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| SHAGGY DOG, THE (2005)
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by Lew Irwin
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 It is the time of the Disney dogs. Just weeks after the studio scored a surprising hit with Eight Below, it returns with a remake of The Shaggy Dog, and box-office results, critics suggest, are likely to be the same. Neil Genzlinger in the New York Times gives star Time Allen credit for turning "what could have been an obligatory revisiting into something worth seeing." Louise Kennedy in the Boston Globe agrees, writing, "It's a pleasant surprise to find a movie that genuinely pitches itself at a child's level while also giving parents some real laughs." Claudia Puig in USA Today concludes that the movie "may not make you howl, but it does offer a few bona fide belly laughs." Nevertheless, most of the major critics, while agreeing that the film is likely to attract a big family audience, spend most of their reviews growling at it. Amy Biancolli in the Houston Chronicle, for example, concludes the "Shaggy Dog is a subpar remake of a subpar movie that can only spawn subpar remakes." Jami Bernard comments in the New York Daily News: "Watching a pack of dogs sniff Tim Allen's butt -- repeatedly -- is probably someone's idea of a good time at the movies. Not mine. And Lou Lumenick in the New York Post expresses doubt that the film will even have much family appeal. "Most of the kids who stuck it out at a half-empty screening the other evening seemed at least half asleep by the end," he remarks, adding: "The Shaggy Dog is the kind of dubious 'entertainment' that is killing the idea of going out to the movies for many families." |
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