BENJI 4 Movie Collection DVD + Digital HD #Review #Benji

BENJI 4 Movie Collection DVD + Digital HD

Photo Credit: Mill Creek Entertainment

If you are looking for a great movie DVD set that the whole family can watch I would recommend Benji 4 Movie Collection from Mill Creek Entertainment.

Disclosure: I received free product for review purposes and all opinions expressed here are my own.

This movie collection includes four films including Benji, For the Love of Benji. Benji Off The Leash and Benji's Very Own Christmas Story! I had heard of Benji from many years ago but don't remember watching any of the movies so this was fun to get to receive this set from Mill Creek Entertainment.

I watched the first film which starts with Benji, a stray dog that makes his morning routines, after leaving an abandoned house that he lives in. He goes to a house and gets breakfast from a housekeeper, along with two children who really like Benji, although they try to hide him from their father who apparently doesn't want a dog. Later Benji chases a cat up a tree, visits a policeman on the street, and stops to see an elderly gentleman sitiing outdoors in a chair in front of a cafe that he owns. The gentlemen goes inside and brings him a piece of meat for a treat and Benji goes on his way.

Benji travels through town and goes back to his home in the abandoned old house, when he hears some people that are breaking into the house. It sounds like they are looking for a place to live and bring a bag of food with them, which Benji finds when they are looking around the house.

The next day Benji goes through his usual routine going to town and stopping to see his same friends. On his travels back he meets another little stray dog looking through a trash barrel. He shares the piece of meat that the elderly man gave him, then she follows him when he goes back to the home where the housekeeper lives with the two children and their father.

Benji scratches on the door for the housekeeper to come and shows off his new girlfriend. The housekeeper is impressed with his new friend and brushes her to look nice for him. Afterwards, the two dogs go running through grass and stop to smell flowers growing and chasing butterflies. It's like a doggie romance blossoming!

It is so sweet watching him take the lead and her following him to his home in the abandoned house. They look through the bag of groceries that the people who broke into the house left on the floor, and Benji find an open pudding cup which his friend and he enjoys, until they hear noise and the people come back to the house with another guy with them. It sounds like they are up to something and the new guy says the house will work perfect for them.

Later it shows the two dogs on the steps of the house with the kids. The kids want to keep Benji and the father says he'll get them a dog but doesn't want them to have Benji because he doesn't know where he's been or anything about him. The kids enjoy playing with Benji and his girlfriend, and the dogs go on their way back to the old house.

A couple of the guys come back to the house and one of them notices a pudding cup missing that he left half eaten. He wonders what has happened to it and the other guy doesn't seem concerned about it. All of a sudden one of the other guys and a girl from their group bring in the girl and boy that are friends with Benji.

They have kidnapped the children and have them gagged. Benji watches them with them not seeing him and knows the kids are in trouble. He goes alone to their home and scratches on the door but nobody answers. He gets the door open and goes in the house where the father, housekeeper and police are there because of the kidnapped children, with a ransom letter lying on a table. 

The housekeeper takes him outdoors and says she doesn't have time to play with him because they have troubles. Benji gets back in the house with the people unaware of him watching them behind a plant. An FBI man comes to the door and they show him the ransom letter. When he lays it on a table Benji runs and grabs it in his mouth, then runs out of the house with everyone chasing him. They get ahold of Benji and get the ransom letter, asking the housekeeper if she wants them to call the dog pound. She says no and tells Benji to go home or wherever he goes to.

Benji sadly starts walking back and sees a policeman go into a building. When somebody opens the door he runs in to find him but a door closes before he can get into a room. He gets locked in the building but luckily someone sees him when they lock up and he is barking on a speaker by a window. The guy unlocks the door and lets Benji out and he goes running back to his abandoned house where the bad people have the kids held for ransom. 

He sees the first ransom note that they wrote and had thrown on away lying on the floor and gets it in his mouth and makes a run for it. The bad guys go chasing him with no luck. Benji gets to the kids' home with the note and the girl that is in with the bad guys is there asking if there was anything she can do. Apparently she had known the family. She sees the ransom note in Benji's mouth and grabs it saying it is just a shopping list and puts it in her purse. When she is going out the door Benji grabs her purse and the note comes out. The housekeeper reads what it says and gives it to the father. He asks the woman where his kids are and Benji starts barking.

Benji takes the lead and they all start following him running down streets. As you can imagine, it is a happy ending with Benji leading them to the house and finding the kids.

I enjoyed this film and think it would be a nice for family time with your children. I'm looking forward to watching the other three movies with Benji in it.

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