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See Spot Run
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 16 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Family/Kids
Written by:
Dan Baron
George Gallo (also story)
Craig Titley (story)
Stuart Gibbs (story)
Directed by: John Whitesell
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 2, 2001
DVD: August 28, 2001
Running Time: 95 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for crude humor, language and comic violence
Starring David Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Anderson, and Angus T. Jones
When a drug sniffing FBI dog escapes a witness protection program, he finds an unlikely refuge with a young mailman (Arquette) in the heart of suburbia. Both of their lives are about to be changed -- big time! (Warner Brothers)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
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.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
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.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Movies like this demonstrate that when it comes to stupidity and vulgarity, only the best will do for our children.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Do your kids a favor - and take them to see something more worthwhile than the relentlessly vulgar and stupid See Spot Run.
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.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
See Spot Run isn't solely responsible for the dumbing down of movies, but it's part of the dismal phenomenon.
Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
Oak-stiff and witless, but a few scenes muster up embarrassed chuckles.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
The movie equivalent of a box of Froot Loops followed by a half-gallon Pepsi chaser.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
It's enough to encourage the aspiring film makers in the audience, no matter how wee in age, to yell "Cut!"
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Sara Wildberger
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.
USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
Someone should have treated See Spot Run like a bone and buried it.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
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.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
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.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Gruff and downright smelly, especially when star David Arquette is forced at one point to flop around in a pile of doggy doo.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Personally, I'd say that it was about time Arquette was leashed.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's hard to believe that five different writers took credit for this feeble story and script. Who says failure is an orphan?
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 16 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mike H gave it a10:
Hilarious movie. great for the whole family. and what is james h trying to say? that he was full of awe while watching the movie? awed at how amazing it was? it's 'awful', dumbass! critics get another one wrong.
venth g. gave it a10:
This movie is so funny, I like the way David Arquette did his role, it was amazing.
James H. gave it a1:
God aweful.. I hope this doesnt ruin the dogs career.. he was the innocent victim here.. he held the movie together he should of recieved and oscar for that.
eileen d. gave it a10:
Amazing film good old slapstick great fun.
Jeff gave it a10:
Hilarious. Literally could not stop dying from laughter.
Saer A. gave it a 7:
See Spot Run is a movie the entire family will enjoy. It's funny and lighthearted fun.
Paul B. gave it a 10:
This movie was super funny alot better than i thought it was gonna be it was a good movie.
