| 70 |
Wall Street Journal
Beyond being entertained, I was delighted by the movie's outpouring of slapstick invention (one crazed sequence in a pet store has all the pawmarks of a classic), and the genial energy of its star, David Arquette.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Fart, feces and gonad gags notwithstanding, this knockabout comedy is no more vulgar than most contemporary children's films, and more good-natured than many.
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| 50 |
Film.com
The filmmakers went for cheap laughs as well as for some a little harder-earned. The only thing pure about this film is the dog, and he's magnificent.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
All of this comedy's jokes are old.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
It's finally a hilarious and cuddly flashback from the dog's point of view, to his training as a pup, that marks the moment when the film finds its sweetly moronic legs.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Movies like this demonstrate that when it comes to stupidity and vulgarity, only the best will do for our children.
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| 38 |
New York Post
Do your kids a favor - and take them to see something more worthwhile than the relentlessly vulgar and stupid See Spot Run.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
Give David Arquette credit. He shares nearly all his screen time in See Spot Run with a clever canine and a cute kid and still manages to pull off his usual nutty-slapstick routine with gusto.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
See Spot Run isn't solely responsible for the dumbing down of movies, but it's part of the dismal phenomenon.
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| 31 |
Mr. Showbiz
Oak-stiff and witless, but a few scenes muster up embarrassed chuckles.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
Just a few guilty laughs, a predictable resolution and repeated close-ups of that dog jerking its head to one side, doing the cute thing.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
The movie equivalent of a box of Froot Loops followed by a half-gallon Pepsi chaser.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
It's enough to encourage the aspiring film makers in the audience, no matter how wee in age, to yell "Cut!"
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
PG? Please. Might as well take a kid to Hannibal. At least that one was funnier and didn't implicate any noble breeds in its violence -- just humans.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Brutally dumb canine comedy.
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| 25 |
USA Today
Someone should have treated See Spot Run like a bone and buried it.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
The gags, almost all of which involve the passage of gases and liquids, move at a fast-enough clip to keep you awake throughout. For which this review expresses a sorrow as profound as the sympathy it feels for all the actors.
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| 20 |
Salon.com
How do you screw up a family movie that has a cute bull mastiff, a cute 6-year-old and David Arquette playing a mailman? Apparently by unleashing half a dozen writers to gnaw it to pieces and entrusting the result to a TV director (John Whitesell of "Cosby" and "Roseanne") with little sense of how to tell a story longer than six minutes.
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| 10 |
Variety
Gruff and downright smelly, especially when star David Arquette is forced at one point to flop around in a pile of doggy doo.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
The script is simultaneously boring and breathlessly busy, and it really gives Arquette a beating, as scene after scene subjects him to electrocution, dog attack, encasement in bubble wrap, public pantlessness, assault by the hearing-impaired, a fishbowl on the head, and gluteal paralysis caused by poisonous sea urchins.
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| 0 |
Washington Post
See critic run. Oh, for the days of Smell-a-Vision.
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| 0 |
Entertainment Weekly
Personally, I'd say that it was about time Arquette was leashed.
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| 0 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's hard to believe that five different writers took credit for this feeble story and script. Who says failure is an orphan?
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