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The Shaggy Dog

Release Date: 
Friday, March 10, 2006
Rated: 
MPAA: PG
Star Rating: 
★★½
Oh, boy! A movie in which Tim Allen gets on all fours, sticks out his tongue, and sniffs a lot of butt! No, it's not footage from Allen's two-and-a-half-year stint in prison—it's just Disney's remake of The Shaggy Dog. Designed for kids, the film stars Allen as a deputy district attorney investigating a criminal animal lab. In the course of his duties, he is zapped with a top-secret genetic mutation serum that makes him look like the family’s pet. The film is utterly predictable, with only one highlight—the "great escape" scene, wherein Allen leads a group of mutant rabbits, chimps, rats, and a king cobra to freedom. At least your kids will dig it.