Lack of good storyline.

Just what I expected

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

My little brother twisted my arm into watching this film. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. This is no cinematic wonder by any stretch, but it does what it sets out to do. It entertains the little ones, and keeps the attention of the adults. The story is good, even moving at times, and actually does a good job of displaying the bonds that exist in the fire-fighting community. You will care about the characters and the story. The dog, while being the title character, does more to tie the stories of the film together, and provide much of the humor. It's a little too drawn out, and it is definitely a kids movie, but it's not bad at all.

Well, well, well other movie studios can make Disney-esquire films without actually being affiliated with Disney! Such a low state of affairs for a movie studio when they try to 'out-Disney' Disney. And they seem to have beat them, but only in Disney's bad sequels department. Trouble is, this isn't a sequel! The premise is very cheesy: a dog actor thinks gets lost during a stunt and they only find his hairpiece. What??!?! I can't believe that, but it gets worse. The 'troubled' kid only seems to ditch class sometimes. Hardly a troubled kid that commits robbery and does illegal drugs.But the dog helps the fire house save the day and the neighborhood. Bad, evil corporations trying to burn people out of their homes! Not like the real ones, who only buy people out of their homes and claim 'imminent domain'. Well, I guess pyromania is more plausible? Overall, except for the explosion near the end, nothing exciting or interesting happened. "D-"

My son was raving about this film (he's 10) and suggested I watch it with him-which I did. Outside of wanting to smack the previous owner of Dewey (nee' Rexxx) for looking 40 and sounding like a 20 year old wuss reading from a translation book titled "How To Sound Cool,Dude" to impress the "cool kids"-I liked the film. Was it believable? No, but come on-neither is making a star dog do a stunt jump from a plane-one would use a stunt dog-IF they were allowed. I was frankly shocked that even the concept wasn't lit upon by the ravinging extremist groups. Anyway, we have the basis of a film good for kids: family situation-single dad firefighter dealing with also the recent death of his brother-which promoted him to Captain and his son acting out over this-we have Silly Animal-hamming it up with cute looks, well placed dog fart noises and of course defecation. and then the fish outta water-female firefighter who is an extreme tomboy, and of course-the underdog (no pun intended) firestation that-GASP! will be closing down soon due to the decline in the area. The villain doesn't have a waxed, twirly mustauche, however I think this is done to keep us from figuring him out-outside of the whole guilty looks, giant sign pointing at him. We even have insight for the life of a pampered dog (3 tri-colored poodles waiting for him-yeah..............??). The movie is watchable, and the plot, although cookie cutter Hollywood style, is OK. Kids do enjoy it, even if you get sick of the reference of the dog critiquing the Firehouse cook's food creations visa ve pooping on it, it is a cute movie.

okay, some people just got issues from what i can see from the last comments.so what if the dog's stunts are not believable? so what if it's not some high-tech or flashy movie and instead in some people's opinion - "a low-budget movie"? for me - i loved that movie.i thought it wasn't going to be as good as i thought it would be but i had a change of mind - i actually loved it. well of course, when i found out josh hutcherson was in it, i got all curious about it. :P people - it's just a movie. you don't have to put up mean comments up on here. for me, it was moving and the plot was more actually based more on the father and son than on the dog as i thought it would be.. but again i was wrong. :] it had the classic basic character's in a movie - the heroes and the bad guys.plus, the humor in the moving kept me laughing throughout the movie. i swear, the grin on my face was like implanted or something on there. :] it's a movie based on family relationships - dealing the loss of someone special, and a dog's trust and loyalty.of course, it's not some Hollywood flashy movie or blockbuster or anything like that but it's enjoyable and will keep you interested, i'm sure of that. :]