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Best movie of this year hands down!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Just watch it. If this doesn't tear at your heart strings, you're not human. Good acting, especially from the kid who plays kid Ethan and a good story. I laughed, smiled and cried and I am so happy I decided to watch it!

I absolutely LOVED this movie! I'm not a big moviegoer so I caught this movie on Showtime, nearly a year and a half after it was released. I had heard rumors that someone had claimed that the dogs in this movie were abused but I just couldn't believe that such a great movie could live up to such nonsense.I love Britt Robertson, who also stars in another 2017 movie, The Space Between Us. She played young Hannah. And I remember Peggy Lipton from her early days on television on the Mod Squad (I think I'm revealing my age here).My dog is my closest companion. And, he's not a pet . . . he's an official companion animal. My psychiatrist recommended that I get a companion animal because I used to suffer from severe depression. I took his advice and 7 months later I woke up one morning and my decades of severe depression were GONE! When you're depressed, the last thing you want to do is get out of bed to feed and walk a dog. But, I chose to do it anyway. Over the last four years my dog has become my closest emotional and spiritual companion. I've learned to communicate with him telepathically through images and feelings.When I happened to watch this movie I was moved to tears when I heard that the dog's name was Bailey . . . my last name.

A film review on A Dog's Purpose By: William SturekSpoilers Below There are a couple of words to describe Lasse Hallström's A Dog's Purpose sentimental, heartfelt, and it tugs at the heartstrings. This movie will make even the most hardened person tear up. It is a mix between joy and temporary heartbreak, merriness and some moments of melancholy. If you are a fan of movies with points of happiness but also times of sadness, this is the film for you. The film will make you want to go give your pet a big hug after watching it. Lasse Hallströmn has directed similar movies in the past. He directed Hachi A Dog's Tale in 2009 and My Life as a Dog in 1985. The movie is based off the book by W. Bruce Cameron. This story is about a dog named bailey who passed away and is reincarnated into four different dogs on the way to finding out what a dog's purpose. This is the main question that comes up in the film. Bailey comes back to this question throughout the fill. After each death he tries to answer the question but does not find the answer until he is in his final dog form. Bailey first starts out as a dog for the main character Ethan Montgomery, played by Bryce Ghesiar when he was young, KJ Apa when he was a teenager and Dennis Quaid when Ethan was an adult. Bailey has a tremendous time with ethan throughout ethans childhood, they played games together, they went everywhere together. They were best friends. When Ethan went off to college Bailey felt lonely and sad. He was getting older and it harder for him to move around, they went to the vet and decided it was his time to go. After this life he was reincarnated into the dog Ellie. This life was much different, she was a police dog. On a mission to save a 12 year old girl we are met with the one of the saddest moments in the movie, Ellie(Bailey) gets shot and dies. Bailey is then reincarnated a dog named Tino, he is a corgi. This time he lives a long happy life, he watches his owner find a boyfriend, then get married, and then have children, he then knows its his time to go. Finally he gets reincarnated into a dog named Buddy. He was adopted by these two people that should not have adopted him. This will make you watchers frustrated. They decide to drive buddy very far away from home and leave him there. Buddy then wanders all the way back to where he grew up as Bailey and he finds a much older version of Ethan(Dennis Quaid). Baile is very happy that he finds Ethan again and it's the perfect ending we all needed for this film that had our emotions fluctuating throughout the entirety of the film. Dennis Quaid has played a role like this prior to this movie in The Parent Trap. He is suited well for a character that falls in love and then finds the person or animal. In this movie he found Bailey and his girlfriend he had when he was a teenager, Hannah. Even though he wasn't in the movie for too long his acting when seeing Bailey and reconnecting with Hannah were perfect for the role. Throughout the lives of Bailey he keeps asking a question along the lines of what is the point of living. And at the end of the movie the question if finally answered. Bailey learned: to have fun, if someone needs to be saved, save them, lick the ones you love(tell your loved ones that you love them), don't be sad on what happened in the past(such as the past lives he's had), be happy on what could happen in the future, and finally be here in the present. These are all a dog's purpose, but I also think that it can be good lessons to live for humans as well.

A little hokey, and the narrator's voice was too saccharine for my taste; but up there with Benji and Air Bud.