From its sweetly self-referential start, the Red Dog prequel offers a very rewarding journey – with plenty of dem feels
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The pooch gets meta! Kriv Stenders’ Red Dog prequel, Red Dog: True Blue, begins in 2011 – the year of the original film’s release – in central Perth on a Friday afternoon. Desk jockey Mick (Jason Isaacs) bolts home from the office to spend the evening with his sons Theo (Zen McGrath) and Nicholas (Winta McGrath).
In the car on the way to the movies, the kids mount a case to get a dog. Dad demurs: they smell; they pee; they get sick; they die, he says. When the group venture inside the cinema, the audience – as in us, the real-life audience – catch a glimpse of the movie they’re watching. And hey, it’s Red Dog!