
Honestly, I think it's an appropriate way for the movie to nearly finish up. If you went with an obnoxious and cliche ending, you'd have a less than sub par movie. With his death, you have an honest way to end a buddy movie, which you know is something you'll never see Chan and Tucker do for Rush Hour or Riggs and Murtaugh do in Lethal Weapon. It leaves you with the idea that they had no plan to do a sequel, which is pleasant for once, you still get a happy ending with the Puppy at the end , and it's something not typical of family films, that should be.
When Bridge to Terabithia came out, people that had never read the book didn't expect the ending (Like my Girlfriend) to be the way it would have been, and when the girl dies, it's completely unbelievable, regardless, it was a good family movie because either way you look at it, it has a reality within the fiction of it all, but it's a children's book everyone reads at least once, Tuck Everlasting, as well.
My point? if your child hasn't come to terms with death yet, wait a while before you watch something like this. If you didn't know, then you know now.
I'm still not totally comfortable with death, but I have an understanding of it, and not even doctors or policemen are comfortable with Death, but they understand it will always happen. If your child isn't old enough to grasp the situation, wait a while, find some other movies that have a soft blow on death than this one.
And plus, it's PG, for crying out loud, even if the PG-13 rating was released, this movie would still sit at a Heavy PG rating, or a light PG-13 Rating at least.
Do what most parents usually do, watch the movie first, and think about if they'll like it or not at their age, like most parents do.
That's all I have to say about that.
P.S. - That whole Hanks/ Winningham thing is completely silly. 80's, again, fellow user. The 80's didn't have the likes of all the hot women you see now, and even so, you don't need at super hot woman to play a vet. She's pretty in her own way like I find Shelly Duvual pretty.
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jgroub
16 years ago
Well, thanks for telling me not to die.
While in principle, you are absolutely right that I should have watched the movie all the way through before letting my daughter watch it, I figured that with the whole tone of the movie, the "fact" that it was a family flick, etc., I didn't need to. Sort of like it was a Disney movie, and you don't have to prescreen those. Obviously, I figured wrong.
And there were plenty of hot women in the 80s, my friend. They just couldn't seem to find one for this picture.
I asked the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
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