Dude, Where's My Dog? seems to be the tale of a boy who begs for responsibility, is given an opportunity to show it (by being tasked with taking the dog to the vet and back), blows it and then returns home with a dog that has become invisible because it, um, ate a cheeseburger that happened to become covered in some red liquid that causes this.
Apart from being a ridiculously thin plot stretched out to 82 minutes, it doesn't have a lot else going for it. There must have been something gone wrong somewhere in recent years because you can give film professionals a few million dollars and they produce something like this, whereas I can go on YouTube and find a whole load of amateur productions made on a budget of next to sod all that are much better written. Not always better acted (goes with the territory) but usually better written and sometimes better edited.
The script consists primarily of fart jokes (understandable to an extent considering the target audience but is ultimately a lazy cop out with these sort of movies), clumsy dialogue and some lame characterisation - stereotypically "thick" adult sidekicks with a leader with only slightly more brains than everybody else, but they can all be subdued by somebody doing a really eggy fart and they're all out for the count.
A few interesting ideas here but realistically this just boils down to 82 minutes of nothing happening. I can see that any time I like by looking out of a window at home. Some children may get a small kick out of the fart jokes but I suspect they're going to lose interest very quickly. Still, each to their own. It takes a lot for me to decide that a movie is terribly bad and I have seen worse than this. Far far worse.
Apart from being a ridiculously thin plot stretched out to 82 minutes, it doesn't have a lot else going for it. There must have been something gone wrong somewhere in recent years because you can give film professionals a few million dollars and they produce something like this, whereas I can go on YouTube and find a whole load of amateur productions made on a budget of next to sod all that are much better written. Not always better acted (goes with the territory) but usually better written and sometimes better edited.
The script consists primarily of fart jokes (understandable to an extent considering the target audience but is ultimately a lazy cop out with these sort of movies), clumsy dialogue and some lame characterisation - stereotypically "thick" adult sidekicks with a leader with only slightly more brains than everybody else, but they can all be subdued by somebody doing a really eggy fart and they're all out for the count.
A few interesting ideas here but realistically this just boils down to 82 minutes of nothing happening. I can see that any time I like by looking out of a window at home. Some children may get a small kick out of the fart jokes but I suspect they're going to lose interest very quickly. Still, each to their own. It takes a lot for me to decide that a movie is terribly bad and I have seen worse than this. Far far worse.