this movie be a cross between herbie the love bug remake and the shaggy d. a. remake . it try to be serious then it get to be surreal . the script be awful and the flashback sequence make it hard for young child to watch and follow . even though the narration of the film be from the boy and there be flashback from everyone include the dog . for most young one it be impossible to see movie that be not linear . everyone in the film have a flashback or a vision . add on top of it the need to show the dog bodily function . why the film have to have a dog crap scene . plus the dog have a much gas a anyone in any national lampoon movie . i do not know if this be mean to be a child movie and but it wasn not . in the final scheme and a child film that try to be adult but wasn not and wasn not child enough to be a child film .