#ITS A DOGS PURPOSE FULL#
#ITS A DOGS PURPOSE FREE#

This leaves adults and animal lovers, who will experience a befuddling take on life that’s over-simplified and almost mocked by an animal who sniffs butts all day. Maybe kids will enjoy the puppies playing and jumping (they’re all VERY good dogs)? Sure, it’s possible, until parents are forced to stumble through explanations about the afterlife, followed by crippling, existential dread at such a young age. Here’s my biggest question – who is A Dog’s Purpose for? Certainly not grieving pet owners who will have to re-live the death of a beloved pooch on multiple, gut-punching occasions.

#ITS A DOGS PURPOSE FULL#

Everything comes full circle when Gad-dog meets back with his favorite owner, and his purpose is discovered.

#ITS A DOGS PURPOSE FREE#

Finally, he finds himself purchased by a neglectful woman who keeps him chained up outside, only to be set free near a now aged Ethan’s farm (played by Dennis Quaid). His next Corgi form keeps a college loner named Maya (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) company until she shacks up with a man, and Gad-dog can again pass away of old age. We ready ourselves for Gad-dog’s adventure home to begin, but that doesn’t happen – first he becomes a female police dog owned by lonely Carlos ( John Ortiz), and is shot on duty (wait, why was it still Gad’s male voice?). As Bailey, Gad-dog strikes an everlasting relationship with the owner he’ll never give up, until he’s put down due to old age. Next he becomes Bailey, pet of Ethan (K.J. First, he’s the puppy-mill goofball who gets put down immediately.

He talks a lot about his purpose, but doesn’t seem to have one. So, yeah – Josh Gad plays the soul of a dog who cannot die. This is manipulation at its finest, without the incentive to keep sobbing through the pain. Everyone involved understood the stakes, and knew that audiences would be reduced to weepy blobs every time another pup bit the dust. “But it’s fine! Josh Gad’s voice will fill another fleshy dog sack, and we’ll be looking at more cuddly adorableness again shortly!” Oh, I know! That’s established by a nice puppy euthanasia scene within the first minute-or-so. Holy shit. Killing multiple canine companions under the guise of reincarnation does not make for an uplifting watch, especially when most rebirth “chapters” stand alone. A Dog’s Purpose is 2017’s Collateral Beauty(I know it’s early, but I’ve got no better comparison).

Its a dogs purpose