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God, the family were a bunch of prats!


They were so mean to the people that got their dogs. Like when that kind old man went up and he was talking about how he lost his old dog and how he was happy to get another and the girl calls him a old cot. The boy was a prick too, he was mean to the boy who was going to give the puppy to his girlfriend for god's sake! The parents too, they didn't even think about the people that got their dogs and how happy they might've been. They were only thinking of themselves! God, I hate them! They seriously ruined the movie for me.

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I just saw this movie on Animal Planet because there wasn't really anything better to watch. I love Golden Retrievers, so I said to myself: "what the heck, it might be a bit cheesy but let's watch it".

Now cheesy, is not enough to describe how horrendously bad this movie was. I always thought that the main characters on family films were supossed to have some kind of appeal... not in this one! The dad was a moron who kept making dumb excuses for missing work everytime his wife or kids called whinning about something. The mom had the dad wrapped around her finger and she seemed like a housewife with no life. The daughter was a naive teenage princess who didn't have a problem giving away a puppy when the good looking dude took it away, but once she found that he had a girlfriend she went from nice to bitch in one second. The boy was the worst of them all. He had a bratty attitude to everyone who came to see the puppies, and raised the voice to anyone who asked for a puppy.

This has got to be the dumbest family I've seen on any film. If they were so attached to the puppies, why the hell did they give them away in the first place? The most pathetic part of all is that they gave the puppies away to basically anyone. Even the pizza delivery losers got two puppies and they just basically let them take the puppies away. Bin Laden himself could have arrived to ask for puppies and the family would have just let him take them.

The sad part of the movie is that one puppy dies when he gets run over accidentally by a tractor. Too bad it wasn't the boy who got run over, that would have made the movie a lot more enjoyable to watch.

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Seeing how those kids treated the adopters made me cringe. And the blatant hyprocisy, lecturing the adopters arrogantly how to care for dogs when they don't properly screen potential homes. What morons. When I was a child, if I had said what that boy said to the farmer, I'd be skinned alive.

"Bin Laden himself could have arrived to ask for puppies and the family would have just let him take them."

"Too bad it wasn't the boy who got run over, that would have made the movie a lot more enjoyable to watch."

LOL. I watch the film for its' relaxing atmosphere, but these characters always get to me.

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I agree with all the comments on this thread and posted some of my thoughts under the thread I think called "believe it or not I liked this movie". The only good part of the movie was the puppies and the dog but the people like you all said sucked. I dont think a parent would so readily agree to a dog as these seemed to. and yes I hated when that girl called the nice man an old coot. I remember feeling shocked at that and thinking the dad was going to call her out on it and expected it later but he never did. That bugged me for she was totally disrespectful to that man. So yeah I think both the kids were self centered and annoying.

I too thought how could they let those two pizza boys who were written exactly like they were Beavis & Butthead (anyone notice that) take those puppies. I thought the dad was going to get them back before they drove off so they could find a better home but no he let them drive off with them.

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