![]() ![]() His mother even outright says so when after an outburst, she says Bob wouldn’t tell Peter he put up “missing” signs, “after the way you talked to him last night.” And worse, the movie contextualizes Peter’s anger as him being unreasonable. Even if it’s temporary, he’s pretty much forced the kids to give up their pets for months. Peter is flat-out infuriated that he is forced to give up his best friend for the man who married his mother the day before they head out to the ranch. It’s the tension between Bob (The father character) and Peter. However, as an adult, I better understand what’s going on, but something is amiss. Whenever the movie switched back to the people, it just bored me. I’d say this had the appeal with the animals, but I remember their personalities mostly, and the A-plot was simple, yet effective. How’s the writing?: As a kid, I had a very limited attention span to movies that weren’t animated. The other two follow and soon find themselves lost deep in the wilderness, encountering raging rivers, unfriendly wild animals, and more, while never losing sight of getting home safe to their kids. Chance, a former stray, takes it with a grain of salt.īut Shadow unilaterally makes the decision to go home and find Peter. The family reluctantly drop Shadow, Chance, and Sassy off at a ranch, and all three pets worry they’ve been abandoned. Their new father has taken a new temp job in San Fransisco, which means the family of five will be moving to a small apartment for a few months…one too small to accommodate the three pets. Fox), and namesake Himalayan cat Sassy (Sally Field) all live under one roof- not always harmoniously – under the care of their respect kid owners, Peter, Jamie, and Hope. The plot: Wizened golden retriever Shadow (Don Ameche), goofball American bulldog pup Chance (Michael J. I watched this one again recently for the first time in almost twenty years, and here are my thoughts. Plus, training pets is a lot cheaper and safer than most other bigger, more wild animals.īut for all my boredom concerning movies about domesticated animals, this one stood out to me most, and I ended up watching this a million times over, to the point where I can hear several of the film’s lines in my head. I guess since audiences relate to stories about their pets more, and the adage about “writing what you know” applies similarly. ![]() Same with movies: there are FAR more animal movies out there starring cats and dogs than there are ones about really any other kind of beast, even animated ones. I never got too excited over cats and dogs because everyone had one or the other. And most noticeable, the original title was demoted to a subtitle. For whatever reason, the film was re-adapted with different kinds of dogs and cat, with different names, and they were given internal dialogue dubbing instead of one narrator. That film had narration by Rex Allen, and the animals were a Labrador retriever named Luath, a bull terrier named Bodger, and a Siamese cat named Tao. In 1963, Disney produced a live action movie called The Incredible Journey, based on the book by Sheila Burnford. So on an unrelated note, today I want to talk about Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. Oh, Disney, you cad! How dare you! How dare you remake The Lion King! You have no right, no right to do what you did! Remaking movies is such a colossal waste of time, money, and talent! Never mind making a movie starring those blank, expressionless animals just to be “realistic”! Leave the nineties untouched, a time where we didn’t have to deal with that crap!
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