The Shaggy Dog (2006) Critic Reviews

As good as family entertainment gets.Read the full review

What The Shaggy Dog feels like, more than anything, is an old-fashioned Disney movie.Read the full review

The star (Allen), unleashed, is so energetic in his approximation of a bearded collie -- his nose sniffing the air, his whole being (which toggles between human and canine form) overcome by the need to fetch any stick thrown -- that his slobbery charm carries the picture.Read the full review

A fast-moving Walt Disney Co. comedy that manages to sail past many of the cliches usually found in this genre while throwing together a wild story line more apt for a new millennium.Read the full review

Ms. Curtin is one of several examples of quirky casting that make this Shaggy Dog much more fun than it might have been.Read the full review

May not make you howl, but it does offer a few bona fide belly laughs.Read the full review

Strictly for the very young who will find giggles in the anthropomorphic mash-ups and won't be too distracted by the predictably mawkish sitcom plot.Read the full review

It says something for Robert Downey Jr. that in a movie where a man becomes a dog, Downey creates the weirdest character.Read the full review

This fur-fetched tale is bearable family viewing.Read the full review