Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Released 1993
Stars Robert Hays, Kim Greist, and the voices of Don Ameche, Michael J. Fox, and Sally Field
Directed by Duwayne Dunham

Homeward Bound is the light-hearted journey of three pets who cross the Sierra Navada mountains to return home to their family of humans. It's a live-action talking animal movie, but at least the animals only talk to themselves. Somehow they do this telepathically, because they don't need to bark or meow to do it. I suppose constant barking would have gotten annoying, so we just hear the voice-overs. The movie gets a little syrupy and sappy at times, and I think it would work best for pre-teens who have pets. For me, it was ok. I wasn't terribly interested, but wasn't really bored either. There are a lot of one-liners, and I laughed at several, but I wouldn't have lasted two minutes if my 5 year-old hadn't been sitting on my lap.

Summary by Bill Alward, October 28, 2002