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See Spot Run
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Family/Kids
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Dan Baron
George Gallo (also story)
Craig Titley (story)
Stuart Gibbs (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
John Whitesell
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 28, 2001
Video: August 28, 2001
Theatrical: March 2, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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...
70
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.
50
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.
50
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.
40
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
All of this comedy's jokes are old.
40
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.
38
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.
38
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.
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.
38
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.
31
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Oak-stiff and witless, but a few scenes muster up embarrassed chuckles.
30
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.
30
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The movie equivalent of a box of Froot Loops followed by a half-gallon Pepsi chaser.
25
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!"
25
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.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
Brutally dumb canine comedy.
25
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Someone should have treated See Spot Run like a bone and buried it.
20
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.
20
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.
10
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.
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.
0
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
See critic run. Oh, for the days of Smell-a-Vision.
0
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Personally, I'd say that it was about time Arquette was leashed.
0
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?
 The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
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I couldn't stop watching it! This is honestly the best movie I've ever seen!
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