
Who Let the Dogs in? Lisa Kudrow stars in Hotel for Dogs
Jaimie Trueblood
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Release Date: Jan 16, 2009; Genres: Comedy, Kids & Family, PG; With: Jake T. Austin and Emma Roberts
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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–
Posted Jan 14, 2009
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