All Dogs Go to Heaven

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with con-dog Charlie B Barker and his pal Itchy, attempting to break out of the local pound.Charlie and Itchy return to the casino that Charlie ran with his old partner, Carface. Unknown to Charlie, Carface was responsible for Charlie going to 'the pound,' with Carface intending to take over the whole gambling operation. Charlie notices that the gambling clientele are not too happy with the way things have been run while he has been away, and Charlie goes to see Carface.Carface then convinces Charlie that they need to split up the business, since he is now a wanted fugitive. A going away party is then held for Charlie later that evening, with Charlie getting drunk, and Carface giving him a pocketwatch. Charlie is mentally unable to comprehend where he is, when Carface's goons blindfold him, and take him down to a dock, where a car is put in motion many yards away. Itchy has heard about the plan, but is too late to stop the car from killing Charlie.Charlie soon finds himself in Heaven, being explained things by a dog named Whippet. She explains that all dogs go to heaven, though is surprised when going over Charlie's record, finding very little regarding kindness and loyalty from him. Charlie is shown that the watch he was given by Carface is connected to his own heart, and because it stopped, Charlie is now dead. When Charlie asks why it can't simply be wound back up to send him back, Whippet explains that this is not allowed. Even so, Charlie manages to get the watch away from her, and returns to life. However, as he rockets towards Earth, Whippet's voice is heard saying that he can never come back now.Charlie soon finds Itchy, who at first thinks Charlie is a ghost, but then grows even more concerned when Charlie wants to get back at Carface for attempting to kill him. Itchy is concerned because he has heard word that Carface has a monster that he has locked away.Charlie and Itchy break into Carface's place, only to find that the monster is actually a little girl named Ann-Marie, who can talk to animals. Carface has been using her to win (and fix) almost all the 'rat races' that the casino he runs has. Charlie soon convinces Ann-Marie that since she's an orphan, he can help her find a family that will adopt her, as well as intending to use the money that she helps win them to be given to the poor. While at the horse track, Charlie swipes the wallet of a young couple, and uses the money to help them win their first race.Charlie uses Ann-Marie's skills to make him enough money to start a new casino. Soon after, Ann-Marie finds the wallet that Charlie stole, and refuses to talk to him again. Later that evening, Charlie has a nightmare in which he ends up in a fiery lake of lava, where demons intend to drag him under. Charlie then wakes to find Ann-Marie gone.He soon finds that she has returned the wallet to the young couple, who seem more than happy to give her a good breakfast. Charlie finds her, and guilts her into coming back with him. However, Carface has found that Charlie is alive, and intends to kill Charlie, before he and Ann-Marie make their escape.They find their way into a sewer system, where a gang of sewer rats intends to sacrifice Charlie to a big-lipped alligator. However, Charlie gives a long-pitched howl, which causes the alligator to spare Charlie's life due to his great singing voice. Unfortunately, Ann-Marie has caught a bad cold from being in the sewer, and Charlie is unsure what to do.When Itchy finds Charlie, he explains that Carface and his goons have torched their casino. Charlie contends that they'll rebuild, and use Ann-Marie to recoup their losses, with plans to give her to an orphanage afterwards. However, Ann-Marie hears Charlie's words and runs off. She is soon recovered shortly by Carface and taken to a derelict ship off the coast of New Orleans.Charlie goes after her, and ends up in a scuffle with Carface. Their fight soon causes some fuel to spill and a fire to erupt on the ship. When Carface bites down on Charlie's tail, Charlie gives a long howl that is heard by the alligator from before. It comes to his rescue and chases off Carface, but ends up dislodging the ship from the shore, sending it adrift.Charlie attempts to save Ann-Marie, but almost loses his watch that keeps him alive. At a moral crossroads, Charlie lets the watch sink into the water, and pushes Ann-Marie out of the boat on a wooden doorframe. Eventually, the water overtakes the watch, and it stops ticking.Some time later, the young couple have taken Ann-Marie in, as she still recovers from her sickness. Charlie's spirit then visits her, under the supervision of an enormous, dark hell-hound. However, a glowing sphere appears, and the hell-hound disintegrates. As the sphere approaches Charlie, Whippet's voice can be heard, and explains that since Charlie gave his life to save Ann-Marie, he can go to Heaven. Ann-Marie then wakes up, and the two say their goodbyes.

Tags: good versus evil, revenge, cult, murder

Review:
"All Dogs Go to Heaven" is a brillaint and cute animated film from the great director Don Bluth who directed the brillaint film "The Secret of Nimh".
The movie follows a dog named Charlie who had escaped from the pound, is killed by his old friend, goes to heaven, but ends up coming back to earth.
The performances from Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise are great, and this is the last movie that a little girl named Judith Barsi was in.
The animation in this movie is great, the voice work is great, and the story is good, but a little bit different from many other kids movies.
The other day I was babysitting and my cousin never saw All Dogs Go To Heaven so we rented both movies and watched them together today and he really loved these movies.
All Dogs Go To Heaven is one of the most touching animated films and I'm shocked honestly by this rating of 5.8, I thought this movie would bring back good memories for others as well.
I admit the animation was a bit typical but the story is just so charming and fun.Charlie is a gambling dog who gets killed by another gambling dog, Carface.
When he and his best friend, Itchy, look for Carface and spy on him they find out how Carface gets all his money, he has a little orphan girl who talks to animals and finds out who is going to win the races.
But he ends up learning that maybe he should put Ann-Marie first before himself when Carface goes back to him with a vengeance.All Dogs Go To Heaven is the perfect family film, it's not Disney, but this is an excellent family film to watch.
Well it starts out a bit dark, a dog who escaped the pound, and gets killed by an old friend, ends up in Heaven, and comes back.
:) :()The film is mainly about two dogs called Charlie and Itchy (voiced by Dom DeLuise and I love Dom DeLuise!) .
When Charlie comes back to life, it is the start of an amazing adventure.The five main reasons why I'm absolutely CRAZY about this film: One: I love the characters (except Carface).
Yes, "All Dogs" has plot holes; Charlie can't talk to horses but can talk to alligators, the bad guy is allowed to enter heaven and the story is overall confusing.So what?This is one of the few movies that managed to make me "feel", in the true sense of the word.
Don Bluth seems to be one of the few directors that takes children seriously, and present them the not-so-bright sides of life.For those who are unsure about watching "All Dogs" or not because of some disturbing interpretations of the movie; Give it a try.
It's a great story about Charlie Barkin voiced by Burt Reynolds who gets killed but returns to Earth and must rescue a little girl named Anne Marie voiced by Judith Barsi from the evil Carface.
Filled with great animation and a great story All Dogs Go to Heaven is a great animated film and one of Don Bluth's best.
All Dogs Go to Heaven is, in my opinion, the best animated film ever made.
Third All Dogs Go to Heaven have funny and very friendly characters including Charlie, Anne-Marrie and Itchy.
Finally I like All Dogs Go to Heaven because when I watched this movie it helped me  felt that I can change my attitude to become a good, responsible and respectful student.I hope that God was proud and happy for the making of All Dogs Go to Heaven.I rated 10/10 for All Dogs Go to Heaven as  one of successful animated movies that have been produced..
A fun-loving dog (voiced by Burt Reynolds) gets killed one night and goes straight to Heaven, but he decides to return to Earth for revenge rather than staying.
This has to be another underrated movie that is very good first the movies I like which are The love bug A goofy movie are another underrated films that where classic and I think this movie should get a better rating because it was charming fun and I love it first off I really want this movie on DVD and the 2nd one as well now lets start off with the story the story is about Charlie who gets hit by a car and goes up to heaven but comes back to life to help a little girl find a family the story is outstanding the movie having an adult touch put to it is very nice and some scary scenes as well this movie is just great and I love it as well as the 2nd one so lets give it a better rating okay.
Do you know there is a blue ray one coming out as well as the 2nd one too did you know that so why not give this movie 5 stars in your book so if you have not seen all dogs go to heaven then get out on DVD as well as the 2nd too because they are really good movies Don Bluth is great he makes that family guy greater to his lose so watch any time you like get out on DVD as well as the 2nd too I give it a 10 out of 10.
The characters were a mixed bag, the best being Anne-Marie, voiced by the late Judith Barsi.(I was physically ill when I read what happened to her) Also, Carface is a very convincing villain,especially voiced by the wonderful Vic Tayback(I particularly loved "Morons I'm surrounded by Morons") and along with Rasputin and Warren T.Rat is probably the most memorable of all the Don Bluth villains.
Maybe I was a naive, impressionable little girl, but a film that showed a character dying and going to heaven seemed something strange and different.
After almost ten years of watching, I find a more deeper meaning in the film from when I first saw it (I was very young) The heartwarming songs to the emotion-stirring climax, All Dogs Go To Heaven is a wonderful movie for the whole family.
I loved all the characters, especially Charlie and Killer, and I was thrilled when the sequel came out (though I was disappointed) You can never in a lifetime make a film such as this one so powerful, funny, and touching as this one..
I admit that some of the characters get on my nerves now but I think that Charlie is a brilliant character.He's a liar and a user and yet still loveable.The end scene where Charlie says goodbye to Anne Marie still makes my eyes fill up.I don't think many young children would like this movie but I think its about right for anyone over ten..
Because Charlie sure does not deserve such a right.Long story short, Charlie figures out a way to return back to life, and proceeds to attempt bloody revenge on good old Carface.
Humanity is going downhill.This movie is really, really underrated, along with other Don Bluth films I've come across.That hell scene though...not even remotely scary..
I would watch this movie non-stop,...right up until I was clumsy enough to break the only copy I had.I really like this movie it's another one of Don Bluth's amazing animated films; at least in my opinion.
It's not like this a a cartoon of bloodfest and cussing or anything, it's just that Don's animated films tend to have a bit more of a maturity level, such as characters that bleed(just a little) and sometimes small suggestive themes.
That's what makes this movie so good: the ability, unique in Don Bluth (director), to play with the people's feelings and make them love or hate a character in no time.
That, and the fact that it has so many good characters like Charlie and Ann-Marie, that in the sad but happy ending you have to say "I have something in my eye" to hide the others that you cried.
Back on earth again, Charlie reunites with Itchy and plots his revenge on Carface to "ruin him and make him suffer slowly and painfully."You know, for kids!So as Charlie sneaks into an air vent to enter Carface's basement, he finds him there talking to a young girl named Anne-Marie (the voice of this character was Judith Barsi's last performance).
I guess the writers had to add in a message for young children, as the main theme of the movie is more adult.So Anne-Marie finds the wallet that Charlie stole from the man and sees the couple's wedding photo inside.
She goes up to the church's attic to sleep, and sings a "Somewhere Out There"-like song, in an audibly different voice I might add, about how soon she will find a mom and dad.Though this movie isn't as dear to my heart as "The Land Before Time" (I admit I watched this one fairly recently), it's pretty good.
Even if you don't care one bit about the story, you can still have lots of fun just enjoying the wonderful animation.All Dogs go to Heaven is a movie about a dog called Charlie who gets set up and murdered by another dog called Carface.
To his surprise, he goes to heaven, but finds a way to get back to earth where he and his sidekick meet a little girl who can talk with animals.The storyline is thin, but the likable characters make up for this.
The movie also has a lot of cute scenes, and I think the best part was the part where Charlie has to tuck in Anne-Marie.If you have any kids, watching this movie together with them will be a blast!.
Which brings me to my second point: this has got to be the darkest "kids'" movie I've seen in quite some time, this coming from a 22-year-old.
I love the songs, and I adore the voices behind them--Anne-Marie has got some of the cutest character designs I've ever seen and definitely the cutest voice I've ever heard (RIP Judith Barsi), and it's a good break from the happy go lucky Disney films of this day.
The editing and transitions are abrupt and look like a bad television version of a cartoon; I was mentally devising where a commercial would go when I watched it the first time.On the upside, you've got a bizarre sequence where Charlie actually seems to visit hell; not many animated features have done that before.
A dark film with an exquisite story set in New Orleans in 1939.All dogs go to heaven tells the story of Charlie B.
The film was Don Bluth's, "All Dogs Go to Heaven".This is one of my favorite movie's when I was little.
There is a certain warmth emitted from this style that hearkens back to a day when cartoons actually used to be pure, and had none of the compromising marketing techniques thrown in to gather wider audiences, as mega-budgeted cartoon franchises pander today.The small but heartfelt supernatural story which explores the doggy afterlife of one street dog Charlie will remain a classic animated film for years to come.
Both characters are likeable (especially Charlie!) and the storyline is a breath of relief away from all the usual movie cliches - its unique.All Dogs Go to Heaven is very sad and i couldnt bare to watch it very often when i was said little girl but when i did it was always entertaining moving and lovely if all the films ever made were to be whittled down to a hundred to be placed in a time capsule (stick with me)  to represent human existance this should be one of them!!
The final scene of the film with Charlie and Anne-Marie is one of the saddest I've ever seen in animation.
If you liked The Secret of Nimh, you'll probably like this animated Don Bluth film.I myself found it a bit odd, but I wouldn't give it a bad rating per say.
I don't know what the script writer was on when he came up with this movie, but it must have been pretty bad cause this thing is almost totally incoherent.This is an overall annoying movie, but the two most irritating features of "All Dogs go to Heaven" are the amount of continuity errors and the little orphan girl.
All Dogs is a clever film directed by Don Bluth (NIMH, Rockadoodle, Land before Time) but is NOT for kids.
The story line could work if you erased your mind of the lame and pointless sequel, the main character however, is a criminal and not very likable at first, but he turns a new leaf at the end, the villain was a little pointless too, but the supporting characters voiced by the late Dom Delouise and Judith Barsi, are heart-filled and warm.
(Probably a little more.) Despite dark scenes like Charlie being killed and his "hellish" dream, I loved this.
I watched this movie mainly because I read on the net that it was Barsi's last film before her tragic death, but I discovered a heart-warming tale of friendship and love too!
All Dogs Go To Heaven is a highly recommendable animated movie with good valuable lessons in it.
Perhaps it's just me, but an animated movie aimed at kids that features gambling dogs, revenge, the death of a dog (twice over, if you could Charlie's death at the beginning) and orphaned little girls is not what makes an enduring animated classic.
Considering the talent involved (Don Bluth, especially), the animation in this film is a major disappointment and it winds up being strictly for the dogs rather than for the kids..
It's  animation  could have been better,but  the songs are  golden."You  can't  keep a good dog  down''  is a superb  song.One thing I don't  like, however, is the  ending, too sad.I  give this movie 5 stars..
Burt Reynolds is wonderful as the voice of Charlie the Dog. The songs are all excellent, they range from being very funny to very heart warming.
Usually I don't like animated family movies but this one is special it is the perfect family movie.The ending of the movie always touches my heart and saddens me very much but that is what makes this movie amazing better than all of the garbage that is coming out for kid movies today.
Quite original to see the dog play the Bad Guy. I saw this movie when I was about 8-years-old and I liked it but it wasn't until I watched it again at the age of 13 that I really understood it for what it is; a cartoon about a criminal dog with a real heart of gold "adopts" a little girl in order to exploit her for her talents to talk to animals.
This is how he comes upon young Anne-Marie, the lonely little orphan that can talk to animals whom Charlie plans to scam for her talents in order to get back at his enemy Carface.
While back on earth Charlie makes friends with a little orphan girl named Anne-Marie who is able to help him.
All Dog's Go to Heaven is an animated kid's movie like no other.
The actual movie isn't explicit in any way, it's just an odd combination to make a kid's movie on.Charlie Barkin (Burt Reynolds) is a player dog, who owns half a casino with his partner Carface (Vic Tayback).
This is one of the few movies I feel this way about, but I do.Overall, this is a nice family film, with odd themes thrown in, but nonetheless, good entertainment.My rating: *** out of ****.
But before long, Don Bluth had his first major misfire with ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN; critics were especially harsh on this film, and matters weren't helped by the fact that it opened alongside Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID.Considering that the movie has such a friendly-sounding title, one would expect ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN to be pleasant family fare.
Here a whippet angel, Annabelle, tells him that "all dogs go to heaven because unlike people, dogs are usually loyal and kind." This line represents the confused nature of the movie, since the dogs in the movie, the whippet aside, are presented as anything but.Upon realizing that he's been murdered, Charlie steals his way back to Earth and plots to get even with Carface.
If anything, the movie is more of a triumph of animation than storytelling.On the whole, however, I cannot recommend ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN as good entertainment.
All Dogs go to Heaven is a pretty good movie..
The movie tells the story of 1939's criminal dog, Charlie B.
He goes back to earth to seek his revenge on Carface, with help from his best friend Itchy (voiced by Dom DeLuise) & a young gifted orphan girl, Anne-Marie (voiced by Judith Barsi) who has the power to speak to animals.
What I love about this movie is saying that all dogs go to heaven.
When I was a little girl, this was one of my all time favorite movies to watch.
it has to be one of me favourite movies of all time, it is just a film well worth watching.
All Dogs Go to Heaven is on the track to be a great animated movie, but just doesn't sit well with me.
All Dogs go to Heaven is a Don Bluth animated feature, released in 1989.
Barkin (Burt Reynolds), who cons his way out of heaven using his life watch, in order to seek revenge on the dog that killed him (voiced by Vic Tayback).
Anyway, onto the actual review.WHAT I LIKED: There was an actual portrayal of heaven and hell, one of the few I've seen in animated films.
The good guy dies.OVERALL: I LOVE this movie, even if it is a bit forgettable at times.
Charlie (voiced by the sometimes annoying and silly movie star Burt Reynolds) dies in some kind of accident (or is killed by Carface the villain, I can't remember which) and he goes to heaven.