Good Boy!
The dogs had taken over the world. Or that was what they were supposed to have done thousands of years ago, according to the movie Good Boy!.
Hubble, a Border Terrier, was sent from Sirius to investigate the failure of dogs in colonizing earth. So Hubble, with Owen, a 12-year-old friendless boy, had to get the mission back on track. Or else…ctrl-alt-del? Maybe the Great Dane should have been told that the cats had already transmitted “Mission Accomplished”.
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer, in 2003, together with three Jim Henson companies, produced the movie Good Boy directed by John Hoffman from the story “Dogs from Outer Space” written by Zeke Richardson and adapted for the screen by Zeke Richardson and John Hoffman. Owen Baker, a pre-teen looking for a friend, was played by Liam Aiken with Kevin Nealon and Molly Shannon playing his father and mother. Hubble was played by a Border Terrier, with voice supplied by Matthew Broderick.
A Border Terrier is a small dog with a rough coat and a reputation as a mouser, among other accomplishments. It has a common ancestry with Dandie Dinmont Terriers and Bedlington Terriers. It takes its name from its original home on the Scottish borders. Today, the Border Terrier is sans borders and can be found all over the world.
It is intelligent and adapt easily to new environments. With its mouser instincts, it can just sit and watch whatever is going on around them. If it were raised, from puppyhood, together with a cat, it would think it perfectly natural to sit down together with the cat and, perhaps, watch a rat hole together. Other smaller animals, however, are always good for a merry chase.
In the Good Boy movie, Hubble, the Border Terrier, arrived with a crash, in his flying saucer, from Sirius. Thousands of years ago, dogs were dispatched from his home planet to colonize Earth. When Hubble found that dogs had, instead, become pets, he was, naturally, aghast. His opinion was, however, not shared by some other dogs. Like one said, “We don’t pick up their poop after them” to point out that dogs were actually the ones taking the humans for a walk in the park.
Owen, the neighborhood dog-walker, was adopted by Hubble and conscripted to help him accomplish his mission. There were other precocious canines involved like Barbara Ann, the pampered Poodle, voiced by Delta Burke, Wilson, the so-with-it Boxer, voiced by Donald Faison and Shep, the Bernese Mountain dog with a gas emission malfunction, voiced by Carl Reiner.
Hubble’s mission was to put the mission back on track before the Great Dane, voice by Vanessa Redgrave, arrived to discover the truth. Mission failure would mean all dogs on Earth would be mass recalled to Sirius 7. Perhaps, for mass termination by reason of mass dereliction of duty?
As the Good Boy movie progressed, Hubble began to learn Earth dog customs and even took part in Earth dog traditional past-times like playing catch. Not exactly what the canine secret agent, Canid 3942, was trained to do, but, like all capable agents, Hubble had to do what was necessary to blend in with the locals.
Finally, the Great Dane arrived with her Chinese crested assistant. She immediate took stock of the situation and decided that it was time to hit the abort button. Did all the dogs then vanish in a puff of smoke? Go and find out for yourself watching the Good Boy DVD. And take your cat along to see how the dogs never got it right from the start.
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