Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36234 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-11-11
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 86 minutes

Customer Reviews

Guess there's no movie so bad someone won't give it 5 stars
This incredibly cheap sci-fi made-for-TV outing isn't good sci-fi, isn't good horror, and isn't even particularly good for animal lovers. Here's the goofy set-up. A janitor's puppy is left behind at a nuclear power plant that's being shut down for "low-level radiation leaks." Instead of doing what he'd do in real life, which is die horribly, he grows into a Superdog with human intelligence. Now some years later, a family moves into a house, evidently not caring that it's just down the street from an evacuated nuclear plant, and the Atomic Dog gets their dog pregnant. When the Atomic Dog tries to claim his pups, all heck breaks loose. Sort of. The Atomic Dog (who gives the movie's only good performance) is never really menacing because the filmmakers don't want to frighten kids or upset PETA, and, of course, at the end (SPOILER WARNING) he turns out to be a misunderstood hero. Sniff. The direction is purely workmanlike, the script never offers anything original when it can just take the obvious route, and, for a kids' movie, I can't even recommend it, since there are four dogs in the movie altogether and three of them end up dead. Anyone who thinks this is a five-star movie needs to get out of the house more. Casablanca is a five-star movie, people.

Beware of the dog
this movie made me jump, made me cry, and made me laugh. i love dogs and this movie only deepend my appriciation for the nice tame dogs. a radio-active dog who gets it on with a family dog finds himself in a whole new tangle. with the death of his wife he's looking to get his two puppies back and nothing is gouing to stand in his way.

Fine scary, brilliant sci-fi thiller; better than "Cujo"
A bright well-written script and fine performances (canine and human alike) help make "Atomic Dog" a great film to watch. Alongside its sci-fi fantasy and thriller action, there are very truely scary moments and yet also some charm and sweetness. And it all comes flowing together at appropriate times of the film. The film is about the Yates family, who moved into a small town with a shut-down nuclear plant. They own a dog named Trixie, which one is missing to her owners, due to that she has puppies with a stray dog. But this other dog is no other dog -- he is a super-mutant due to radiation leaks at the nuclear plant he lives at! Soon the Yates children find a dying Trixie with the pups and adopt the latter mentioned. Soon the father mutant dog tracks down his offspring's whereabout's and desires to reclaim them... which leads him into a rip-snarling rage of terror, threating the lives of the Yates, or any human in his way!! A lot of action and fear ensures, along with the Yates being asisted by an animal-biologst. A very entertaining prodution. It's more watchable and intresting than "Cujo". It helps that the title role animal can be conviningly scary, and also presents some more eye-opening surprises.