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Great movie. it's a comedic tearjerker. worth the time.

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Posted aug 20, 2008 1:49 pm pt

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Great movie. it's a comedic tearjerker. worth the time.

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Posted aug 20, 2008 1:49 pm pt

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Rex is a top grossing canine show dog who winds up missing after and air plane stunt goes wrong, and ends up becoming the mascot of the local fire station.

I can't believe all of the things the dog did, the movie itself was pretty...
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Rex is a top grossing canine show dog who winds up missing after and air plane stunt goes wrong, and ends up becoming the mascot of the local fire station.

I can't believe all of the things the dog did, the movie itself was pretty good and it was full of comedy, I like how it focused on the dog more then the humans of the movie, where as the dog was the main star and the human actors where secondary characters.

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Posted aug 15, 2007 2:37 am pt

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Have to say that this is a really good movie and a cool one as well. The dog is really fantastic with the stunts lol, it was really funny. It shows that even a dog can change sometimes. He is really a hero cause we can see what a differance he...
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Have to say that this is a really good movie and a cool one as well. The dog is really fantastic with the stunts lol, it was really funny. It shows that even a dog can change sometimes. He is really a hero cause we can see what a differance he made to that little boy.

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Posted aug 8, 2007 12:31 am pt

• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  A surprisingly heartfelt father/son relationship, handled with restraint by director Todd Holland.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  A touching, family-friendly entertainment

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  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.

  by Alex Chun | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  63
  An entertaining family comedy full of both tricks and trickery.

  by Jennie Punter | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  50
  This larger-than-life cartoon of a trained dog has more character than the two-legged co-stars.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  50
  No best in show but a decent family comedy.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  50
  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.

  by Jeannette Catsoulis | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  50
  If Firehouse Dog was on cable, where it belongs, it would make a passable diversion from homework or chores. But a kid would have to be pretty desperate to leave the house - and waste allowance money - for this modest distraction.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  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.

  by Justin Chang | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  50
  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.

  by Stephen Hunter | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  42
  The mystery is, how the filmmakers still managed to come up with a movie that will satisfy almost no one.

  by Chris Kaltenbach | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  42
  The lesson here is that dogs don't need "attitude." They're loveable enough on their own.

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  42
  The terrier Rexxx might be the least appealing mutt ever to slobber on screen.

  by Gregory Kirschling | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  40
  Not quite disturbingly forlorn, but forlorn (and overly literal) just the same, this latest entry in the doggy-acrobat subgenre of canine comedies has but one joke, and it comes early: In the Idol age, celebrity culture has gone to the dogs -- literally.

  by Rob Nelson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
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  Perhaps the lesson to be learned is that just because we CAN use computer technology to give dogs goofy faces, that doesn't mean we SHOULD.

  by Marrit Ingman | Read Full Review »