This movie is an excellent choice if you would like to use the DVD as a target for skeet shooting. Other than that I can't imagine any reason for the making of this film. It has no redeeming qualities. There are no characters that I could find any sympathy for. Even the lead dogs weren't that appealing. That was because one isn't given any chance to see a relationship develop between Lili and her dog Hagen. Before this I had never met I dog I wasn't drawn to. Hagen, in my opinion, was justified in all of his actions, but there is no way he would have behaved that way. (I'm trying not to drop to too many spoilers). I am visiting Budapest next month and I hope the people there are not as horrible as they have been portrayed by this movie. There wasn't one nice adult - or child - even Lili forgot about Hagen quickly. Her mother took off with no provisions made for Hagen. She had to know the laws against mixed breed dogs and that Hagen would be taken from Lili almost immediately. The mother had money to spend the summer in Australia but none for the tiny fee that could have been paid to save Hagen and Lili's heart ache. Could there actually be anyone other than a serial killer in training that would murder a sweet little Jack Russell terrier? At the end of the movie I looked at my grand daughter and she said "Well that was pointless!" Well said!