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13 out of 14 people found the following review useful: For the dog lover, 10 March 2004 Author: Johnny Brooks from Port Arthur, TX
Good BoyThis is a movie for dog lovers. If you like dogs, than you most likely will like this movie. The dogs were great. They looked good. There seemed to be little to no CGI interference with the dogs. The human actors left a lot to be desired, but the movie really wasn't about them anyway. Dogs are from space. They were supposed to colonize Earth, but have instead become pets. The dogs from the home star get mad and want to take away the Earth dogs. That's the basic plot behind the movie. Good for kids and adults who like dogs. Dogs are cool animals and need more movies. Sure the movie was silly, but at least it had dogs in it.
10 out of 12 people found the following review useful: Cute!, 17 October 2003 Author: zoe36 from Oklahoma
I noticed this film got a low rating, maybe these people were not dog lovers. I thought the plot, if it was a plot, about the the "alien" dog was a little thin but the dogs were wonderful, the boy was great. Sometimes it's just good to go to the movies the enjoy a sweet little no-nonsense film that's just there for pure entertainment. I was entertained.
11 out of 14 people found the following review useful: It's My Dog Skip meets E.T., 19 October 2003 Author: mack3175 from Metairie, Louisiana
This is a very entertaining lighthearted film, it's for anybody who has a pet. 12 year old Owen Baker(Liam Aiken) is a very lonely boy, who's best friends so far seem to be the neighbors dogs he walks everyday. Owen really wants one of his own. One day his parents take him to the pound to get one. He finds a cute dog and names him Hubble. But Owen slowly discovers, this is no ordinary dog. Who just happens to be a very intelligent dog from outer space. A pure delight for the whole family. Matthew Broderick is also good as the voice of Hubble. It's funny and delightful. Please don't quit making movies like this.
8 out of 10 people found the following review useful: Good dog, good boy, good movie., 24 March 2004 Author: Juni78ukr (juni78ukr@yahoo.com) from Odessa, Ukraine
I have seen this movie today. Whatever critics say, it's not a bad movie overall. I think Good Boy is a must see movie for dog lovers, very good movie for kids and above average funny and enjoyable movie for adults.Plot looks not great but have some of originality. It's not simply a dogs movie, it's a cute heart-warming movie about friendship and loyalty not only between dogs and human, but between people too. Acting are not bad, young Liam Aiken have reasonably good performance. Typical PG movie - without any violence and profanity with some crude humor. So , it's a good movie for whole family. Clearly, not great, but worth to see or at least to rent.6,8 out of 10, but if I would be a few years younger, I could rate it higher.
8 out of 10 people found the following review useful: Overall, a cute movie with some mild crude humor., 16 March 2004 Author: bs201v from Albuquerque, NM
I thought that the plot was pretty creative, as was the writing. Two or three jokes related to bodily functions, but mostly they were cute jokes with creative insight on what a dog might say to us if we could understand them. Also, some creative insight on what a dog's place is in this world and who is really in charge of who. Some of the acting was a little stale(no academy awards here), but most of the acting was good to very good. My test is the "suspension of dis-belief" test. Can I forget reality long enough to accept the story line and think of the actors as the characters they are portraying? The answer here was yes. The acting was good enough that I suspended my dis-belief and was able to enjoy the story line and the humor. My kids are 7 and 4 1/2 and they loved it. For them, I will almost surely end up buying it. I would give it a 7 out of 10.
11 out of 17 people found the following review useful: Good Boy ? Good Movie !!!!, 12 October 2003 Author: Robert Vann Smith (robertvannsmith@hotmail.com) from Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
I went to see this movie because I am a fan of Liam Akin's.I wasn't expecting much out of the movie, though.But the movie turned out to be better than I expected.It had a few flavors of "Benji" and "The Cat From Outter Space" mixed into it.A definite must-see for people who have children or nieces and nephews.
4 out of 5 people found the following review useful: Judge it for what it is, 16 October 2003 Author: meberts from Los Angeles
This movie is a little better than OK. It's wholesome entertainment that makes the not-terribly-original point that people and dogs have a special bond. And maybe it says a little about the alienation some children feel when growing up in a two-career suburban family.The boy at the center of the film, Owen, is pleasant without stealing the show from the talking dogs. The girl who befriends him is equally pleasant and also not a show-stealer. The two boys who torment our hero and the dogs are sort of standard issue neighborhood bullies. Owen's dad is a stereotypical clueless father. Owen's mom, however, is an interesting character. I think she's being played as an essentially decent woman who is too caught up in her real estate wheelings and dealings to notice that her son is lonely and a little depressed. However, to me she comes off as really creepy: a rootless, valueless suburban capital gains huckster who would sell the family home (and her son's happiness) in an instant it there was a buck to be made in it.So why is this movie a little better than average? Well, the dogs are fun. The voice-over work is nicely-cast (old trooper Carl Reiner is especially good), the dogs get some funny lines, and some good computer work makes the dogs look pretty convincing at mouthing their lines.I decided to write this because I'm annoyed with the review this movie got in the L.A. Times. It's their right to pan any movie, of course, but it bugs me when a reviewer dismissively puts down a movie like this because it's no Citizen Kane, or even Citizen Canine. Well, gee, it's a talking dog movie. It's not supposed to be deep.
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful: I rated this movie 1 just because there was no 0, 20 December 2007 Author: Melonz from Canada
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I don't get it. I had read some reviews for this movie. They seemed pretty good. Things like, "A good family movie. Very cute and will captivate kids' attention and entertain them." I guess that's true if you kid is an imbecile. The plot made no sense. Basically they're saying that dogs come from outer space. Riiiiiiiiight... There was one part where the dog had some kind of communicator that was broken so he couldn't communicate with his fellow dogs in space. The kid's like, "Oh, I know how to fix it!" WHAT??!! A SPACE ALIEN DEVICE THAT CAN BE USED TO SEND HOLOGRAMS AND MESSAGES ACROSS THE GALAXY AND A KID CAN FIX IT????!!!! Very convincing. Right. Truly believable. The acting in this movie was so cheesy and it made you cringe. There were numerous parts that would never cease where the boy would be like, "Dogs are from space."And someone else, like his friend who is some girl, would reply, "No they aren't.""Yes they are.""No they aren't."It would be a bit more elaborate but then the scene would cut to them standing in front of the dog's crash-landed spaceship. The person that the boy was arguing with would be like, "Now I believe you."What the hell. If someone told me dogs came from space and they showed me a spaceship, I would think that ALIENS came from space, not dogs. It was so extremely far-fetched and it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. What are the writers thinking nowadays?? "We'll make a really crappy movie to entertain stupid little kids and make a few bucks...sounds good." What happened to all the genuine kids movies that taught morals? All gone. Now we're left with badly acted movies about dogs from space and kids who can fix their gadgets even though that type of technology hasn't been created yet. The only reason you should see this movie is so you can believe me how utterly STEEEEUPID it is! Otherwise, just don't bother!
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful: Good But Bad, 18 February 2006 Author: jts0405 from United States
Good Boy has a stupid story to it but it has the comedy for the younger viewers that watch it. I personally think it's good but really bad. Cute story but seriously some cheesy acting from Liam Aiken, Molly Shannon, and Kevin Nealon. Good Boy finally gives dogs their movie that they deserve. People will laugh at some and just dis some parts. This movie is 4 stars. 2 because I like it and another 2 because it sucked big time. That together gives my vote 4 stars. Don't get me wrong if you want to watch this for a family movie night it is a good choice if your into dogs and space science fiction type stuff. Liam Aiken playing Owen gives a cheesy performance. But still a good one as well.
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful: An awesome movie, 9 April 2004 Author: laciefrazee from Trenton, Nova Scotia
I love this movie! It's so funny and cute! Two paws up! The cast is great. I like the dogs a lot! Liam Aiken does an awesome job in this film. What a great bunch of voices to play the dogs! Shep is very funny and Wilson is hilarious, Barbara-Ann has a good personality, Nelly I think is my favorite, Hubble is very cute. I remember when I seen the trailer for it, I was DYING TO SEE IT! I was very happy when I first seen it. There is a lot of funny parts and hilarious lines, but it was when I bought it on dvd that I found a very sad part, when the dogs have to go back to the home star and the owners don't even know and the dogs are so sad. I love this movie and it's a great story too.
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