A surprisingly touching family comedy with real emotion.
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02/06/07
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The Shaggy Dog (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 29
Rotten:74
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Consensus: This Disney retread has neither inspiration nor originality, but may please moviegoers under the age of ten.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release: Mar 10, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $61,039,681
Synopsis: Directed by Brian Robbins (VARSITY BLUES, THE PERFECT SCORE), this updated spin on THE SHAGGY DOG and THE SHAGGY D.A. features Tim Allen as Dave Douglas, a Deputy District Attorney who spends way too much time at the office and way too little... [More]
Starring: Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Zena Grey, Danny Glover
Director: Brian Robbins
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01/20/07
A good-natured, sometimes silly family fun that will play especially well with the under-13 set.
09/01/06
...better than one might've expected, primarily due to the enthusiasm with which Allen tackles his role...
08/19/06
At least Fred MacMurray had the good sense to let the co-star playing his son turn into a dog. But this is a Tim Allen picture, so he does the honors himself.
07/28/06
The film just translates the basic idea for a new generation under the ill-conceived notion that it was necessary.
06/12/06
Five writers (Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Geoff Rodkey, Jack Amiel and Michael Begler) threw everything they could think of against the wall, hoping some of it would stick, but nothing did.
05/12/06
It's an underestimation of the intelligence of your average eight year old to believe his or her rapt attention can be held for long by a film like this.
05/04/06
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04/01/06
Man becomes mutt in this inoffensive, uneven comedy that fails to make the most of its comic potential or familiar cast.
03/31/06
Bizarre, incomprehensible and utterly unnecessary, "The Shaggy Dog" comes bounding onto the screen with a loud soundtrack, a cute pooch, vivid colors and dozens of product placements.
03/30/06
The plot may sound stupid, but it's tightly written and it pushes all the right emotional buttons.
03/30/06
The Shaggy Dog feels like little more than a stale rehash with a promising cast whose talents haven't been tapped.
03/28/06
A flea-bitten farrago which bears only a fleeting resemblance to the 1959 film that inspired it.
03/28/06
The Shaggy Dog, another tired retread from Disney, is so aggressively unfunny it should just roll over and play dead. Come on, guys, do something original for once.
03/27/06
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03/18/06
There are precious few surprises here, but parents will find director Robbins’ breezy remake a painless affair and, judging by the yowls of laughter from the peanut gallery at the screening I attended, the kids will be barking all the way home.
03/18/06
Just when Allen is on a ferociously funny roll, director Brian Robbins is forced to collar and replace him with a collie doing a lame impersonation of a human.
03/17/06
The Shaggy Dog wears its heart of on its paw, capitalizing on Dave's transformation to better understand his family.
03/17/06
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