Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Simply A Masterpiece

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A flawed film, but an important addition to the genre, as its style and themes were more day to day (getting food, getting laid) than high concept sci fi films. The relationship between the two main characters (Boy and Dog) is a classic buddy type tale. Amoral anti- heroes, as they are, they are still a likeable pair. The film has limited special effects, and some of the sets look dated to modern eyes, but the lack of special effects also means this ages overall relatively well.

Vic (a very young Don Johnson, who any of child of the 80's knows instantly) and Blood (voiced by Tim McIntire, who was George Jones in the 1981 TV movie Stand By Your Man) are a human and dog team traveling through the post-apocalyptic fallout after World War 4. Unlike the way my dog just barks and barks until I wake up, Blood can speak telepathically.That telepathy comes at the expense of his ability to search for food, so the incredibly intelligent, human-hating mutt uses Vic to help him. Vic's only hungers are food and sex. He's pretty much a moron with no basic standards of ethics or morals. While the two have an antagonistic relationship, they realize that they need one another.While watching old porn movies at a makeshift drive-in, Blood smells Quilla Julia Holmes, who comes from "Downunder," a town inside an underground vault. Vic saves her from mutants and the two have sex, despite Blood's dislike of her. She leads him to the city, where Blood refuses to enter.Quilla June's father, Lou Craddock (Jason Robards, Something Wicked This Way Comes) has sent her to the surface to recruit new blood for Topeka, a biosphere city beneath ruined Kansas. The Committee rules all, forcing its people to dress in 1930's costumes. Vic has been brought here to be a stud, donating his sperm at the expense of the pleasure that he needs. And even worse — once he impregnates 35 women, he'll be sent to the farm and never seen again.Quilla Jane breaks Vic out as part of her plot to kill off The Committee and their android goon, Michael. That said — Vic wants no part of this plot, only to get back to his home above ground and his friend Blood. Michael kills Quilla Jane's other rebellion members before Vic takes him out. Quilla proclaims her love for Vic and asks to return to the surface with him.When they find Blood, he is starving and near death. Quilla Jane tells him to leave the dog to die and spend the rest of his life with her. Vic makes his mind off — killing her off camera, so that Blood can eat her. Vic states that she should have never followed him as Blood jokes that she didn't have bad taste. They walk off into the sunset together.A Boy and His Dog comes from a series of stories by Harlan Ellison, whose prodigious output is only rivaled by his cantankerous nature. Two of his scripts for TV's The Outer Limits, Demon with a Glass Hand and Soldier, were so close to The Terminator that Ellison has an "acknowledgment to the works of Harlan Ellison" credit in Terminator: Genisys (and Ellison was supposedly paid for his inspiration, which you can learn about here). He also wrote what many consider the greatest episode of the original Star Trek, The City on the Edge of Forever.Ellison tried to write the screenplay, but hit writer's block. The final script was written by producer Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball from Green Acres, who also produced The Witchmaker and Brotherhood of Satan and appears in this film as Dr. Moore) and director L. Q. Jones (an actor in movies like The Beast Within and The Wild Bunch who also wrote Brotherhood of Satan), which Ellison was either somewhat happy with or totally upset with, depending on who tells the story. What is known is that he was unhappy with Blood's final line: "Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgement, Albert…if not particularly good taste." The book ends differently, with Vic remembering a question that Quilla had asked of him: "Do you know what love is?" Vic finally remembers the answer: "Sure I know. A boy loves his dog."If you've ever played the video game Fallout, then you'll be delighted to learn how much comes from this film.Vic and Blood would have further adventures, even one tale where Ellison tried to off the pair due to either his dislike of the film's ending or being sick of fans asking for more stories about the duo. There was nearly a sequel, A Girl and His Dog, which would have had Blood team up with a female warrior named Spike.Read more at http://bit.ly/2hIuPZc

Finally after many years watched the cult sci-fi fantasy classic from 1975 "A Boy and his Dog", and I must say wow it's clearly a different kind of picture really probably one that would not be made in today's market. Still the film has a clear message of survival and the need for man to have the basics of food and sex! Aside from that the movie is strange and crazy with a world that seems like something right out of a "Twilight Zone" episode only it's more crazier and bizarre even it seems your watching something abnormal.The story involves World War IV and it has just ended in 2024 lasting only five days and most of earth has been destroyed and ravaged as survivors struggle to find the basic things like food, shelter and friends. It's like earth is a hot wasteland of atomic garbage. And the lead character is a young man named Vic(Don Johnson 10 years before his breakout "Miami Vice" fame!)who has with him a talking and telepathic dog called Blood and both wonder the hot dirt like roads in search of food and ladies. Along the way Vic and Blood meet several strange people who show them a new world which may not be for the better.The movie is based on a novella from sci-fi author Harlan Ellison this picture is clearly dark in nature still it's blended with funny moments as it's a search trip and adventure thru a world of hunt and seek with the friendship between a boy and his dog taking over matters as that's the only plan to help both find the basics of food and companionship from the other sex. Overall good cult film to check out and watch and it's memorable for the fact that it's one of Don Johnson's very early works long before he became a household name.

An interesting but uneven post-apocalyptic science fiction tale, based on a novel by famed writer Harlan Ellison. The biggest problem with this movie is the first half hour, a half hour which makes the rest of the film very hard to get into. There's a serious lack of pacing and action and scenes seem to drag on interminably with little going on to further the plot. Thankfully, a plot does finally arrive, and it has to be said a fairly original story, involving Vic being kidnapped to reproduce with the women living below the ground, because the subterranean conditions have turned all the men impotent. In the end, I did appreciate what this film was saying, and enjoyed the witticisms, but I definitely didn't enjoy it.Don Johnson appears at an early stage in his career, taking the lead role of Vic. Unfortunately, he's largely bland in the role, creating an uninteresting persona, but then again his character is a selfish one and hard to like. His relationship with the telepathic dog, Blood, is the film's most unusual factor and also its best; Tim McIntire is a delight as the voice of the world-weary hound and the two get to share some great banter. Susanne Benton is also very impressive as the mysterious girl that Vic meets and is eventually duped by. The sets and location go for realistic appeal rather than flashy, and while this works, it also makes the film very dull-looking and uninteresting. Although the finale, which involves an escape from a weird underground society with painted faces, is involving and there's a final surprise twist which comes as VERY unexpected, unfortunately before this there's just too much talk and not enough plot going on to make the film interesting, and the fact that the characters are largely unlikable also makes the film a difficult one to enjoy.