Sure it’s predictable — Turner hates dogs, Hooch trashes his flat, they eventually bond and solve the crime — but it’s goofy, knockabout fun and the big, loveable pooch nearly matches Hanks for easy screen charisma.

| Apr 11, 2024

Hanks' taste in picking movie projects continues to be abominable.

| Mar 26, 2019

Dog-buddy comedy has lots of slobber and some violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2014

I laughed heartily with the film, but I almost went cross-eyed trying to consider what the hell this script actually contained before Disney, five screenwriters, and two directors tore it apart.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 26, 2009

The rather mechanical style of director Roger Spottiwoode (who took over the film after original director Henry Winkler departed) fails to enliven the stereotypical criminal proceedings.

| Mar 26, 2009

From the moment when Hooch first appears to the strains of Strauss' 'Also sprach Zarathustra', the gags can be smelt a mile off, and the thriller elements are as hackneyed as an episode of Murder She Wrote.

| Feb 9, 2006

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2005

So-so little comedy that's better than you'd think.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2004

Cute dog 'n' guy comedy

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 7, 2004

Silly, early-Hanks fun

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2004

Hanks is great. A nice mix of laughs and tears

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2003

A dumb idea that winds up being an entertaining buddy picture

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2003

...[the ending] feels out of place and out of synch with the rest of the movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 1, 2003

The one level on which this mild children's comedy works is as an extended gross joke for 8-year-olds.

Full Review | May 20, 2003