Nowhere near as charming as the 1974 version which had me glued to the telly out of nowhere. I loved how in the original we learned about the dog and his routine and it was all relatively plausible. Here, Benji is too much like the missing father substitute and human more than dog. He's basically hitch hiked his way from some rural area to the urban area but he adjust extremely quickly and effectively. That's just not really realistic. There was quite a lot of gratuitous violence and sad scenes involving dogs that I found unnecessary to the story. I felt the narrative arc was forced with the explanation of how Benji came to be on his own.
The best thing in the movie are the dogs themselves as they're cute.
The best thing in the movie are the dogs themselves as they're cute.