At some point, pretty much everyone who’s owned a dog has stared into the creature’s soulful brown eyes and wondered what it was thinking. Director Simon Curtis’ decade-in-the-making “The Art of Ra…
” is a simple-minded yet skillfully manipulative answer to that question — featuring the bare-feet-in-loose-gravel voice of Kevin Costner as Enzo, the canine companion to Seattle-based race car driver Denny Swift — that’s not as peppy as “A Dog’s Purpose” nor as droll as “Isle of Dogs,” and nowhere near as inane as “Look Who’s Talking Now” but still effective on its own dog-forsaken terms.
The movie introduces Enzo lying in a puddle of his own urine waiting for Denny to come home, in a scene that establishes the idea of wanting to be reborn as a human — and not just any human, but a race car driver like his owner. No prizes for audiences who guess this theme will return, especially after “A Dog’s Purpose” so recently exploited the idea of canine reincarnation.
Stein coaxes easy laughs with malapropisms and canine misassumptions, like Enzo’s tentative curiosity about what was happening “inside Eve’s magic sac, where the baby was being assembled,” which would be fine if he weren’t so preternaturally profound when the screenplay calls for it.
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