The Shaggy Dog

  • Comedy
  • Family
3/9/2006
98
PG

It's going to be a ruff day.

The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.

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Revenue:
$87,134,280
Budget:
$50,000,000

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  • r96sk

    The most absurd thing about this is that Akon did a song for it.

    This 2006 remake of 1959's 'The Shaggy Dog' is very bad. That's thanks to some lazy writing and humour, none of the jokes land while the plot - while I praise them for changing up the original - is so lame - their thinking seemingly just stopped at 'man acts like dog' and thought that'll do.

    Another thing that hampers the film is the attempt at a heartwarming story with the main family, which is nauseating to see unfold. There's also a scene at the end where the dad (Allen) is stark naked in public and in front of his children, who have literally zero reaction and just stand there smiling ...

    With that noted, I will say I didn't hate watching this. Tim Allen, whilst o...

    November 5, 2020

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