Trains and pets – what more could kids want?
As the festive season of films for kids gets underway, you can’t go wrong with ridiculous anthropomorphism. Pets on a Train, is a film whose story follows pets trapped on a speeding train trying to stop the plans of a vengeful badger.
Falcon is a raccoon who steals food from various bins and carts to feed his friends on the streets, having been ‘raised’ by Rico, a pigeon, since he was young.
Falcon accepts an offer from a badger named Hans to collaborate on a train robbery, intending to take the food from the train so that he and his friends can have a Christmas feast. Once on board the train, Falcon can hack into the train carriages and allow Hans remote access. Hans broadcasts a pre-recorded message ordering all humans to leave the train, and then sets it into motion while the only living things on the train are the pets in the final carriage.
These include Anna, an anaconda who belongs to a rapper, police dog Rex, Maggie the spotted cat, influencer animals (Candy and Randy), a rabbit couple (Jimi and Janis), a pair of parrots (Croquette / Coco and Judy), a pompous greyhound (Victor), a hamster who’s lost his mate, a duck, a turtle (Leo), and a clownfish (Momo).
The animals learn that Hans’ target is Rex, as Rex was apparently responsible for Hans being sent to the pound after he was caught – and the plot thickens…
Will Maggie, who regularly travels with her owner Lisa, tell them the train’s final destination would see them crash into another city? Will Falcon release the animals from their cages before their untimely end?
Pets on a Train is screening at Palace Cinemas, Byron Bay – palacecinemas.com.au.
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