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If you happen to like this film you should also check out Hallström’s earlier movie Hachi: A Dog’s Tale - a much more effective and well made pet based feature. Most times subtext is more rewarding when kept underneath the layers rather than exposed so starkly, but that would be expecting too much from a film which has such simple goals as this one. It’s not hard to guess where the predictable journey of Bailey ends, and one wishes the film didn’t try so hard to make the spiritual aspect of the bond between a human and a pet so apparent. We see these story beats from the point of view of a dog with Josh Gad’s inner voice with existentialist problems - Hallström makes it real easy for your eyeballs to keep rolling at regular intervals. The narrative often veers into cringe inducing archetypal melodramatic beats like Ethan dealing with his troubled father, school bullies and a failed relationship. On the downside the film offers little to those who don’t have pets. So if you’ve ever experience the misfortune of watching your pet pass away, you’ll leave the theater with a tearful smile on your face. Hallström mines that human emotion into an effective cathartic film that reminds you of the best times you had with your pet. A pet is a family member, and watching a pet slowly lose grip of its life is a heartbreaking experience you wouldn’t be faulted for breaking off into a child like dream of either cloning of wanting a resurrection of some sorts to be with the pet forever. As cheesy as the concept is, any one who has ever had a pet in their lives will easily relate to the movie. The film almost feels like it was conceived by people who are so attached to their pets they wish they would return to them reincarnated even after their death. The cycle keeps repeating as Bailey deals with multiple owners through the decades who treat him with varying levels of compassion and brutality, but his heart belongs to Ethan and is always on the lookout for the owner he was most fond of. He grows fond of Ethan, watches the boy grow up, ultimately dies due to old age, but is reincarnated as another dog in a different part of the world. We follow Bailey (voiced by Josh Gad), a golden retriever who, after suffering through many problematic life cycles is reincarnated as the pet dog of a boy named Ethan in the 1960’s. Based on the book of the same name by Bruce Cameron (who also co wrote the screenplay), A Dog’s Purpose contains an odd Groundhog Day style story.

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