The result is a modestly entertaining firehouse movie, family fare with an after-school-special flavor. Last seen in "Bridge to Terabithia," Josh Hutcherson stars as Shane, the 12-year-old son of ...

Boy meets dog, bonds with dad and foils a dangerous arsonist in "Firehouse Dog," a likable but ungainly mutt of a movie in which a very smart canine unexpectedly becomes fireman's best friend.

Firehouse Dog is a wholesome throwback to a time before computer animators made animals talk and penguins hogged the glory. Well, not entirely wholesome. The frisky title critter is guilty of loud ...

Firehouse Dog: Comedy. Starring Josh Hutcherson, Bruce Greenwood and Bill Nunn. Directed by Todd Holland. (PG. 111 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) For a few minutes at least, "Firehouse Dog" looks ...

THE STARS: Josh Hutcherson, Bruce Greenwood, Bill Nunn, Mayte Garcia, Dash Mihok. THE STORY: Top Hollywood canine celebrity Rexx - star of "Jurassic Bark" and "The Fast and The Furriest" - is ...

His pampered life comes to sudden end, however, when he falls out of a plane and lands in the care of brooding preteen Shane Fahey (Josh Hutcherson) and his father (Bruce Greenwood), the captain ...

If you go to the movies a lot, you acquire all kinds of unexpected knowledge, much of which you rarely get a chance to drop into everyday conversation. But “Firehouse Dog” provides me with an ...

Little dog lost Rexxx lands in an anonymous big city where he's just another stray on the streets. Adopted by a resistant teenage kid (Josh Hutcherson) with attitude problems, he becomes both ...

Anyone but the dog. The kids, the president, take them, the nun who runs the orphanage, she can be chucked into the fire and die in slow, screaming, flesh-melting agony, but . . . not the dog. So ...

Reaaaaaallly could’ve lived without the shot of the dog doing his “business” in a pot of stew. And breaking wind. Yeah, dogs break wind, even Irish terriers. We get it. No need to… ...

"Firehouse Dog" (PG) Runs 1 hour, 51 minutes. No one is a bigger sucker for movies about cute doggies than The Family Filmgoer, but this story of a lonely 12-year-old boy and the dog who becomes ...