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Lassie (1994)

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Rated: PG; Genres: Action/Adventure, Kids & Family; With: Brittany Boyd, Helen Slater, Jon Tenney and Thomas Guiry; Distributor: Paramount Pictures

C-

By Ty Burr

Ty Burr

Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron

What's that, girl? Lassie has little to do with 1943's bona fide classic Lassie Come Home? It also makes the vintage television show seem a model of stark realism? But isn't the story — a dour urban teenager (Guiry) discovers the pleasures of fresh air, sheep farming, and collie love in the country — a heart tugger? No, it's just corny? At least the dog's okay, right? No? You'd take a mutt any day over this bland purebred pain who's always right and who even emerges from a death-defying trip down a waterfall looking freshly groomed? So what grade do you give it, girl? Look, Mom, she's spelling out a C-.

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Posted Dec 16, 1994

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