Old Dogs

2009 "Sit. Stay. Play Dad."
5.3| 1h28m| PG| en
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Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman he married on a drunken impulse nearly nine years before (annulled the next day) shows up to tell him he's the father of her twins, now seven, and she'll be in jail for 14 days for a political protest. Dan volunteers to keep the tykes, although he's up tight and clueless. With Charlie's help is there any way they can be dad and uncle, meet the kids' expectations, and still land the account?

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Majorthebys Charming and brutal
Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!
Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict
Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
lisafordeay Old Dogs starred John Travolta and the late Robin Williams and tells the tale of 2 best friends who discover that one of their wives(Williams character Dan)has twins from his ex wife played by Travolta's real wife Kelly Preston.So Dan and his friend (played by Travolta)end up with crazy mayhem throughout and that's pretty much it. The comedy moments were hilarious I remember one scene with Williams character who ends up being tanned after a disastrous run in the salon and he comes out looking like something out of Willy Wonka. Both Travolta and Williams were both very good in this and in real life Travolta struck a friendship with Williams. Overall if you are a fan of Robin Williams and John Travolta than check it out.Bernie Mac also starred in this alongside Matt Dillon and John Travolta's real life daughter Ella Blue Travolta as Robin's daughter.
vchimpanzee I had a good time and that's really all that counts. Yes, it's silly, and yes, it's really for kids, and not really clean enough for kids, but not bad.Robin Williams isn't doing his best work here, but he impresses in some quiet, more serious scenes. He's good enough where he's funny.John Travolta doesn't exactly show why he's one of the greats, but he is convincing as a successful businessman.The guys have quite a mess to clean up in their business, and that's fun to watch.The scenes where Charlie and Dan took the wrong drugs have enjoyable visual effects and hilarious pratfalls.Lori Loughlin looks great, and she's quite professional as the translator.Bernie Mac does a good job too. I don't share Jimmy Lunchbox's musical taste, but the song was pretty good.Sab Shimono does his usual fine work.The music is mostly my taste. For once, a Disney family comedy has music geared toward the parents, not the kids.If I have any criticism, it's that the zoo scenes didn't last longer. Shortly before the movie started, we were told what the movie would be about, and it appeared mostly about sneaking into the zoo. That looked really funny, but we saw the best parts.Not Disney's best work, but overall, I had a good time.
mwkitty4 The only reason I watched this was because Travolta lives in my town so I wanted to see if he was any good at acting. It HAS to be a far cry less than his best work considering his popularity. Ella Bleu Travolta actually did very well portraying her character as Kelly Preston's daughter (their child in real life) but then again, she's a little one so there wasn't much acting involved. Robin Williams was excellent as usual and added light hearted excitement throughout the film. Toward the end of the film there's a zoo scene where a child's party is taking place. Travolta, Williams want to get inside to the event but they go to extremes to try to do so. You'll have to watch it to see if they make it in :) anyway, rather than going to such extremes, why not simply call Preston (the mother) to let them in since they obviously also went to extremes to even arrive?? Cell phones exist in this movie world or something? In my opinion it was poorly written, Preston STILL hasn't gained any acting skills since her sexpot scene in Twins & it felt as though all the ponzi scheme scientologists got together, begged Williams to help & put together a film in 3 days. Definitely not for the intellectual, but probably will buy you an hour or so of quiet if rented for the kids.
BRITT PRENTICE This is one of the WORST films I've ever seen. They "jump the shark" IN EVERY SCENE. Just goes to show that even an all-star cast cannot save a bad script. And it truly is an all-star with Travolta, Robin Williams, Bernie Mack, Rita Wilson, Seth Green, Ann-Margaret, etc. There are so many other family films starring Travolta alone that are better. All the gags they did in the film were cliché and over done. I never thought I'd say this but Robin Williams was terrible. Travolta was blah-never thought I'd say that either. Bernie Mack was so miss-used that you didn't laugh at a single thing he did on screen. And the kids in the film were not cute or lovable enough. Don't waste your time or money on this.