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

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

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

If there's a new hair in this dogeared dramedy, it would take a bloodhound to sniff it out.

| Jan 1, 2000

Hanks, who can even grace a film such as "The 'Burbs," is always a movie's best friend.

| Jan 1, 2000