dir. William Byron Hillman
“Sarah, the dog’s cute, but this is ridiculous.” This line of dialogue pretty much sums up the entirety of Quigley, in which Gary Busey’s generic workaholic billionaire dies and gets turned into a dog named Quigley to make up for his sins. Much of the film has no real plot and just features the dog running around. Great! The dog’s cute – but this is ridiculous. It’s a Christian film, initially seeming as though it’s espousing the virtue of good deeds. But this is undermined, quite explicitly, as God announces heaven is not about good deeds, but faith. So it’s unclear why Quigley had to commit any of his good deeds at all. Then again, he didn’t actually do them after all, with the film culminating in an “It was all a dream” anti-climax. Put together with truly horrendous production values, stilted acting, awful background songs, and about a thousand supposedly humorous prat falls, Quigley does not offer anything of value comedically, spiritually or emotionally. The dog’s cute, but this is too, too ridiculous.
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