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03-07-2006, 02:29 PM
By Luke Sader Mon Mar 6, 10:17 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If Queen Latifah can step into Alec Guinness' "Last Holiday" and Steve Martin can go from "Father of the Bride" to "Cheaper by the Dozen" to "The Pink Panther" remakes, why shouldn't producer-actor Tim Allen take a romp as "The Shaggy Dog?"
Director Brian Robbins, a young veteran of teen and family fare, and five writers have turned out a fast-moving Walt Disney Co. comedy that manages to sail past many of the cliches usually found in this genre while throwing together a wild story line more apt for a new millennium. Business could be brisk for the tweener crowd. DVD sales and rental figures look to be strong.
The original 1959 release was the first of scores of live-action family comedies from the Walt Disney studio, producing a lineage of teenage stars that would lead to Hayley Mills and Lindsay Lohan. Although Fred MacMurray was top-billed, that film focused on his teenage son, played by Tommy Kirk, who stumbled onto Cold War missile secrets. Back then it was Kirk's Wilby Daniels who turned (off and on) into a canine, courtesy of an ancient Borgia curse. Years later, a sequel, "The Shaggy D.A.," had studio regular Dean Jones stepping into the role of an adult Wilby.
The remake credits both earlier screenplays with an acknowledgment of Felix Salten's original story, "The Hound of Florence," as well. About the only similarity to the first film plot-wise is Dad's dislike of dogs (though in the original, there was a valid rationale: MacMurray was a veteran postal employee). As before, the fun is in the shape-shifting between man and beast, usually at the most inopportune moments.
more (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060307/review_nm/film_shaggy_dc;_ylt=AsQoKFEaGGNE_H787yH2g3lxFb8C;_ ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--)
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If Queen Latifah can step into Alec Guinness' "Last Holiday" and Steve Martin can go from "Father of the Bride" to "Cheaper by the Dozen" to "The Pink Panther" remakes, why shouldn't producer-actor Tim Allen take a romp as "The Shaggy Dog?"
Director Brian Robbins, a young veteran of teen and family fare, and five writers have turned out a fast-moving Walt Disney Co. comedy that manages to sail past many of the cliches usually found in this genre while throwing together a wild story line more apt for a new millennium. Business could be brisk for the tweener crowd. DVD sales and rental figures look to be strong.
The original 1959 release was the first of scores of live-action family comedies from the Walt Disney studio, producing a lineage of teenage stars that would lead to Hayley Mills and Lindsay Lohan. Although Fred MacMurray was top-billed, that film focused on his teenage son, played by Tommy Kirk, who stumbled onto Cold War missile secrets. Back then it was Kirk's Wilby Daniels who turned (off and on) into a canine, courtesy of an ancient Borgia curse. Years later, a sequel, "The Shaggy D.A.," had studio regular Dean Jones stepping into the role of an adult Wilby.
The remake credits both earlier screenplays with an acknowledgment of Felix Salten's original story, "The Hound of Florence," as well. About the only similarity to the first film plot-wise is Dad's dislike of dogs (though in the original, there was a valid rationale: MacMurray was a veteran postal employee). As before, the fun is in the shape-shifting between man and beast, usually at the most inopportune moments.
more (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060307/review_nm/film_shaggy_dc;_ylt=AsQoKFEaGGNE_H787yH2g3lxFb8C;_ ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--)
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