Manipulation of emotions

A Dog’s Journey2 starsDirector: Gail MancusoStars: Dennis Quaid, Marg Helgenberger, Betty Gilpin, Josh Gad, Kathryn PrescottDuration: 108 minsClass: PGKRS Releasing Ltd
A Dog’s Journey is a direct sequel to 2017’s A Dog’s Purpose, and the third film adaptation from the book trilogy by W. Bruce Cameron (the middle one is A Dog’s Way Home, featuring different characters, whose film adaptation was released earlier this year).
Bailey the Dog – aka Boss Dog (voiced by Josh Gad) – is living out his last years on a farm with his beloved humans Ethan and Hannah (Dennis Quaid and Marg Helgenberger). Sharing the house is their toddler-age granddaughter CJ, and daughter-in-law Gloria (Betty Gilpin) who cannot get over the loss of her husband, Ethan and Hannah’s son.
When Gloria decides to move to the city with CJ, Ethan and Hannah are heartbroken, and as Bailey reaches the end of his life, Ethan makes him promise that he will somehow find CJ and protect her as she is growing up.

Cue an hour and 45 minutes of merciless heartstring-tugging as, hammering home the film’s message that some friendships transcend lifetimes, Bailey is reincarnated multiple times. And with each incarnation he (at...