The Stray (2017)
A young father takes his nine year old son, the family dog, and two of his son's friends backpacking in the mountains of Colorado only for all five of them to be struck by lightning.
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Overrated and overhyped
good back-story, and good acting
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
I loved completely this movie! have a great message about the how deep is the life and the decision that we could take, how can affect us, teach us what is priority, and the family is first at all.
The story of how a stray dog, Pluto, comes out of nowhere and impacts the Davis family, who are struggling in many ways. In just a short time, Pluto the Wonderdog manages to save a toddler, bring comfort and companionship to a hurting 9-year old boy, help restore a marriage, and repair a broken father-son relationship. Pluto is not only a guard dog - he is a guardian angel.Yet and he freaking DIES.This movie is horribly written, the acting is even worse and the direction sucks. The guy who this is supposedly based on has ZERO talent.OMG here's an example Son: Pluto (the Dog) died. Father: Oh.OH?????This movie traumatized my 11 year old. Stay away.
A very good movie though there's inconsistencies in script and scenes, I give it an 8, the dog was left at the park to continue growling at the crowd that gathered to help the child where she was found after she wondered off, those people weren't apologized to or given any notice beyond the dog holding them back, also the dog was given very little notice after the lightening strike, the son would have been concerned for his dog as much as he was his dad, just because his dad was out cold and missed that moment it was given no thought as was the park scene which should have been thought out better rather then rushed onto film, other wise it was a great tear jerker, a month after burying the dog they should have adopted another dog, not as a replacement but an honoring of Pluto the wonder dog and share there love and home with another needing to be out of a cage at an animal shelter, such a hole and emptiness needs to be refilled helping another, one of my passed dogs told me this in a dream, "Keep your heart and home open, don't go cold and close up in pain, honor me and share that empty space with another that needs a home, your not replacing me, your honoring all we shared and sharing that with another in need, you are in need hurting because I'm gone, love another, don't dishonor me."
I was pleasantly surprised by the stray. My thirteen year old daughter and wife wanted to see it and I got dragged along. I wasn't expecting much, but ended really enjoying the film. It was an emotional movie, but it didn't feel manipulative like some other dog films. It felt like an honest telling of an important event is these people lives and the dog was a big part of it.