“Hotel for Dogs:” Like a lick in the face
On Saturday, I got a chance to see “Hotel for Dogs” at a special screening to benefit the Maryland SPCA, and I highly recommend it, whether you’re 8 or 80.
The SPCA, which runs its own sort of hotel for dogs on Falls Road, brought three up-for-adoption dogs to the fundraiser at the Regal Cinema in Hunt Valley, including the pup above (whose attempt to relieve me of my camera was unsuccessful).
The movie was cute, and funny, and elicited at least a dozen prolonged “awwwwwws” from the capacity crowd as the story unfolded — two orphans take in a New York neighborhood’s strays dogs, using an abandoned hotel to provide a contraption-filled haven for them.
It’s a movie that brings out the child in you, makes you wonder where you’ve been hiding it, and ponder whether you might ought to let it — and the idealism that went along with it – out once in a while.
“Hotel for Dogs” takes grown-up cynicism and gives it a big sloppy lick in the face.
Hotel for Dogs opens Jan. 16.
Posted by jwoestendiek January 12th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: benefit, cinema, cynicism, dogs, film, fundraiser, hotel, hotel for dogs, idealism, maryland, movie, new york, orphans, review, spca, youth
