Movie review: 'A Dog’s Journey' will make you cry, but it does not earn those tears
From left: Conrad Coates, an African Boerboel and Kathryn Prescott in “A Dog’s Journey.” By Kristen Page-Kirby Kristen Page-Kirby Express senior arts writer Email Bio Follow Express Senior Arts Writer May 16 at 9:00 AM Rating:
“Journey” rests on the same conceit as its 2017 predecessor, “A Dog’s Purpose.” In both films, based on best-selling books by W. Bruce Cameron, a dog named Bailey gets repeatedly reincarnated, each time to protect someone important. The previous film focused on a character named Ethan. Now it’s Ethan’s granddaughter, C.J.
There’s nothing wrong with a good cry at the movies. But a bad cry is emotionally manipulative and, well, just mean. “A Dog’s Journey” is the latter. From left: Kathryn Prescott, a Yorkshire terrier and Henry Lau in “A Dog’s Journey.” A movie should earn our tears. And it does that by giving us complex characters to whom we can relate. It doesn’t have to take long: “Up” did it in a near-silent opening montage that covered the span of a married life in just minutes. Here, nearly all the characters are underwritten. When it comes to Gloria, it’s just vicious.
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