My
Dog The Champion (2013/Anchor Bay DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: B- Extras: D Main Program: B+
Madison
(Dora Madison Burge) is sent off to live with her grandfather (Lance
Henriksen, Aliens) on a cattle ranch when her mother is
deployed overseas. For the next 3 months, she learn what is it to
live without modern comforts, wi-fi and technology, and if you want
to eat you got to work, but there she meets Scout, an old cattle dog
and bonds with her, and believes she still has what it takes to be a
blue ribbon champion dog. Together, they aim to win the grand prize
and save her Grandfather's farm from foreclosure in The Nations' My
Dog The Champion (2013).
Madison,
somewhat spoiled, then works with a cute 17 year old dog trainer Eli
(Cody Linley), when she finds out her Grandfather has money trouble
with the bank. She aims to win the $5,000 grand prize to help save
the family farm. Along the way she learns what the meaning of family
is, a real life is better than an on-line one. God forbid any child
grow up without wi-fi, texting or cell phones, but that is what the
character Madison has to learn when she is sent to live with her
grandfather in the countryside, but there away from all modern
comforts she ironically then starts to learn how to live, and you
don't need those things to life a full or happy life.
This
is a good family movie, even when we have seen some of this formula
before. The cast and pace are a plus, but there are sadly no extras
and the anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is too soft for its
own good. The lossy Dolby Digital sound is better and as good as it
is going to be for the simple drama this is.
-
Ricky Chiang
