Slop.

I definitely saw this movie once or twice as a kid, but I remember less about it than I do Clifford, the 1994 movie also starring Charles Grodin (which despite what you might think, didn't involve a large dog at all).

The only thing I remember about the Beethoven movies is that in one of them,

I think the people who call Hallmark's mass-produced boilerplate Christmas movies fascist propaganda are onto something.

Counterpoint: People would regularly forget their children when leaving on vacation and their children would have to go to war with local crooks

The eternal boomer

“I miss being a kid and therefore we need to genocide the undesirables!” Like that’s it, that’s their underlying villain origin story; they became adults and miss being a kid. Literal disney adults, literal disney adults are running circles around us in politics and the culture wars. It’s so humiliating we’re losing to THAT!

And the FUCKING 70s? That decade sucked ass. I wasn’t there but my dad most certainly was.

This thread reminded me of Beethoven, I know I loved it as a kid. It used to play on the TV around Easter back then, but I remember literally nothing.

So I just rewatched it. It's absolute shit lol. Bottom of the barrel trash movie, no redeeming qualities, just absolute garbage. And I say that as a "dog person" who likes the furry slob that lies next to me on the couch rn

Also no, I deeply doubt this was "the standard" back then either, they live in a picturesque fucking suburb with a huge house, it's obviously the upper end of middle class and not the "standard" life that "they took from you"

Love that he included the 70s in this. Famous era for optimistic, apolitical movies with no sexual or racial themes.

This same mf will call you propagandized about communism as if they aren't the easiest propaganda victim of all time

IT'S A MOVIE WITH THE PREMISE "WHAT IF A DOG WAS BIG AND GROSS?"

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?

yeah he makes a great point, i get all my opinions from 1990s dog movies

the propaganda was so much better back then!

This is recycled 1950s nostalgia based on media for a new generation.

OK, but the 90s was peak time for "Racism is over :)" media???

Anyone remember this

Beethoven

Dog can't talk

Nobody shrinks

Nobody grows giant

No Robin Williams

Dog can't even play basketball

Fuck this shit, I refuse to believe anyone is nostalgic for Beethoven

EDIT: I looked up the plot because I couldn't remember what even happens in this piece of shit movie, and the moral of the story is "animal testing bad" which is so funny because you know these hogs would be baying in a fury if you directly said that to them.

to paraphrase Beethoven: "the dog has been destroyed, due to woke"

After someone made a comment about it I looked it up and damn, this movie made many sequels; there's eight movies total.

Same energy as ~~Sargon of Akkad~~ Carl of Swindon saying that Western Civilisation peaked with Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal

Things you'll see

Dog people
Dog brains

"Beethoven, bite this guy's wiener!!!!!" - The prodigal son of the last great American dynasty

If 90s Animal Movies were thrash bands Beethoven would be Anthrax. That's some below Homeward Bound respect. To even pretend to be in the same realm as Air Bud is just hubris

oh look, francis found his way to 4chan

I liked it when the Jack Russell Terrier bit that guy in the balls. America doesn't make gratuitous nut violence anymore