Charming movie featuring an adorable dog.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Lacks creativity. The first Benji was original, and each new sequel needs to be a new creation. Instead, we get the same Benji formula.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 1, 2006

Horrible, loathsome, incompetent, wretched. The worst movie of the year? Undoubtedly.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 26, 2004

...nothing in this boring and inept movie is salvageable.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Sep 4, 2004

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2004

The movie is so earnest and sweet that to criticize it harshly would be like kicking a dog, and far be it from me to go there.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 24, 2004

A fun and frolicsome adventure for the entire family.

| Aug 24, 2004

This is by far the best of the Benji films, with appeal to both adults and kids alike.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2004

A mildly pleasant, aggressively retro kidpic that should please undemanding moppets without unduly boring their parents.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2004

Good intentions aside, the return of writer-director-producer Joe Camp's "Benji" is terminally boring.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 23, 2004

Families in search of a happy ending will have to hope that the next Benji movie is "Benji Finds a Better Script."

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 22, 2004

Doggone it, I have to give this a better-than-average rating.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 22, 2004

A family drama, and public-service announcement for your local animal shelter, that is more convincing when the four-legged performers have the screen to themselves.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2004

All the Benji productions have had a high corn content, but in this one, even the corn is cheap.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2004

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 20, 2004

The overall unevenness of tone is the movie's biggest flaw, but the slo-mo scenes of doggie derring-do are quite funny, and the message about how to treat both humans and animals evergreen.

| Aug 20, 2004

The dogs are cute, the scary parts are appropriately subdued and everything works out for the best.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2004

...inane inoffensiveness can be offensive in and of itself.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 20, 2004

Parents ... are more likely to experience the film as a blend of clumsy slapstick and mind-numbing bathos.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2004