A QUINN REVIEW: PICK OF THE LITTER

PICK OF THE LITTER

(2018)

AGE: 7+

93% SWEET

So What’s The Story?

Pick of the Litter is a documentary telling the story of five young puppies going through there twenty month training to eventually become guide dogs for the blind. Sadly only some make the achievement of becoming one, so not every dog makes it all the way through the many phases of training. In this amazing story of love, and friendship you will see which of the five dogs will make it into the service.

Is It Worth Your While?

Pick of the Litter focuses on such an unnoticed topic, but is able to bring it to life using it’s realistic charm, and a well structured telling of this amazing story. Now here are my reasons. First of all the directing. I thought that directors Don Hardy Jr., and Dana Nachman were able to bring the story to life by using an amazing camera crew that really made you fall in love with the story as you follow along with the two years of hard work. Also I thought that it was insane to go for a story that almost no one actually cared about. I mean to be honest I didn’t care much for the topic either, but when I saw this incredible documentary, I was like… What!!! That’s what happens just so they can get one dog to become one guide for a blind person. As you can clearly see this documentary can completely blow you away storywise. Next I thought that filming a two year story of five puppies going through there training must have been really hard, but obviously the work payed off from the impressive points of view from every character that took care of the dogs. Ending up with a happy ending for each of them. Overall I thought that Pick of the Litter had an amazing camera crew, and brought an amazing unnoticed story to life for everyone to experience.

Characters

Obviously since this is a documentary I can not do How Was the Cast because there was no cast. Overall I thought that the characters that were focused on in the documentary were very well picked for the story. Here are my reasons. The characters I thought were all very interesting because all of their stories were unique, and amazing at the same time. They focus on dog trainers disabled people, and those who are blind, and many other people in between. The importance of each of them though in the role of making some of these dogs guide dogs was just so stunning, and so unbelievable that I just could not believe it.

Aging ‘The Pup’

Pick of the litter is pretty much harmless to kids, but it has some themes that may be a little too intense or too confusing for the average toddler or baby. Overall though it’s a nice topic for the whole family to think about, and a very cute documentary to enjoy. So it pretty much depends on what your child will like to see, and does like to see. I recommend this amazing documentary for the whole family, and for every family in the world to see.