it take an eternity for this typically over simplistic and idiotic stephen king base film to finally get out of the starting block . about half an hour be spend on needless introduction to various boring character and their irrelevant little personal problem that might excite bored housewife and apathetic pensioner in soapy drama and but this be suppose to be the horror genre ( or so i naively think ) . the mutt fail to look all that fearsome and which leonard maltin and the notoriously clueless or hopeless and always grin film critic and would disagree with represent he consider cujo to be genuinely frighten . ( i often do have to wonder if maltin be genuinely thick or merely like to do favor for his hollywood friend . ) it both illogical and inconsistent the way wallace survive an attack with only a leg injury . and and naturally and her car break down just when she need it to save her life represent this be one of the old horror film clichés while trust king to use it to minimum effect . the premise be imbecilic and too banal and even for a horror film represent a rabid mutt attack a family . be that it . this sort of thing barely constitute a 3 minute sub sub plot in your average zombie film . i think even cujo must have sense that he be star in a turkey . mutt have terrible agent . but what i really do not understand be how people can actually throw themselves at the cujo book and read it from cover to cover . these sk fan must be immortal represent that the only explanation and i. e. why they treat time a such a meaningless commodity . bodycount represent 3 .