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In
Old
Dogs,
John Travolta and
Robin Williams play
Charlie and Dan.
Business partners
and best friends.
The two had been
friends for their
entire lives. They
were best friends in
school and in their
twenties and they
are now best friends
in their fifties.
The two have been
through everything
together and after
forty years of
friendship they're
like an old married
couple. Charlie is
the man's man. The
tough guy who's not
sensitive and
behaves like men are
supposed to act. Dan
is the sensitive
guy. He wears his
heart out on his
sleeve. Charlie and
Dan have been
through everything
together and now
that Dan finds out
that he has two kids
that he didn't know
about they're about
to embark a whole
new journey.
Six years before the
movie takes place,
Dan just got
divorced and Charlie
dragged him to Miami
for some fun to
forget about his
worries. He met a
woman, they got
married and annulled
in 24 hours and it
turns out that she
had paternal twins
nine months later
and never told Dan
about it. When she's
about to go away she
gets stuck in a jam
without anyone to
watch the kids while
she's away. The kids
fall in Dan's lap
and he has to learn
how to be a father.
You wouldn't think
that Williams and
Travolta could make
a buddy comedy
together but they do
here fairly well.
They play their
given roles of old
men being old and
out of their element
good enough. The two
made a decent comedy
together. The
casting of the movie
outside of that is a
little strange.
Travolta's wife
Kelly Preston plays
Williams' love
interest in the
movie and the mother
of his kids.
Travolta's young
daughter Ella Bleu
Travolta plays
Williams' daughter
in the movie. That
dynamic is a little
different but his
daughter did such a
great job acting in
the movie that you
really don't think
about Travolta's
family playing
Williams' family
until after you've
watched the movie.
Old
Dogs
does have some
problems. It's not
nearly as funny as
it could have been.
It's a cookie-cutter
comedy so to speak
where a simple idea
was given, the
director and the
producers ran with
it and a movie came
out. There wasn't a
whole lot in terms
of original material
and they recycled a
couple of jokes
throughout the movie
that the audience
probably could have
gone without.
For
all it's problems
though,
Old
Dogs
ends up being a fun
family comedy that's
a great addition to
a home theatre
collection. The Blu-Ray
copy of the disc
comes with a making
of feature as well
as one of the
all-time
unintentional comedy
music videos by
Bryan Adams. In the
special edition
packaging you get a
Blu-Ray, a DVD, and
a digital copy so
it's worth it to
look into that
particular packaging
option.
Old
Dogs
could
have been better
than what it was but
it ended up being a
short and care-free
family comedy that
was fun to watch.
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