Benji - Off the Leash Reviews
Common Sense Media
Charming movie featuring an adorable dog.
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| Original Score: 3/5
EricDSnider.com
The movie is so earnest and sweet that to criticize it harshly would be like kicking a dog, and far be it from me to go there.
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| Original Score: C+
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
A fun and frolicsome adventure for the entire family.
Entertainment Spectrum
This is by far the best of the Benji films, with appeal to both adults and kids alike.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top CriticA mildly pleasant, aggressively retro kidpic that should please undemanding moppets without unduly boring their parents.
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Doggone it, I have to give this a better-than-average rating.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
The overall unevenness of tone is the movie's biggest flaw, but the slo-mo scenes of doggie derring-do are quite funny, and the message about how to treat both humans and animals evergreen.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The dogs are cute, the scary parts are appropriately subdued and everything works out for the best.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Not one of the great dog movies, but it's a good one, abandoning wall-to-wall cuteness for a drama about a homeless puppy.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The fifth film to feature the lovable mutt Benji is an old-fashioned boy and his dog story.
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| Original Score: 3/5
In direction, story construction, camerawork and performances both human and canine, Benji Off the Leash! is the best of the Benji canon.
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| Original Score: A-
L.A. Weekly
It's hard to not feel a measure of warmth for the determined optimism of his enterprise, especially since [Camp] hasn't lost the touch for cute dog antics.
eFilmCritic.com
It's Benji for Pete's sake and he's at least three times as expressive as Josh Hartnett or Halle Berry, so give a dog his due and shine that sun where it's supposed to.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Christianity Today
Lacks creativity. The first Benji was original, and each new sequel needs to be a new creation. Instead, we get the same Benji formula.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
eFilmCritic.com
Horrible, loathsome, incompetent, wretched. The worst movie of the year? Undoubtedly.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Talking Pictures (U.S.)
...nothing in this boring and inept movie is salvageable.
Full Review | Original Score: .5/4
Groucho Reviews
Good intentions aside, the return of writer-director-producer Joe Camp's "Benji" is terminally boring.
| Original Score: .5/4
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