coolcat01 This film is just terrible. What a joke this film is!?

Trevor Dewey The Shaggy Dog is a decent remake of the 1960's original with Tim Allen, Robert Downey Jr and a solid supporting cast. It's an enjoyable popcorn film aimed at kids but with plenty of jokes and physical humor adults can enjoy. It deserves a 7.5 or an 8 but I gave it a 10 because of the rash of low ratings by people who have it in for Tim Allen or films for children.The IMDb rating is a shame and is not the first time that a decent film has terrible ratings (see, for example, The Wild Thornberrys Movie) because of its unrestricted rating system (compare, for example, the rating on Amazon). IMDb needs to review its rating system and come up with something better than unrestricted rating which allows groups of Internet users to sabotage the ratings of good films.

elshikh4 Forgive my mind. This is wholly an above-average entertainment. The script, the directing, the editing.. All the elements delivered a fantasy about how the dog can be more present and helpful than the absent dad sometimes (acrid metaphor I know, but smartly done). It is too innocent for its time, but really enjoyable and exciting. All the cast did memorable job. Zena Grey, for instance, was ultra-cute. But OH MY GOD Tim Allen was on the top of his game. He seemed classic; having the charisma, the talent, the credibility, and being that lovable. He just excelled in the details looking like a real dog for all the time. His performance here alone doesn't deserve to be watched for one time at all.This time I have only few points to talk about harshly; they didn't poke fun out of a great talent like Jane Curtin, dealing with her character as just a judge. Danny Glover is totally wasted in a role I thought it would've been better if they ever handed it over the old movie's lead (Dean Jones), who was very much alive at the moment, hitting his mid seventies. The matter of (Allen) losing his clothes, with the cell phone, more than once then nobody notices that (or how he regains that every time) bugged me slightly. The character played by Robert Downey Jr. was yes evil and stuff, but I think he just got a point about the freeness of the scientific researches that looked at last utterly refused?! And at the end the problem of the lead turning into a dog wasn't solved at all !? But maybe that was deliberate in case this movie hit it high and admitted a sequel. However, still the deepest problem is that while I was so happy during the viewing, I found myself all sad, feeling pity for Disney in the same time too!Look at this little discovering of mine; since the late 1960s to the late 1970s there were many original movies. 3 of them got the name, and the fame, of (The Love Bug – 1968), (Freaky Friday – 1976), and (The Shaggy D.A. – 1976) which was a sequel to 1959 movie (The Shaggy Dog). After 2 decades, Disney would exploit the success of these cinematic hits however on a TV level. So, we witnessed follow-ups or remakes like (The Love Bug – 1997), (Freaky Friday – 1995), and (The Shaggy Dog – 1994). Thank god that the IMDb exists to know that I'm right.Then, in the next decade, the same good old movies will turn into another follow-ups or remakes again yet for the big screen; as (Herbie Fully Loaded – 2005), (Freaky Friday – 2003), and our dear (The Shaggy Dog – 2006). It's not the circulation of nature. It's rather the story of copyrights have to be used. And studios that got lately not many brilliant scripts to be made.. that's unnatural enough for me!At first, I was thinking about a title for my review like "Disney is forever". But by the ending I was suggesting things like "Disney is remaking forever!" or "Disney's remaking is forever"!! Simply, if that is a wonderful remake of a wonderful original movie, then where are the wonderful original movies of today?! And why, just why, all of these efforts can't be used in another, more original, and as good, movies?! And how about the fact of these 3 last remakes as the best of what I've had from Disney in the past 10 years?! Many questions jump up and down in my mind because of this fun movie...So that's why I said at the start: forgive my mind! This is a movie where the worst of it is that it's a remake!

MLDinTN This was better than I thought it would. By no means was it great comedy, but it was entertaining for a kids film. I found myself laughing a few times because it was so silly. Tim Allen, plays, Dave, an assistant DA lawyer working on a case against a company testing on animals. He gets bitten by a dog that escaped from there, and it sends his life spinning out of control. He now turns into a dog, a shaggy sheepdog and as a human, is always using dog like traits, like growling, scratching, chasing cats.Being a dog helps him understand his kids more since they talk openly. He learns his son doesn't like football and wants to be on stage. And his daughter is worried about divorce. So, it brings the family closer. And Dave puts an end to Dr. Kozak's evil plan and saves the day.FINAL VERDICT: Silly, but entertaining for kids.