RED DOG: TRUE BLUE
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Director: Kriv Stenders
Screenwriter: Daniel Taplitz
Principal cast:
Levi Miller
Bryan Brown
Jason Isaacs
Hanna Mangan Lawrence
Levi Miller
John Jarratt
Country: Australia
Classification: PG
Runtime: 88 mins.
Australian release date: 26 December 2016
After the success of Red Dog, in 2011, Kriv Stenders has followed up with this much anticipated sequel, Red Dog:True Blue. Well, prequel really - due to Red Dog’s demise in the first film, he’s had to go back in time with this one, so we learn about the adorable Red Cloud Kelpie’s life before he went ‘on the road’ in Red Dog.
Found sheltering in a tree after a flash flood, the pup is adopted by young city-slicker Mick (Levi Miller), much to the chagrin of his station-owning Grandpa (Bryan Brown). Striving to be an iconic Aussie story, set in the outback and based around the relationship between a dog and his master, there are moments when the audience will be absorbed by the cute storyline but, as so often happens, the sequel doesn’t quite match up to its predecessor.
Red Dog: True Blue is a series of vignettes lacking a solid narrative thread. It’ll probably do well at the box office as it’s perfectly timed to release over the family holiday period, but it won’t have the legs to carry it further, to become the legend that it so desperately wants to be.
Screenwriter: Daniel Taplitz
Principal cast:
Levi Miller
Bryan Brown
Jason Isaacs
Hanna Mangan Lawrence
Levi Miller
John Jarratt
Country: Australia
Classification: PG
Runtime: 88 mins.
Australian release date: 26 December 2016
After the success of Red Dog, in 2011, Kriv Stenders has followed up with this much anticipated sequel, Red Dog:True Blue. Well, prequel really - due to Red Dog’s demise in the first film, he’s had to go back in time with this one, so we learn about the adorable Red Cloud Kelpie’s life before he went ‘on the road’ in Red Dog.
Found sheltering in a tree after a flash flood, the pup is adopted by young city-slicker Mick (Levi Miller), much to the chagrin of his station-owning Grandpa (Bryan Brown). Striving to be an iconic Aussie story, set in the outback and based around the relationship between a dog and his master, there are moments when the audience will be absorbed by the cute storyline but, as so often happens, the sequel doesn’t quite match up to its predecessor.
Red Dog: True Blue is a series of vignettes lacking a solid narrative thread. It’ll probably do well at the box office as it’s perfectly timed to release over the family holiday period, but it won’t have the legs to carry it further, to become the legend that it so desperately wants to be.