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Don't waste your time/i'll sum it up for you

posted 12 years ago by walsh90210
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I wanted to see this after a Thumbs Up from Ebert on the new show. Thought it was going to be touching and sweet. I found it to be a really gross movie despite Christopher Plummer's soft British voice taking us through things every step of the way.

Plummer's character lives for his dog who is out of control more times than not in public. Despite the dog's behavior he insists on taking her everywhere with him. At first he becomes obsessed with her bathroom habits (shown in animated details). Later in the movie he pretty much decides the dog needs to get laid and have puppies. He tries to mate her with a few male dogs (also shown in animated details).

Finally he settles her with a dog that lives near them. She ends up having 8 puppies. Plummer's character then reminds himself he can't take care of that many dogs in his small English flat. At first he thinks of drowning them. (Not kidding). But then he just ends up giving them away to various ppl some of which didn't care for them at all and he never knew where they ended up in the end.

At the end he casually tells us Tulip died at almost age 16 and she made those years the most happy for him.

The end.

This movie was only an hour and twenty minutes but I couldn't wait for it to end.

[–] starlion3 12 years ago

at least it was more interesting than " the making of Tulip" on the dvd .. the director sounded so damned bored talking about it.

though I did like the Shelter Mutts stories on the DVD.. though a PSA aobut Spaying and Neutering would have been better.

[–] allisonarf 11 years ago

I watched it, too, on Ebert's recommendation and was disappointed. All it was about was his dog pooping and screwing. I thought it would be a tender story about a man's love for his dog. Nope. It was more R rated than expected. At the end, I was like, "Meh."

[–] liscarkat (16530) 3 years ago

Best dog cartoon I've ever seen. Probably the best dog movie I've ever seen (and I've seen them all, since Rin-Tin-Tin in the 1920s). The people who wrote and animated this knew something about dogs (and about motorcycles).