You Lie Down with DOGS...

CONCOCTED to be ONE of DIZZ-KNEE's BIG "FAMILY MOVIE" HOLIDAY "HITS," OLD DOGS IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE of HOLLYWOOD DOWN-PLAYING  ORIGINALITY WHILE ALSO PLAYING DOWN to an AUDIENCE IT ASSUMES IS TOO DIM to NOTICE THIS IS a BLATANT RIP-OFF of the STUDIO's OWN INEXPLICABLE 2007 "HIT" WILD HOGS.

TOP-LINING PROLIFIC RAZZIE® REPEAT OFFENDER JOHN TRAVOLTA (WHO LOOKS ALL BUT OSSIFIED in the PROMOS) and MULTIPLY RAZZIE®-NOMINATED FORMER FUNNYMAN ROBIN WILLIAMS (WHO HASN'T ACTUALLY BEEN FUNNY in ANY MOVIE for ABOUT a DECADE NOW) OLD DOGS RESORTS to SUCH CREAKY OLD "COMIC" DEVICES as MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, CUTE-LOOKING-BUT-VICIOUS PENGUINS and GORILLAS ENAMORED of HUMANS. 

JUST in CASE ANYONE MISSES the OBVIOUS "HOMAGE" to WILD HOGS, OLD DOGS WAS HELMED by THAT FILM's DIRECTOR. AND, PROVIDING the RAZZ-BERRY SAUCE ATOP THIS TURD PIE of a MOVIE, IT CO-STARS MRS. TRAVOLTA (a RAZZIE® "WINNER" HERSELF) KELLY PRESTON.

SURE, DIZZ-KNEE COULDA REAPED a FORTUNE from FOBBING OFF THIS KINDA CRUD on AMERICAN AUDIENCES...BUT WOULD THEY RESPECT THEMSELVES in the MORNING??!? 

IRONIC FOOTNOTE: DIZZ-KNEE COULD ARGUE THAT THIS FILM ISN'T an ERSATZ WILD HOGS, TOO BECAUSE...THAT UN-NECESSARY SEQUEL IS ALREADY "IN DEVELOPMENT"...

TRAVOLTA: "WHAT -- They pay me a lotta money to do 

crap like this. Whaddaya expect me to do, say NO just cuz 

the whole thing sux??"

Earlier this year, Robin Williams starred in the critcally acclaimed "World's Greatest Dad,"  and John Travolta starred in the semi-successful remake of "Taking of Pelham 1-2-3."  So I don't see either of these two getting Razzie nominations, though John Travolta's already a likely contedner for Worst Actor of the Decade for the infamous fiasco "Battlefield Earth" (L. Ron Hubbard took a harder hit earlier this week when his so-called 'church' was fined $900K).  Even if Travolta and/or Williams were nominated for Worst Actor or Worst Screen Couple, I'd guess they would lose to somebody esle (though I don't know who at this time).

RESPONSE from Head RAZZberry: While you are correct about the reviews for WORLD'S GREATEST DAD (R.T. LINK) almost no one saw that film (B.O. MoJo LINK). And while Travolta in the remake of PELHAM 123 did okay at the box office (MoJo LINK) it cost way more than it grossed, and only got middling reviews (R.T. LINK).

Either way, critical and movie-goer reaction to other films from RAZZIE® eligible Actors in any given year is often not a factor in their prospects for getting attention from us. A perfect example: Tom Cruise starred in both the Best Picture Oscar® winner (IMDb LINK) and the Worst Picture RAZZIE® "winner" (IMDb LINK) in the same year -- 1988.

Robin Williams also has an upcoming stand up special on HBO called Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction.

The irony of it kills me.  

Originally posted by saturnwatcher  I hereby formally announce the formation of the Church of Saturn...naturally, I am the Grand Pubah. You are all cordially invited to join. Just send me all your stuff and I'll tell you how happy you are... Especially since you have divested yourself of all the Earthly possesions that emotionally burdened you by creating a constant feeling of inadequacy over the inability to have even more.

Okay, Grand Pubah, I'll get right on to doing that!

What happened to Robin Williams? We should really give him a Razzie, just to shove it in his face that he needs to stop starring in crap movies. Oh yea, we should also shove Razzies into Walt Becker's face, so he'll stop making these excruciatingly bad family  "comedies" (I can't even look at the previews for this movie -- almost as bad as those Seltzerberg movies).

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/04/24/robin-williams-attached- to-another-crappy-movie/

I can't STAND this movie! The reviews were some of the nastiest all autumn, and Robin Williams' and John Travolta's films have failed all decade. Either one of them would be good choices for nomination.

And Disney? Why do they keep exercising their futility with live action?!?!