No one will cry when this dog is put down

Somebody should put this dog to sleep. Good Boy! is a story of essentially one joke repeated in as many ways as possible.\nWhen Owen (Liam Aiken) gains the ability to understand dogs, viewers get let in to every single possible dog joke and pun imaginable. Guess what? Poodles are snooty and prissy. Also, those tiny little wiener dogs? Yeah they're nervous. \nThere's nothing really new here that hasn't been done by every other movie with dogs who talk (i.e. Homeward Bound, Cats & Dogs). Okay, point taken. People clean up dogs' poop or dogs like to chase things. In fact, the only joke that isn't some sort of pun (for example "you the dog") is a very awkward joke were all the dogs get (what any non-child would understand as) stoned off of laughing gas. Understandably, the joke was thrown in as something for older viewers, but still is highly inappropriate for such a young audience. \nAnyway, the conflict here is that dogs are from outer space and were sent to take over the world. Clearly they have not, instead choosing to become man's best friend. Hubble (voiced by Matthew Broderick) has just come to Earth to grade the dogs' progress in their original quest and to send it back to the Greater Dane, the leader of all dogs. Clearly he is not impressed and tries to teach Earth dogs how to impress the Greater Dane upon her arrival. Owen, meanwhile, tries to help Hubble while everyone thinks he's a freak because he's talking to dogs. Don't they know the seemingly freak kid who talks to animals is always going to save the world? \nGood Boy! has a long list of celebrities other than Broderick prostituting their talent for a paycheck, including: Vanessa Redgrave, Brittany Murphy, Delta Burke, Molly Shannon, Carl Reiner and Kevin Nealon. Aiken isn't too horrible and can actually pull off his overly sappy lines, making him seem more endearing than anything else. This cannot be said for the rest of the child actors who look like they struggle to read their lines, much less act. \nAlso, as hard as it is to say, it's very difficult to understand Hubble's motivation change from one moment not caring about people to striving to become more Earth-dog like the next. \nThere are a million better movies to take kids out to than this. When someone finally decides to put Good Boy! down, there will probably be no one crying.