Old Dogs: Critic Reviews

The movie includes an interminable scene of the men taking the wrong medications for their various boomer ailments, with weirdly horrible comedic side effects.

This imbecilic, mean-spirited farce, which sneers at adults, leaves you wondering: where are the Three Stooges when we really need them?

Which is better, a soulless life of work and striving for money, or a joyous embrace of family and kids in all their gorgeous life-affirming messiness?

Though no animals were harmed in the making of Old Dogs, the lead actors were defanged. But like a pair of Labradors, they have a playful rapport.

We have reached a point in our moviegoing life where the two most horrifying words a studio can mutter are "Robin" and "Williams."

If Old Dogs isn't the absolute worst movie either star has appeared in, it's close enough to count.

Travolta, who delivers an impressively enthusiastic performance, seems to have no idea that he's stuck in one of the year's worst movies. The perpetually pained expression on Williams' face, however, suggests he knows otherwise.

It is an irredeemable affair.

Old Dogs seems to have lingered in post-production while editors struggled desperately to inject laugh cues. It obviously knows no one will find it funny without being ordered to.

Does no one know how to film physical comedy anymore?

A total train wreck.

Predictable as the premise is, Travolta's and Williams' unpredictability makes for some chortle-worthy slapstick, less of Laurel & Hardy vintage than of Abbott & Costello swill.

Is any of it believable for even one moment? Of course not. Do some of the jokes work? Sure.

Director Walt Becker's film goes for humor and heart, achieving neither.

Too bad this shrilly tuned comedy doesn't demand more than clock-punching effort from everyone involved.

Old Dogs does to the screen what old dogs do to the carpet. It's unfortunate that only the latter can be taken out and shot.

Trashing Old Dogs is a bit like kicking a puppy. But here goes.

Unfunny and uninspired, this dog deserves to be put down.

The timing of the comic set-ups is consistently amateurish, as if scenes were edited with hedge clippers, with the actors mugging frantically, waiting for the take to end.

There are some experiences no one should be subjected to even in the name of science. It may be that forced viewing of this film has been outlawed by the Geneva Convention.

Insipid, predictable, broad comedy mixed with Disney Family Values makes for one exasperating sit.

Old Dogs is no fun whatsoever, just a collection of stale kibble.