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Teacher's Pet
Teacher's Pet

6.0

Teacher's Pet

PG·2004·74m

Summary

Meet Spot, a clever little dog with big dreams of becoming a real boy. When Spot finds out that a crazy scientist can make his wish come true, he takes a cross-country trek with Leonard, his best friend and master, and their mom. However, Dr. Krank's experiments are a little less than perfect, and it will take Leonard and his pet pals to right this genetic wrong.

Crew

Director

Timothy Bjorklund

Screenplay

Cherie Steinkellner

Screenplay

Bill Steinkellner

Reviews

r96sk

r96sk

July 31, 2020

5

Starts off amusing and quirky, but the novelty very quickly wears off.

If you enjoy the television series then I'd imagine you'll connect with this. I haven't seen the aforementioned so wouldn't know, but as a standalone film it's pretty bad.

As noted, it does start off weird - in a positive sense - with Nathan Lane pleasing as Spot, even if it's just him playing Timon from <em>'The Lion King'</em> let's be honest. If you take out Lane it's an irritating set of characters/voices. Away from that, you have the practically nonexistent plot which loses interest with every minute.

It would've, at least in my opinion, worked better if they began in the same odd way but then developed an actual plot that's worth following. Unfortunately, they chose the easy way by, I assume, relying heavily on the TV episodes.

<em>'Teacher’s Pet'</em> is not for me, despite the very short run time. I did appreciate the references to other Disney films, though.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$10,000,000.00

Revenue:

$6,491,969.00

Keywords

musical
mad scientist
summer vacation
breeding
based on tv series
dog human team