The Shaggy Dog (2004, DVD)

I guess as a child each one of us had our own fantasies. For me, for as long as I could remember, I had always wanted to be a dog. Now that may seem to be sort of crazy, but to me it seemed that a dog's life was something amazing. Lassie was my favorite dog, but she was always a dog, and that didn't seem to hold much fascination to me. However, when I first saw the movie, The Shaggy Dog, that all changed. For in this film, a person actually BECAME a dog, and because of that I wanted to watch this movie over and over. Unfortunately at the time when I was younger, I could not watch The Shaggy...

My seven-year-old daughter is a movie fanatic, and every year at holiday time we make sure to add movies to her wish list. She enjoys them, and movies are a great investment. I find that my children get tons of use from their movies, a nice change from toys that might break or be discarded after the first usage. When she first opened this movie she was immediately enthralled as she looked at the case. I have to say that this is deceptive, as the pictures on the movie case are in color and the movie itself is in black and white. When the movie started the black and white status upset her...