Homeward Bound

I felt so good at times during this movie that I had to laugh pathetically to keep from crying. Here's how they did it: every time that something good happened, they played a certain song. Then, every single time that they played that song, my serotonin would rise no matter what was going on. And by the end of it, I experienced a raging chemical upsurge. This movie is CHOCK FULL of reunions. First, Chance and Shadow are reunited with Sassy (played by none other than my hero Sally Field - and boy does she live up to her "sassy" name!) after thinking that she was dead (idiots!) after falling 300 feet down a waterfall. Then, the animals find a tiny dirty blond girl crying on a rock in the forest. Since her parents don't come looking for her until the next day, they hang out with her until then and alert the father when he finally comes around. Lastly, each of the animals gets their own solo reunion with their favorite child, ending in a crescendo when Peter, who thinks that Shadow is "too old" (idiot!) to have gone all that way, is reunited with his old man, Shadow. Chance, narrated by Michael J. Fox, narrates this saga about maturity, love, and forests. A movie that took only 3 sessions of 30 minutes for us to watch, and probably 30 years for them to make (how did they get Sassy to hug Shadow?!) deserves an outstanding rating of TEN HANDS.