Hotel Bau

With engaging young actors and clever contraptions (and, of course, adorable dogs), it's a pleasant stay

Think of "Hotel for Dogs" as a sort of "Mission: Impossible" with canines . . . without Tom Cruise, or the international intrigue, or those scary, slice-you-up-into-little-bits bad guys. What it is packed with is lots of sneaking around, very cool gadgets, excellent stunts and some clever kids, though not in the precocious, all-adults-are-stupid way.
In the hands of first-time feature director Thor Freudenthal, this whimsical family comedy feels as if it could have been plucked out of the 1950s, before cynicism seriously set in. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4185 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 16 gennaio 2009