Old Dogs

[pcRock]

Please, if you feel like you hate humanity for creating such a film, exit the cinema and think of puppies and happy faces or something.

LOL

[elski]

LOL well the cinema was laughing away, some of them to the point of crying!

It's one of those really silly rubbish films that's so bad it good.

There's a lot of slapstick which was tickling the funny bone of those that like that kind of thing (including the kids in the audience). There were a few slow dragging bits and I think I laughed more than I did for 'funny people' even though slapstick's not my kind of humour the bit at the end with the gorilla and killer penguins still makes me chuckle now.
I'm not sure it's one you'd p*y to see unless you really love that kind of humour or get a cinema deal on it. Worth watching on DVD or TV when it gets there if your after a silly rubbish film one day.

5/10

[marjoreemarjora]

Oh well! as they say everyone is different!!

Absolutely loved it! Love John Travolta, he can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. Went to Wester Hailes today and have to say lots of people laughing there. Maybe we Scots have a different sense of humour.

Agree with Elski lots of slapstick! Even Robin Williams made me laugh and he usually annoys me.

Would give the film 7/10 plus extra 2/10 for the fab company I had at the film Biggins and cos Jonh Travolta was in it so 9/10 from me.

[elski]

I think it helped having low expectations. I'm guessing quite a few people loved it going by the laughter levels.

[biggins]

Yes we must have a different sense of humour up here as there were plenty of people laughing out loud at their slapstick antics. Predictable but nevertheless funny - that is part of the humour because you just know what is going to happen next.

Sat beside Marjoreemarjora and her lovely mum and we had a good time.

The podgy little boy made me think of Russell in Up when he was in his uniform.

7 out of 10 for me. (Sorry MM no extra points for John Travolta )

[akh43]

I had tickets for Happy Ever Afters and then got the tickets for Old Dogs and gave back my HEA tickets, glad I did reading the reviews so far.

I would agree with others, although predictable in parts I found myself laughing out loud quite a few times, when the tablets got mixed up was my favourite bit with John Travolta with the big smile on his face, the penguins were second. Cinema was less than 1/2 full but lots of laughs going on.

[pcRock]

Good thing I had such low expectations about this film. After watching it, my bf and I agreed that it was an okay movie. Slapstick comedy... more for kids, I guess, but nonetheless it was funny. Especially my bf was really laughing a lot in some parts. I wouldn't p*y to watch it, but if it were being shown on TV, I'd watch it. 5/10

bevvy, were you the lady with an orange shirt, accompanied by a gentleman in a wheel chair and two small kids?

[bevvy]

I would not have dreamed of going to see this had I not been taking kids with me and my opinion has not changed now that I have seen it.
A fair amount of laughter in the cinema at times but I was once again left wondering who the film was really aimed at.
My 6 year old grandson found it hilarious in parts ( but what 6 year old doesn't appreciate farting and people being hit in the nuts by golf balls?). The adult storyline about divorce and business deals did not seem to be aimed at kids and at those points he was bored. Overall though, he still liked it and went home to tell his mum how funny it was.

4.5/10 from me (I'm sure he would give it a much higher score)

[Beate]

I am not sure but I think he didn't like it...

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The ViewLondon Review

Review by Matthew Turner
17/03/2010
Opens Friday 19 March 2010

One out of Five stars
Running time: 88 mins

Utterly abysmal, entirely laugh-free and hideously embarrassing comedy that should have been put out of its misery at the script stage and is almost certainly the worst film of the year.

What's it all about?
Directed by Walt Becker (who made Wild Hogs, if you're looking for warning signs), Old Dogs stars Robin Williams and John Travolta as Dan and Charlie, two 50-something business partners who've been best friends for 30 years. However, on the eve of the biggest deal of their careers, Dan discovers he has two seven-year-old fraternal twins (Ella Bleu Travolta and Conner Rayburn) as the result of a drunken one-day marriage to Vicki (Kelly Preston), seven years previously.

When Vicki is sent to prison for two weeks (don't ask), Dan and Charlie are charged with looking after the children, while also ensuring that their deal with a group of golf-obsessed Japanese businessmen goes off without a hitch. What could possibly go wrong?

The Bad
There's so much that's wrong with Old Dogs that it's difficult to know where to start. First of all, it's painfully, no, make that excruciatingly unfunny, running through every tedious toilet humour gag like they're ticking them off a check list (dog piss jokes, fart jokes, poop jokes, all present) and somehow failing to include a single funny line of dialogue. Worse, one comic set-piece involving the side effects of pain medication (resulting in Travolta sporting a Joker-like grin during a eulogy) is spectacularly misjudged and backfires horribly, not least because of the dodgy CGI used for Travolta's mouth.

Sadly, it gets worse – Travolta's character is extremely unlikable, to the point where you just want to punch him every time he opens his mouth, while Williams, oddly, decides to underplay his usual manic schtick so you keep expecting him to suddenly break out in a comic rant and... he never does. Similarly, the film completely wastes the likes of Matt Dillon, Justin Long, and Luis Guzman in pointless, unfunny cameos.

The Worst
On top of that, the script leaps around from set-piece to set-piece with no real connection between the scenes, before coating the whole thing in thick layers of syrupy sentimentality that will make you want to vomit.

Worth seeing?
In a word, no. Old Dogs is easily the worst film of the year. Avoid like your life depended on it.