Hotel for Dogs PG

No stray gets turned away.
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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 24, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2009
  • Label: Paramount

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User Ratings: 165,599
Rating: 2/5 -- The schmaltz is laid on thick, but kids love this sort of stuff and, refreshingly, the dog bits are done the old-fashioned, fun way: with animal trainers rather than CGI. Full Review
Guardian
Feb 13, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- Undemanding tykes will gets their giggles flowing with the Rube Goldberg-style contraptions invented for the dogs. Full Review
EDGE Boston
Dec 13, 2009
HOTEL FOR DOGS is a fantasy and looks like one....Ultimately warm and furry...
Variety
Jan 16, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- The dogs are never quite as entertaining as they should be for the kids in the audience, and the hypercutesiness and speechifying at the end will lead to much tightening of adult sphincters. Full Review
Times (UK)
Feb 19, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- True, there's only the merest suggestion of an education system for these juveniles, but credibility's secondary when you've got lots of dogs doing cute stuff. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 12, 2009
Rating: B- -- Hotel for Dogs delivers warm messages about generosity and sticking with seemingly impossible goals. There are worse ways to spend a winter afternoon than with this amusing comedy. Full Review
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Aug 17, 2017
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Naturally, the dogs are the star of the show here, and some of their feats (unaided by computer effects) must be seen to be believed. Full Review
Herald Sun (Australia)
May 11, 2018

Product Description:

Thor Freudenthal makes his feature-film directorial debut with this adaptation of Lois Duncan’s children’s book HOTEL FOR DOGS. Sixteen-year old Andi (Emma Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Jake T. Austin), are orphans living with their foster parents (Lisa Kudrow and Kevin Dillon), two washed-up musicians. Desperate to keep what’s left of their family together, Andi and Bruce have secretly been caring for their family dog, Friday, on the sly for the last few years. When they follow their beloved pet into an abandoned hotel and find stray dogs living there, Andi and Bruce decide to round up all the strays in the city and expand their family. With the help of Dave (Johnny Simmons) and Heather (Kyla Pratt), two teens who work at the local pet store, they transform the abandoned hotel into a canine wonderland, using young Bruce’s skills as an inventor to make an automated feeding system, doggie restrooms, and some fun amusements, such as a car-ride simulation and a fetching machine. But if Animal Control has their way, all the residents of the hotel will be taken to the pound, and it’s up to Andi and Bruce to save their new family.

This heartwarming tale reinforces the importance of family and the idea that families can come in many shapes and sizes. Although the idea itself is pretty improbable, it’s still loads of fun to see the gadgets and gizmos that Bruce creates to keep the dogs fed, in shape, and content. Roberts and Austin are believable as brother and sister, and Kudrow and Dillon are amusing as washed-up '80s rockers. Don Cheadle also appears as the compassionate social worker assigned to Andi and Bruce’s case.

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  • Sales Rank: 51,090
  • UPC: 032429257178
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