Twelve year old Owen Baker (Aiken) is a born dog-lover who's thrilled when he finally adopts his very own dog from the animal shelter. To his amazement, he soon learns that his new pet, whom he's called Hubble (Broderick), is no ordinary dog. Apparently, Hubble is on a mission from the faraway dog star, hoping to ready a group of local canines for the visit of the Greater Danes.
If a boy who really wants a dog doesn't get one before he turns 13, his parents are never going to get him one. I have no data, government-sponsored or otherwise, that backs me on this. It just seems to work out that way. The kids stop wanting dogs after age 12. The movies (among other things) tell me so. And they're never wrong. They're just sappy, sometimes. Like Good Boy!, a sweet, starchy kiddie flick about a 12-year-old named Owen (Liam Aiken) who wants a dog more than anything in the whole wide world.
A lot of kids say this, of course, but you can sort of see the how and why of Owen's yearnings because he doesn't seem to be able to make friends with anyone except...
Good Boy!
It may lack the imagination usually associated with the Jim Henson production studio, but this dogs from outer space caper is affable enough. Pitching its laughs squarely at younger kids, with all the flatulence jokes and general slapstick that entails, the story centres on lonely 12-year-old Liam Aiken, who is shocked to discover his new pooch, Hubble (voiced by Matthew Broderick), is actually an alien scout from the Dog Star, Sirius. What follows is a predictable lesson in friendship and loyalty, as the shaggy hound enlists the boy's help to lick the neighbourhood dogs into shape before the arrival of Sirius's leader, the Greater Dane (voiced by Vanessa Redgrave). Thou...
Doctor Doolittle wouldn't want to talk to these animals. They are too annoying, the canines communicating in asinine Americanisms. The fact that the movie's Labradors and Lassies lack verbal wit is by no means Good Boy!'s only problem. Hoffman is out of his depth as both a writer and director and while the dogs are voiced by biggish names such as Matthew Broderick, Vanessa Redgrave and Brittany Murphy, the humans are portrayed by a bunch of no-marks.
Broderick provides the voice of Hubble, an alien dog sent to Earth to see how the rest of his species are doing. Appalled to discover that his brethren have been enslaved, Hubble and his young human master (Aiken) w...
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This is a movie for dog lovers. If you like dogs, than you most likely will like this movie. The dogs were great. They looked good. There seemed to be little to no CGI interference with the dogs. The human actors left a lot to be desired, but the movie really wasn't about them anyway. Dogs are from space. They were supposed to colonize Earth, but have instead become pets. The dogs from the home star get mad and want to take away the Earth dogs. That's the basic plot behind the movie. Good for kids and adults who like dogs. Dogs are cool animals and need more movies. Sure the movie was silly, but at least it had dogs in it.
