...a mostly easygoing comedy that fares best in its fast-paced and entertaining first half...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 2, 2023

Underlying this formulaic plot is a strange tone of desperateness in the movie's smiley-faced depiction of a "perfect" suburban nuclear family... For a family that's not missing any meals, they do more whimpering than any of the animals in the movie.

| Nov 21, 2022

If you have any desire to see Charles Grodin upstaged by a slobbering St. Bernard in the formulaic comedy Beethoven, then I suggest you rent Turner and Hooch and see Tom Hanks being slimed by his large canine partner instead.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 21, 2022

Every moment fits neatly together in an almost machined way. But the time lopes by and a few of the sequences prove oddly delightful.

| Apr 9, 2018

A family comedy about a wacky & destructive St. Bernard that is totally without any merit whatsoever.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 21, 2011

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

A sloppy but lovable pooch of a movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2011

A safely banal concoction in the tradition of the bland live-action Disney features cranked out during the Magic Kingdom's dispirited years after Walt's death.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 12, 2009

Rallies at the end to prevent chaperoning adults from feeling their time was completely wasted.

| Mar 26, 2009

Kids will 'ooh' and 'aah' over the shaggy, doe-eyed doggy as it demolishes the family home, but grown-ups should stay on the sofa and enjoy the acerbic asides which distinguish this offering from the glut of cute mongrel movies.

| May 16, 2006

Elevated from the doldrums of Digby-esque sentimentality by a surprisingly bouncy script, the film is also redeemed by regular interludes of acerbic dialogue and a brace of fine supporting performances.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2005

I love dogs, but still had trouble getting through this.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 24, 2005

Overbearing (actually overdogging) family comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 25, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2004

Anti-working mom bias gives a sour feeling to an otherwise innocuous dog movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 23, 2003

Beethoven is no classic, but it's a sunny, energetic children's film with a good notion of what young audiences like.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 4, 2003