Talking dogs

In the latest of an infrequent series on films that have dogs in, I'd like to recommend the latest Pixar offering, Up. The dogs in question all wear "translation collars" so we can hear such wonderful lines as "I have just met you and I love you!" and "Squirrel!" 

 

The film is a warm and surreal comedy about an old man who takes his house to South America using hundreds of helium balloons. A Korean Boy Scout stows away and a pack of talking dogs tries to foil their adventures. One of the best characters is the old man's wife who, in a teary introduction montage, has a miscarriage and dies within the first ten minutes.

The laughs soon return and I doubt there will be another film this year in which you will experience the protracted sound of a small Korean Boy Scout being dragged slowly across the windscreen of a zeppelin crewed by talking dogs.