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My Dog Skip
Metascore
61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
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  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    100
    This is a sweet, gentle film - slow and sunny like a summer day, with a message that growing up can be hard, but can also serve as the wellspring of memories that will sustain you for a lifetime.
  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    83
    It works because it never tries to be more than the very personal memory piece it is.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    80
    I had to beg my 8-year-old to stop laughing.
  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    A movie like this falls outside ordinary critical language. Is it good or bad? Is there too much melodrama? I don't have any idea. It triggered too many thoughts of my own for me to have much attention left over for footnotes.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Monica Eng
    75
    A film that proves even the tiredest genre can be reinvigorated in the right hands.
  6. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    75
    Though its sentiment may be lost on the very young, the movie is strictly two-hanky fare.
  7. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Susan Wloszczyna
    75
    A family movie with a heart and a brain. And if you aren't moved to tears, you might need an organ transplant.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Bruce McCabe
    75
    The film's vintage setting is as much a character as any other. Some of the best moments evoke the best parts of easygoing small town life in a bygone era.
  9. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    75
    Romantically nostalgic, a love letter to growing up in simpler times.
  10. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Nicole Campos
    70
    Adds to the current crop of great kids' fare with a most-welcome old reliable.
  11. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Sean Means
    70
    But it's the boy and the dog who make My Dog Skip resonate. The formula may be an old one, but it's still a good one.
  12. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    67
    A serviceable time-passer for kids, grandparents, and poochophiles.
  13. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    67
    Atmospheric and genial, and you've got to love the spectacle of a dog driving a car or parading around town like the unofficial mayor.
  14. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    63
    Grows on you like kudzu.
  15. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    63
    It's gently funny, modestly scary in spots, full of valuable but low-key observations about life.
  16. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Bill McLochlin
    60
    I wasn't the only one crying in the theatre. Not by a long shot.
  17. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    60
    Particularly unsuitable for cinematic adaptation, but when has that ever stopped anyone.
  18. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    60
    Superior family entertainment.
  19. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    50
    It plays out like an endless series of scenes we've seen before.
  20. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Christine Dolan
    50
    A slice of '40s-vintage, small town Mississippi life, full of laughs and sweetness and a sorrow that may send more sensitive little ones home crying.
  21. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    50
    Certainly there are people who will welcome this kind of "wholesome" family entertainment, but it feels false.
  22. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Feels hokey, generic and dated.
  23. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Robert Faires
    50
    A sweet, sweet movie; it's just one that celebrates the bond between a boy and his dog with heart and a heavy, handy hand.
  24. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    A standard-issue Hollywood family film about a boy and his dog growing up in a Southern small town during World War II.
  25. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    50
    Works best when it sticks with the gentle humor and pathos of its literary source.
  26. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    40
    Hokey.
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