Old Dogs starred John Travolta and the late Robin Williams and tells the tale of 2 best friends who discover that one of their wives(Williams character Dan)has twins from his ex wife played by Travolta's real wife Kelly Preston.So Dan and his friend (played by Travolta)end up with crazy mayhem throughout and that's pretty much it. The comedy moments were hilarious I remember one scene with Williams character who ends up being tanned after a disastrous run in the salon and he comes out looking like something out of Willy Wonka. Both Travolta and Williams were both very good in this and in real life Travolta struck a friendship with Williams. Overall if you are a fan of Robin Williams and John Travolta than check it out.Bernie Mac also starred in this alongside Matt Dillon and John Travolta's real life daughter Ella Blue Travolta as Robin's daughter.

Sometimes, I thought there were two Robin Williams. There was the one who made "Aladdin," "Hook" and "Mrs. Doubtfire," and one who made "Awakenings," "Bicentennial Man" and "Man of the Year." This movie may belong to the latter one. "Old Dogs" stars Robin Williams and John Travolta who play two entrepreneurs in the middle of a large business deal, but then Williams discovers he has two kids from a wild fling Travolta created a few years earlier. Promising the mother to take care of the kids for two weeks very obviously wrecks their deal, their lives and their bank accounts. It's a plot device we've seen several times before done better in several other movies like "Jungle 2 Jungle" and it ends pretty much the exact same way it always has with the sudden father giving it all up for a life with the kids. There's no new spin, no real jokes and no credibility. In fact, the set-ups to the jokes are predictable. When Williams and Travolta talk about the after-effects of their medications, you can predict they're all going to be mixed up. What the movie does have is a stellar case of celebrity cameos from Seth Green, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston, Dax Shepard, Luis Guzman, Matt Dillon, Justin Long and Ann-Margret. Unfortunately, the cartoonish gags aren't very funny, and the plot isn't believable. At no point does Williams even come close to acting like a father and placing some boundaries on his kids to save himself some grief. However, the movie did do well enough to be called successful so apparently it has enough appeal to kids if not to parents.

Old Dogs is a great family film, as the majority of Amazon reviewers have said. The comedy is obvious, the slapstick infantile and the script isn't Shakespeare. Viewed as such, it's good, modern family fun.Critics always only want to see another Citizen Kane and when they don't they get all huffy and bloated and denounce movies such as this as not worth the little round bits of plastic that DVDs are made from. The drug-swap scene is very obvious but for a ten year old, it's absolutely hilarious.John Travolta and Robin Williams work well together - William's gift for comedy is well known but Travolta's, not, but he does have the knack for it. Like other comedy duos, there's an easy chemistry that cannot be invented by any script or by any director.However, I'm not a family man and watched it as an adult, on my own, so I could see where others would have found it really funny but was less so for me. I'm used to watching deep and meaningful and World cinema films, the sort that do keep the critics in a job but unlike them, I'm thinking outside of their blinkered box and am thinking of others.My three stars are for a film that was funny, but not really worthy of four stars, when you consider that four stars should be reserved for things a bit special.

The only reason I watched this was because Travolta lives in my town so I wanted to see if he was any good at acting. It HAS to be a far cry less than his best work considering his popularity. Ella Bleu Travolta actually did very well portraying her character as Kelly Preston's daughter (their child in real life) but then again, she's a little one so there wasn't much acting involved. Robin Williams was excellent as usual and added light hearted excitement throughout the film. Toward the end of the film there's a zoo scene where a child's party is taking place. Travolta, Williams want to get inside to the event but they go to extremes to try to do so. You'll have to watch it to see if they make it in :) anyway, rather than going to such extremes, why not simply call Preston (the mother) to let them in since they obviously also went to extremes to even arrive?? Cell phones exist in this movie world or something? In my opinion it was poorly written, Preston STILL hasn't gained any acting skills since her sexpot scene in Twins & it felt as though all the ponzi scheme scientologists got together, begged Williams to help & put together a film in 3 days. Definitely not for the intellectual, but probably will buy you an hour or so of quiet if rented for the kids.