Movie Review

Hotel for Dogs (2009)

EW's GRADE
C-

Details Release Date: Jan 16, 2009; Genres: Comedy, Kids & Family, PG; With: Jake T. Austin and Emma Roberts

 Who Let the Dogs in? Lisa Kudrow stars in Hotel for Dogs
Image credit: Jaimie Trueblood
Who Let the Dogs in? Lisa Kudrow stars in Hotel for Dogs

Marking its territory in the mind-boggling 
 middle ground between Schindler's List and 
 Beverly Hills Chihuahua, the cartoonish kid pic Hotel for Dogs — adapted from the 
 award-winning 1971 
 children's book — turns out to be a weirdly 
 oblivious Holocaust 
 parable about a sibling duo of righteous dog-
ophiles (Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin) 
bent on rescuing strays from systematic 
 execution at the hands of Gestapo-like dog catchers. But don't worry. There are still cuddly pups and piddle jokes aplenty. C–

Originally posted Jan 14, 2009 Published in issue #1031 Jan 23, 2009 Order article reprints
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