All dogs certainly go to heaven in A Dog’s Journey, the follow-up to A Dog’s Purpose. After multiple heart-wrenching departures, they gambol through a golden wheat-filled field of dreams before being reincarnated as yet another version of Bailey (voiced by Josh Gad). This tale of canine devotion through the ages is so doggedly aimed at teenage girls it even has K-pop romantic lead Henry Lau to add to all the puppies.
Adapted by W. Bruce Cameron and several collaborators from his own novel, Journey reunites the viewer with Bailey, a Pyrenees Mountain Dog, and his owners Ethan (Dennis Quaid) and Hannah (Marg Helgenberger), whose story was told in the first film (although it’s not necessary to have seen Purpose). Their son has died in an unspecified accident, leaving behind a young widow Gloria (Betty Gilpin, excellent) and her toddler daughter CJ in the idyllic farm Ethan has inherited. Bailey is getting old, as is Ethan.
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Dog lovers.