Minahzur Rahman It's a good film to see for the family especially if you're a fan of Dogs. It also somehow teaches you to whether actually get a Dog or not, and what it could actually be like to have a Dog as part of the family. The film has a lot of humour, so I see no reason why anyone could dislike such a family film. There aren't many films based on Dogs that can match Beethoven, so its worth watching. There are sequels for Beethoven, but none of them beats the original unless I'm mistaken.

FilmBuff1994 Beethoven is a very mediocre film with an extremely basic storyline that lacks originality and an average cast. It's reasonably enjoyable, Beethoven is certainly a very lovable dog, and having him in the title role definitely helps the film, the dogs are of course the main thing that makes this watchable. My biggest issue with this movie is that there is absolutely no bit of humour for adults to laugh at, all of the comedy is aimed at children, I felt Charles Grodin's character had great potential to make the older audience chuckle, but sadly even his lines and antics were all just to make the kids giggle. I think the films villain is terrible, he isn't isn't properly introduced until about twenty minutes before the movie ends and we are never made fully clear of his motives, he was certainly borrowing a lot of traits from Cruella De Vil, it was also a very unusual move to make a veterinarian the bad guy and I found it to be somewhat offensive towards people who are saving animals lives on a daily basis, they should have just made him a regular dog thief. Little laughs for an older audience and a straight forward story that you barely need to follow, kids will certainly enjoy it, but I couldn't possibly recommend Beethoven. An family adopts a lovable puppy that grows into a large St Bernard. Best Performance: Charles Grodin Worst Performance: Dean Jones

Geoffrey DeLeons This movie is an otherwise delightful comedy, but its major theme is the abduction of puppies for "scientific" experimentation. This is not suitable material for children to see.A movie should not start out with me wanting to put a bullet through someone's brain: Dean Jones as Dr. Varnick. Beethoven reminds me of something Stephen King would do: Candy coat something gruesome like he did with Christine or The Green Mile. Why did John Hughes find it necessary to subject us to animal experimentation and probably torture, and wrap it in the disguise of a comedy? Why?Both he and Amy Holden Jones have written in pictures that I have liked and that I deem respectable; Breakfast Club, Mystic Pizza, so I have no idea where they were coming from by adding this warped, malevolent current into Beethoven.Certainly the picture could have done without it and only suffered from its inclusion. It would have been easy to like Beethoven. Had it been a simple comedy with some adventure, I probably would have given it a 7 or an 8. It's a shame that someone with immature, Satanic sentiments had to spoil the picture.

Lee Eisenberg OK, when we were younger, we all liked it when movies portrayed families buying unusual pets who proceeded to trash everything. Back in the early 1800s, when Ludwig van Beethoven was writing and performing his great music, he probably never suspected that such a movie would carry his name.So, "Beethoven" is cute, if nothing else (actually, there really is nothing else). Aside from the main cast of Charles Grodin (when was the last time that he starred in something really good?), Bonnie Hunt and Dean Jones, there are also some people who got really famous within a few years: Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, David Duchovny (is Mulder investigating a conspiracy here?) and Patricia Heaton.