How a family comedy about a drooling dog quietly transforms into a corporate-funded animal murder thriller. A Simple Family ...

Now that Universal Studios has gone into the fantasy park business in a big way, it could use a mascot or two of the lovable, furry variety to compete with Disney`s roster of cartoon characters.

“Beethoven” divides the world into two elementary, unbridgeable halves: those who are owned by dogs and those who are not. If you’ve never spent the night with a fat beagle rammed up against you, and ...

The director made his debut on the awful “Problem Child 2” and the hero is a very shaggy dog. But happily, “Beethoven” is never dah-dah-dah-dum. The worse that can be said for this family comedy ...