Synopsis
Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman he married on a drunken impulse nearly nine years before (annulled the next day) shows up to tell him he's the father of her twins, now seven, and she'll be in jail for 14 days for a political protest. Dan volunteers to keep the tykes, although he's up tight and clueless. With Charlie's help is there any way they can be dad and uncle, meet the kids' expectations, and still land the account?
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Cast
- John TravoltaCharlie
- Robin WilliamsDan
- Kelly PrestonVicki
- Conner RayburnZach
- Ella Bleu TravoltaEmily
- Lori LoughlinAmanda
- Seth GreenRalph White
- Bernie MacJimmy Lunchbox
- Matt DillonYancy Devlin
- Dax ShepardGary - Child Proofer #1
Recommendations
- 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
It runs a fast 88 minutes, is broad as the waistlines of its stars, and is remarkably family-friendly if you don't mind bathroom humor. - 50
Miami Herald
Nostalgia is part of the modest charm of this disposable but inoffensive picture. Old Dogs makes old dogs out of all of us. - 50
Variety
Too bad this shrilly tuned comedy doesn't demand more than clock-punching effort from everyone involved. - 38
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Old Dogs is so oafish, when it tosses us a biscuit, it feels like we've been smacked with a newspaper. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Insipid, predictable, broad comedy mixed with Disney Family Values makes for one exasperating sit. - 25
Chicago Tribune
None of it is funny. It’s all pain and no funny. - 25
The A.V. Club
Adults should steer clear. Kids should be sent to it only if they’ve been extraordinarily naughty. - 12
ReelViews
What's wrong with this movie? A better question might be: What's right? Every attempt at comedy is not only obvious but delivered in such a forced manner that any hope of generating laughter dies before the joke has been told.
