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Max is a Rottweiler who works as a K-9 police dog, in a world where humans and talking dogs live together. He tries to save Ling-Li, a baby giant panda, from an animal smuggling ring, but his attempt wrecks a sting set up by the FBI and the criminals slip away. His human partner Frank blames him for that. The two are ordered to work together, so Max enters the Canini Invitational in Las Vegas as a show dog, with Frank as his trainer, at a show the ring uses as a front.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Show Dogs (2018)
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- The film was criticized for normalizing child grooming over a plot point in which the canine main character is forced to have his genitals fondled by a dog show judge without consent, while other characters teach him not to think about it and to go to his happy place.
- Global Road Entertainment removed two scenes from Show Dogs after concerns raised by moviegoers and some organizations, apologizing to anybody who felt the original version “sent an inappropriate message” and putting the revised version in cinemas nationwide that weekend.
- The advocacy group National Center on Sexual Exploitation kept objecting even after the studio's recut, saying the revised version still retained many of the genital-touching scenes and warning parents to avoid it.
