Lionsgate is holding a virtual world premiere tonight ahead of Wednesday’s VOD and digital release of its talking-dog kids flick, Think Like a Dog. For parents struggling to keep children ent…
To help relieve the price of renting it over and over, the studio also is making the Blu-ray and DVD editions available on the same day. Kids are likely to eat this one up and beg for more because the dog at the center of the action, Henry, is about as lovable and loyal as they come and he crushes the gig, far outdistancing the human stars in sheer star wattage.
who plays Oliver, is blissfully devoid of cloying mannerisms of many child actors, and that makes his unique relationship with this canine watchable fun for families. Perhaps Bateman’s work in 2018’sActually, as far as talking-dog movies go, this one has a clever premise. Oliver’s a bit of a whiz kid, and his school science experiment — which involves cyber partnership with another kid named Xiao across the globe in China — is so complex that it actually results in an unintended discovery.
This leads to predictable comic high jinks but also to big trouble, when Silicon Valley kingpin Mills gets wind of Oliver’s accidental invention and tries to steal the formula, which he believes could be a money-minting sensation. This puts not only Oliver but also Henry on his most wanted list.
Shout-out to Todd Stashwick’s nuanced voice-over work as Henry, a scene stealer given that he gets whatever good lines are to be had in writer-director Gil Junger’s film, which is yet another example of cooperation between the Chinese and Hollywood film industries. This was shot on both continents with a mixed bag of participants from both countries including producers Andrew Lazar, Cory Chen, and Linshu Zhang. Lionsgate unleashes it on June 9.
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