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Great trip back to my childhood

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2017

I love these old animated movies, it just shows how precious the world has become about everything. This film shows cigar smokeing dogs, gambling, intimidation, blackmail, very saucy night wear, theft and abduction. I watched this as a child and turned out just fine *she types from her secret room of sin and destruction*
It really made me chuckle watching this childhood favourite of mine, good to watch alongside Land Before Time or Ferngully.

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Lizzie

Sweet theme.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2018

Good kids film. No subtitles for adults.

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Lizzie

Sweet theme.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2018

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Good kids film. No subtitles for adults.

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Anon

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2018

Rather zany

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2016

ok more adult theme

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 April 2015

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fine with.

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hannah

Was not happy where the parcel was left as I wasn't in

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2015

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As described ... Was not happy where the parcel was left as I wasn't in

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Not quite a misfire but not half as good as it should have been

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 June 2010

Breaking out of the City Pound, roguish German Shepherd Charlie B. Barkin finds himself double-crossed by his shady partner Carface Malone and knocking at the Pearly Gates without a good deed to his name. Demanding a second chance, he steals his heavenly watch and returns to earth where he soon discovers the secret of Carface's gambling success - a little girl who can talk to animals and get race results direct from the horse's mouth! Smelling a fast buck, Charlie 'rescues' her only to find his hitherto unsuspected good nature getting the better of him, with a series of fiendish schemes, close scrapes and unexpected adventures leading him to a life and death decision...

"When you have plot, good characters and actors, and fine animators, all these things are the makings of real magic," claimed Don Bluth at the time of the film's release. Well, not quite. As an animator, with his fluid, classic style and shimmering use of light at a time when Disney animation was stuck firmly in the doldrums, Don Bluth had no peers, but, the honorable exception of The Secret of NIMH aside, as a storyteller he was still back in the stone age. All Dogs has a premise - a very promising, if predictable one - but the plotting is all over the place. Veering off in all directions, seemingly for no better reason than self-indulgence, without a strongly developed storyline his undoubted visual talent quickly loses impact and cohesion.

Sequences like an ill-judged laser gun shoot-out are abrupt and fragmented and completely out of keeping with the mood of the piece, as if straying in from another, lesser film. The musical numbers are for the most part irrelevant, neither advancing the plot or enlightening the audience, and just as chaotic, not only because of Burt Reynolds and Dom De Luise's lack of vocal range (they seem to give up half-way). They seem badly mistimed and suffer from Bluth's occasional tendency to swamp the borders of the frame with gaudy colour. Crucial scenes, such as Charley's escape from Heaven, are similarly rushed out of much of their significance or value. Bluth really needs to hold back and take his time, but seems to lack the confidence to do so.

The character design is the film's only real unqualified triumph. Charlie is probably the best cartoon canine since Tramp, while Ann-Marie is one of the few successfully animated human characters in memory; and King Gator, the Esther Williams fixated ruler of the sewers who supplies the film with its most successful musical number ('Let's Make Music Together') is an absurd enough scene-stealer to make you overlook the fact that there's actually no good reason for him to be in the film at all.

With the exception of much of An American Tail, Bluth's animation was far superior to the work Disney were doing at the time. Yet with their understanding of classic narrative structure, even the more disappointing Disney animated features of the day worked much more effectively. Here is direction is often adventurous and anarchic - note how his chase scenes move from right-to-left, rather than the standard left-to-right - but lacks the discipline that the magical Secret of NIMH showed him capable of.

Yet despite everything, All Dogs is often fun, and the finale is genuinely touching. If you can overlook what this should have been and accept what it is - beautifully animated, warm-hearted family entertainment with a story that's all over the place - you won't be too disappointed.

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mr d c williams

I reckon

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2015

The Nazi ones probably don't.

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Darryl Stewart

DVD's missing

Reviewed in Canada on 22 July 2020

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The product was to include All Dogs Go To Heaven 1, 2 and 3. Only 1 was included. I bought it in Dec 2019 and opened it 21 July 2020. The single DVD was scratched and stained on the play surface

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That there's 3 discs not 1 like it says

Reviewed in Canada on 11 April 2022

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The items description lies about something it says it's just on disc in the case but there's really three.

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Reviewed in France on 30 September 2019

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assez déçue je n avais pas vu que sa n était pas en français, moi qui est nul en anglais je n ai pas pu le regarder.

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