It's a really, really lame, limp movie that isn't funny.

| Aug 28, 2018

Packed with forgettable wisecracks, this is a very American brand of children's entertainment, crass and overbearing but harmless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 5, 2018

There are lots of comic moments at this dog show. Part of the humour is the precise reflection of canine behaviour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2018

The fluff factor may sell this mutt movie to smaller viewers, but it has no business in the winner's circle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 2018

It all comes back to the fact that Show Dogs is a movie for children that seems interested in pushing a plot that normalizes unwanted sexual touching.

| May 25, 2018

Arnett has the terse air of a man doing anything he can to keep up with his alimony payments...

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 25, 2018

A half-term "treat" featuring an undercover canine cop called Max (voiced by Ludacris) who has to infiltrate a glamorous Vegas-set dog show to foil a gang of international animal smugglers, it's also tacky, crass, crude and, well, mean.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 24, 2018

Stupefyingly inane...

| Original Score: 0/5 | May 24, 2018

Show Dogs goes out of its way to cause offence, be weird, and not contain a single joke that humans of any age might rationally nod and appreciate.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 24, 2018

The final reel showdown in a plane hangar is especially feeble.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 23, 2018

A tiresomely sassy script is so desperate to be down with da kidz that it fails to invest in what should be at the core of such a movie: the simple, pure love between human and hound.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 23, 2018

If you came for cute canines you'll get them, but you'd get more entertainment from an hour of dog videos on YouTube.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2018

Grown-ups might not roll over for "Show Dogs," but children almost surely will.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2018

Grown-ups will find it painful to watch a clearly embarrassed Arnett go through the motions, muttering his lines as he internally wonders why he never became the next Kevin Costner.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2018

It's true that technology has come a long way since Tex Avery first added animated mouths to real-life animals, but what good is scientific know-how without the imagination needed to power it?

| Original Score: 0/5 | May 18, 2018

Even by the low standards of this type of live-action, family friendly comedy, Show Dogs is especially lame.

| Original Score: .5/4 | May 18, 2018

Make a stand to Hollywood and vote with your wallet: We all deserve a better live-action talking-dog movie than this.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 17, 2018

There are some cases where you really can't teach an old dog new tricks.

| Original Score: C | May 17, 2018

The film's lack of inspiration at every level - technical, narrative and comedic - is so crushing that, save for pre-adolescents, most will consider this a top contender for worst of breed.

| May 17, 2018

A high-concept family comedy that manages to avoid being taken for the runt of the litter, even if it doesn't really bring anything fresh and different to the arena.

| May 17, 2018