Placed in a foster home that doesn't allow pets, 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, turn an abandoned hotel into a home for their dog. Soon other strays arrive, and the hotel becomes a haven for every orphaned canine in town. But the kids have to do some quick thinking to keep the cops off their tails.
It's sad to see a promising fantasy turn into yet another industrial-scale fantasy-delivery system that beats up on its audience with mindless intensity and undercuts its own humanity.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
16 Jan 2009
fresh:
Dog people will like it.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
20 Jan 2009
rotten:
Will the kids like it? Yeah, probably. Will the parents tolerate it or enjoy it? Probably not.
– Ben Mankiewicz,
At the Movies,
20 Jan 2009
fresh:
All in all it's a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon with a bunch of kids.
– Betsy Sharkey,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan 2009
fresh:
True, there's only the merest suggestion of an education system for these juveniles, but credibility's secondary when you've got lots of dogs doing cute stuff.