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I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Let me get it out of the way now, Plague Dogs suffers from only pace, at times slow and prolonged, but just like that of Watership Down, redemption is found and something magical is created. The Plague Dogs is one of a few notable animations ever made. It's so engaging and the two dogs are just so innocent and lovely that you pray for a happy ending. More brutal and violent than I expected, tapering away from a family film, The Plague Dogs is a social commentary on what we thought we knew and will give you a new perspective on the world of animal testing. Utterly fantastic! Superb animation from one of the greatest authors of children's books, which may as well be read by adults as well. Hats off to everyone, who in the process, made this terrific movie.

I read the Plague Dogs a few years ago, and the book certainly has a happy ending. So the movie was pretty shocking towards the end. The Plague Dogs movie tells the tragic story of two friendly dogs destined to lead brief lives in the hands of science, until they escape and run away to try and survive.Rowf has always been a research specimen, never considered a pet and never considered a living, thinking creature. He is used in drowning experiments to see how long he can endure swimming in a large plastic tank, and his only companion is Snitter, a terrier who has electrodes in his brain and often hallucinates and tells Rowf gibberish nonsense. Snitter had an owner at one point but his owner was struck by a car and presumably killed - while rescuing Snitter - so Snitter knows that not all humans are bad. Rowf begs to differ.One night Snitter finds a rip in the metal fencing where the lab dogs are kept, and he and Rowf squeeze out and escape the building. This infuriates the scientists, especially when Snitter is so valuable for his brain surgery implants, and they discover that the dogs have entered a bioweapons research department of the building through their escape. While Rowf and Snitter meet a cunning and adventurous red fox named The Tod who show them how to survive in the woods, the scientists involve the military, and soon civilians are warned that the two missing dogs are very dangerous (whether they were contaminated or not). It isn't long before a huge mess begins and both dogs are hunted down in every way possible... even if it means their death.The big differences between the movie and the book are the death of Snitter's owner (in the book he lives through the accident), and the ending (in the book both dogs are reunited with the owner). In the movie, both dogs, cornered and desperate, swim into the icy ocean waters and the film is cut off, leaving no conclusion as to what happened to the dogs, although it is implied that eventually they'll both drown. It's an extremely depressing movie and although animated it's certainly not for children by any means (there are several gory scenes that no kid would want to see). It is also not an anti-animal testing propaganda film; as stated by the author the animal testing lab was just an antagonistic entity in the plot, not the whole theme of the story.The voices were good, the animation was in washed out England grays and browns but very beautiful and well-done, the soundtrack was eerie and amazing and the plot is just as good, if not better, as the book. I highly recommend watching it, and don't forget to check out Watership Down, Felidae, The Secret of N.I.M.H., the Brave Little Toaster and When the Wind Blows as well!

Usually I don't like films like this. Plague Dogs feels long, slow, drab, and arguably melodramatic. Its not excellent in character, and it doesn't seem to have a particular message. But The Plague Dogs works for me. And it has to come down to the animation.The animation looks good for the time, but more importantly, its barren, and uses faded colors - light blues, greens, and grays. The artists make modern England look like its in post-apocalypse. Yeah, there are humans around, but, from these dog's perspective, its a scary, lonely place.Plague Dogs is near hopeless, and honestly has some of the more screwed up scenes I've seen in animation. There's not much else to say about it. If you're in the right mood, its an emotional experience. Can't say I love it, but it stuck with me longer than most movies.

The 80's was a dark time for animation because animated films soon started to become more serious. One of them was the 1982 animated film, "The Plague Dogs". Based on the Richard Adams book by the same name.I really love this movie. The animation was great because the character model's look real and the backgrounds were nicely drawn. the character's were interesting including The Todd and the humans. What I like about the human's is there role in the movie, instead of being cowardly villains, they are scientists that do experiments on animals and they won't stop until they capture the two runaway dogs."The Plague Dogs", is a movie definitely worth watching if you're looking for a good animated film to watch. But this movie is NOT for kids.