Dunston Checks In
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: January 12, 1996 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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4
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3
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38
Philadelphia InquirerDesmond Ryan
A movie so dumb it raises serious questions about our place on the evolutionary ladder. [12 Jan 1996, p.12]
33
Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
Director Ken Kwapis fills the movie with feeble references to Planet of the Apes and King Kong that don’t amuse adults and sail over the heads of tykes who snicker most at the raspberries Dunston blows at anyone he meets. Read full review
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Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
In the new wave of kiddie animal movies -- "Babe," "Black Beauty," "Gordy," "Fluke," "Roan Inish" and all the rest -- Dunston Checks In is valuable only as a new standard of screenwriting ineptitude. Don't play it again, Sam, at least not with this bunch. Read full review
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