Blu-ray Review – Therapy Dogs

High school can be a special time for some students. It can be Hell on Earth for others. For creators Ethan Eng and Justin Morrice, life in Cawthra Secondary School is somewhere in the middle, with the teenagers looking to capture their final year of education and camaraderie by showcasing the "truth about high school," with "Therapy Dogs" sold to staff and students as a "senior video" project, allowing them to roam the halls with cameras. It's a simple idea, but a question of reality remains with the endeavor, which isn't a documentary and doesn't qualify as drama, with the feature primarily built out of horseplay and staged incidents. There's no profound understanding of adolescence, and artfulness is limited at best, with Eng and Morrice basically making a skateboard video with occasional breaks for honest observation, trying to sell a scattered, occasionally tedious study of low impulse control as an epic examination of what it's like to grow up, get real, and enjoy one last year of educational and social opportunities. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com