Benji: Off the Leash!

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, 33% Rotten Tomatometer Score
  • Benji: Off the Leash! features an adorable dog and a solid message about how to treat animals, but is too dull and amateurish a viewing experience to recommend for all but the youngest viewers.
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    Nell MinowCommon Sense Media
    Charming movie featuring an adorable dog.
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    Nick BarbaroAustin Chronicle
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    Joe LeydonVariety
    A mildly pleasant, aggressively retro kidpic that should please undemanding moppets without unduly boring their parents.
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    Nell MinowMovie Mom
    Families in search of a happy ending will have to hope that the next Benji movie is "Benji Finds a Better Script."
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    Elizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily News
    All the Benji productions have had a high corn content, but in this one, even the corn is cheap.
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    Donna PeremesWashington Post
    The overall unevenness of tone is the movie's biggest flaw, but the slo-mo scenes of doggie derring-do are quite funny, and the message about how to treat both humans and animals evergreen.
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    Jim LaneSacramento News & Review
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    Mary LasseChristianity Today
    Lacks creativity. The first Benji was original, and each new sequel needs to be a new creation. Instead, we get the same Benji formula.
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    David CorneliuseFilmCritic.com
    Horrible, loathsome, incompetent, wretched. The worst movie of the year? Undoubtedly.
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    Tony ToscanoTalking Pictures (U.S.)
    ...nothing in this boring and inept movie is salvageable.