K-9, starring Jim Belushi and Mel Harris (1989, 102 minutes, Netflix) Review by Skye Anderson
Turner and Hooch it isn't!
We came across K-9 recently on Netflix and love love loved it! Not your usual cop-and-dog flick and much of it was highly unbelievable (not to real life) but that somehow did not subtract from our enjoyment one iota!
The human is a renegade cop in trouble with his boss so he is assigned a police dog who is one tough cookie, as evidenced by the frequency of his growls. Of course in real life, cop-and-dog teams train together for quite some time before going out onto the streets to work the bad guys.
Our canine hero, Jerry Lee, is a grouchy drug-sniffing German Shepherd Dog (GSD) who, in one scene, when he stinks (for some reason), is relegated alone to the car which happens to be a Mustang convertible and the car is sent through the car wash! This wet dog is so cute! But we wondered how the driver's seat dried so quickly that the cop didn't even get his suit wet when he drove away.
Even if you GSDs are not your breed, you will fall in love with Jerry Lee who refuses to sit in the back seat of the convertible - he prefers the front passenger seat.
There are holes in the plot which was too convoluted for me but I was watching as a dog person after all. K-9 is a very enjoyable movie to watch in several sittings, a few scenes at a time - for the dog, after all (plus, girl friend Mel Harris is easy on the eyes and the house they live in must be a city block long!)
Now we are off to find K-911 and K-9:PI and K9000!
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