Description :
The film starts in the tour bus of a celebrity dog Rexxx. He
is about to film a secret agent skydiving movie scene, but appears depressed
and refuses. After some persuasion, he is seen on the plane. A storm brews and
lightning hits the plane, knocking Rexxx out of it and removing his parachute.
He lands in a tomato truck and ends up as a stray on the streets, nearly being
captured by a dogcatcher but outsmarting the man with his super dog moves. He
soon meets a boy named Shane Fahey (Josh Hutcherson), who is ditching his science
class. Because Rexxx helps to capture truant Shane, the boy hates Rexxx and
calls him "ugly stinking mutt," and "The Mutt from Hell".
As Shane is taken to the fire station by his two friends and firefighters, Rexxx
stays in the basement of a textile building. Shane confronts his dad, the station
captain, Captain Connor Fahey (played by Bruce Greenwood), who is currently
dealing with a crisis. His station, engine 55, also known as Dogpatch, is notoriously
late when dispatching and responding to fires. The city manager intends to close
the station down.
Dewey and ShaneAs the siren blares for yet another fire, the
Dogpatch crew, engine 55, arrive last at the scene due to a faulty fire engine.
Dogpatch is in competition against fire station Greenpoint who is always first
to dispatch and is led by Jessie Presley. Engine 55 arrives at the fire with
Shane who spots Rexxx, on the roof of the burning building. Rexxx jumps from
the roof onto a trampoline held by the firefighters. Dogpatch temporarily takes
the dog, who they call Dewey because of his ID tag, while Capt. Fahey orders
Shane to make found dog fliers. Shane makes the fliers with a huge amount of
frustration due to Dewey, who never stands still at camera, cleans Shane's room,
and steals Shane's bed. The next day, while Shane is putting up the fliers,
Dewey does some special stunts with Shane's skateboard.
Amazed, Shane brings him to the firefighter's picnic where
there is a dog stunt competition, very similar to dog agility. After watching
his friend J.J. (Jessie Presey's daughter) compete flawlessly with Greenpoint's
female Dalmatian Sparky, Shane decides to try it out. The whole crew is surprised
as he effortlessly maneuvers the course, beating Spary's time by several seconds.
Dewey is about to win until he reaches the last obstacle, where Sparky is standing
with a shocked J.J. Dewey is mesmerized by Sparky, who looks similar to his
ex-girlfriend. His time runs out, and Dogpatch is still proud of Dewey and Shane,
despite being taunted by Greenpoint for losing. Shane half-heartedly congradulates
J.J., who informs him the "the better dog lost".
With less than a week left until closing, the Dogpatch crew and Shane bond
weith Dewey, who happens to have a special talent for rescuing people trapped
in fires. In the meantime, Shane asks one of Dogpatch's firefighters why Dogpatch
is closing. He tells Shane that all the houses and buildings of the dying town
have either been sold or burnt. Months earlier, his uncle and Captain of Dogpatch,
Mark Fahey, had gotten killed in a saw mill fire which was suspected to be arson.
While the firefighters begin to pack, they are informed that Dogpatch does
not have to close because Dewey has raised the stations publicity. Everyone
is happy.
While looking through the captain's office, Shane takes the sawmill mystery
upon himself and examines the evidence. One of the photos is of a "BOUTINE"
wrist watch, which is later revealed to be the same brand that which had been
used to start the sawmill fire. Also, he organizes his dad's pushpin map of
fires into a map on a computer. Shane's dad comes home and tells him about a
gala being held that evening, but Shane does not show any expression, and then
his dad looks at Shane's "research" of the mystery and map. He compliments
him, saying he is strong, etc., but Shane starts to cry when he talks about
Uncle Mark and the arson fires to his dad. He feels like a bad person because
when they said a firefighter had been missing that day, he thought it was his
dad. When it turned out to be his uncle, he was happy because it wasn't Connor.
The two hug, then Dewey cheers them up by his snoring.
After heroically rescuing Jessie Presley of Greenpoint, in a tunnel fire, Dewey
makes his first public debut as the Dogpatch mascot. Dogpatch then makes huge
news and Dewey begins to be called "Wonderdog". The mayor decides
upon keeping Dogpatch open and asks Shane to appear with Dewey at the firefighter's
gala. Shane decides to show the audience what Dewey can do. He asks the city
manager to give Shane his wrist watch, which Connor Fahey hides in the potted
plant nearby. Shane asks Dewey to find the watch, relying on its owner's scent,
and return it to him. Instead Dewey finds his past owner Trey who had desperately
searched for him all that time. After Dewey is reunited with his owner, Shane
and Connor are both exceedingly disappointed. Then, Shane disheartedly returns
to the gala and gives the watch back to the city manager. He notices that it
says "BOUTINE" on it. After following the city manager into the kitchen,
he hears him plotting with another firefighter, an old firefighter of Dogpatch
who now works for the city, to burn their next target. Shane rushes to the station
to reach his dad who, as he later finds out, is currently responding to a harbor
fire on a garbage barge. Dewey, who hears the sirens, jumps out of the hotel
he and Trey are staying at. Dewey rushes to the fire and helps to put it out.
Meanwhile, Shane looks at his dad's city map which displays all of the zones
of buildings in the city that have either been burned or sold. To his surprise,
Dogpatch is the only building left. After several failed attempts to reach his
dad, he contacts JJ, Captain Presley's daughter. He tells her of the scheme
and they realize that the fire on the garbage barge at the harbor was a decoy
to occupy all engines and that the real target is Dogpatch, the fire station.
Shane hears something upstairs and realizes that the old firefighter, now revealed
to be the arsonist, is upstairs setting fire to the station. He hangs up on
JJ. Shane goes upstairs and hides under the bed. As the firefighter is about
to leave, Shane confronts him with a fire extinguisher by spraying at him. They
fought but was interrupted when a huge explosion occurred sending them to the
ground. At the harbor, Dewey senses something going on at the station. He dashes
all the way to Dogpatch and sees the firefighter, Zach, about to leave. He growls
and threatens Zach. Zach locks himself in a phone booth to keep away from Dewey.
Dewey then spots Shane who was unconscious and wakes him up. Zach was first
to be rescued. Shane, with Dewey, frantically tries to escape, but the only
exit left is the kitchen. He gets to the kitchen but the door is sealed shut.
Finally, with his father's help, he manages to break through. His dad ushers
a choking Shane out of the building, Dewey in the lead. As his dad puts an oxygen
mask on Shane, he twice pushes it away to gasp that Zach Hayden set all of the
fires, even the one that killed his uncle. Hayden is quickly turned over to
the police.
Corbin Sellars' scam is revealed to the news and the Dogpatch crew members
each receive a medal of honor. They also renovate the station and receive a
dreamed-of 900 hp. Chrysler Hemi engine for their firetruck. Trey reclaims Dewey
and realizes that Dewey is destined to be a firehouse dog, not an actor. He
says that after Dewey has been a real hero, he can't pretend to be a hero in
the movies. He gives him back to Shane, and then Shane and the whole fire station
crew are all happy. The movie ends with Engine 55 going to a fire, Dewey tagging
along.
- Cast : Josh Hutcherson, Bruce Greenwood,
Dash Mihok, Steven Culp, Bill Nunn
- Studio/Banner : Excel
- Format : VCD
- Language : English
