Film Review: Dog (2022)
Dog (2022)
Release date
02/18/2022
Ratings
My Rating: 7/10
#whatonwhatsgood Fan Club Rating 70%
#whatonwhatsgood Express Review (by: Jovin Tardif)
"Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) wants to get back to active duty but in order, to do that, he has to take Lulu (played by 3 different Belgian Malinois dogs Lana, Britta, and Zuza) on a road trip to Ranger Riley Rodriguez's funeral.
Can Briggs drive his 1984 Ford Bronco to the Pacific Coast and get along with a muzzled Lulu on the road or can we expect some misadventures? Will they get to the funeral on time? In the end, will these two damaged veterans help one another?
Overall, the movie was better than I expected. Channing Tatum plays a likable character. You get a mix of comedy and drama throughout the film. I thought the ending was a nice touch. If you are a fan of dogs, you will definitely enjoy this film."
Social Media
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Genres
Comedy
Directed by
Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin
Screenplay by
Reid Carolin
Story by
Reid Carolin and Brett Rodriguez
Produced by
Gregory Jacobs, Peter Kiernan, and Brett Rodriguez
Executive Produced By
Betsy Danbury and Ken Meyer
Starring
Channing Tatum as Briggs
Jane Adams as Tamara
Kevin Nash as Gus
Q'orianka Kilcher as Niki
Ethan Suplee
Emmy Raver-Lampman
Bill Burr
Nicole LaLiberté as Zoe
Luke Forbes as Jones
Ronnie Gene Blevins as Keith
Cinematography
Newton Thomas Sigel
Edited by
Leslie Jones
Music by
Thomas Newman
Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, and Jane Adams discuss Dog 2/4/2022
Channing Tatum discusses being around dogs
“I’ve been around dogs my whole life; we had ranch dogs, house dogs, I’ve had lap dogs… but these are different. They have cat-quick reflexes but where a cat chills and sleeps most of the day, these dogs are 100 percent all the time.”
Jane Adams discusses the three dogs in Dog (2022)
“The three dogs are wonderful, like really great acting, so fine and subtle and beautiful.”
Reid Carolin discusses Road Movies and Dog Movies
“Road movies are our favorite kinds of movies. Mostly because they’re full of heart and humor. They make you feel something and expose you to new ideas and places and wild characters.”
“In dog movies, typically the way you see an animal is in an insert shot. There's a trainer right off camera doing something so the dog does a specific behavior and then you cut back to the action. We really wanted to do as much as possible in wide shots, where the dog had learned behavior and could interact with Channing in a more complex way. Our trainers were so incredible. And Channing spent months working with these dogs every day so that we were able to achieve a level of realism that most animal movies don’t.”
Reid Carolin and Channing Tatum discuss Dog 2/11/2022
Director Reid Carolin discusses "Dog"
"It's a story about a guy and a dog who are transitioning from a life of war
We made a documentary for HBO, called War Dog that highlighted these incredible stories and bonds between soldiers and their dogs. We included a lot of those guys in this movie. One of the things that was really important to us was just shining a light on those incredible stories in that culture.Our vision for the film was to take people on a really funny and hopefully really emotional journey and I guess more than anything that we wanted to do was show how an animal or a dog could become more than just a dog. It could become a four-dimensional character. That's what we experience with these rangers and their dogs."
Channing Tatum discuss "Dog"
"There's a scene where I run out to the car. Dog (Zuza) is going ape in the car. I have to open the door and scream and be really aggressive. Because Dog (Zuza) was like my friend, like in real life, she was just like, "Oh, my God, what did I do? I was only doing what I was supposed to do. Why am I getting yelled at right now?"
It broke my heart. So after every scene, I would have to go over and be like "No, no, we're homies...it's okay"
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