bkoganbing
Tom Hanks had to pull out all the stops prevent that wonderfully funny slobbering French mastiff from stealing the entire film Turner&Hooch. After all the two were equally top billed and should have had an equal share of the laughs.Turner&Hooch has Hanks as small town police detective Scott Turner who is moving to an unnamed big city because he wants more challenging police work. But he gets himself an unsolved homicide in the last week on his job. The victim is John McIntire in what was his farewell performance as an old man who lived on a shack at the docks of the small coastal town. McIntire had been complaining about strange goings on at a nearby fish cannery and when someone is murdered there McIntire is also silenced.The only witness is McIntire's dog Hooch and Hanks saves him from being put down as he's the closest thing to a witness he has. But this dog who lived in that waterfront shack where McIntire didn't exactly house break him proves to be quite a handful.There's no way you couldn't love that big goofy dog. But I sure wouldn't want him for mine. There's a reason I'm a cat person. Hanks who's a pretty funny guy himself has some wonderful scenes with the dog. But he proves to be quite the chick magnet as well because of the interest veterinarian Mare Winningham shows in Hanks.This one scored big at the box office in 1989. It still a very funny and heart warming film for audiences of all ages.
Predrag
This film very much resembles a James Belushi film which came out at roughly the same period i.e K9. It was one of Tom Hanks' earlier roles where he plays a detective who takes in an amiable, yet initially troublesome, bull mastiff named Hooch.Hanks is his usual funny self and this is one of his early roles before he became the serious icon that he has become and rightly so. But the star of the movie is Hooch the Dogue de Bourdeaux (or French Mastiff). This dog has the most charisma I have ever seen in a dog. Turner (Hanks) is a police detective and his only witness to the murder is Hooch a drooling pooch - together they must find out who killed Hooch's owner. Turner never expected to gain such a lovable side-kick as Hooch. Craig T. Nelson also stars as Turner's turncoat boss. This duo is sure to tickle your funny bone. Actually, this is one of those movies that's funny all the way through, and then turns very serious. A little action, a little romance and a lot of laughs..Overall rating: 7 out of 10.
iamyuno2
Tom Hanks is BRILLIANT and so endearing in this film...his performance here alone is worth watching this touching yet inventive film about a hapless man and his erstwhile dog...and the one woman who sees the gem inside the uncut rock that is Hanks' character. And, by the way, if you're an animal lover, this is one of the great animal films too. (Once you've seen it, you'll find yourself telling a dog later on, with not some hilarity, "Hey - don't HOOCH on me!")A feel-good movie that's also an action movie with a sense of humor, give this movie a try because it will entertain you and move your heart. And if you don't end up loving Mare Winningham at the end...(she's so lovable in this film - this is her best role ever)...
Aaron1375
This film had its ups and downs, it opened the same year as the Jim Belushi dog/cop movie "K-9" and while this one performed better than that movie I prefer it to this one. This one had its charms, but overall I think it suffers from a weak plot device to get the dog in Hanks' character possession. While in "K-9" it made perfect sense, Belushi's character needed a drug sniffing dog and he ended up with his. In this one though the dog's owner is killed and Hanks takes the dog in the hopes it will somehow identify the killer. Granted it is a movie, but it is still a bit far fetched that this cop would think a dog is his best lead to catch a killer, and it seems even more implausible that a super neat person would take this super messy dog into his home. Still, it makes from some funny scenes here and there with a rather funny scene where the dog is wrecking the house while poor Hanks is out spending a ton of money on said dog for chew toys and such. There is also a rather funny stake out scene too. The film sometimes loses its luster with a few to many needless characters such as Reginald VelJohnson. I like the guy in "Die Hard", but here he is just another person to take away screen time from Hanks and the dog. There are a few other pointless people in this as well, and this has a rather bad ending in my opinion as well (sorry, but dogs do not have perfect clone puppies like that). Overall, I say this was an okay film, just not nearly as good to my as "K-9".
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