The Dog is the Best Actor

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2002)

The movie is good fun. Special effects predominate, and take over any script or acting that could have been there. There are funny moments, but the movie would have been a lot funnier and more interesting with more human interaction and more funny lines, and fewer monsters and effects. Hey, I don't want to bring down the stock in Industrial Light and Magic, but special effects are not so special- a little goes a loooooong way!

Will Smith is cool and funny. Tommy Lee Smith is deadpan as a post office worker who is really an alien. This movie explains what is actually going on when you go to the post office and wait forever while everyone working there looks dazed. On the monster side, there is Lara Flynn Boyle, who is way too skinny and with pounds of makeup on, she looks like an evil medusa. But it's the dog that has the best lines and who is the best actor! I always laugh when I see animals in clothes, and this dog in his little Men in Black suit is funny!