Charlie - Ein himmlischer Held

When the Don Bluth animated classic, "All Dogs Go To Heaven", was released, it did an okay job at the box-office and became a classic.

There has been some sequel's to Don Bluth's movies and most of them were terrible (Secret Of Nimh 2 for Example). But in 1996, MGM studios released a sequel to the original called, "All Dogs Go To Heaven 2". It did a bad job at the Box-Office and got a lot of negative review's from critics and fans of the original. But for me, I thought it was a decent sequel.

The movie had some good animation even though it wasn't as good as the first one, it had some nice voice acting from Charlie Sheen, Sheena Easton, and it had Dom DeLuise returning as his character from the first one. The song's were also not that bad, even though I didn't care for, "Count Me Out" and "On Easy Street".

Beside's the fact that I didn't like the song's, "Count Me Out" and "On Easy Street", I also thought the villain, Red, was weak and the story wasn't that good. The story was okay, but I wish it had Charlie and Itchy seeing Anne-Marie again.

"All Dogs Go To Heaven", is not a bad sequel but it's not as great as the original. If you're a fan of the original, then this film is not for you. If you're someone looking for a good animated film for your kids to watch, I recommend renting the original and this one.

This sequel is not as good as its predecessor; however, it is still a good animated movie with good songs.

First and perhaps foremost, I would like to remark that this goody-goody sequel really took away from the original ADGTH movie, with all its dark bittersweet sentimentality, its beautiful insights of the Afterlife,and its heavy undertone of the criminal underworld.Also, why must they characterize the cat as a demon? For certain children that come to mind that believe cats are evil, no-good animals out to serve witches and devils, this does not help. To cast the cat as an average villain is one thing. But to cast it as the Devil himself?! I mean, if the plot were turned around, would they cast the dog as the Devil? That point aside, I didn't care for Charlie Sheen as Charlie B. Barkin and Itchie's one liner role really didn't cut up. Annabelle lacks any spunk, as she had in the original. There are certain scenes and songs that touched me. Such as "I Will Always Be With You". And the end scene was sweet. I did approve of the Guardian Angel theme, while I didn't agree that Earth would be better than Heaven. 3 out 10!

My cousin and I watched the All Dogs Go To Heaven films yesterday and we both liked them. But he's 6 years old and looks at this film as Oscar material, to be honest I wasn't expecting much since I was very satisfied with the way the first one ended. While I agree that this was not any where near up to par as the first one I still thought that this was a cute movie. As far as sequels go, you have to admit that All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 is better than most. The voices were actually closer than usual and the story was still pretty charming. Even though the first one seemed to have an official conclusion, this was just a new introduction for those little one's who might have missed All Dogs Go To Heaven.

Charley has a new friend in Heaven, Itchy is there to join him. But Charley is getting a bit bored with the whole purity and typical days of being there. Carface has won an award for being the most turned around angel and it seems like things are working out for him, only he's really after a horn to give to Satan, or at least the Satan of dogs. But when Carface drops the horn, it goes down to Earth, Charley and Itchy are sent to get it, but Charley is quickly distracted by a beautiful dog, Shasha, who is taking care of a homeless boy, David. Since Charley is an angel, they can't see him, until he finds out that Carface, who is also down on Earth, has a special collar that will make him and Itchy visible, but Charley should watch who gives him that collar, he might be expecting something more in return.

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 is over all a cute movie. Even though that it was silly and not needed, for the kids it worked very well. The animation is pretty much like the same, but the new characters are very sweet and lovable. It's just a sweet little family film and I feel the rating is a little bit harsh, but I understand for the fans of the original. Like I said, it destroys the point of the first one, but I'm not going to spoil that for you. But I would recommend for you to give this a shot, but it's OK to just stick with the first film, that ended the story just fine.

6/10

A lot of kids I know liked the original "Dogs" movie.

They did NOT like this sequel.

I've seen both, and I don't have the advantage of youth, but....

I kinda liked it.

"Dogs 2" doesn't have the same setting as the original, and Sheen is a far cry from Reynolds as Charlie B. Barkin. But the songs are catchy, the animation is bright and Itchy was as bright as he ever was (DeLuise's voice was a welcome sound).

And the romance between Charlie and Sasha (Easton) was cute.

And this still didn't do very well. I guess the world just wasn't ready to see Burt vocally replaced so soon.

Six stars. Go buy it, and put it on Carface's tab.