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51 out of 100

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4.2 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 33 Ratings

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  • Starring: Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow
  • Summary: Hotel for Dogs is a smart comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new guardians forbid 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, from having a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday - and eventually for all Friday's friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in." (Paramount Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 25
  3. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    75
    A lively, funny, imaginative film that should appeal to kids and their pet-loving parents.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    60
    Even the youngest viewers, not to mention their parents, will appreciate the buffoonish villainy of the dogcatchers (still useful villains more than half a century after "Lady and the Tramp"), and the movie's nice anti-kill shelter message is as it should be.
  3. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    38
    Look, I love dogs. But this film tried my patience almost beyond endurance.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. TBDOPEY22
    10
    Good over all movie. Granted there are alot of morals being broken in the movie. But if you have raised your kids right and they know the difference between right and wrong. This is a good MOVIE.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. R.C.S.
    5
    Good young family movie.
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  3. MaryM.
    1
    The movie is a romp with cute dogs, but it sends a very clear set of metamessages to impressionable kids that 1) shoplifting is OK if you are helping dogs, 2) lying is OK if you need to lie to be accepted by the cool kids, 3) the police are uptight, mean and hate kids and dogs, 4) people who control stray animals are cruel and incompetent, 5) the foster care system is dickensian and populated by greedy kid-haters (except the Don Cheadle character), and 6) the only good animal shelters are "no kill" shelters. YIKE. Don't let your kids see this movie!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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