Nothing super fantastic but this film holds on its comedic value. Seems also good for an evening easy with the girlfriend. Tom Hanks definitely had the chops and shines even in this romance. Bravo!

Turner & Hooch is a hilarious film. This film has excellent acting by Tom Hanks as Scott Turner, Mare Winningham as Emily Carlson, Reginald Veljohnson as David Sutton, Scott Paulin as Zack Gregory and J.C Quinn as Walter Boyett. This film is a great film to watch and I find it very entertaining and funny. I just don't know why this film got a rating of 6.1 out of 10, man that is low it deserves and should have been given a higher rating. This film which was a cop comedy wasn't as good as Beverly Hills Cop which was excellent but it definitely was a very good film. Rating: 8.7 out of 10

Turner and Hooch is an underrated forgotten gem from the late 1980's. Tom Hanks plays clean cut police detective Scott Turner whom is nearly finishing up his last shifts in his quiet old town and he will transfer to the big city. He has to then postpone his trip due to the untimely death of an old man and foul play is suspected. A junkyard dog 'Hooch' is the closest thing to a witness but he is being threatened to be put down unless Scott takes in him. Overall this movie is funny but has great heart. You get to see Turner progress from an anal-tentive, uptight, by the book cop to a laid backed, relaxed, Casanova. This is a great film for the whole family however there may be some frightening scenes for younger children. Please give this great forgotten film a chance.

This film had its ups and downs, it opened the same year as the Jim Belushi dog/cop movie "K-9" and while this one performed better than that movie I prefer it to this one. This one had its charms, but overall I think it suffers from a weak plot device to get the dog in Hanks' character possession. While in "K-9" it made perfect sense, Belushi's character needed a drug sniffing dog and he ended up with his. In this one though the dog's owner is killed and Hanks takes the dog in the hopes it will somehow identify the killer. Granted it is a movie, but it is still a bit far fetched that this cop would think a dog is his best lead to catch a killer, and it seems even more implausible that a super neat person would take this super messy dog into his home. Still, it makes from some funny scenes here and there with a rather funny scene where the dog is wrecking the house while poor Hanks is out spending a ton of money on said dog for chew toys and such. There is also a rather funny stake out scene too. The film sometimes loses its luster with a few to many needless characters such as Reginald VelJohnson. I like the guy in "Die Hard", but here he is just another person to take away screen time from Hanks and the dog. There are a few other pointless people in this as well, and this has a rather bad ending in my opinion as well (sorry, but dogs do not have perfect clone puppies like that). Overall, I say this was an okay film, just not nearly as good to my as "K-9".