“Scott & Huutsch” at Disney: Barking at them

1989 is also a turning point in the pelted parallel universe. Until then (and later again) were cute mixed breeds ("Benji"), well-groomed long-haired Collies ("Lassie"), noble St. Bernard dogs ("Barry", "George") or, if in the police service, tough German Shepherds ("The Pursuers", "Harras, the police dog", soon also "Inspector Rex") asked, Touchstone Pictures dared to play Tom Hanks, who up to this point had been a member of flap comedies of the cleanliness-fanatic police officer Scott Turner to put a creature by the side that not only looked (and moved) like a cross between a hippopotamus, hooligan and a crashed van, but also drooled so much that half the film was dipped in dog saliva,There were disgusting scenes played out with funny grimaces.

In terms of content, what happened in all dog police films (in parallel, for example, in "My partner with the cold muzzle"): Bull and mutt make life difficult for each other, but grow together to become loyal companions, especially since the dog has every human partner in it excels in tracking down and retrieving villains.

Of course, another very smart Dogue de Bordeaux

In fact, Dogue de Bordeaux lead the drool rankings, which is why in dog forums such as "dogaktuell" friends of this particularly stoic fur nose variant with a wrinkled face and leaky lip - which happens when you breed from the perfect prototype (wolf) downwards - is not advised at all first to try to remove the countless puddles of saliva, but rather to wear non-slip shoes and rainwear.

The new Disney edition of "Scott & Huutsch", which is about to start, once again as a series format, not only follows on from the 1989 film in terms of content - the US Marshal Scott Turner junior (Josh Peck), who is as ambitious and orderly as it is uptight and overlooked in his job whose bedroom looks the same as the one in which Tom Hanks slept (perhaps questionable in terms of depth psychology), inherits a new Huutsch from his recently deceased father, who is, of course, a very smart Bordeaux mastiff; some old actors like Reginald VelJohnson appear in guest roles - but also share his humid humor. There is hardly a scene in which the quadruped star of the series, a thick head in every sense, did not spread masses of saliva over hands, faces, donuts and furnishings ("a fountain of spit",Scott's nephew calls it enthusiastically), which his new owner doesn't really mind after a short period of getting used to it.

Solves all cases more or less single-handedly

Scott is annoyed, however, that his new colleague (Huutsch actually becomes a police dog; the two form a "K-9" unit) seems to have intended to embarrass him, because time and again a sniffed lead apparently leads into Emptiness, while the clumsy colossus otherwise dismantles half of the office and chews the superiors' pants, a running gag - all much to the amusement of the broad-chested cliché marshal Trent (Matt Hamilton) and his sun-glasses checker team, for whose recognition Scott is vying .

Mostly he stays behind with the pregnant, sharp-tongued colleague Jessica (Carra Patterson) and an irradiated eccentric (Brandon Jay McLaren).

Of course, thanks to Huutsch, he still solves all cases more or less single-handedly, which actually makes the first-person shooter Trent look duped, but is as little noticed by him as the advances of the cute dog trainer (Vanessa Lengies) from Scott, who instead one soon mourning emerging ex-girlfriend.

Speed, timing, humor and unleashed camera work

Matt Nix came up with this playful comedy adaptation, changing directors give it a sophisticated, colorful Los Angeles aura, with impressive city shots (preferably from the air) alternating with lavish chase and action scenes. Even the greatest dog fans will admit that the variance of the Huutsch scenes (despite five halfway identical looking actors) is limited: time and again, slow motion shots of the chunk rushing in at the dinosaur gallop, the screaming ore thugs, who like to speak with a Russian accent as they used to be, jump in, knocks over and licks the face of the vanquished. At them with barking! Of course, the variance of many “crime scene” acts is not much greater either.

Here and there one has also tried to provide a little variety, so in the episode, in which Huutsch, who apparently immediately saw through the diversionary maneuver of a jewel thief, steals a dog toy in a pet supply store amid Trent's laughter: a red herring on which he is Squeaking around day and night until the dubious Scott realizes that it means something. Parallel to the plot of the episode, Scott and his sister Laura (Lyndsy Fonseca) start a private investigation in connection with documents left behind by the father. After his masterpiece in 1989, he only pursued minor offenses, it is said cheekily, but was secretly on the trail of a major conspiracy. Even if this plot elicits a "woof" rather than a "wow", speed, timing,Humor and unleashed camera work from the series Successful Family Entertainment.

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