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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's harmless enough for young kids, but director Todd Holland seems to have little interest in making anything but a generic, instantly forgettable family-friendly feature. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Once it figures out it's more drama than comedy, Firehouse Dog does the job. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: It's aimed squarely at primary schoolers, but they'll probably get fidgety before its 111 minutes elapse. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A dog star is born in the wonderful new family movie, Firehouse Dog. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The innocuous family film Firehouse Dog runs 111 minutes, which puts it a solid 21 minutes over what should be the legal limit for this sort of thing. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Firehouse Dog isn't quite the equivalent of the 1999 talking-infant bomb Baby Geniuses, but at times it's close enough for discomfort. Read more
Alex Chun, Los Angeles Times: Though it never completely catches fire, there's enough earnestness and warmth that makes it a welcome alternative in a family film arena dominated by computer animation and associated toy lines. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Firehouse Dog is a wholesome throwback to a time before computer animators made animals talk and penguins hogged the glory. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: OK, Letters from Iwo Jima it's not. Firehouse Dog, though, serves a purpose, and it's a purpose you'd know quite well if you had a 6-year-old. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: [The dog] looks like a cross between a rat and a llama. And he burps, farts, and even poops on dinner. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Firehouse Dog is credited to three writers, but not one of them seems to have a solitary spark of an idea. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: An entertaining family comedy full of both tricks and trickery. Read more
Rob Nelson, L.A. Weekly: This latest entry in the doggy-acrobat subgenre of canine comedies has but one joke, and it comes early: In the Idol age, celebrity culture has gone to the dogs -- literally. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: It has one of the best -- if not always the most heartwarming -- dog-and-his-boy relationships since Lassie. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: This is an oddly second-rate production for a major-studio release; the underwhelming mystery belongs in a Scooby-Doo episode, and the slapdash direction is just as shaggy. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: You'd be better off taking your kid to visit a dog run for a couple of hours. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Firehouse Dog is like that corgi or collie who won't or can't learn a trick. It just lies there, looking cute, gathering fleas. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: In a film that's effectively the canine version of Doc Hollywood, the title character learns to sift false from true values. It's barking up the right tree. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: If there was a good idea at the core of this film, it's been buried in an unsightly pile of flatulence jokes, dog-related bad puns and a ridiculous serial arson plot. Read more
Teresa Budasi, Chicago Sun-Times: Like a loyal pet, Firehouse Dog ends up being a fun family experience all ages will enjoy. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Intertwining more storylines than a dog walker's clutch of leashes, Firehouse Dog nevertheless gets them all neatly resolved, pets in the right hands and wrongdoers in the can. Read more
Anna Smith, Time Out: It may not set the box office on fire, but this canine caper is more agreeable than your average underdog tale. Read more
Erin Clements, Time Out: We're forced to endure plenty of scatological gags and treacly exchanges between Shane and his distant dad as the film imparts an obvious message about the frivolity of stardom. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Firehouse Dog goes into the marginally watchable category, aimed as it is toward the middlebrow family trade, preferably dog owners with their own Sparky slopping up the station wagon windows. Read more