My Dog Skip

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

It works because it never tries to be more than the very personal memory piece it is.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

I had to beg my 8-year-old to stop laughing.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Romantically nostalgic, a love letter to growing up in simpler times.

Boston Globe Bruce McCabe

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

Though its sentiment may be lost on the very young, the movie is strictly two-hanky fare.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

A family movie with a heart and a brain. And if you aren't moved to tears, you might need an organ transplant.

Chicago Tribune Monica Eng

A film that proves even the tiredest genre can be reinvigorated in the right hands.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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.

Film.com Sean Means

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.

LA Weekly Nicole Campos

Adds to the current crop of great kids' fare with a most-welcome old reliable.

Entertainment Weekly Ty Burr

A serviceable time-passer for kids, grandparents, and poochophiles.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

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.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

It's gently funny, modestly scary in spots, full of valuable but low-key observations about life.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Grows on you like kudzu.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Particularly unsuitable for cinematic adaptation, but when has that ever stopped anyone.

TNT RoughCut Bill McLochlin

I wasn't the only one crying in the theatre. Not by a long shot.

Variety Robert Koehler

Superior family entertainment.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Certainly there are people who will welcome this kind of "wholesome" family entertainment, but it feels false.

Austin Chronicle Robert Faires

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.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Feels hokey, generic and dated.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

It plays out like an endless series of scenes we've seen before.

Miami Herald Christine Dolan

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.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Works best when it sticks with the gentle humor and pathos of its literary source.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

A standard-issue Hollywood family film about a boy and his dog growing up in a Southern small town during World War II.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Hokey.