This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Boring, long, and too preachy.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

A little slow if you've never seen it before or have no frame of reference(like I didn't) for Benji initially. I think it may be way too slow for most of the ADHD crop of kids today. But, trust me, if you're a mature movie watcher, then you'll be rooting for Benji to find a home and wonder just how that positive outcome would come about. They had a really creative way to add drama to it, too.Benji is like the Urkel of dogs without the clumsiness. Thirty to forty minutes are spent just giving you a ballpark figure of how smart he is. Then, the end tells you exactly how smart! This dog is probably the smartest dog in the history of TV and I know that you've had some really, really smart dogs before, but I don't think they are anything like this! Most smart dogs are kids with hyper memories and shepherd ability! Look at this dog and you'll "swear" you were looking at a man with those capabilities! He trains a dog, remembers things that keeps him safe, acts better than anyone on set, carries out a complex routine every day, and masters human psychology so well that he might be smarter than your average adult! I bought this movie on a whim and definitely do not regret it all! On this type of movie, many white folks reviews might mean little--as they are mostly animal lovers and a movie like this is easy for them to fall in love with--but I'm a black man that has no frame of reference to Benji and would not be considered an animal lover at all!

Not a bad flick...I regret that I saw sequels before having seen the original. Benji is a lovable character who hustles everyone in the neighborhood with charm and charisma. Two kids , children of a doctor, want to give him a home there with them, but the doctor has all kinds of phobias against canines and will not hear of it. Benji finds a girlfriend ( no kidding) and shares food and his secret hide-away--a deserted house--with his new acquaintance...until fate steps in and dictates the direction of the action. The kids are victims of a plot and Benji--and his girlfriend--come to the rescue using what measures they can muster. It's really cute, though it gets a little ugly when the bad guys appear...and there seems to be an un-explained flashback of sorts that Benji has regarding an incident with firearms. This, to my thinking, should have been developed a little better to convey to the audience that this was a motivating factor for Benji's actions...and why. But, one can suspend sensibilities if a dog is intelligent enough to convince you that he knows what is going on and has the best interest of people at heart , and that applies in this instance. Besides, since he was a homeless dog, there may have been myriad instances that were unpleasant remembrances...still it is nice when the writers and the directors let us in on what happening by way of full disclosure. But, it's a nice flick, the kids will love it, and adults will too. It's early seventies so that pacing of the film is not quite as frantic as it would become some seven or eight years down the road. See the movie.

Full marks to Joe Camp for making such a beautiful film!.... Its all too easy for the dog lovers to absolutely fall in love with the movie, and Benji.....but this movie will always have the ability to change people from dog haters to dog lovers .... Benji is absolutely fabulous in this rendition of a street dog who has a certain way of living with with the people in the city.What changes things is the kidnapping of Benji's human friends. But what is beautiful about the movie is that without using the crutches of special effects (read - talking animals), the expressiveness of Benji in various stages of the movie with just the barking to help is fabulous..... he falls in love (with another beauty of a pooch)...questions using his eyes, flaps his ear to express doubt, rolls on the grass to impress Tiffany (the pooch!)... the works!!! ...Benji impresses!... and how...!... It doesn't take too much to know that the acting abilities of the humans in the movie aren't too much to talk about. But maybe that just enhances Benji's talent....You would fall in love with BEnji and have tears flowing down your cheeks when they do the close-up on his sad eyes....Yes, I am a dog lover.... but Benji .. he is the love of my life!

Good one. It has a few funny scenes. Most of the actors except for Ms.Bavier are obscure. THe filmography is good. It is clearly evident that the film is shot somewhere in the southern Uninted states. I wish that there would be more films like this one out today instead of what Hollywod is putting out now. I did not hear any foul words in it. Now Hollywood has to put a few foul words in every film. I was thinking about that movie recently and finally rented it 2 months ago. I would recommend this to anybody especially if they like dogs and other animals. The only draw back is toward the end there is one simi-violent scene.