Too much of everything

Admirable film.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

I enjoyed the movie (easy if you like dogs) but there are things seriously wrong with this movie. All the human characters are unlikable, making choices one cannot understand. Half of the movie scenes do not add to the story and the little story it got is already spoiled in the trailer, or is so awfully predictable. Humor is lacking. The narrative voice of the dog is overused ruining a couple of dramatical scenes. Most people will enjoy this movie bacause of its type 'easy scoring' but I dont buy it.

I absolutely LOVED this movie! I'm not a big moviegoer so I caught this movie on Showtime, nearly a year and a half after it was released. I had heard rumors that someone had claimed that the dogs in this movie were abused but I just couldn't believe that such a great movie could live up to such nonsense.I love Britt Robertson, who also stars in another 2017 movie, The Space Between Us. She played young Hannah. And I remember Peggy Lipton from her early days on television on the Mod Squad (I think I'm revealing my age here).My dog is my closest companion. And, he's not a pet . . . he's an official companion animal. My psychiatrist recommended that I get a companion animal because I used to suffer from severe depression. I took his advice and 7 months later I woke up one morning and my decades of severe depression were GONE! When you're depressed, the last thing you want to do is get out of bed to feed and walk a dog. But, I chose to do it anyway. Over the last four years my dog has become my closest emotional and spiritual companion. I've learned to communicate with him telepathically through images and feelings.When I happened to watch this movie I was moved to tears when I heard that the dog's name was Bailey . . . my last name.

That was a movie, I discovered on the small screen, while advertising its small trailer. I saw it. I liked it. The first few times I didn't see it the whole thing, but then I saw it and I had no patience for it. Now I saw it the whole movie. And it was really good. Good cast. Good acting. Good shooting. Good script. Good producing. I'm proud this movie had made over 120$. Well deserved.Toned with bit of a realism. Padded with the typical artistic view and idea. The movie touches the audience. Indeed - me. There were some awkward moments for real. But they could not ruin the movie, nor scratch it hard. I cannot believe to the ratings of critics on other sites. But leave it. I have my opinion strong, that's what matters. Appreciations!

Retriever puppy Bailey is adopted by Ethan. As they grow together, Bailey is responsible for meeting Hannah. But, following an accident, Ethan rejects Hannah. Bailey grows old and dies, only to be reborn as a German Shepherd puppy who becomes a police dog, only to be killed in the line of duty. He is then reborn as a corgi, growing with a student as she gets married and has kids. Then he is reborn as a St Bernard sort of thing. After owners who ill-treat him, he wanders and finds himself meeting up with Ethan, now in middle age. He is able to bring Ethan the happiness which has eluded him, and also to convince Ethan that he is, indeed, Bailey.I believe this to be the first canine reincarnation-themed movie I have ever seen. Cute animal videos - you know the sort of thing I mean, there are millions of them on the internet - press one of my buttons, the one marked "Extreme Intolerance." I do not go "Aaah" - rather, I shout obscenities at the screen. A Dog's Purpose, with its rather twee and self-aware comedy/sentimental narration by Josh Gad as Bailey's voice (very well done, by the way), comes perilously close to "cute animal video" status, as did its spiritual predecessor Marley And Me.But dammit if it didn't make me tear up here and there. Dammit dammit dammit.The humans are OK in a fairly soapy set of stories (interesting to see Peggy Lipton, one of Paul McCartney's paramours back in the 60s, as adult Hannah). But the dogs walk away with the honours.Did I enjoy it? Yes, I did. But I hated myself for it. Cute animals - feh!Incidentally, I showed it to my dog-loving wife and daughter on DVD, and they both scoffed disparagingly at it.