See Spot Run
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 2, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
18
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38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Movies like this demonstrate that when it comes to stupidity and vulgarity, only the best will do for our children. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Do your kids a favor - and take them to see something more worthwhile than the relentlessly vulgar and stupid See Spot Run.
38
Chicago TribuneLoren King
Give David Arquette credit. He shares nearly all his screen time in See Spot Run with a clever canine and a cute kid and still manages to pull off his usual nutty-slapstick routine with gusto. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeJay Carr
See Spot Run isn't solely responsible for the dumbing down of movies, but it's part of the dismal phenomenon.
31
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
Oak-stiff and witless, but a few scenes muster up embarrassed chuckles. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
The movie equivalent of a box of Froot Loops followed by a half-gallon Pepsi chaser. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Just a few guilty laughs, a predictable resolution and repeated close-ups of that dog jerking its head to one side, doing the cute thing. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It's enough to encourage the aspiring film makers in the audience, no matter how wee in age, to yell "Cut!" Read full review
25
Miami HeraldSara Wildberger
PG? Please. Might as well take a kid to Hannibal. At least that one was funnier and didn't implicate any noble breeds in its violence -- just humans.
25
San Francisco ChronicleWesley Morris
Brutally dumb canine comedy. Read full review
25
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
Someone should have treated See Spot Run like a bone and buried it. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
The gags, almost all of which involve the passage of gases and liquids, move at a fast-enough clip to keep you awake throughout. For which this review expresses a sorrow as profound as the sympathy it feels for all the actors. Read full review
20
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
How do you screw up a family movie that has a cute bull mastiff, a cute 6-year-old and David Arquette playing a mailman? Apparently by unleashing half a dozen writers to gnaw it to pieces and entrusting the result to a TV director (John Whitesell of "Cosby" and "Roseanne") with little sense of how to tell a story longer than six minutes. Read full review
10
VarietyRobert Koehler
Gruff and downright smelly, especially when star David Arquette is forced at one point to flop around in a pile of doggy doo. Read full review
0
Washington PostRita Kempley
See critic run. Oh, for the days of Smell-a-Vision. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
The script is simultaneously boring and breathlessly busy, and it really gives Arquette a beating, as scene after scene subjects him to electrocution, dog attack, encasement in bubble wrap, public pantlessness, assault by the hearing-impaired, a fishbowl on the head, and gluteal paralysis caused by poisonous sea urchins. Read full review
0
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
It's hard to believe that five different writers took credit for this feeble story and script. Who says failure is an orphan? Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Personally, I'd say that it was about time Arquette was leashed. Read full review
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