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  Review by Aus ★★★★★ 1

  I watched this countless times on a fuzzy home recorded vhs tape as a child. Still holds up. I may be crying rn.

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  Review by Katie Murray ★★★★½ 3

  Chaaaaaaarlie! Chaaaaaaarlie! You can never come baaaaaack!

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  Review by damug ★★★★½ 3

  One of the best movies about criminal organizations run by dogs set in New Orleans.

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  Review by feat. dante from the dmc series ★★½ 4

  me, every time that alligator starts singing: *jontron voice* for the first time in my life i'm just... i'm fucking speechless

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★

  JUNIMATION

  After seeing the movie's cover at multiple video stores—including this small one beneath the plaza where my mom used to go to the beauty salon—I thought it was finally time to watch this movie with one of the lowkey great movie titles out there.

  Unfortunately, the film does not live up to its title. As usual, Bluth proves that he isn't afraid to tackle quite dark and mature issues in a film aimed for children. This, like in "American Tail," is mixed in with some of the kid-friendly material offered by the film's orphanage subplot. The animation has this... I don't know what to call it. It's not very smooth, but it's not that awful, either. The voice work…

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  Review by Emma Chantiri ★★★★½

  Absolutely bonkers from start to finish, how in the hell did this get released? Not only does it tackle subject matter that is really mature (themes of death, the afterlife, the consequences of being an asshole, dealing with your grievances) but does it in such a creative way with multiple songs and non-sequitur scenes being chucked in for good measure. While it works as an absolute assault on the senses it also has a beautiful emotional core mostly supplied by Anne Marie and Charlie's redemption arc. While I think the writing and tone is inconsistent (the ending feels a tad rushed) I have to admit I love this movie to death. There's something oddly poetic about it and that's way more than I can say about the majority of family films released in the last ten years.

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  Review by Sally Jane Black ★★★★

  I didn't remember much about this except a few key sequences and that it was sad. I kept being distracted by how they couldn't decide if Charlie should be an anthropomorphic dog or just a dog, and sometimes, he would be far too human but with disproportionate dog limbs. It was disturbing, uncanny at times.

  Also, I did not much like the music.

  But when Bluth and company wanted to be intentionally disturbing, they got it right: the drag queen alligator, the nightmare of hell, the dog-dragon Satan. (And they got the pizza right, too - it looked gooey and amazing.)

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  Review by Blake Griggs 7

  My dog passed today. Was emotionally and physically sore after I dug his grave, and wanted something comforting, and dog related, to put on. Probably haven’t seen this since a pre-Kindergarten VHS, but Bluth’s imagery has stayed with me practically my whole life, so why not go back to the well. The wells came up alright. Just what I needed. 

  
  This is surprisingly classical (Cabin in the Sky meets a gangster picture), also really good. You can’t keep a good dog down

  
  
  

  
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  Review by zayde ★★

  They just don’t make kids movies about angel dogs falling from heaven to get revenge for their wrongful murder like they used to.

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  Review by robyn ★★★★★

  I don't remember this film being quite as crazy when i was little. From what I gather, they are in possible 1930s New Orleans except at one point Carface has a ray gun?!

  You have to applaud a film that kills off its protagonist in a grusome way within ten minutes. And then makes him actually not that good of a dog for most of the film!

  Also, there is a bit where Charlie gets dragged down to hell which is pretty scary.

  Ann-Marie is so cutesy it makes my teeth hurt, but despite all of this I still love this film!

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  Review by sonjon ★★★ 1

  -gambling
  -getting drunk
  -death
  -hell
  -G rating

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  Review by Firequackers ★★★

  Narratively this is a real mixed bag. It starts off with a hard-hitting opening showing the murder of the name character, followed later by some rather child-unfriendly visuals of Hell. There was an opportunity for this to slot into a niche of darker and heavier animations, but it detours into banal subplot territory while neglecting to develop its main character, who's still pretty much the same asshole he was at the beginning. There's a lot of stuff just happening and no real flow between scenes (I guess someone on the writing team was really keen on having a crocodile drag queen randomly show up for two minutes).

  The songs were also all best left on the cutting room floor. Burt…