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. I enjoyed speaking to them, they are obviously huge dog lovers, so good people in my book.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. Either way it was important to hear the thoughts from the people that were instrumental in making this movie. Cathryn had strong feelings about the incident and I can’t blame her for it, of course she was going to protect her film, but she also made a point. Film productions hire special animal handlers that literally track everything the animal does on set and they are independent of the production. I personally felt that there was more to it then reported and was a bit skeptical that handlers would allow such a thing to happen. I had to ask them about the TMZ dog in the pool video that went viral.
Funny thing is after the interview I realized that I interviewed Cathryn about two and half years ago at The Movie Blog and she was gracious enough to come on my podcast on there to speak about her movie Muffin Top. Cathryn did most of the talking and took the reigns, but I didn’t mind, she was well informed.
That’s an impressive creative mind there. I can’t believe he had such a elaborate story on his mind to tell her on a drive up the California coast. Bruce came up with the idea of the novel.
You think of married couples and you think of these people that are serious and matter of fact, but not this couple, they were very upbeat and joked a lot, you can feel the love between them. Bruce and Cathryn was that they sounded like a really chill and fun couple. I didn’t even care because the movie was great! I will also preface things by saying that I didn’t read the book and I wasn’t aware that there was a sequel to it called a “Dog’s Journey”, so looks like I have some reading to do. Yup, I was that guy sitting in the back of the movie theater like a creep, while everyone else there was basically a couple out on a date. I missed the screening for it so I decided to see it on my own, on Valentine’s Day, without a date. I’m the biggest animal lover and advocate, so this movie was personal to me. Listen to the audio and hear what they had to say: MY TAKE:įirst and foremost I absolutely loved this film. I spoke to them about the inspiration for the film, their interaction with the dogs on set and they address the big TMZ controversy over the film. I had a chance to speak to the husband and wife and screenwriters of the film, W. The charming and adorable A Dog’s Purpose came out on Blu-ray & DVD on May 2.