Online Film Critics Society
Home     About OFCS     Member Profiles     Schedule     Forum     Awards     OFCS Blog
    O.F.C.S. Members: Sign In    

O.F.C.S. Members

Movie Overview
Cast
• Piper Perabo
• Manolo Cardona
• Jamie Lee Curtis
Director
• Raja Gosnell
MPAA Rating
PG - for some mild thematic elements.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 29% Rotten
Page  
 

"Delgado (voiced by Andy Garcia), a reluctantly heroic German Shepherd, definitely deserves a movie of his own! Eat your heart out, Rin Tin Tin."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Betty Jo Tucker

2/5
"a shallow cinematic shill at best."  Filmcritic.com  Bill Gibron

D-
"Portraying Mexico as a breeding ground for criminal activity, imagining the local police as incompetent fools, and encouraging lines such as "hold your tacos!," the movie doesn't exactly make a strong case for racial harmony."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

1.5/5
"Gosnell gracelessly walks us through cheap, generic talking dog material, while parents everywhere groan silently to themselves."  DVDTalk.com  David Cornelius

2/4
"...ultimately about as enthralling as a low-rent Saturday morning cartoon."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

1/4
"A painfully unfunny, virtually charmless talking-animals pic. What did the lovely Jamie Lee Curtis see in this project that she felt warranted coming out of semi-retirement for?"  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

B-
"Once it gets the dumb 'Talk to the paw!' jokes out of its system, it's actually a reasonably charming, mostly benign kids' movie that adults can watch without their heads exploding."  Cinematical  Eric D. Snider

1.5/4
"The terminally cutesy Chihuahua is just another demonstratively derivative kids' narrative that barks up the wrong creative tree...[a] forgettable fleabag farce..."  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

B-
"Compared to the best doggie flicks, it may be the runt of the litter, but like most mutts it grows on you."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

3/5
"An appealing film for dog lovers and those seeking escapist entertainment."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

B+
"The real stars of this film are the dogs. The humans were lackluster in comparison. But the reality is that you can't beat talking dogs on the cuteness meter."  Film School Rejects  Kevin Carr

C+
"This anthropomorphic tale will likely please the kiddies, and the animal trainers and vocal talent are to be commended, but anyone over the age of twelve will be bored."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

C-
"Could Cheech Marin ever have predicted that he would once again appear in a movie that features his signature song, "Low Rider," and that it would be such a dog?"  Beliefnet  Nell Minow

1.5/4
"An unfunny, uninventive live-action variation on animated Disney animal adventures Lady and the Tramp, Oliver and Company and The Aristocats."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

1/5
"The good news is that "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" is not the 90-minute-long ethnic joke that the incessant trailers have been promising for the last few months. The bad news is that it isn't much of anything else either."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

2.5/5
"Silly beyond reason, it somehow manages to win us over despite our doubts, and by the end we're ashamed that we can't stop giggling."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

3/10
"Tremendously routine, in a way that an adventure film about talking Chihuahuas should not be."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton
OFCS Rating: 29% Rotten
Page  
 


Reviews database provided by Rotten Tomatoes and the Movie Review Query Engine

powered by ROTTEN TOMATOES
All articles and reviews on this website © the respective authors.
All other content © The Online Film Critics Society (0.08)