I checked out the book "Thor" by Wayne Smith several years ago. The book is the story of a German Shepherd named Thor who lives with a family (he considers them his "pack".) The family is visited at one point by the mother's brother, Uncle Ted. He happens to be a werewolf. Thor's attempts to deal with this threat to the safety of the pack are the main plot of the book. The exceptional thing about the book is that it is told almost exclusively from Thor's point of view. There are some charming parts of the book where Thor deals with things like how weird people are when they are on the phone and whether or not his frisbee is alive. It also goes into his fear of being a "bad dog" (which is completely intolerable for him) This sounds extremely silly but the author pulls it off beautifully.
The makers of "Bad Moon" failed to capture the viewpoint of the book. What we are left with is a kind of twisted episode of "Lassie" or "Rin-Tin-Tin" where you have a well trained dog performing some tricks that save the imperilled humans. It doesn't work at all and I wonder why the filmmakers even bothered with the story when the whole point of the book was the point of view.
Read the book. It's short, fun and much, much better than the movie.
The makers of "Bad Moon" failed to capture the viewpoint of the book. What we are left with is a kind of twisted episode of "Lassie" or "Rin-Tin-Tin" where you have a well trained dog performing some tricks that save the imperilled humans. It doesn't work at all and I wonder why the filmmakers even bothered with the story when the whole point of the book was the point of view.
Read the book. It's short, fun and much, much better than the movie.