K-9
Tags: violence, comedy

Plot synopsis:
San Diego Police Detective Michael Dooley leaves his car to contact his girlfriend, Tracy, when a helicopter suddenly appears and opens fire on his car, which ignites. Presuming him dead, the assassins leave the scene. At the police station, Dooley argues with his lieutenant, refusing to take a partner; instead, he decides to get a police dog. At home, he finds Tracy with another man and spends the night in his new car. The next day, Dooley coerces Freddie, an informant, into revealing that the drug lord Ken Lyman is responsible for the attack. Dooley is assigned a German Shepherd named Jerry Lee, whom he dislikes.
Dooley and Jerry Lee head to a warehouse assumed to be filled with drugs. When Jerry Lee does not follow Dooley's orders, the workers laugh at him. Dooley is forced to leave after Jerry Lee finds only a cigarette when commanded to find drugs. The duo drive to a pub where Dooley stakes out Benny the Mule in an attempt to charge Lyman. When his cover is blown, Jerry Lee saves Dooley from a beating; with the dog's help, Dooley subdues Benny and learns the location of Lyman's next shipment. Meanwhile, Lyman kills Freddie and demands that his henchman Dillon kill Dooley before the shipment arrives.
At Dooley's apartment, Jerry Lee steals the spotlight after Tracy accepts Dooley's story that he rescued the dog from the streets. The next day, Dooley and Jerry Lee bond when they eat together and spy on Lyman. The two are nearly killed when someone shoots at them, and the two chase the assailant to an empty building. Jerry Lee leads Dooley to the man, who falls to his death after a fistfight with Dooley. In the man's car, Dooley finds a clue that leads him to an auto-dealer shop. There, Jerry Lee identifies a red Mercedes owned by Lyman, and Dooley learns from Halstead, the owner of the dealership, that he works for Lyman. Later, Jerry Lee falls in love with a poodle to the disapproval of its owner.
When Dooley returns home, he discovers Lyman has kidnapped Tracy. Infuriated, Dooley crashes a party at Lyman's mansion and demands her return. Lyman pretends to know nothing, and Dooley is arrested by an officer from his own department and put in a squad car. Angry, Dooley's lieutenant calls him crazy. When Jerry Lee's flatulence annoys the other officers, Dooley uses it to his advantage and escapes with the dog. As Dooley tells Jerry Lee how he met Tracy, he spots a truck driven by Halstead that is pulling a trailer with Lyman's Mercedes. Dooley purses the truck, and Halstead blows a tire. After Halstead shoots at Dooley, Jerry Lee kills Halstead.
Meanwhile, in a stranded desert in San Diego, Lyman holds Tracy hostage in his limo and becomes suspicious when Halstead is late. Dooley arrives with the truck and trailer, which is revealed to be the next shipment of drugs. Not worrying about the case anymore, Dooley orders Lyman to surrender his girlfriend to him, or he will blow up the truck. Lyman calls Dooley's bluff, and a shootout ensues. Dooley kills Lyman's henchmen Dillon and Jerry Lee chases Lyman as he runs for his helicopter. Unable to outrun the dog, Lyman shoots Jerry Lee; enraged, Dooley shoots and kills Lyman. Dooley and Tracy rush Jerry Lee to a hospital, where the reluctant surgeon operates. In the recovery room, Dooley delivers a eulogy to Jerry Lee, not knowing that he is alive. When the surgeon tells him he is going to be fine, Dooley responds in anger, thinking he was speaking to a dead dog. Jerry Lee licks Dooley's face out of love, making him give in.
To take a break from police work, Dooley, Tracy, Jerry Lee, and a poodle spend a vacation together in Las Vegas.

Review: He has to do everything his own way on his own time and doesn't know the meaning of the word, "team-work" But after he screws up his last bust by buying a car from a car dealer and five minutes later proceeds to crash it into a building where the bad guys are dealing dope, he is assigned a new partner, a dog!
A rouge German Shepard that wants to be treated more like a person than a dog.Belushi is very convincing and hilarious in his role as a cop, and the dog, surprisingly (I never thought I'd write this), was a great actor and did a terrific job.
bad guy moments, but overall I thought the movie was an extremely funny cop-doggy comedy, with a very predictable but humorous ending to it.When compared to other cop-dog movies like "Turner and Hooch," it's a credit to Belushi's comedic timing that this film wound up on the top 250!.
The end scene in the hospital is the best man and dog conversation ever, although Jerry Lee jumping in the poodle's car runs it pretty close.My rating : 9 out of 10.
And the acting is very spirited- Jerry-Lee is the star of the show, very well trained and cute, while James Belushi is always watchable and Mel Harris is appealing and sexy.Overall, this is a surprisingly good buddy movie with enough humorous moments and spirited performances to make it worth watching.
James Belushi is the cop, Dewley, who seems to have spent most of his time chasing after the same guy, the drug lord Lyman played Kevin Tighe.
Great acting by James Belushi, Mel Harris and Jerry Lee. A score of 7 out of 10..
James Belushi and the dog named "Jerry Lee" make an excellent pair in this fun cop romp.
Personally, I found Turner and Hooch to be superior to this work, but it is still enjoyable, and comes in second to my favorite.HOwever, this is witty, and funny enough to be endearing, without resorting to Jim Belushi's usual tactics, although he does employ the beginning of those posturing and chest-beating tactics here.
In fact, they play well in this situation, though it IS sad to watch a grown man who is romantically jealous of a dog.This fails any Oscar possibilities, but I do not honestly believe that would surprise those involved with this work.
It fails to warm the heart as well as Turner and Hooch, but does not make you feel sorry for the dog like some other movies have, along this venue.
For a short time during the eighties, Hollywood discovered to concept of the Buddy-Dog movie with this and Turner & Hooch coming out in the same year.This is probably the funniest of the two with Belushi delivering another wonderful comic performance.
However, it is probably slightly poorer than the Tom Hanks film as the script is less rounded, with only the fairly run-of-the-mill drug smuggling story to occupy you.However, the action and laughs keep coming throughout the movie, leaving another underrated, overlooked comedy gem from Belushi.
The police chief (James Handy) assigns him as couple , a hound dog (Jerry Lee was played by Rando, a 3-year-old German Shepherd from West Germany and trained for 3 months) .
They will have to confront deal of dangers while his fiancée (Mel Harris) is abducted .The motion picture is a particular buddy movie because the starring are one person and one dog , the comedy and giggles regarding both of them are interminable .
There's a previous picture concerning to similar theme upon policeman-dog relationship : ¨Turner and Hooch¨ , both of them are similar , though I think the best results to be the film featured by Tom Hanks.The flick blends humor , action-packed , car pursuits , tongue-in-cheek , it's amusing but there are moments that is a little boring but when the dog appears is enough bemusing .
The film obtained success at the box office ; however , ten years later , the same starring James Belushi and the dog (or different dog because had deceased) made a second part what failed and was direct-to-video .
James Belushi stars as a cop who gets a dog as a partner and together they try to bring down a powerful drug-lord.
Belushi plays a fly by the seat of his pants cop who does not like working with a partner.
It's basically the buddy cop movie with a twist, and thanks to Belushi being quite likable, the film manages to be funny whenever the dog is off screen.
Support is okay, but it looks like they are just letting the two get on with it.Jim Belushi gives a career best performance as a funny,cool and take no messing cop who doesn't like to play by the usual rules of a police officer and he don't care if he breaks any rules,though he is no nonsense he is a bit of loser who has often lost the love of Tracy and doesn't get much better with the arrival of Jerry Lee even if the dog makes him a better more caring person as the story goes on, Belushi is just marvelous and doesn't get enough credit and seems to be forgotten in the decade of heroes like The Terminator, John McClane, Batman, Indiana Jones, Marty McFly and Peter Venkman (who for me is similar in style to Dooley and Bill Murray would of been excellent too as Dooley), check out "Red Heat" opposite Arnie for a same sort of character for Belushi.Overall rating: 8 out of 10..
These two films basically had cops who were not dog lovers getting partnered up with a new canine pup.
What makes this one though is the interplay between Belushi's character and the crazy canine, Jerry Lee, I think its name was as they try to stop some drug guys..
Determined to finally get his man, Dooley enlists the help of a police dog called Jerry Lee {The Killer} to hopefully sniff out the drugs that he knows Lyman is involved in.
Determined to finally get his man, Dooley enlists the help of a police dog called Jerry Lee {The Killer} to hopefully sniff out the drugs that he knows Lyman is involved in.
Trouble is is that Dooley has no idea how to treat a dog and Jerry Lee is more of a maverick cop than he is!Given its low rating, it's hard to know what sort of film the critics and general movie watching public were expecting with this one.
Trouble is is that Dooley has no idea how to treat a dog and Jerry Lee is more of a maverick cop than he is!Given its low rating, it's hard to know what sort of film the critics and general movie watching public were expecting with this one.
Since a buddy buddy cop movie staring James Belushi and a German Shepherd Dog doesn't say anything other than the film we actually get.
Since a buddy buddy cop movie staring James Belushi and a German Shepherd Dog doesn't say anything other than the film we actually get.
So you hear the name James Belushi in relation to films and you by and large think larking about action comedy.
So you hear the name James Belushi in relation to films and you by and large think larking about action comedy.
Coming a year after Red Heat {it looks like Belushi is wearing the same suit from that film in this one!}, K-9 delivers exactly what it screamed out it would from the off.Technically the film has very few things to recommend, but as a family friendly action comedy it has much to laud.
Coming a year after Red Heat {it looks like Belushi is wearing the same suit from that film in this one!}, K-9 delivers exactly what it screamed out it would from the off.Technically the film has very few things to recommend, but as a family friendly action comedy it has much to laud.
Jerry Lee, the dog is adorable, not to mention James Belushi.
This is a movie that both males and females would like...there are plenty of "action" and car chase scenes for the guys and lots of funny and "touching" moments for the gals.
Rather lack-lustre and thin on plot, saved only by the acting and comedy timing of the great Koton/Jerry Lee. Belushi's portrayal of a brash, maverick cop rather lacks the humour one might expect, and the movie would have benefited from rather less of him and more of the dog.Less than 20 years on, the film hasn't aged too well either.
I watched this movie mainly to see a movie with James Belushi, and he does his typical stuff in this movie too, and he is pretty funny, if you like this type of humor.
I don't think anyone who isn't either a fan of James Belushi, or a lover of dogs, would like this movie.
Sgt. Brannigan (Ed O'Neill) gives him Jerry Lee, a smart independent dog.There isn't much to this buddy cop movie.
First of all, Tom Hanks has been replaced with James Belushi, the ugly dog is now a much-more photogenic German Shepard and the laughs have nearly all dried up - not that "Turner & Hooch" had many to begin with.Belushi plays hot-shot cop Dooley, obsessed with bringing down suspected crime boss Lyman (Kevin Tighe) to such a point that his girlfriend Tracy (Mel Harris) is considering kicking him out of her apartment.
Determined to bring Lyman down, Dooley finds himself partnered with Jerry Lee, an eccentric police dog with a strong sense of personality.
He has the best scenes and gets the most laughs but the film-makers make the same mistake of making the dog act like a human - no dog I've ever met covers their face with embarrassment!
It's not as funny, the dog doesn't appeal in the same way as the mutt in the other film and Belushi is a poor man's Hanks.
The only real difference between the two is that the love interest in "K-9" is much hotter and there is no cop partner for Belushi to spark off, meaning he spends most of the film talking to a dog.
It's one of those films that's simply impossible not to love ( like Men In Black).I feel great every time I watch this movie and I never miss it when it's on TV.
K-9 was more fun than the sequel, I can tell you that much, because it revolved better around the story.This story shows how Dooley met his K-9 partner, Jerry Lee. As stereotypical as it sounds, Dooley is your typical stands by his own crazy rules type of a cop, he also refuses to get a partner, but eventually decides the best way to do it is to get a cop dog.
He finds out that Jerry Lee proves himself more useful than Dooley takes him for.Over all, I'd say this is a fun little movie to watch on a Saturday afternoon.
It has some fun humor and cute moments where you just automatically fall in love with Jerry Lee, I guess Dooley isn't such a bad guy after all.
One of a number of films from the late-eighties that created a short-lived sub-genre of the buddy movie by making one of the buddies a mutt, K-9 stars John Belushi's kid brother as the wisecracking maverick cop who gets saddled with an eccentric police Alsatian called Jerry Lee while trying to bring down a drugs baron.Of course, the beauty of creating a sub-genre like this is that you don't actually have to change your storyline: the dog could be a professional criminal cuffed to the cop, a novelist carrying out research, or a dental equipment salesman who has unwittingly scuppered the cop's arrest.
An even worse fate awaited his canine co-star, a real police dog, who died from gunshot wounds while apprehending a suspect a couple of years after the movie was shot.Director Rod Daniel manages to blend the action and comedy sequences quite well while remaining strictly within parameters set by those who've gone before him and, although he displays a reasonably assured touch here, his workmanlike approach might explain why his film career has also gone nowhere.
Mike Dooley is an undercover cop who is always getting into trouble is paired up one day with the lovable Jerry-lee (Alsation from the police pound) from there the journey embarks with many a laugh as they investigate a drugs bust.
The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him.A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee, who has been trained to smell drugs.With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to.On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...This was one of those films that I absolutely loved as a kid, and could watch it over and over, because who wouldn't like a film where a dog can say 'oh oh'?
It's basically the buddy cop movie with a twist, and thanks to Belushi being quite likable, the film manages to be funny whenever the dog is off screen.Support is okay, but it looks like they are just letting the two get on with it.It's harmless stuff, one of those movies you will find on TV one Sunday afternoon, and still be able to enjoy it through rose tinted specs.Still miles better than Turner and Hooch..
***SPOILERS*** James Belushi went from having as a partner in the Chicago PD muscle man Arnold Schwartznegger in "Red Heat" to being teamed up with San Diago PD's K-9 units drug sniffing police dog Jerry Lee, played by real Kansas City police dog Konton, in "K-9" the very next year.Belushi playing goofy yet getting results San Diago cop Mike Dooley is on to a big drug, 50 million dollars worth, deal that's to take place within the next three days but he has only one major problem.
Forced to have police dog Jerry Lee as his partner Dooley feels a bit humiliated in playing second fiddle to a pooch.
***SPOILERS*** It's in Officer Dooley's attempts to get big time San Diago drug dealer Layman,Kevin Tighe, with the goods on him,the 50 million in cocaine, that not only has Tracy kidnapped and held as hostage by Laymen's hoods but has his partner Jerry Lee end up taking a bullet for him!
It was during the movie that Dooley started to see what a great partner and friend Jerry Lee really was to him but only when it was almost too late for him to notice it.
It took a a bullet in the chest on Jerry Lee's part that had his partner Officer Dooley finally realized how wrong he was in treating his police dog partner who did everything he could,like saving his life a number of times, to have him accept him as an equal.
It was towards the end of the movie with Jerry Lee bleeding to death for a gun shot wound that a tearful Officer Mike Dooley gave him his most heart felt compliment.
Dooley is having the gravely wounded Jerry Lee refused treatment at the local hospital because he's an animal not a human had him tell the by the books doctor, David Haskell, in charge of the emergency room: "He's not a dog he's a cop and he's my partner"!
It gets by on the charisma of the underrated James Belushi, who has a strong enough presence to carry a movie and who does well acting against a German Shepherd.
My favorite parts include, "Jerry Lee" (the dogs name) sneaking into the bed while poor Jim Belushi is trying to get some and when he gets into the limo and screws the rich guys dog while "lets get it on" is being played, because its like the dog is telling Jim "I can do it but you can't nyah nyah" But Jim gets even when he runs the dog through the car wash without the roof because he refused to take a bath.
I also like what happens at the end where we see a sad moment where Jim thought the dog was dying in the vet office and he sadly tells him how he really feels about him being a good friend and what not.
Dooley is a man who knows where his life is, and although this may not be where he wants to be, he is happy.And Jerry Lee?
I think K-9 was a very funny film in its own right, and Jim Belushi does a good acting job in the shadows of his late brother.
Good movie about owning a dog for the first time !.
James Belushi looked excellent whether as tough cop or funny man.
Still the movie's highest point is the way it shows the start of a good relationship between a grown man and a dog cutely.
And it's surely more fun than the year's "other" buddy-action comedy about a cop and a dog (Turner & Hooch).Finally, I have an advise for you : don't watch it with your girl, because it's not a chick movie, it's rather exclusively a guys, kids and dogs movie !.
The Only Thing Good About This Movie is the Dog. This is a typical Hollywood cop movie, you can tell this when at the beginning a car is shot up with a machine gun and it blows up.
I love German Shepherds, they are just the most beautiful dogs, so that is why I liked this movie.
If the dog didn't have a mind of its own, nor acted like a human, then this movie would have been nothing.