I simply am a Sucker for this genre but the problem with Dog Gone is how uninteresting the human characters were. Add to that, it's convenient writing with an entire state joining to help look for the dog. It's based on true story and the dog even has Addison's disease yet there isn't one scene without Gonker that felt relatable. The story moves all over without creating bare minimum tension considering they had to find Gonker before 20 days.
The father - son relationship needed a better treatment. The opportunity was write there to build up the communication gap between them till their big scene instead the scene that led to the dad understanding his son's predicament felt too preachy. Then, the flashbacks of Oji felt deliberate to dig in some emotion when this is a movie about a dog and it's meant to be naturally emotional as it is.
This definitely needed a better screenplay to establish the story as a race against time to bring back Gonker home safe but it ends up having one random scene after another without leaving any sort of impact.
The father - son relationship needed a better treatment. The opportunity was write there to build up the communication gap between them till their big scene instead the scene that led to the dad understanding his son's predicament felt too preachy. Then, the flashbacks of Oji felt deliberate to dig in some emotion when this is a movie about a dog and it's meant to be naturally emotional as it is.
This definitely needed a better screenplay to establish the story as a race against time to bring back Gonker home safe but it ends up having one random scene after another without leaving any sort of impact.