![]() The idea of someone doing that to entertain children is funny but the song has very highly inappropriate and suggestive lyrics. The mom briefly tries to go back to work with her husband at his request and they hire a babysitter who is extremely irresponsible and the youngest daughter drowns in her swimming pool outside until Beethoven saves her from drowning.Īdditionally the babysitter wants to entertain the children by playing music and wants to play something modern they will enjoy and plays the song Lady Marmalade on an organ while the kids sing along to it. Again this is not the fault of either Grodin or Bonnie Hunt who plays his wife, this is the fault of the screenwriting. Again that approach would work in a dark drama or horror film but not a film for families and children.Īdditionally although the parents have their good qualities and Grodin as the father becomes a better person as the film goes along, I feel the parents here are portrayed as irresponsible and frankly even a little dumb. Given the fact that this film and several Home Alone films were both written by John Hughes you would think Hughes would incorporate the same goofiness and entertaining qualities in these villians as he did to the ones in Home Alone but I guess this time he wanted to be different and have them be darker and even scarier. More humor with them and goofiness I feel would have been very necessary especially in a comedy for families and children. That's the way the villians are portrayed here. Without that they just come across as total unpleasant creeps that would belong more in an adult drama or horror film. Villians need to have a quality about them in a comedy that even if you absolutely hate them you can still be entertained by them. In Home Alone the villians never seemed overly threatening because they were very stupid and were too over the top and silly that even when it looked like something really bad could happen we knew it never would because they were too dumb to really get away with it. They are not funny, and are most likely to frighten very small viewers. There is nothing likable about these villians. I dont object to having villians in a comedy but in order for it to work especially in a family comedy there has to be an appealing silliness about them to balance out how bad they really are. ![]() However like so many films from this era that we loved as children I am sad to report that this one also has its inappropriate moments that flew over our heads as little ones.įor starters the bad guy vet played by Dean Jones (who ironically was known before this as a main protagonist in many live action Disney films) as well as his two henchmen played by Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt are pretty scary guys who abuse and attempt to kill animals. It holds up very well for a family film that is now 30 years old and very little if anything at all seems dated. ![]() Like other actors who retire he did eventually come back to acting later on in life.Īdmiring the main star and remembering my fondness for the first two films as a child I was very excited to rewatch this and was happy it was on Peacock to stream. He had a very hit and miss career by the time this film was made but this and its sequel were considered a comeback for him before he retired from acting for a while to be a television host. I remember watching it multiple times in the 90s on VHS along with its sequel that came out a year later.Īs an adult I started to appreciate the other work of Charles Grodin. This is one of my favorite childhood films of all time. When trying to expand his business, the dad says that if the deal doesn't go through, "I'll kill myself." To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. There's some sexual innuendo - Beethoven gets into bed with the father and starts licking the back of his head thinking it's his wife, he starts to moan with pleasure and says, "is Daddy's little girl being naughty?" After each family member writes down the name they want to give the dog after he turns up in their home, it's strongly implied that the youngest girl, maybe 5 years old, has written down a bad word. Beethoven is almost killed by a villain who abuses animals in the name of research, and is shown punching Beethoven in the head. A veterinarian and his henchman run a stolen dog ring in the interests of trying to test how destructive and "messy" a bullet is when fired at point-blank range. A young girl nearly drowns before she is rescued by Beethoven. ![]() Everyone in the family cheers when the father hits a villain. A bespectacled youngster is physically and verbally bullied until he stands up to the bullies with the help of Beethoven. Bernard who prevents and causes trouble for a suburban family. Parents need to know that Beethoven is a 1992 comedy about an oversized St. ![]()
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