Old Dogs
Old Dogs
PG | 24 November 2009 (USA)
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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?

Reviews
Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
torstensonjohn The film is a comedy, family filled fun with Robin Williams at his comical genius. There are a lot of negative reviews for this film but let me put a positive spin on it. The plot is pretty simple; two best friends who are in business together and continuously help one another out. One gets divorced and they head to Miami for fun like the old days. Enter Kelly Preston who plays a minimal but significant part. A fling occurs AND then we fast forward 7 years later when Vicky pops back up in Williams life with two children. Here is where the comedy ensues and Travolta and Williams are at their best. There are a lot of laughs within the film and with co-stars such as Seth Green, Bernie Mac, Matt Dillon, Justin Long, Amy Sedaris the film is enlightend with fun.
yankeemvp Definitely better than it gets credit for. Travolta and William are quite entertaining as best friends and business partners in this family comedy. You can tell that they are real life best friends and wish that they had made more movies together that weren't so studio controlled. Right as they are closing in on the biggest business deal of their career Williams ex-wife shows up with two kids that he did not know that he had, so the two are forced to play dad and trying to close a business deal your typical chaos ensues. Seth Green is also pretty funny as their young business partner. Justin Long also has a very small but hilarious role. This film did exactly was it is intended to do A light family comedy that you can sit and relax to for a little over an hour and a half. Nothing to original but Travolta and Williams make it work. Nothing to go rush and see but worth checking out if given the opportunity.
ofpsmith I haven't seen this movie in a while so quite frankly I'm actually amazed that I remembered anything about it. Old Dogs seemed like it could have some potential as a good comedy but it really just fell flat. The story is that a woman is sent to prison so Charlie Reed (John Travolta) and Dan Rayburn (Robin Williams) have look after her kids. And in it the kids create some wacky trouble. That seriously is the plot of the movie. All the jokes either fell down flat or were just completely stupid. And when you have a comedy like that it's just going to drag on. I like Travolta and Williams but this time it seems both just made a mediocre performance in an even more mediocre film.
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.