Not particularly imaginative, but not the worst.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

This high-concept melding of E.T., Dr. Doolittle, and Roots is goofy enough to intrigue.

| Jan 21, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2004

...perfectly suited for the small screen...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2004

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2004

The ensuing wackiness will no doubt please children given to mooning over the family pet; it will lull their parents into a painless, agreeable stupor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2004

Good Boy! is in that mid-range of family films that kids will like and that parents will enjoy rather than endure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2004

Like a flea-ridden old hound that hasn't learnt any new tricks and insists on slobbering over your shoelaces, it's curiously loveable all the same.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2003

Not great, but not really bad, either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2003

"Good Boy!" is rather fetching, especially for the small fry.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 25, 2003

First-time director John Hoffman ... betrays a novice touch, shuttling the film between slapstick sequences and sentimental excess.

| Oct 22, 2003

Liam Aiken is the heart of this movie; the fantastic voice casting and animal training is the machine. Both serve their purposes well.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2003

...folks will be barking up the wrong tree if they were to consider this pooch picture an escapist treat for impressionable minds...Good Boy! is nothing but a bland knockoff of Spielberg's E.T.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2003

Broderick's misplaced voice-over is just one miscalculation of many, amid the lame special effects, poorly sketched parents and forcing the great Carl Reiner to give voice to an old sheepdog's comments about flatulence.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 17, 2003

Pales when placed next to all the similar movies it is shamelessly derivative of.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 16, 2003

Good Boy! is occasionally clever, but is never laugh out loud funny or gripping.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2003

The barbecue sandwich I had for lunch was infinitely more memorable than the movie that preceded it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 14, 2003