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75As good as family entertainment gets.
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75What The Shaggy Dog feels like, more than anything, is an old-fashioned Disney movie.
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75The star (Allen), unleashed, is so energetic in his approximation of a bearded collie -- his nose sniffing the air, his whole being (which toggles between human and canine form) overcome by the need to fetch any stick thrown -- that his slobbery charm carries the picture.
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70A fast-moving Walt Disney Co. comedy that manages to sail past many of the cliches usually found in this genre while throwing together a wild story line more apt for a new millennium.
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Ms. Curtin is one of several examples of quirky casting that make this Shaggy Dog much more fun than it might have been.
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63May not make you howl, but it does offer a few bona fide belly laughs.
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50It says something for Robert Downey Jr. that in a movie where a man becomes a dog, Downey creates the weirdest character.
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50In movies as in life, superior technology doesn't necessarily trump humor, magic or really shaggy dogs.
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50This is precisely the type of moviegoing experience engineered for those who still get a laugh when the Baha Men hit "Who Let the Dogs Out?" accompanies a doggie mayhem montage.
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50There are many delightful movie techniques out there available for making animals appear to speak, so it's too bad The Shaggy Dog doesn't use any of them.
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50Crafting this crude, noisy remake of Disney's first live-action comedy required the labor of no fewer than five screenwriters.
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50The unruly pack of subplots make The Shaggy Dog much more convoluted than it needs to be. But Allen's physical comedy as man-becoming-dog, and his non-stop monologue as man-dog, are definitely worth a trip to the matinee.
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50The extraordinary canine performances in Shaggy Dog and "Eight Below" lead me to wonder whether Disney could dispense with two-legged creatures altogether, until further notice.
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50There are precious few surprises here, but parents will find director Robbins' breezy remake a painless affair and, judging by the yowls of laughter from the peanut gallery at the screening I attended, the kids will be barking all the way home.
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50In this serviceable remake of the fondly remembered 1959 Disney comedy (which starred Fred MacMurray), an impressively dexterous Tim Allen plays Dave Douglas.
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50Strictly for the very young who will find giggles in the anthropomorphic mash-ups and won't be too distracted by the predictably mawkish sitcom plot.
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50For a kids' picture this is relatively funny.
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My eight-year-old nephew sat nearly silent throughout, so when he says he had fun, he must be talking about the treats.
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40This fur-fetched tale is bearable family viewing.
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38Feels like little more than a stale rehash with a promising cast whose talents haven't been tapped.
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33Okay, so when does the fun start?
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30The Shaggy Dog is paint, or more appropriately here, pant by the numbers. It also manages a one-two punch -- it will upset small children and bore their parents. There's just no other way to say this: Disney, that movie of yours is a dog.
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30As a comic actor, Allen's palette is limited to varying degrees of beige. He is not only boring, he's obnoxious and narcissistic. Where's the ASPCA -- the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Audiences -- when you need 'em?
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25Who let this dog out?
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25The movie is just this side of terrible. It misses all the charm and fun of the original. Allen's mugging is incorrigibly unfunny.
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EricaJ.6I thought it was pretty good, definetly a good family movie. If I were still a kid i'd of loved it.
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