Old Dogs

Name: Old Dogs
Genre: Comedy, Family
Released: November 25, 2009
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 19
Cast: John Travolta, Robin Williams, Seth Green

2009

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: November 25, 2009 | PG

Starring: John Travolta, Robin Williams, Seth Green

Summary: Two best friends -- one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor -- have their lives turned upside down when they're unexpectedly charged with the care of six-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins,Two best friends -- one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor -- have their lives turned upside down when they're unexpectedly charged with the care of six-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins, leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what's really important in life. (Walt Disney Pictures)… Expand

Director: Walt Becker

Genre(s): Comedy, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 88 min

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Carrie Rickey

It runs a fast 88 minutes, is broad as the waistlines of its stars, and is remarkably family-friendly if you don't mind bathroom humor. Read full review

Robert Wilonsky

You see where this is going, but, apparently, kids don’t know the formula. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Too bad this shrilly tuned comedy doesn't demand more than clock-punching effort from everyone involved. Read full review

John Anderson

Travolta is simply useless in Old Dogs, but Williams is actively offensive. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Stupefying dimwitted. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Travolta, who delivers an impressively enthusiastic performance, seems to have no idea that he's stuck in one of the year's worst movies. The perpetually pained expression on Williams' face, however, suggests he knows otherwise. Read full review

Andrea Gronvall

A total train wreck. Read full review

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AllanJ

Mar 29, 2010

This movie is hilarious!!!! How do they rate The wild things a high review and this a bad review is beyond me. Some people truly are upside down. This movie made me laugh so hard I almost gagged!!!! Rent it, you won't regret it...

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AnthonyS

Dec 29, 2009

This is the best movie I have ever seen. this is great. John travolta was like grease lightning.

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Sandy

Nov 25, 2009

My husband & I enjoyed this movie & thought it was funny. The whole theater was laughing during the whole movie.

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RayzorMoose

Nov 16, 2013

Old Dogs are put down.
The movie easily could have been horrible but just becomes painfully average. As a family movie it succeeds with some clever jokes, but by the end it collapses under a faulty plot.

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ChadS

Dec 1, 2009

With the start of Vicki's prison term nearing, the environmental activist's two kids need a babysitter while their mom does time in a state penitentary. It's a good thing that mom's one night stand wrote. Of all the people in the world, who better than your shotgun With the start of Vicki's prison term nearing, the environmental activist's two kids need a babysitter while their mom does time in a state penitentary. It's a good thing that mom's one night stand wrote. Of all the people in the world, who better than your shotgun husband, a man you divorced after the liquor turned to pee and never saw again in the proceeding seven years, to feed and dress your flesh and blood. Money, notwithstanding, this man was a twenty-four-hour husband, but that's the movies for you. "Old Dogs", aside from being stupid, is also, formally, one of those films where childless professionals discover the joys of parenthood after pursuing successful careers in their respective fields. Robin Williams plays Dan, the dad, and John Travolta plays Charlie, the unwilling uncle-type; they're sports marketers who, in one uncomic comic scene, smear bear poop beneath their eyes by accident, then inexplicably, leave it on, as if both men forgot that animal excrement is gross. As Dan, Williams seemingly returns to those habitual heartwarming roles that moviegoers thought he had sworn off from taking after his career redefining performances in Mark Romanek's "One Hour Photo" and Christopher Nolan's "Insomnia". This fondness for excessive heartrendering(or is that heart-bludgeoning) theatrics(five words: enema bulb as faux-nose) carries on, but only ostensibly so, as in one scene, where Dan, dressed as a king, has tea with his princess-costumed daughter, which on closer inspection, avoids saccharine sweetness Curiously enough, Dan is in a full-bodied puppet suit, and under Charlie's control. The scene plays like a cry for help. After all, somebody is making Williams have this tender moment with a child actor. There's some anger here, dressed up as slapstick comedy, in which Dan maims a hand model's hands, and Seth Green's balls. And as for Travolta: Has it really been almost thirty years since he slapped around Debra Winger in "Urban Cowboy"?… Expand

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NavyBean

Nov 25, 2009

Who says Robin Williams and John Travolta aren't comic actors? I did laugh in sympathy.

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LaurieL

Dec 14, 2009

The. Worst. Ever.

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