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Old Dogs (2009)

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Reviews Counted:101

Fresh:5

Rotten:96

Average Rating:2.3/10

Consensus: Its cast tries hard, but Old Dogs is a predictable, nearly witless attempt at physical comedy and moral uplift that misses the mark on both counts.

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Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for some mild rude humor

Runtime: 1 hr. 28 min.

Genre: Drama, Comedy, Kids & Family

Theatrical Release: Nov 25, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $49.5M

Synopsis: Two best friends -- one unlucky-in-love divorcee (ROBIN WILLIAMS) and the other a fun-loving bachelor (JOHN TRAVOLTA) -- have their lives turned... Two best friends -- one unlucky-in-love divorcee (ROBIN WILLIAMS) and the other a fun-loving bachelor (JOHN TRAVOLTA) -- 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 (newcomers ELLA BLEU TRAVOLTA and CONNER RAYBURN), leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what’s really important in life. [More]

Starring: John Travolta, Robin Williams, Kelly Preston, Conner Rayburn

Starring: John Travolta, Robin Williams, Kelly Preston, Conner Rayburn, Ella Bleu Travolta, Lori Loughlin, Seth Green, Bernie Mac, Matt Dillon, Ann-Margret, Rita Wilson, Amy Sedaris, Residente, Saburo Shimono, Kevin W. Yamada, Kevin Dean-Hacket, Laura Allen, Sam Travolta, Margaret Travolta, Nick Loren, Kenneth Maharaj, Nova Mejia, Margaret Goodman, Jerome Weinstein, Allie Woods Jr., Michael Enright, Alexa Havins, Keenan Shimizu, Akira Takayama, Shiro Oishi, Yoshio Mita, Keisuke Jim Nagahama, Dominick Riccardi, Costas Panay, Kate Lacey, Denise Violante, Tonia-Marie Gallo, Jin Hwa Hwang, Marcel Becker, Alison Pelletier, Dylan Sprayberry, Bradley Steven Perry, Joey Pordan

Director: Walt Becker

Director: Walt Becker
Screenwriter: David Diamond , David Weissman
Producer: Andrew Panay , Robert Levy , Peter Abrams
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

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REVIEWS FOR OLD DOGS

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Featuring a mixed-up-medication gag, a guy-in-a-gorilla-suit gag and a suntan-gone-wrong gag...well, you begin to understand the level of inspiration that went into the execution of the film.

Full Review Source: sbs.com.au | comment Comment
Aug 9, 2010
Simon Foster
Simon Foster
sbs.com.au

Um embaraço para todos os envolvidos - inclusive o público.

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Apr 5, 2010
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

It's aggressively awful, and manages to push its worst gags so numbingly off the scale that we're left slack-jawed in disbelief

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
Apr 4, 2010
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

The jokes are played painfully safe and not even the fleeting presence of a few a name faces detracts from the sheer inanity of the plot and outright creepiness of the film’s central pairing.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
Mar 22, 2010
Adam Woodward
Adam Woodward
Little White Lies

Both Williams and Travolta mug furiously and the kids need locking up.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
Mar 22, 2010
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

[Travolta and Williams] engage in a torrent of slapstick set-ups that are neither witty nor funny.

Full Review Source: Radio Times | comment Comment
Mar 22, 2010
Karen Krizanovich
Karen Krizanovich
Radio Times

You've never experienced horror until you've seen Robin Williams in a Speedo getting a spray tan.

Full Review Source: Scotsman | comment Comment
Mar 22, 2010
Alistair Harkness
Alistair Harkness
Scotsman

A slapdash embarrassment of feeble age gags and cultural stereotypes, Old Dogs is at once crass, corny, amateurish, insulting, uninspired, deeply phoney and extraordinarily unfunny.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
Mar 22, 2010
Elliott Noble
Elliott Noble
Sky Movies

It's perhaps wise to avoid this movie at all costs.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | comment Comment
Mar 22, 2010
Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds
Digital Spy

Old Dogs is a milestone in the [Travolta's] career, the moment when he trumped Battlefield Earth to make the worst film of his life.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
Mar 22, 2010
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

At the screening I attended I didn't hear one person laugh, though I did hear plenty of involuntary sighs and groans, some of them emanating from myself.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
Mar 22, 2010
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

Dumb and painfully unfunny.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
Mar 22, 2010
Henry Fitzherbert
Henry Fitzherbert
Daily Express

The pickings are slim going on invisible.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
Mar 19, 2010
Tom Charity
Tom Charity
Times [UK]

Most repellent is the undercurrent of homophobia, the brutal cultural stereotyping and the fact that Travolta looks like a man wearing a slightly melted rubber John Travolta Hallowe’en mask.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
Mar 19, 2010
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]

This is easily the worst film of the year so far, and frankly last year too. It is embarrassingly, painfully unfunny.

Full Review Source: Birmingham Post | comment Comment
Mar 19, 2010
Birmingham Post

This is imbecilic hooey of the rarest breed.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
Mar 19, 2010
David Jenkins
David Jenkins
Time Out

Which is better, a soulless life of work and striving for money, or a joyous embrace of family and kids in all their gorgeous life-affirming messiness?

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
Mar 19, 2010
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

Being a film critic is a wonderful job, but there are weeks when the bad film delirium strikes and we’d all be better off in straitjackets.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
Mar 19, 2010
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

Utterly abysmal, entirely laugh-free and hideously embarrassing.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
Mar 17, 2010
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Despite showing some potential as commentary on ageism, the light-hearted comedy often flounders in the formulaic and a premise that is more complicated than it needed to be.

Full Review Source: Movie Views | comment 1 Comment
Mar 16, 2010
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views
 
 
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