Puppy Love (Sonar Entertainment/Hallmark, NR [not rated], 2013, 86 minutes). See trailer here.
All the pieces of a lovely family film - a professional baseball player (a cool hunk of a guy - for the pre-teen girls) who has to go on the road for a week at a time, his big shaggy dog who can open doors and escape only to be picked up by Animal Control, the best friend dogsitter, plus a new professor at the U, blonde of course and very easy on the eyes, with her lonely daughter who wants a dog. So they find a big shaggy dog at the shelter and when our ball player comes looking for his lost dog, the shelter gives out the address of the young new professor.
From Jake to Prince
And, of course, they all do everything wrong, from using a flexi-lead or two, to barking 'commands,' to pushing the dog into the car rather than enticing him, pushing him down into a Sit, clicking the clicker at every wrong time, and, of course, our two main leads get tangled up in the flexi-leads (but fortunately not hurt).
Good, Clean Family Film
Probably filmed in Phoenix or southern California with two gorgeous homes, a Mercedes, a swimming pool, and big shaggy dog antics, this is a film the kids will love and the parents can drift in and out of, maybe taking a phone call, without missing too much. Parents will laugh at a couple of incidents and kids will laugh out loud and giggle and guffaw all the way through when they are not ooh-ing and aah-ing.
Our two leads each have a best friend who totally plays and looks second fiddle but is always around.
Who Gets the Dog? And Can a Dog Bring Two Families Back Together Again?
When Jake ends up at the shelter our single-mom and daughter adopt him and end up 'sharing' Jake-Prince. The two humans have hilariously different dog training or non-training styles where our baseball player untrains what the English professor trains causing humorous havoc.
Light-Hearted Friday Night Family Fare!
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