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70In spite of a few missteps, the cumulative impact of the film is undeniable.
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70Fanning is a child actor with a grown-up soul, and every move, every breath, seems mysteriously right.
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50Assembled from the debris of countless worn-out images of the Deep South and is indeed beautifully photographed. But the writer-director, Deborah Kampmeier, has become inflamed by the imagery and trusts it as the material for a story, which seems grotesque and lurid.
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50The film is responsible, earnest, well-intentioned and, as it was in Sundance, maddeningly inconsistent.
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50A handsomely produced but unintentionally risible film that mistakes high grotesquerie for high gothic.
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In the wake of the inadvertent betrayal that leads to her now-notorious rape (a sequence that, ironically, seems to have lost the horrific impact it needs), the film turns listless.
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50Pretty but overwrought, Hounddog doesn't deserve its infamy, nor does it merit being seen or remembered.
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40Hounddog is never more than a sluggish dawdle from shack to swimmin' hole and back again.
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38A failure on pretty much every level, Hounddog would never have been known beyond Park City had it not been for the notoriety surrounding the rape scene.
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38It was received at Sundance 2007 with a resounding thud. Not because of this controversial rape scene, but because, well, it just wasn't good. Unfortunately, even with over a year of rejiggering, it's still not good.
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30Overall, director Deborah Kempmeir mistakes ominous and depressing for deep and meaningful, a misfire that undermines the effect it tries to achieve.
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30An indigestible gumbo of Southern Gothic ingredients seasoned with snake oil, biblical hash and thoroughly unpalatable spice.
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A bewildering slice of southern gothic hokum, it suffers from a weak script.
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25Fanning gives a sensitive and fairly impressive performance. But like her over-the-top movie family, Hounddog is still trailer trash of the worst kind.
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20Rarely has there been a movie as misguided as Hounddog, which self-righteously indulges in exploitation while loudly decrying it.
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12What I can't figure is why anyone would want to release this tripe in theaters just when Fanning has nearly lived it down. They ain't no friends of mine, or any other moviegoer.
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The problems that plague the movie land squarely with the writer, director and producer, Deborah Kampmeier, who has crafted a howler of a bad script, shows little affinity for working with actors and displays no visual sense behind the camera.
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0Fanning is remarkably collected and even dignified. As for the rest of the gang, they ought to be returned to sender.