torstensonjohn The film is a comedy, family filled fun with Robin Williams at his comical genius. There are a lot of negative reviews for this film but let me put a positive spin on it. The plot is pretty simple; two best friends who are in business together and continuously help one another out. One gets divorced and they head to Miami for fun like the old days. Enter Kelly Preston who plays a minimal but significant part. A fling occurs AND then we fast forward 7 years later when Vicky pops back up in Williams life with two children. Here is where the comedy ensues and Travolta and Williams are at their best. There are a lot of laughs within the film and with co-stars such as Seth Green, Bernie Mac, Matt Dillon, Justin Long, Amy Sedaris the film is enlightend with fun.

ofpsmith I haven't seen this movie in a while so quite frankly I'm actually amazed that I remembered anything about it. Old Dogs seemed like it could have some potential as a good comedy but it really just fell flat. The story is that a woman is sent to prison so Charlie Reed (John Travolta) and Dan Rayburn (Robin Williams) have look after her kids. And in it the kids create some wacky trouble. That seriously is the plot of the movie. All the jokes either fell down flat or were just completely stupid. And when you have a comedy like that it's just going to drag on. I like Travolta and Williams but this time it seems both just made a mediocre performance in an even more mediocre film.

Tim Kidner Old Dogs is a great family film, as the majority of Amazon reviewers have said. The comedy is obvious, the slapstick infantile and the script isn't Shakespeare. Viewed as such, it's good, modern family fun.Critics always only want to see another Citizen Kane and when they don't they get all huffy and bloated and denounce movies such as this as not worth the little round bits of plastic that DVDs are made from. The drug-swap scene is very obvious but for a ten year old, it's absolutely hilarious.John Travolta and Robin Williams work well together - William's gift for comedy is well known but Travolta's, not, but he does have the knack for it. Like other comedy duos, there's an easy chemistry that cannot be invented by any script or by any director.However, I'm not a family man and watched it as an adult, on my own, so I could see where others would have found it really funny but was less so for me. I'm used to watching deep and meaningful and World cinema films, the sort that do keep the critics in a job but unlike them, I'm thinking outside of their blinkered box and am thinking of others.My three stars are for a film that was funny, but not really worthy of four stars, when you consider that four stars should be reserved for things a bit special.

dragonbabezee This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I saw it for free on the big screen and I still felt ripped off, and I couldn't walk out because my friend had organised the screening and only five people turned up. So I can say without a doubt that this movie is rubbish right to the end. The jokes were painfully unfunny, often offensive and embarrassing. I don't know what Travolta and Williams thought of this project, whether they knew it was stinking while they filmed it and therefore put no real effort into awful material, or whether they're losing their grip on reality and thought they were doing a good job. I can't feel that children would have thought it any funnier than I did, but I wouldn't show it to them anyway.