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Teacher's Pet (2004)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:53
Rotten:18
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Despite its short running time, Teacher's Pet is a witty and irreverent family film.
Runtime: 74 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: Nathan Lane hams it up beautifully in this animated film version of the Disney/ABC TV series. He provides the voice for Spot, a talking dog who longs to be a boy so much that he even dresses up as... Nathan Lane hams it up beautifully in this animated film version of the Disney/ABC TV series. He provides the voice for Spot, a talking dog who longs to be a boy so much that he even dresses up as one so he can accompany his owner Leonard (Shaun Fleming) to school, where he gets the best grades in the class. Fast-paced fun abounds here, with plenty of sly humor geared to the parents in the audience. The truly strange storyline follows Spot down to Florida where he gets himself genetically transformed into a human at the hands of controversial "wacko," Dr. Crank (Kelsey Grammar). The trouble is, he becomes a man, not a boy, and the lunacy reaches peak heights when Leonard's mom falls in love with the new dog-man. This creates all sorts of bizarre emotional havoc for Leonard, as he realizes his own pooch might become his step-dad. Meanwhile Dr. Crank is in hot pursuit, determined to take "Spot" with him on a world tour. There's plenty of zippy, irreverent musical numbers, and it all goes speeding by so fast and fresh it's nearly impossible to catch all the details in one viewing. The animation bursts off the screen in bright colors. Lane is consistently inventive and hilarious. And the supporting voices are all terrific--Paul Reubens plays one of Crank's earlier experiments gone wrong (a dim-witted alligator boy), and Barry Stiller plays a tough-talking parrot. [More]
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Nathan Lane, Debra Jo Rupp, David Ogden Stiers
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Nathan Lane, Debra Jo Rupp, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Stiller, Paul Reubens, Megan Mullally, Rob Paulsen, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, Jay Thomas, Shaun Fleming
Director: Timothy Bjorklund
Director: Timothy Bjorklund
Screenwriter: Bill Steinkellner, Cheri Steinkellner
Producer: Stephen Swofford
Composer: Stephen James Taylor
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
Reviews for Teacher's Pet
Gary Baseman's Emmy-winning cartoon series arrives on the big screen in a delightful blast of bold drawing, brainy humor, and hard-charging songs.
May not be a Disney classic, but it's certainly unique enough to warrant at least a rental, if not a spot in the permanent library.
If nothing else inventive, at the very least perverse, and at moments transcendently bizarre.
Disney's Teacher's Pet is a zippy animated feature with some clever musical numbers about a dog who wants to be a boy.
Delightful, giggle-inducing movie that will amuse kids with its quirky drawing style and outlandish action, while entertaining their parents with fast-paced, clever dialogue.
As CGI cartooning takes over the world Teacher's Pet finds a fresh and frisky approach to doing things the old, Walt way.
While an absurdity or two can be tolerated and cartoon physics is perfectly okay in this sort of thing, the simple fact is that the illogical plotholes generally hurt the movie.
What the film lacks in graphic sophistication it makes up for in visual imagination, especially in several exuberant musical numbers.
Occasionally clever, but unworthy of being the swan song of Disney's hand-drawn animation department. Too loud, screeching and annoying.
The standard I-gotta-be-me theme and Broadway-show packaging of Disney’s animated output gets a snarky makeover...
Fast, fresh, frenetic...Teacher’s Pet is a great way to spend seventy-odd minutes -- whether or not you’ve got kids in tow.
At home, the movie will probably play like the pleasantly dull video babysitter it is. As a big-screen feature, however, it just feels superfluous.
While Teacher's Pet lacks big-budget majesty, it has humor and heart.
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