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Hotel for Dogs
When their new foster parents seem to be against pets in the house, Andi and Bruce sought a way to protect their dog by hiding him in an abandoned hotel of which they begin to save other dogs from cruel animal pound workers and police too.
30 July 1963, Encino, California, USA
12 February 1972, Evanston, Illinois, USA
16 May 1982, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
29 November 1964, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
16 July 1974, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
16 September 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 December 1994, New York City, New York, USA
27 October 1993
July 26, 2009
...unapologetically geared towards younger viewers...
May 07, 2009
Not bad. It is funny and touching at times, even though the premise is pretty close to impossible.
January 20, 2009
Will the kids like it? Yeah, probably. Will the parents tolerate it or enjoy it? Probably not.
April 23, 2009
In Thor Freudenthal's heartwarming wag based on Lois Duncan's book, the strays aren't your usual mangy curs but well-groomed pedigreed show dogs who're aw-shucks cute.
January 16, 2009
The human dramas are less involving [than the dogs'], and a pair of teen romances feel like something on the Disney Channel.
January 22, 2009
All in all it's a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon with a bunch of kids.
December 13, 2009
Undemanding tykes will gets their giggles flowing with the Rube Goldberg-style contraptions invented for the dogs.
January 16, 2009
It's sad to see a promising fantasy turn into yet another industrial-scale fantasy-delivery system that beats up on its audience with mindless intensity and undercuts its own humanity.
May 08, 2009
All that matters is that the loose ends of this sweet, kids-outsmart-the-adults fable are ultimately tied together nicely in a fashion certain to satisfy the average five year-old by the time the closing credits roll.
February 12, 2009
True, there's only the merest suggestion of an education system for these juveniles, but credibility's secondary when you've got lots of dogs doing cute stuff.
May 04, 2009
You'll admire the doggie tricks and tolerate the rest, which is both the best and worst thing that can be said about it.
