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Movie: Old Dogs

January 13, 2010 on 8:40 am | In Movies | No Comments

Wild Hogs was a fantastic comedy. So the producers thought that bringing in another combination of old guys together will work equally well.

Wild Hogs worked because you can relate with the characters. There’s that faint possibility that anyone of us might one day go through a midlife crisis and buy a hog and go traipsing into the middle of nowhere.

Old Dogs has Travolta and Robin Williams as two bosses of a big sports company, and Williams suddenly finds himself to be the father of a pair of precocious bastard twins. Not exactly characters people can relate easily with. Not even a social situation that typical decent human beings will find themselves in. There’s an unnecessary scene with Bernie Mac and a technology that turns a person into a human puppet. And a Rocket-Man finale?

Old Dogs is just another serving of Disney family crap that convinces me that American kids just aren’t smacked often or hard enough. It also continues to prepetuate the Disney-generation larvae’s delusions that their mere existing confers upon them a mandate from heaven to rule over everybody around them through guilt and volume.

The only thing halfway amusing is Seth Green. It was amusing SEEING him in a film. He’s funny when he’s playing with his old G.I.Joe toys. Not so much in an actual film.