Hotel for Dogs

View Date: 11/22/09

This movie is about a brother and sisten in the foster care system. The only thing they have been able to keep routinely with them through their many recent moves is their dog. They do have to hide it from their foster parents, so they have set up several contraptions to make the dog more self-sufficient.

Their dog gets away from them one day, and they track him to an abandoned hotel that is occupied by two other stray dogs. The three animals really seem to be at home in the hotel, so the kids choose to make the dogs comfortable there. The kids have very kind hearts, and wind up taking in pretty much every stray dog in the city. Along the way, they team up with some other like-minded kids, and really develop the hotel into a “Hotel for Dogs”.

I was really surprised at just how good this movie is. Both my daughter and I really liked it, and wound up watching it several more times later in the week. Yes, it is a family movie, but it was very enjoyable. We still talk about the contraptions made to make the dogs more self-sufficient and entertained.

10 words or less: A wonderful family movie, better than anticipated.