Old Dogs Reviews
ComingSoon.net
Heartless, brainless and unable to do anything with what it does have to offer, Old Dogs doesn't know who it's for or what it's offering. It just needs to get made because people have to have something to do. Spare yourself and your kids.
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| Original Score: 4.5/10
Suite101.com
John Travolta and Robin Williams are no strangers to shamelessness. But not even they can walk away from "Old Dogs" with a shred of dignity - a mean-spirited, insulting "family" film that essentially pees down its leg and calls it comedy.
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| Original Score: 0/4
sbs.com.au
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.
Cinema em Cena
Um embaraço para todos os envolvidos - inclusive o público.
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Shadows on the Wall
It's aggressively awful, and manages to push its worst gags so numbingly off the scale that we're left slack-jawed in disbelief
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| Original Score: 1/5
Little White Lies
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.
This is London
Both Williams and Travolta mug furiously and the kids need locking up.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Radio Times
[Travolta and Williams] engage in a torrent of slapstick set-ups that are neither witty nor funny.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Scotsman
You've never experienced horror until you've seen Robin Williams in a Speedo getting a spray tan.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Sky Movies
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Digital Spy
It's perhaps wise to avoid this movie at all costs.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Daily Mail [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.
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| Original Score: 0/5
Daily Express
Dumb and painfully unfunny.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Times [UK]
The pickings are slim going on invisible.
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| Original Score: 1/5
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Birmingham Post
This is easily the worst film of the year so far, and frankly last year too. It is embarrassingly, painfully unfunny.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Time Out
This is imbecilic hooey of the rarest breed.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Guardian [UK]
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?
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| Original Score: 1/5
Daily Telegraph
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.
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| Original Score: 0/5
