A Dogs Purpose
For 50 years a reincarnated Dog keeps finding its true owner.
12 October 1950, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1954, Houston, Texas, USA
26 July 1979, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
18 April 1990, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
11 December 1967, Sydney, Australia
1983, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
21 June 1978, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
15 August 1961, Canada
March 09, 2017
A Dog's Purpose, is as sugary, moving and even awkward as they come.
January 30, 2017
By the end, I was worn out by all the selfless devotion, all the joyous running across meadows and wheat fields while the camera soars as high as a dog's love for his human.
January 27, 2017
Whatever a dog's purpose might be, the movie's purpose is clear: to make you smile and say, "Awww." Woof.
March 09, 2017
As any film aimed at children but potentially traumatizing for them might be, "A Dog's Purpose" is at odds with itself, straining to balance the levity of poop jokes with the tragedy of loss.
April 04, 2017
The climatic shenanigans give rise to full-blown schmaltz when the retriever starts to play matchmaker in order to reunite his first master (Dennis Quaid) with his former girlfriend.
February 02, 2017
All the emotional resonance of a dog-themed novelty coffee-table book.
January 30, 2017
A peculiar kibble of vignettes, wrapping reincarnation and life lessons together in a sappy Hallmark Channel-style doggy sweater.
April 04, 2017
So, you too take inspiration for the sentient doggy and ignore the gaping holes in the film's own logic and choose to swim against the torrid current of reason (much like that poor dog).
February 17, 2017
A Dog's Purpose will find a great Hallmark Channel following among folks who refer to their pets as their children and mean it.
January 27, 2017
A manipulative script about dog reincarnation that whacks your emotions like a piñata - that's forgivable. But no mercy for a film charged with canine abuse behind the scenes. It shouldn't happen to a dog.
March 01, 2017
The director's gorgeous images go some way towards making that message go down easier. But that is where his restraint ends.
January 29, 2017
"A Dog's Purpose" left me cherishing my borderline-venerable Skeezix; longing to see Scamp and Fluff and Sukoshi and Sally, the dear departed dogs of my life; and wishing I could have been reincarnated as a better master than I was.
