The Dog Really Rocks!!!!

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2006)

OK...so I expect the characters to do absolutely idiotic things..it's a horror movie...people are supposed to do idiotic things in horror movies!!!! And half the characters are supposed to end up dead...if that doesn't float your boat then you should stop going to see horror movies and quit giving bad reviews to movies you don't appreciate! It's simple really...don't vacation in Hawaii if you hate the beach!
Here we have the usual good guys/ bad guys plot and our unsuspecting little middle class SUV camper family learns how to get a grip and survive quite well under some particularly unusual circumstances. The plot is way stupid but the revenge is ever oh so sweet...especially when you start out Democratic and anti- gun and you end up kicking ass better than your red neck father-in-law! With a baseball bat no less...I was so happy the baby and the dog made it out...gotta love this family's dog!
The makeup was slimy and blood clotty, the music fitting, even the acting was better than most horror flicks I really liked the opening scenes of actual nuclear experiments and the scenes with manikins all around the abandon neighborhood...dolls and manikins are always creepy. There was also a good deal of humor in this movie...the American flag was used rather symbolically...but what I love love love best about this kind of movie is the wonderful audience participation...all the screaming and laughing and for warnings...what a great time when the entire audience takes part with such abandon...at the end of the day this is great family entertainment for weird ass families like mine...we took our teenage daughter and her boyfriend and everyone had a blast! Then we went out to a red and rare steak dinner!
Now that's family entertainment!