June and Kopi

There's a lot going on here. Knowing the country's stigma towards dogs, this movie tries its best to change the status quo. It felt like the movie was made solely for this reason.

Though it's got honorable intentions, the plot really did felt forced (another word for it might be predictable). Going into this in detail must contain spoilers, but there's this one scene in particular that would make people straight up laugh cause of how improbable the whole thing was.

Acting was awesome, the dogs did well too. Stray dogs can be innately smart too, why not? But something really did bug me about the dogs. They used 2 completely different dogs to portray June, the main dog of the movie. They were not the same breed (original June is like a white belgian, substitute is a white husky). Felt like insulting the audience, thinking that people won't notice. Insults dog owners even more, which is what hit me personally. Hence my review title.

Indonesian pride kept me from rating this movie any lower. I am biased in this way. But they truly could have made a way better movie. Cast and directorial style is already there, just ruined by the decision in cutting corners with some aspects of the movie.