The Shaggy Dog Reviews

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• Walt Disney Pictures' overblown remake of its 1959 boy-into-sheepdog comedy classic

  by Michael Wilmington [Chicago Tribune ]

• predictable and unfunny

  by Scott Chitwood [Comingsoon ]

• it has one joke, and it's not particularly funny

  by David Mercier [FilmJudge ]

• isn't a bow-wow, but it's nothing to yap about either

  by Ellen Futterman [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]

• is pretty flea-bitten from the get-go

  by Randy Cordova [The Arizona Republic ]

• does a pretty good job entertaining

  by Andrew Casertano [The Cinema Source ]

• a movie that genuinely pitches itself at a child's level while also giving parents some real laughs

  by Louise Kennedy [Boston Globe ]

• a great for the whole family

  by Mark Thal [The Trades ]

• a fast-moving Walt Disney Co. comedy that manages to sail past many of the cliches usually found in this genre

  by Luke Sader [The Hollywood Reporter ]
• Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
• Reviewed by Scott Gwin [Cinema Blend ]
• Reviewed by Nancy Churnin [The Dallas Morning News ]
• Reviewed by Mark Keizer [Boxoffice Magazine ]
• Reviewed by Marc Savlov [Austin Chronicle ]
• Reviewed by Scott Tobias [The Onion A.V. Club ]
• Reviewed by Sara M. Fetters [MovieFreak ]
• Reviewed by William Arnold [Seattle Post-Intelligencer ]
• Reviewed by Pete Croatto [Filmcritic ]
• Reviewed by Jami Bernard [New York Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Stan Urankar [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland ]
• Reviewed by Jeff Vice [Deseret News, Salt Lake City ]
• Reviewed by Cathy Jakicic [The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ]
• Reviewed by Jan Stuart [Newsday ]
• Reviewed by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]
• Reviewed by Eric Lurio [Greenwich Village Gazette ]
• Reviewed by Peter Sobczynski [eFilmCritic ]
• Reviewed by Jonathan W. Hickman [Entertainment Insiders ]

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