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.
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.
SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain
Old Dogs is hilarious. Even if the majority of the laughs come from laughing at how bad the jokes are. Two men looking after children? Hold on to your hats, as you're about to enter a world of delightfully predictable comedic clichés. The main "jokes" are aimed at Travolta and Williams, and how most people confuse them for the children's GRANDparents, or assume the two are a gay couple. Chortle, chortle. There are also many jokes about Travolta and Williams screwing up opportunities with a Japanese business, only for the Japanese to misconstrue their bumbling as having deeper, more philosophical meaning. They're jokes that the children in this film could have written. The only shining star here is Justin Long, delivering a film saving cameo.
mwkitty4
The only reason I watched this was because Travolta lives in my town so I wanted to see if he was any good at acting. It HAS to be a far cry less than his best work considering his popularity. Ella Bleu Travolta actually did very well portraying her character as Kelly Preston's daughter (their child in real life) but then again, she's a little one so there wasn't much acting involved. Robin Williams was excellent as usual and added light hearted excitement throughout the film. Toward the end of the film there's a zoo scene where a child's party is taking place. Travolta, Williams want to get inside to the event but they go to extremes to try to do so. You'll have to watch it to see if they make it in :) anyway, rather than going to such extremes, why not simply call Preston (the mother) to let them in since they obviously also went to extremes to even arrive?? Cell phones exist in this movie world or something? In my opinion it was poorly written, Preston STILL hasn't gained any acting skills since her sexpot scene in Twins & it felt as though all the ponzi scheme scientologists got together, begged Williams to help & put together a film in 3 days. Definitely not for the intellectual, but probably will buy you an hour or so of quiet if rented for the kids.