Oh dear... I would have liked to have given this film more than 2/10 since I did like it: There was definitely something likeable and enjoyable about its atmosphere and a few of the characters. What ruined it for me was the script writing. In fact, there were some of the lamest, most cringe- inducing, cliche-ridden lines in this film that I've heard for many years. In general, the actors did well in pulling them off, but I was still left feeling very, very unsatisfied by this aspect. In parts, it reduced what should have been quite a good film to second-rate Disney. But despite that, the film is still emotionally engaging

Many of the scenes in Red Dog were made up like the hotel the action started at I was their in 1070 to late 72 and it was a brick and tile building in Dampier not a tin shed. all the Dongers Single accommodation I saw were square transportable, but one thing I do remember I would ride a motorbike from Karratha to just out side Dampier following the overhead telegraph and one time a dog was sitting in the middle of the dirt track I stopped and he jumped on the back of my Suzuki he got off when I stopped to go on to the main road just before the salt flats. as for the rest I think it was a big stretch of the imagination. I did like the story and it brought back fond memories of Dampier and the North West it is a pity the hotel the Mermaid was miss represented in front of the hotel was a bitumen car park and then a shopping mall with shops at either side and a walkway down the middle. one shot taken looking at the Island (East Intercourse Island) I feel was over light up for its tile. Also from just outside Karratha right down to Dampier the road was sealed bitumen. I am a stickler for details in this type of movies

Its about a dog that wonder's the outback of western Australia on a journey to find its true master and on its journey it touches the hearts of all the people it meets.It was a really heart warming movie and i really enjoyed seeing the Australian outback used for something but overall the movie was good because it showed me how much a dog can be loved even though i don't like dogs themselves. After i watched this movie it made me want to get a dog to see what it would be to love something other than my family and my Favorite sport soccer. The actors were great my favorite actor was John just because he was the main character and i couldn't decide because all the actors did so well.

This is a movie with fictional characters but the story of a dog is based on popular folklore in the NW part of Australia, mostly the mining area on the coast near Dampier. Set in 1971 through 1979, it features the dog named "Red Dog" by the locals, that sort of shows up and becomes part of their lives. (It may be noted that just about everything is red there, because of the red soil and inevitable dust.)The first 15 to 20 minutes are a test of your viewing patience, for there isn't anything there particularly to draw the viewer interest, it just sets the time and location, a rather featureless area. But it does pick up after that and over all it is a superb, funny, and touching movie. Most of it is told in a series of flashbacks as Red Dog appears to be on his deathbed.The biggest name here is Josh Lucas who plays John , an American wanderer who never has spent longer than 2 years at one location in his adult life. He arrives to drive the bus, and Red Dog insinuates himself into John's life. Thus the comment, "sometimes you pick a dog, and sometimes he picks you." Red Dog picked him, even though all the other men would have liked Red Dog to be their best mate.One fateful day John gets a new passenger, very pretty Tasmanian native Rachael Taylor as Nancy , new in the area to work as a secretary. She and John hit it off right away and as it turns out she is the reason he stays there past his usual 2 years.Although this love story of John and Nancy is woven in, the movie always remains about Red Dog, his almost human-like qualities, and his positive influence on the community of workers from all parts of the world. I saw it via Netflix streaming movies, it is one of the better movies I have seen lately.A side note, John has a motorcycle and it is an authentic Honda Four cylinder 750K which was first produced in 1969 and with its innovations changed the world of consumer motorcycles. Seeing that in the movie brought back good memories, a co-worker of mine owned one of those original Honda Fours back in the early 1970s.SPOILERS: John proposes to Nancy, she accepts, but after he leaves her place one morning on his motorcycle he never shows up for work, and no one knows where he is. Friends go looking for him, spot a dead 'roo on the road, then find John had hit it, he lay dead in the ditch. Life goes on but after waiting 3 weeks for John to return, Red Dog spends years wandering all over NW Australia looking for him. Not finding him, as Red Dog gets older and is in a back room of the local bar where everyone congregates, Red Dog gets up and sneaks out. They eventually find him dead, at John's grave site. The movie ends a year later as one of the guys brings Nancy a puppy, it looks just like Red Dog. Plus the locals erect a bronze statue of Red Dog.