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  • 2003
  • PG
  • MGM Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2003
  • PG
  • MGM Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary Twelve-year-old Owen Baker (Aiken) has been working as a dog-walker all summer, and his hard work has finally paid off -- he gets to adopt a dog of his own! But Owen gets more than puppy love when he discovers his new dog Hubble (Broderick) is actually an interplanetary scout from the Dog Star Sirius. (MGM)

Directed By: John Hoffman

Written By: Zeke Richardson, John Hoffman

  • 2003
  • PG
  • MGM Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2003
  • PG
  • MGM Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m

Good Boy!

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
49
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
6.0
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Summary Twelve-year-old Owen Baker (Aiken) has been working as a dog-walker all summer, and his hard work has finally paid off -- he gets to adopt a dog of his own! But Owen gets more than puppy love when he discovers his new dog Hubble (Broderick) is actually an interplanetary scout from the Dog Star Sirius. (MGM)

Directed By: John Hoffman

Written By: Zeke Richardson, John Hoffman

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
49
40% Positive
12 Reviews
47% Mixed
14 Reviews
13% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
49
40% Positive
12 Reviews
47% Mixed
14 Reviews
13% Negative
4 Reviews

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75
The film is touchingly firm about leveling with children, drawing a careful, crucial line between fantasy and reality, without patronizing or haranguing them.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
70
When it comes right down to it, the talking animal thing is sort of secondary to what is, at heart, just a simple but perfectly satisfying little story about a boy who wants to keep his dog.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW

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6.0
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33% Mixed
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17% Negative
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17% Negative
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63
No new ground is dug up in Good Boy, but the story is well-paced, sweet and lively, filling a void for very young filmgoers.
By Claudia Puig FULL REVIEW
50
A promising idea turns into nothing, and we're left with a painfully dull kids' picture.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
50
As long as you keep thinking of "Babe," you can't help thinking that there's no excuse for movies like Good Boy! to merely push the usual buttons, deploy the usual poop jokes and carry out the usual sight gags.
By Gene Seymour FULL REVIEW
40
While Aiken couldn't be cuter or more-well suited for his earnest role, the script is utterly predictable and often falls into the saccharine trap. The pooches add a little life to this otherwise lackluster effort.
By Angel Cohn FULL REVIEW
20
Includes a few half-hearted ironies about how people are really serving dogs, not the other way around, but even those gags are cribbed from a retired Seinfeld routine.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Jim Henson Pictures
Release Date Oct 10, 2003
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline This Fall...Earth is going to the dogs.
Website http://foxfilm.terra.com.br/filme.php?id_filme=477
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Awards

Young Artist Awards
• 2 Nominations
Kids' Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination

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