Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999)

This near-masterpiece contains some of the most intense football-scenes ever filmed. Backed up by some bone-breaking cinematography, the skills displayed by the actors, and certainly the dog itself, are right up there with the stuff Stallone gave us in "Victory" (1981). There are some pretty hard shots in this movie, if you take my meaning. The humour... Well, it's lovely. I'll admit that the razor-sharp dialogue caught me off-guard at a couple of occasions, and that's what this movie is all about: Cutting the edge on as many levels as possible."He's fast, and he can score goals."

A dog playing soccer... Now, I've seen a lot of bad movies, and a few movies that were so bad, that they turned out to be quite entertaining. But there are movies, like this one, that are not fun nor "witty" not even family oriented. This movie can only be categorized as 98 minutes of plain stupidity. Imagine an unfortunate mix of 101 dalmatians and Beethoven and you'll have a taste of what this movie has to offer. I was going to say something about acting, but i see no point in it. Everything goes bad in this movie and its getting worse. At one point, the unfortunate viewer, will find asking himself if this is a real movie or a documentary on worlds oldest clichés. The ending is probably the stupidest scene ever filmed, in the history of cinema, and to not include any spoilers in this, I will only say, that if you have a vacancy for your personal all-time top10 bad movies, you should most certainly watch this.A dog playing soccer...

This film was everything I never thought it was going to be. I was babysitting and it came on HBO. I sat the three kids in front of the TV and to my surprise they were mesmorized by the film. Even more shocking than that was that I too, found myself into the story.The humor, in a clever way, plays to both the adults and kids at the same time.Overall it won't set the film world on fire, but it was a fun hour and a half!

I really liked this movie and my kids love it. It is very hard to find movies which are entertaining for adults but that are appropriate for children... and "Soccer Dog" does both. It is very off-beat and is good because the comedy is not slap-stick driven but based on the characters.I don't normally send in reviews, but when I read the review of August 1, 2000, I found it to be completely off-base and because my kids and I found this to be a good film... I wanted to recommend it to you. I really think the filmmakers did a good job... so check it out for yourself.