Teacher's Pet

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Summary: This should be a lot of fun!
Review: "Teacher's Pet" is an excellent T.V show. The writing is really good and the voice talents are great. It is similar to "SpongeBob" in that it is totally origanal. The show is all about Spot who's is a dog belonging to a boy named Leoanard. Everyday Spot watches Leaonard go to school, wishing that he could too. One day he finally decides to put on Leonards clothes and go to school! At school he's a top student who is incredibly enthusiastic about school and learning unlike the other kids in his class who have had the joy of learning taken out of them by way of grades and tests. It is an incredibly fun show which will probably make a great movie. I guess in the movie he decides that being a dog who dresses like a boy isn't enough-he wants to be a boy!

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Summary: Good for people that like musicals and love to laugh!
Review: "Teacher's Pet" is one of the good musicals of our time. It is about a dog named Spott who wants to be a boy. He sees a show with a man named Ivan Crank that says that he can turn animals into people. So he goes on a trip. But his master Lenerd wants him to be a dog and play with him throughout the summer because Lenard dosen't have many friends. Good songs, great animation, and fun for the whole family. If you need a good family movie to watch, this is it!!

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Summary: Worst Disney movie ever made
Review: "Teacher's Pet" was SO stupid that I was thinking about leaving the theater, but I decided to stay during the movie but this film was so awful that I have to say this is the worst Disney film ever made and should had never had been produced, directed, animated or relased. Nathan Lane was SO unfunny. Get Nemo instead of this if you want the best Disney film ever!!! This is worst than "The Haunted Mansion".

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Summary: This movie was bad
Review: "Teacher's Pet" was the boring afternoon I had ever had in my life. I thought "Teacher's Pet" was completely terrible and really dumb. I couldn't understand what the heck this movie is saying. (...)

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Summary: Short and Sweet!
Review: "Teacher's Pet," is based on a television seris by the same name, that I have seen a couple of times. When I saw the commericals about the movie, I decided that I was going to see it in the theatres. I liked it. Another movie tfrom a television seris that went to the big screen was "Hey Arnold The Movie," which I liked so much that I gave it five stars. I am not giving "Teacher's Pet" give stars because of it's extremly short length. I went to a twelve o' clock show, and including previews and me staying for the credits, I was out at one fifteen. It was probally about sixty-eight minutes long including the credits. The story is about sixty-three minutes long. That is a little short for a movie theatre film. "Hey Arnold The Movie," was seventy-five minutes long, but that was oringally made for television. They weren't going to change it for the big screen. But now, the plot.

In the television seris, the "Teacher's Pet," is a blue dog named Spot. He is the dog of a young boy named Leonard, who is the son of mary Lou, who works at Leonards school under the ruling of Principal Stricklar, who has a strong dislike of dogs. Spot lives with Leonard and Mary Lou and their two other pets, Mr. Jolly a bird, and Pretty Boy a cat. Spot's problem is that he could talk, and he wants to be a real boy. When Mary Lou gets nominated for a Teacher of the Year Award, she and Leonard travel miles to Florida for the finals. Spot is left at home, but when he sees a talk show he decides to find them. The Barry Anger Show has a segment with made scientist Dr. Ivan Krank who claims that he could turn any everyday animal, into a human being. Spot finds Leonard and Mary Lou and changes into his alter ego, "human" Scott. Spot attends school everyday as Scott and makes up a wild story to be able to join Mary Lou and Leonard on their trip to the Sunshine State. He mades it to Ivan's lab, and is turned into a man instead of a boy. Dog years would make him older than he thinks he is. Scott/Spot escapes from Krank who wants to use him to have living proof that he is not crazy and his experiments really do work. But Leonard begins finding out that it is hard to have a dog really be a man, and the plot thickens.

"Teacher's Pet," is a musical. There are short songs throughout the movie, and if you listen to the lyrics, they are just so funny. I found myself laughing alot during this movie, and not at smart jokes that makers seem to sneak into animated movies to appeal to older people. I laughed at the stupid humor and the obvious jokes. I liked it. I thought this movie had some perfect timing, and alot of perfect humor.

"Teacher's Pet," was, like the seris, made with tradional hand drawn animation, which is another reason why it was so short in lenght. It was not like "Finding Nemo," which was so beautiful, and had images of beauty that you just want to take it all at once. This movie has animation the way it used to be done like decades ago, and sometimes I perfer that, because it shows that people can make movies without the extreme help of machine, like "Finding Nemo." That was made only with the help of a machine and numbers. I really liked "Teacher's Pet," and it was clean, and funny, and had a great story, and it could be entertaining to people of any age. Like in my review title, it was short and sweet.

ENJOY!

Rated PG for some mildly crude humor.

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Summary: thought this movie was for kids!
Review: I was disappointed in this movie. I love Nathan Lane and musicals, so I was prepared to be dazzled. Sadly, it was not to be.

The kids were puzzled (10, 8 and 4 years old),because many of the jokes and vocabulary were geared for adults. We liked the story line, it had tremendous voice talent. (I have no need to describe the plot as many others have already done so.) The real disappointment was the animation, the characters were really ugly, the facial expressions lacking.

The characters were not enjoyable - they were not likeable. The kids were quiet trying to figure it out! I would not spend the money to buy it, it's barely worth renting.

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Summary: awful
Review: It was awful. Like an hour long CatDog cartoon.

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Summary: The Moose Hole - Dog Days at the Box Office
Review: No one ever said that January was a pleasant month at the box office. Anybody who has is a flat-out liar. And any movie critic around the country will tell you the exact same thing. For years, American movie-goers have been subjected to such train-wreck disasters as Kangaroo Jack, Snow Dogs, A Walk to Remember, and The Wedding Planner. Sorry to say, this year appears to be no different. This is why many of the less contemptible movie-goers tend to check-out films in Oscar contention rather then the pathetic trash cluttering the local Cineplex. Unfortunately for families with little children, other then staying at home, they will just have to grin and bare with what is given to them  One feature this year, Teacher's Pet, should be familiar to someone as it was once a highly praised (and lowly rated) cartoon series on ABC's One Saturday Morning lineup. Since its cancellation, it has made many lucrative appearances on the Disney Company's Toon Disney cable network, which should make it all the more commercially success for its distributor. But in January, as with any season of the year at the box office, there is never such a thing as a "sure thing".

The story follows an ambitious talking dog as he yearns to become a real human boy. Scott Leadready II has perfect attendance at school, extraordinary grades, and pleasant manners; all in all he is the perfect boy that any mother wishes she had. The only problem is that Scott is actually a dog named Spot. For almost everyday of his life, Spot has wished to become a real human boy like his owner Leonard, so much so that he has disguised himself as Scott Leadready II and attended the fourth grade for the past year. Now that the school year is over, Spot is left home for two weeks while Leonard and his mother travel to Florida to attend an award ceremony for teachers. The emulous pup ends up tagging along when he sees a wack-o scientist from Florida on television claiming to be able to change animals into humans. Now there is nothing in the way of Spot and his ultimate goal of becoming a real boy! Unfortunately, he learns that changing species isn't all it's cracked up to be. The story for Teacher's Pet is pretty straight forward, simple and predictable. Basically it is everything one expects from a low-budgeted winter family animated film, which makes it all the more disappointing. The big problem for Pet is that it never maintains a level consistency. The film ranges from being surprisingly amusing to harrowingly dull and anything in-between as well.

Teacher's Pet has a surprisingly decent amount of recognizable names behind the voices of the characters, which makes it all the more baffling at why this film wasn't more entertaining for adults. Nathan Lane, who also brought life to Timon in The Lion King, voices the audacious Spot. Lane presents a voice-over performance that was worth a chuckle here and there but nothing that was extraordinarily funny. Kelsey Grammer gives a slightly accented voice-over performance as Dr. Ivan Krank that results in more awkward facial gestures from audience members then amusing glances. The only performer within the cast that even manages to make the more adult audience laugh is Jerry Stiller, who voices a bird named Pretty Boy. He gives a gruff voice-over that just cracks a smile on anybody's face at all the appropriate moments within the feature film. The reason behind this may be the fact that most older movie-goers may already know who Jerry Stiller is, which may or may not make this role all the more amusing than for those who don't know who he is.

Overall, younger audience members will enjoy this heralding story about a dog wishing to be a boy while younger adults will be wishing for the quickest exit out of the theater. Teacher's Pet borders on the line of moderate animated family entertainment and Ren & Stimpy-like weirdness. The film is filled with plenty moments where parents will be questioning what they want their kids to see or not, depending how young they are. One such moment would include a moment where Spot (as a human) suggests marrying Leonard's mom so he can be with his human owner without being a dog. This type of situation seems to cross the line of perversion but luckily it quickly crosses back to normality. The film-makers dash in several awkward song and dance performances that aren't remarkable or even memorable long after the credits have rolled. The biggest problem with Teacher's Pet is that it is nothing more then one expects going into this feature and, though it appeals to the younger crowd, doesn't present a level of maturity that many adults, parents or not, would be able to tolerate for over a hour. Luckily the time over that one hour is only an additional fifteen minutes.

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Summary: This Movie STINKS
Review: Okay, I have seen the horrid reviews for this movie and now I believe them. The only untrue thing I read was that adults couldn't stand it for much more than an hour. It was only a little under half an hour before my mom started to crack.

Being a fan of the series (I watch it on Toon Disney whenever I can), I expected the movie to be ten times better. It was a thousand times worse. The film got to be EXTREMELY tedious and boring by the time an hour was up. When the line in the ending song, "A film needs an end," came up, I thought, "Yes, yes it does! And right now!"

Most of the songs STINK. "A Whole Lotta World," or whatever it was called, annoyed me to no end. The only ones I would keep are

I Wanna Be a Boy (Intro)
Small but Mighty
I, Ivan Krank
I'm Moving On
Proud to be a Dog (Ending)

I gave this two stars for some humor plus an extra for the bonus episode, "Muttamorphasis," included on the DVD.

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Summary: Disney's Latest Excuse For Family Entertainment
Review: The term "family film" really gets me angry. Why? Because for every film that is out there that is good enough to be for the entire family, there are at least 50 others that are not only wasting their parent's time, but they are not respecting their intended audience. Disney's new animated film TEACHER'S PET is both patronizing and extremely sloppy.

Spot Helperman(Voiced by Nathan Lane, The Lion King) is a dog who longs to be a real boy. He dresses up like a little boy and goes to school with his master Leonard (Shaun Fleming, Jeepers Creepers 2), and for some odd reason Leonard's mother (Debra Joy Rupp, TV's That 70's Show) is their teacher. When Leonard's mother wins a trip to Florida, Leonard longs to have fun on the beach with his dog. Spot wants to go to Florida to meet a wacko doctor (Kelsey Grammer) who can turn animals into humans.

As I sat through this supposed "musical comedy" I asked myself, Why? Who in their right mind said this film was worthy enough to make? Who said "hey the script is ready, let's make this movie?" The simple answer is money. But let's be honest, this turkey is not going to make any money. This is not the film that is going to be locked in the Disney Vault for ten years, to be released with much fanfare.

This is a shoddy movie that aspires to be HEY ARNOLD, THE MOVIE. Its script is not technically a story, it is bad jokes designed to stretch running time. TEACHER'S PET is a 15 minute animated short with over an hour of bad jokes designed to stretch the running time.

Most would probably say, "why are you being so hard on this movie? It's designed for little kids not a 24 year old male." I say if you are going to spend large amounts of money on a film and you expect parents to bring their little tykes, and you create a film that makes even a toddler bored, I cannot go easy on it.

This film has no charm. The jokes are too abrasive, and there are far too many things going on. It also features this really odd subplot involving Spot and Leonard's mother that made me feel really, really uncomfortable. Its inclusion was both unnecessary and hard to explain without making it sound sicker than it really is.

Finally I muse about the PG rating for this film. Why? It will play well only to four or five year olds. When I think of a PG movie I think of kids between 8-10. Why create a film geared at toddlers and market it to seven-year olds? You got me. I don't know why this film is PG. It contains no bad language, no sex, and no real violence. It's not even scary. If anyone can figure this out, I will give you a hearty handshake.

If you are looking to waste a child's time, stay at home and rent ET. They'll love it. TEACHER'S PET on the other hand is a vapid mess. If you want my advice, instead of dropping forty bucks to take the brood to see this film, spend that money on a really big cardboard box. Your kids will have far more fun with that.

* out of 5