Backyard Dogs

2001 "For the fame and the fortune, they'll fight like dogs"
2| 1h36m| R| en
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Two teenage boys aspire to win a backyard wrestling championship and a chance to appear on a national TV show.

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Also starring Walter Jones

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Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
ziggytim Did anyone else notice the original black power ranger, Walter Jones, in this? Okay, he's not the greatest actor in the world, but he doesn't deserve to be in this chunk of celluloid vomit. I wasn't a big fan of Power Rangers when I was a kid. However, watching it again in adulthood I realize it's a brilliant piece of high camp and deserves to be venerated. My favorite of the original male rangers is Jones. Even if it was kind of offensive to have the black guy be the black ranger (and Thuy Trang, a vietnamese woman, be the yellow ranger) I loved his combination dance/martial arts style hip-hop-kido. It's a shame that such a talented dancer has to waste his time on these crap acting jobs.
netzombie63 Bob Boris came up with a challenging movie based on Kids going to town to town and wrestling unknown people and the places the ring was. The other challenge was that there were a lot of speaking role of which most of them where actors. SO to do the movie we had to have them join SAG as there are very few people that are Actors that know AA little about wrestling. Another problem we ran into is that the script takes place in a deferent location almost every night. The Director and the co- Producer were at constant odds with each other to make the Director's vision for very little money. From what I was told they shot this movie on various consumer as well as pro-sumer video cameras. This was shot on cameras that were not HD so the initial quality isn't great. This was all done before it was technically possible to have the video look like film. They got a top Lab Engineer at Fotokem Labs in Burbank to oversee the transfer from video to film at the end of the process. Everyone was very happy with the result. I think the film has a very interesting look because of that. When it comes to the acting it wasn't easy as they had people that had not been in a movie before, wrestling pros (including one from Japan that didn't speak English) and Actors who had never wrestled before. The nail talent had to go to school for a week ( all the budget could afford) to train really hard to become the best wrestlers we could afford. I can't tell you what the budget was on this movie but it was well under $XXX,.xxx.00! All the money went into the movie including the cool having on board an Editor who had to help solve many problems that arose making this 1st low budget video2film entertainment. They should have turned this around and made this an MTV TV series. It would be a lot of fun!
collegedude3 The movie can pretty much be summed up with a paradox: its so bad that its good. Kept me laughing throughout, and how bout that voodoo guy who always seemed to be showing up. The casting is impeccable, wouldn't have changed a thing. Loved the shooting locations, and whenever I watch this I always get in a good mood---go figure. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up... oh wait the fine Bree Turner was in it-- THREE THUMBS UP!!!
Morgan-FilmLover So many things in this movie make me wince, I don't know where to start. The premise is that a couple of young guys form a tag team, and travel through California on the secret circuit of Backyard Wrestling shows! (all of California looks strikingly like the San Bernardino area). First off, the fighting in this movie is not good. The film is never quite clear on if Backyard Wrestling is real or not... the characters talk to their manager like it's fake, but if it is, then there is no drama or struggle in the whole movie. The wrestling scenes are laughable, bordering on pathetic. The first time we see the hero fight, he CLEARLY MISSES with a kick, shown in extreme slo motion with hard hitting sound effects. It gets worse from there. The quest to win Backyard Matches only gets more and more unintentionally comedic as the heroes fall in with shady businessmen and evil wrestlers. To make matters worse the heroes make a bet over which will have sex with their manager ****SPOILER ALERT***** One of the falls in love with her. Never saw it coming. The only redeeming quality of this film is as a fan of Southern Californian Pro Wrestling, you get to see some of the top stars in the area act silly. Real wrestling stars like Frankie Kazarian, Crazy KC, and Sun Warrior, as well as the legendary Hayabusa from Japan, all make appearances. Hardcore wrestling fans may get a hoot from this movie, but are just as likely to feel insulted.