The Shaggy Dog


Posted on May 21, 2008
By Raphael Pierson-Sante


Disney, 2006, 99 minutes

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It's very weird being a dad who's turned into a dog!

In the first part of this movie, people from an evil laboratory where they experiment on animals go to Tibet where they steal a dog who has lived for 300 years. They want to learn how to make people live 700 years - and they also want to get rich. The lawyer - a comedian named Tim Allen, but called Dave in the film - who's defending the lab in court gets bitten by this dog (who isn't really Tibetan but an English sheepdog - that's also weird!). First, he starts acting like a dog, which is pretty funny to see. Then when he meets that dog again, he turns into a dog who looks just like him.

It is SO funny when he chases a cat around in his court clothes.

Since his family thinks he's just a dog, he tries to knock down the Scrabble set to spell "I am Dad," but the brother and sister clean it up before he gets a chance to. At the end, he is in the laboratory in a cage, and he sees lots of strange animals around him (examples: a frog that has the head of a bulldog and a snake that has the tail of a dog). But finally he bites the mad doctor at the lab, and while he starts acting like a dog too, Dave turns back into a man. And the family gets to keep the Tibetan dog, who they've named Shaggy.

You're going to like the part where he leaves the car to all the mixed-up animals from the lab and it ends up crashed, while he says, "I don't even want to know how that car got here!"

I think people who act crazy should see this movie, because it's a crazy movie. And that dog is really my kind of dog!

 

Presence of dogs: reelreelreelreel
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