Dog Days 2018

    The setting of this film is Los Angeles, California.  There are five different stories and they include their dogs.  Elizabeth is a newscaster of a morning TV show.  She has a disastrous interview with Jimmy, he's a former basketball player .  Elizabeth is very surprised to learn the next day that Jimmy is now under contract as co-host??  Tara works at a coffee shop near the office of veterinarian Dr. Mike.  He's very handsome and he also  has money.  Later, Tara helps Garrett, he is the owner of an animal care center but the building is being sold.  Tara is going to sponsor a pet adoption day for the dogs and to raise money for Garrett's business.  Grace and Kurt are very nervous about the arrival of their first adoptive child, Amelia.  Dax is an adult but he acts like a teenager.  He’s taking care of his sister’s dog since she has just given birth to twins.  There is a problem, his building doesn’t allow pets??  Walter is an aging widower and he misses his wife terribly.  He hired Tyler to walk his dog but unfortunately the dog runs away.  Grace and Kurt have found Walter’s dog but they are afraid to hurt Amelia by telling her the truth about the dog. 

     There is a LOT going on in this film with many plots.  The dogs are cute and interesting plus their individual stories are also interesting.  But, we also need to be spoon-fed the correct emotions and feelings about each story, person and dog???  In reality, it’s easy to see how the plots are going to end.  This is a feel good movie so how could they end badly??  The dogs are the best actors and they tell their own stories.  Almost all of the actors could be classified as the mostly young, fit, and pretty with upper middle-class lives in Los Angeles.  How could they possibly be boring or have problems??  3* (This movie is OK)

113 min, Comedy directed by Ken Marino with Nina Dobrev, Vanessa Hudgens, Adam Pally, Eva Longoria, Rob Corddry, Tone Bell, Jon Bass, Michael Cassidy, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Cephas Jones, Thomas Lennon, Rig Notaro.

Note:  Imdb 6.1 out of 10, 62% critic 79% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3*, Metacritic 47 out of 100 with 19 critics 5.6 out of 10 with 8 reviews, Amazon 4.2* out of 5* with 58 reviews. 

Special Note:  The production company for this film was also involved with The Zookeepers Wife, Jackie and Megan Leavey.