See Spot Run Details

A shaggy-dog story for the half-term holidays, this tells the tale of an FBI supermutt who teams up with a postman to thwart an attempt by the Mob on the dog's life. Toss into the mix a cute little kid and two half-baked Italian-American hit men, and it all sounds like the recipe for a right dog's dinner. And at times See Spot Run is a bit of a dog's dinner. The film has its fair share of boring sequences and third-rate scatological humour. Yet David Arquette gives an enthusiastic performance as said postman, and there are some nice, relatively straight-faced support performances from Paul Sorvino, pizza-faced Joe Viterelli and Michael Clarke Duncan (the man-mountain from The Green Mile). Two parts Home Alone to one part Turner and Hooch, See Spot Run may not have a good pedigree, but take the children as a half-term treat and they probably won't be disappointed.

"...SEE SPOT RUN has some cute sight gags, and Mr. Arquette's Gordon, with his Cheshire Cat grin and cross-eyed daffiness, is a bouncing, break-dancing bubble of helium..."