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- 2018
- PG
- Global Road Entertainment
- 1 h 32 m
- 2018
- PG
- Global Road Entertainment
- 1 h 32 m
Summary A human detective (Will Arnett) and his canine partner (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges) go undercover at the world's most exclusive dog show to solve his biggest case yet.
Directed By: Raja Gosnell
Written By: Max Botkin, Marc Hyman
- 2018
- PG
- Global Road Entertainment
- 1 h 32 m
- 2018
- PG
- Global Road Entertainment
- 1 h 32 m
Show Dogs
31
1.3
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Summary A human detective (Will Arnett) and his canine partner (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges) go undercover at the world's most exclusive dog show to solve his biggest case yet.
Directed By: Raja Gosnell
Written By: Max Botkin, Marc Hyman
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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7% Positive
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50% Mixed
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7 Reviews
43% Negative
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6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
31
7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
43% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Grown-ups might not roll over for Show Dogs, but children almost surely will. With its fart jokes and smart-alecky canines, this talking-animal comedy is aimed at a young audience anyway. For dog-loving adults, well, it’s just engaging enough to make them prick up their ears.
And thanks to some creative character casting and a self-aware script that isn't averse to poking fun at itself, Show Dogs emerges as a high-concept family comedy that manages to avoid being taken for the runt of the litter, even if it doesn't really bring anything fresh and different to the arena.
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 31 User Ratings
1.3
3% Positive
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6% Mixed
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90% Negative
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 31 User Ratings
1.3
3% Positive
1 Rating
1 Rating
6% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
90% Negative
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
If Show Dogs sometimes betrays its shaggy charms, there is comfort in remembering that many movies are much dumber than this one, and so few of them have either the good taste or the good manners to compensate with puppies.
Think of it as “Miss Congeniality” for dogs, replete with the sort of slapstick humor, puerile gags and for-adults-only pop-culture references required of such endeavors. Its frantic pace should make it a mildly amusing diversion for the younger set, but its juvenile imagination (or lack thereof) is likely to drive anyone over the age of 7 barking mad.
Families with canines are better off staying home and having an old-fashioned backyard frolic than trotting out to see Show Dogs, a panting, poorly trained entry in the live-action/talking animal genre that for once makes viewers long for the candy-colored, half-witted professionalism of third-tier Pixar-knockoff animation.
Even by the low standards of this type of live-action, family friendly comedy, Show Dogs is especially lame. It’s actually kind of amazing that it’s getting a theatrical release at all.
Show Dogs is really bad, even for a talking-dog movie.
Bland and unoriginal in so many different ways, Show Dogs is a prime example of a movie that is near the level of a high-quality direct-to-video movie that feature talking dogs and trust me when I say that because there are a lot of talking dog movies that should have just ended up being direct-to-video and this is sadly one of them. Show Dogs is also another prime example of what to not do to make your movie successful. Don't fill them up with clichés because everyone knows they'll get sick and tired of them before the movie could ever end.
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From the director of Home Alone 3, BOTH Scooby Doo movies, BOTH live-action Smurfs movies, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, comes Show Dogs! Seriously, once you see that Raja Gosnell is the director of this, you better fear for your life.
I would have given this a 0 had it not been that Will Arnett is actually trying to make his performance good.
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It's the modern day 'Cats and Dogs', expect that fact that it's not that funny and is not memorable in any sense/ the only scene that will be engraved into my memory forever, is the Dirty Dancing dream.
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I like dogs but not this.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Production Company
Neddy Dean Productions,
Open Road Films (II),
Riverstone Pictures
Release Date May 18, 2018
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating PG
Tagline Unleashed and Undercover
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
