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This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

For some reason this movie was put on for us to watch at some point during middle school. As of writing this review, I have never seen the original. This movie is extremely boring and not worth watching. Its stupid and annoying. I would not recommend watching this thing.

I'm going to do something i don't do very often. i'm going to gush for a moment. i LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie. This is one of my favorite animated movies ever and it puts the first one to shame. OK. gushing over. point is, i love this film.This is much better than the first for several reasons. 1. it's not nearly as dark. i had a problem with that. the first one kinda scared me. it was creepy, i didn't like the girl, and the puppies thing was weird. 2. the animation is so much smoother. the first looked gritty and gross looking, but this one has incredibly smooth lines that flow easily and that gains major points in my book. 3. the characters are much friendlier. i LOVE annabelle's new look and i think sasha, while i usually don't like the random addition of a love interest, pulled it off well. and David is a HELL of a lot less annoying then the chick from the first. 4. the music. holy crap is the music good in this movie. i've had these songs stuck in my head for 10 years. and that's just fine with me.I could keep making a list, but i feel you get the point. This movie is golden. if you want something to show to your kids, or you just feel like watching a good movie, pop this one in. you won't be disappointed. if i had to make one nitpick it would be that the villain was a bit lame. but that only makes it slight imperfection. If more animated movies were like this, i would have no reason to watch live action at ALL.So let's break the story down. Charlie doesn't want to be in heaven anymore. itchy dies and joins charlie. they both get sent down to earth after carface steals the horn of gabriel. they get some weird collars from an evil looking dog that carface introduces them too (they don't know he took it yet) and charlie meets sasha singing onstage (probably the only bad song of the movie) he then follows her back to find David a boy who ran away from home because his stepmom is preggers. he meets up with charlie, who since he's from heaven he can talk, uses their one miracle to let sasha talk too. and after convincing David he's a guardian angel, they're off to retrieve the horn. after a crazy scene at a police station, they do, and they go to make David money as a street magician. David sees how hard it is and wants to go home. but uh oh, charlie's collar wears out just after he finds love with sasha and goes back to get new ones. the dog gives it to him in exchange for the horn who turns into a demon cat. Carface kidnaps David for the horn and charlie goes to go rescue him. After a cool boss fight scene, Charlie wins, everyone is reunited, carface is sucked down to hell (don't worry, he's OK in the TV series) and anabelle lets charlie come back to life while itchy stays in heaven and they live happily ever after. that is unless you count the awesome TV series where itchy comes down to earth to help Charlie do good angel deeds. but that's a different story.This movie is just great. do yourself a favor if you're feeling down. Watch this movie. you DON'T have to watch the first. just stick with this one and it'll brighten up your day. guaranteed.This movie found its way to easy street. with a 9. out of 10.

My Take: Harmless yet childishly corny. Calling it a family movie is an overstatement.This sequel to Don Bluth's anti-Disney fable ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN is appealing but weak. The animation, when compared to it's admittedly better predecessors are colorful but falls short of the product they've come to expect. Combined with weak musical numbers (even with Sheena Easton lending her vocals) and even weaker characters and a lack of a better story results in a lively but completely forgettable fluff.A popular cats-list of voice actors including Charlie Sheen, Ernest Borgnine, Sheena Easton, Dom DeLuise and Bebe Neuwirth team up to provide a rather appealing star power to this weakling of an animated adventure. After the legendary Gabriel's Horn, which unlocks the doors to Heaven's Gate, is stolen, Charlie Barkin (voiced by Sheen) and his buddy Ithcy (voiced by DeLuise) go back to earth to retrieve it, where they also follow old "buddy" Carface (voiced by Borgnine), who happens to work for the evil cat wizard named Reginald (voiced by Tony Jay), who wants the Horn for himself.Two sub-plots are provided, but either one doesn't really help much at all. One includes a romance that goes on between Charlie and an Irish Setter singer (voiced by Easton), and the other, concerns the dogs helping a little runaway boy named David. The story is fairly weak, even considering the standards of weak non-Disney effort. Bluth will most likely find his way as a Disney successor, but he has hardly succeeds here. Even if he has a way of entertaining kids, Bluth has yet to discover the trappings to appeal adults. The result is a film that will appealing to the kids. Adults should stick to something else.Rating: **1/2 out of 5.

How could they take such a beautifully animated gem like Don Bluth's All Dogs go to Heaven and bastardize it with a charmless, cheesy, uninspired sequel. The haunting music and delightful characters are gone, now replaced with tacky animation and an unimaginative plot.The Pros: Charlie Sheen is sometimes fun as Charlie, but he lacks the charming tough guy attitude that brought him to life by Burt Reynolds. I did particularly enjoy the songs "I will always be with you" and "It's too Heavenly here".The Cons: There seems to be no connection between this and the original. In the beginning Charlie is chums with Carface, but wait a minute. Isn't this the same character who was responsible for Charlie's murder and kidnapped the sweet little orphan he loved? I guess that all changes in Heaven but why isn't Anne-Marie even mentioned? If Itchy makes it to Heaven, wouldn't Flo and Killer make it too? What is with Annabelle the whippet's voice? In the original it sounded feminine and charming and in the sequel it sounds like a whiny, bitchy, parrot. The new characters aren't all that great (except Sasha). And the animation is better compared to a generic Saturday morning cartoon. The constant cartoony "humor" is flat and unfunny and the "heart" just doesn't work when compare to the original, which had such a moving unsubtle touch that makes me cry every time.All Dogs go to Heaven is one of my all-time favorite films. How Don Bluth allowed this sequel to be made is beyond me.BOTTOM LINE: Not all sequels go to Heaven.