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75A surprisingly heartfelt father/son relationship, handled with restraint by director Todd Holland.
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75A touching, family-friendly entertainment
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Though it never completely catches fire, there's enough earnestness and warmth that makes it a welcome alternative in a family film arena dominated by computer animation and associated toy lines.
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63An entertaining family comedy full of both tricks and trickery.
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50No best in show but a decent family comedy.
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50If Firehouse Dog was on cable, where it belongs, it would make a passable diversion from homework or chores. But a kid would have to be pretty desperate to leave the house - and waste allowance money - for this modest distraction.
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50This larger-than-life cartoon of a trained dog has more character than the two-legged co-stars.
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50Working with four interchangeable Deweys, the filmmakers create a sufficient number of lively stunts to keep the kiddies amused, though the film's wittiest moment -- a canine parody of Dudley Moore's first glimpse of Bo Derek in "10" -- will be appreciated only by their parents. In trying to straddle both age groups, however, Firehouse Dog proves decidedly less nimble than its furry star.
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50Leaving no heartstrings untugged and no doggie-fart jokes uncracked, scruffy pic reps a very mixed breed of obvious humor, gently moving father-son drama and sub-"Backdraft" trial by fire.
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50Firehouse Dog goes into the marginally watchable category, aimed as it is toward the middlebrow family trade, preferably dog owners with their own Sparky slopping up the station wagon windows.
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The terrier Rexxx might be the least appealing mutt ever to slobber on screen.
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42The mystery is, how the filmmakers still managed to come up with a movie that will satisfy almost no one.
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42The lesson here is that dogs don't need "attitude." They're loveable enough on their own.
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40Perhaps the lesson to be learned is that just because we CAN use computer technology to give dogs goofy faces, that doesn't mean we SHOULD.
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40Not quite disturbingly forlorn, but forlorn (and overly literal) just the same, this latest entry in the doggy-acrobat subgenre of canine comedies has but one joke, and it comes early: In the Idol age, celebrity culture has gone to the dogs -- literally.
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38There's too little dog and too much fire house in Firehouse Dog, a mild kid comedy that turns into a flaming arson mystery with some scenes that could be too scary for little ones.
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38No cliché is unturned, no "dog duty" pun avoided (get it -- dog doody), no creepy gay-panic subtext unplumbed in this family comedy.
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38And that dog -- or, rather, that digitally enhanced replicant -- is just plain creepy.
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38The filmmakers' ineptitude is staggering.
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25Perhaps worst of all, the movie is painfully long.
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