Truly Dreadful Film
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
View MoreThe storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
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View MoreThe poster for the film is cute - and I like dogs -- but the movie is very juvenile. Young children may like it, but it's not clever enough or funny enough for parents or even older teen children. The idea of making the dog invisible is fun - but most of the actors are too broad and it's a rather sit-com kind of plotting. Seems like if you have a story that involves villains, the FBI, kids and a dog - there could be more complexity - but here it's very simplified, like a half hour situation comedy. The dog in it was actually very cute -- wish it could have done more. The acting was all okay, but not the caliber of higher budget films. The daughter was probably the best of the lot. Overall, the film may work for kids... but no thumbs up for adults.
View MoreMy 11 yr old son wanted to finish watching the movie to see how bad it could get. He said it looks like the producers ran out of money and got the cheapest actors to film it. He says he could be an actor if they are hiring actors this bad. It was also rather violent for a kids movie. Plus the girl was making comments about not eating which isn't great for teen and preteen girls to hear. Add to that all the swearing it is not OK for kids I have heard less swearing in movies like Transformers.We ended up turning the movie off because it kept getting worse. It is almost like the movie was written and directed by a six year old. It seems it is a hit or miss with Stephen Langford movies. No way to predict weather it is going to be good or bad. This one was very very bad.
View MoreHey all, just watch movie as a new company its made so well must watch and kids loved the best, thank you Sofia Monroe (producer) for making this happen regards from India the story line is good and topic is nice too and hope better to come in feature...I'd highly recommend watching this one because I think it's one of the best out of all dogs and cats movie. For those who look deeply into the storyline and only care about great acting and drama, I'd still recommend giving it a go because it's a new story with new characters, My overall rating for this movie was a 9/10 because in the context of why people would go and watch this movie, but rather a more mature cast with better humor. Thank you
View MoreThis film is directed and written by Stephen Langford—the same guy who gained some fame producing the American TV show "Family Matters". You know, this is the show that featured Urkel yes, that annoying Urkel! However, "Dude Where's My Dog?" Is MUCH more difficult to enjoy by anyone older than about 6 years-old than this old television show! The acting and writing actually made me WISH the film had been more like "Family Matters" and the annoying antics of Urkel! The plot is pretty much kid's stuff. Some dopey scientists are working on an invisibility formula. However, an evil janitor steals the stuff and he and his partner plan on making a fortune selling the stuff. Unfortunately, a dog ends up eating ALL the stuff and becomes invisible. So, the pair are intent to find the invisible dog so that they can drain its blood and recreate the formula (that's pretty creepy, actually). Add to this a super-annoying group of kids whose shtick is that they are spying on their neighbors looking for terrorists (is this funny?!) and you have the plot.While the plot sounds pretty bad, that really isn't what nearly drove me to suicide while watching the film—it was the broadness of the direction and writing. The characters in the film were all caricatures and no one remotely really acts like these people no one. There's the FBI agent (who sounds as if he's trying to imitate the character Kronk from "The Emperor's New Groove") who is dumber than a tomato, the spy kid I mentioned in the previous paragraph, the stupid dad, the bossy mom and a variety of other impossible to believe idiots. And the problem wasn't just that they were all one-dimensional types instead of people, but the dialog UGGHHH!!! Flatulence comments abound as well as booger references—though it was all bad. It got so horrible that my oldest daughter yelled at the screen 'I really want murder the children in this film!!!' as we watched the film together. She also repeatedly asked me to turn off the movie! I couldn't blame her, as I was feeling pretty much the same way and the film was a chore to watch. Plus today is my birthday—and I definitely deserve better than this!The bottom line is that there should be films that you can show to your kids without worrying about cursing, violence and hot monkey sex. But, this does NOT mean that the films should ONLY appeal to very small children—and this is definitely the problem with "Dude Where's My Dog?". Fart jokes, horrid sound effects (such as slide whistles and beeps and the like to make things 'funnier' occurred CONSTANTLY) and annoyingly bad writing doom this film and make me wonder why a little bit of intelligent writing and acting couldn't have been used in making the film instead. After all, there are many wonderful family films that won't drive adults insane and won't make your children stupider.
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