Movie Review #68: Pups Alone (2021)

 

You know Home Alone made a damn mini genre within the whole comedy genre. Seriously that movie had a lot of rip offs or Home Alone-esque stuff would happen in an unrelated movie, like say 101 Dalmatians remake with Glenn Close literally has scenes where the dogs do hilarious hijinx to stop her and her henchmen. Seriously though, Baby's Day Out, Remote, 3 Ninjas, I'm sure a lot more. I'm sure Blank Check ended up with the bad guys getting their faces wrecked by traps or some shit. I'm sure it also happened in Richie Rich which friggin had Maclulcy Culkin in it. No I'm not going to try to spell his name correctly. Get a name that's not weird.

What's even more amazing that there is a mini genre within this mini genre. You know how I mentioned the 101 Dalmatians remake with Glenn Close (written by oddly enough John Hughes. It's also probably the best live action Disney remake.) yeah that wasn't the only movie where dogs use traps. No sir. They had a trilogy of films called Little Heroes created by the fine people at PM Entertainment (If you rented any low budget action movie from 1988 to 2000 you probably rented a PM Entertainment movie). Then like Step Dogs, Bone Alone, and our film of choice for today, Pups Alone. The newest in this mini genre of film.

Alrighty, so I mentioned how 101 Dalmatians was probably the best of the lot. It's not really because of the plot. It's because of Glenn Close as Cruella DeVille. That is one hell of a performance. She is literally having the time of her life doing that role. Still it made the movie. Little Heroes was a bad movie but it was fun bad movie that was kinda weird. I should talk about it sometime. I haven't seen Step Dogs or Bone Alone. I do now that the worst film within this mini-mini genre is 2021's Pups Alone. 

One big problem is that this movie has a big overstuffed plot. A man who is an inventor of pet tech loses his wife which causes his father or her father (movie never really tells us) to stop talking to him after several arguments.  His daughter wants him to pay more attention to him and she tries to get him set up with a new co-worker. He has this really great prototype for a device that can make dogs talk. You know like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer's half brother Herb comes back and creates a baby talking machine. Except with dogs. Anyway Dolph Lundgren (yes he is in this) wants this prototype because he is sick of being left behind at the company. He hires the usual two group of goofballs to steal it. You seriously do not need all of this for your low budget shitball ripoff of Home Alone. 

Anyway the other problem is that the majority of this movie is really boring. I don't care about the half assesd story you created. We want dogs doing silly shit and traps. We also want a movie that is not one hour and forty fucking six minutes long. Watch as I find out that Home Alone was longer. All I know is this movie felt like it was eighty six years long. I am now in the future. It still sucks. The burglars are probably the worst you'll ever see in any one of these movies. Actually all of the human acting is really bad. The voice acting (which is done by most of the name actors is pretty decent.). The trap scenes are pretty well done and the traps which are just shitty inventions from the guy are well done. Dolph Lundgren is having fun being a goofy bad guy and it's the best reason to watch this movie. 

FINAL VERDICT: I was bored mostly throughout this movie. Dolph Lundgren would bring a smile to my face during the film. Oh they completely waste Keith David on some crummy "OH YOU SHOULD LOVE YOUR FAMILY" crap is really sad. This is still a better movie than Home Sweet Home Alone. I'll give it that much.