The Plague Dogs

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Actor: Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam, John Bennett, John Franklyn-Robbins, Tony Church
Brand: PEACE ARCH HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Cinematographer: Ron Jackson
Cinematographer: Ted C. Bemiller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-17
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Trinity Home Ent

DVD Reviews of The Plague Dogs

DVD Review: Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a wonderful film full of emotion, suspense, crudeness, and life lessons. Past the matter of it being animated you will find this film to be a true and deep drama, a very adult movie for that matter.

A film that must be seen!

DVD Review: Loved the book...cartoon leaves much to be desired
Summary: 2 Stars

Cartoon departs slightly from the book, but overall remains true to the basic story line. I would definitely recommend reading the book over watching the movie...but I know most folks will just watch the movie...

DVD Review: Great Movie.
Summary: 5 Stars

I watched this movie years ago, and when I saw this on DVD, I had to have it. It is still one of my all-time favorite movies, though the ending is a bit sad, it is a great movie filled with action, adventure, and drama; A movie anyone can enjoy.

DVD Review: How did this get made? It is amazing!
Summary: 5 Stars

As a reviewer said below me It's a wonder this was made. This is a true sad tragic story that will make you think and will leave it's mark on you. Rarely do movies portray the reality of life and even more rare is that it is in animated form. By all means see this movie, it's bad enough that it has been thrown into obscurity by the delusional "everything is fine" public and that disney can only make animated features.

DVD Review: An Animated Animal Movie with Bite
Summary: 4 Stars

It's easy to look at the cover of the movie "Plague Dogs" and then call the kids into the living room for an enjoyable Sunday matinee. There is a deceptive nature to the beautiful hand drawn animation of cute little animals that harkens back to the golden age of Disney animation. This would be a mistake however for it's that very deceptive quality to "Plague Dogs" that makes this film such a treat for adults and a rather disturbing nightmare for children.

Like it's predecessor "Watership Down" (another Richard Adams book made into an animated feature by director Martin Rosen), "Plague Dogs" is a very adult tale about animals in jeopardy. In "Watership..." it was a small group of rabbits in search of a safe home. "Plague Dogs" is the story of two dogs who escape from a testing laboratory. Together they are desperate to find safety and a life free of abuse and pain. The smaller dog (Snitter) having just had brain surgery, is a smart but tortured animal. Rowf, is a dog mentally and physically beaten by repeated drownings. Together they search for peace, but peace does not come easily on an empty stomach and the many pastures of sheep are too tempting for the two dogs to pass up. As sheep carcasses begin to pile up local farmers begin to make the connection that the testing laboratory may have had something to do with the two wild dogs that are roaming their land. When it's discovered that the laboratory was working with Bubonic plague, the dogs are marked for death.

Ultimately "Plague Dogs" is an adventure tale; however, director Martin Rosen uses the bleak storyline to propel a theme of hopelessness. Snitter and Rowf and undesirables, cast out by bad luck and bad timing. The society that they find themselves in is unable to fully understanding their situation and their destruction is a simply seen as a more effective way of dealing with them. The ending in particular has our two furry antagonists in questionable straights.

Such a film would not play well today, nor did it play that well in this country 25 years ago. It asks too many questions, pushes too many cringe inducing buttons, and often doesn't wait for the passive viewer to catch up. I can't think of one reason why or how a movie like this got made, but it's our great fortune it did. "Watership Down" proves to be a better movie experience but "Plague Dogs" goes where "Watership Down" didn't and we are all the better for it.

Description of The Plague Dogs

Determined to escape the confines of an evil laboratory, two dogs make a flight for freedom into the rugged hills. Panicked by the cries of other animals on their way out, they accidentally break a vial used by plague researchers, and when news gets out that the two could be infected, the human world launches the deadliest hunt. Pursued at every turn, the dogs are forced to retreat further and further until their time runs out and they must make the ultimate decision - and take their chance with fate.

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