In this episode of "Same Movie Same Year," we have "K-9" and "Turner & Hooch" released in 1989. Both starred comedians who played California cops on a big case. Both somehow wound up with a dog in their lives that became their default partner. They both were at odds with their canine coworker until the dog was shot in the line of duty where we got the fraught stressful ending in which we were supposed to be concerned the dog may die. It was then that they realized how much they loved the animal.
Neither movie was all that good, but "K9" was even worse because it had Jim Belushi and a worse plot. Belushi plays this cowboy hero type cop who was trying to stop and put behind bars this big-time drug dealer named Lyman (Kevin Tighe) (as if cops take down super drug dealers by themselves all the time). Jim Belushi does these stupid soliloquies throughout the movie as though his riffs are funny when they are far from it. He does one unrealistic and illegal stunt after another in pursuit of Lyman, I guess, to make things exciting. Eventually, they went real cliché by having his girlfriend kidnapped. And what kind of movie would it be if he didn't get her back?
This formula didn't work. Jim Belushi playing a hero all by himself + a dog did not equal good. The loose cannon cop routine was tired and out of place and dogs aren't that funny though they get the lion's share of animal films. Yeah, this movie could've been a lot worse, but it also could've been a lot better.
Neither movie was all that good, but "K9" was even worse because it had Jim Belushi and a worse plot. Belushi plays this cowboy hero type cop who was trying to stop and put behind bars this big-time drug dealer named Lyman (Kevin Tighe) (as if cops take down super drug dealers by themselves all the time). Jim Belushi does these stupid soliloquies throughout the movie as though his riffs are funny when they are far from it. He does one unrealistic and illegal stunt after another in pursuit of Lyman, I guess, to make things exciting. Eventually, they went real cliché by having his girlfriend kidnapped. And what kind of movie would it be if he didn't get her back?
This formula didn't work. Jim Belushi playing a hero all by himself + a dog did not equal good. The loose cannon cop routine was tired and out of place and dogs aren't that funny though they get the lion's share of animal films. Yeah, this movie could've been a lot worse, but it also could've been a lot better.