A Boy and His Dog Review

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This tale follows the exploits of a young man, Vic(Don Johnson) and his telepathic dog, Blood, as they struggle in a post-atomic wilderness. World War Four(which lasted 5 days) has ravaged the Earth, and it's survivors must battle for food, shelter and companionship in the desert-like wasteland. As Vic and his dog Blood eke out a meager existence foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats, a beautiful woman lures Vic into a bizarre underground city, where he is to be used against his will to impregnate dozens of young ladies.

I had seen this film sitting in the horror section of my local video library for some time. I had been tempted many times before to hire it, but always chose something else. Well, having exhausted most of the other movies worth watching in the horror section, A Boy and His Dog's time had finally come.

With a smiley faced nuclear mushroom cloud on the cover and the tag line "a rather kinky tale of survival", filling my head with visions of explosions and wild sexual exploits, so it was that I sat down to watch something completely different. If you want explosions, watch the first 30 seconds, an atomic bomb sequence that ends by telling us World War IV lasted five days, then switch off. And forget about kinky, unless your idea of kinky is being strapped to a table and attached to what can only be described as a "milking" machine(and I'm not talking about the milk you have for breakfast), or making love in a dirty hole, on a dirty mattress, while a dirty dog makes comments about the mating habits of humans.
The motivation for all Vic's actions in this film can be summed up in his own words "I'm hungry and I want to get laid." And that's about as deep as it gets.

I have mixed feelings about this film, I don't completely hate it, but I don't have any great love for it either. Perhaps my experience of this film may have been better had it not taken at least half an hour longer to view as I tried to navigate a very well worn DVD, consequently missing sporadic moments in the film, although I doubt I missed anything terribly important. There are quite a few things in this movie that go unexplained and seem to be there simply for the "quirk" factor. Why does the dog keep calling Vic, Arthur? Why is everyone in the underground city wearing the same white powdered, rosy cheeked makeup?
At 95 minutes, this film is about 60 minutes of nothing much, 30 minutes of something a little more, and if you are wondering why I even bothered to review it, it's because the last 10 seconds left me with a satisfying "I didn't see that coming" smile.

Review by: Retro

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