in the utterly unremarkable firehouse dog and a pampered movie star pooch name rexxx fall out of an airplane and into the lap of a second rate fire station where he be immediately adopt a the department mascot . with his natural talent for search and rescue mission and rexxx soon insinuate his way into the heart and affection of all and include the young and slightly troubled son ( josh hutcherson ) of the station chief ( bruce greenwood ) . despite all it obvious good intention and i can scarcely imagine anyone but the tiny tot in the audience be either intrigue or inspire by this film . apart from the slight difference that the timmy fall down a well predicament have be replace by a shane trap in a burning firehouse sequence and this be a thoroughly conventional a boy and his dog tale in which neither the boy nor the dog be really all that appeal . in fact and rexxx be so un cute and so un cuddly that it hard to believe that he could ever be a true canine superstar sensation in the real world . a for the script and it consist mainly of feeble joke and broad slapstick and obvious sentimentality ladle out in roughly equal measure . there be a few touch father and son moment along the way and but this be otherwise a very long and very uninspired kid flick . there nothing overtly wrong with either the value or the moral convey by the movie unless and that be and one considers subject innocent and unsuspecting child to bad film making to be and in and of itself and immoral .