Firehouse Dog Critic Reviews

Though it never completely catches fire, there's enough earnestness and warmth that makes it a welcome alternative in a family film arena dominated by computer animation and associated toy lines.Read the full review

Leaving no heartstrings untugged and no doggie-fart jokes uncracked, scruffy pic reps a very mixed breed of obvious humor, gently moving father-son drama and sub-"Backdraft" trial by fire.Read the full review

No best in show but a decent family comedy.Read the full review

Firehouse Dog goes into the marginally watchable category, aimed as it is toward the middlebrow family trade, preferably dog owners with their own Sparky slopping up the station wagon windows.Read the full review

Working with four interchangeable Deweys, the filmmakers create a sufficient number of lively stunts to keep the kiddies amused, though the film's wittiest moment -- a canine parody of Dudley Moore's first glimpse of Bo Derek in "10" -- will be appreciated only by their parents. In trying to straddle both age groups, however, Firehouse Dog proves decidedly less nimble than its furry star.Read the full review

The lesson here is that dogs don't need "attitude." They're loveable enough on their own.Read the full review

The terrier Rexxx might be the least appealing mutt ever to slobber on screen.Read the full review

And that dog -- or, rather, that digitally enhanced replicant -- is just plain creepy.Read the full review