Teacher's Pet

Name: Teacher's Pet
Genre: Animation, Family, Music, Comedy, Drama
Released: 16 Jan 2004
Rating: 5.96
Cast: Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Shaun Fleming, Debra Jo Rupp, David Ogden Stiers

Meet Spot, a clever little dog with big dreams of becoming a real boy. When Spot finds out that a crazy scientist can make his wish come true, he takes a cross-country trek with Leonard, his best friend and master, and their mom. However, Dr. Krank's experiments are a little less than perfect, and it will take Leonard and his pet pals to right this genetic wrong.

Year: 2004

Genre: Animation, Family, Music, Comedy, Drama

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Disney Television Animation, Toon City Animation

Director: Timothy Bjorklund

Cast: Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Shaun Fleming, Debra Jo Rupp, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Stiller

Crew: Timothy Bjorklund (Director), Randy Petersen (Songs), Christy Carlson Romano (Theme Song Performance), Kevin Quinn (Songs), Cherie Steinkellner (Songs), Brian Woodbury (Songs)

Runtime: 74 minutes

Release: Jan 16, 2004

IMDb: 5.96/10 by 36 users

Popularity: 1

Country: United States of America

Language: English

Budget: 10,000,000

Revenue: 6,491,969

Keyword : musical, mad scientist, summer vacation, breeding, based on tv series, dog human team

Comment

r96sk 2020, Jul 31

Starts off amusing and quirky, but the novelty very quickly wears off. If you enjoy the television series then I'd imagine you'll connect with this. I haven't seen the aforementioned so wouldn't know, but as a standalone film it's pretty bad. As noted, it does start off weird - in a positive sense - with Nathan Lane pleasing as Spot, even if it's just him playing Timon from 'The Lion King' let's be honest. If you take out Lane it's an irritating set of characters/voices. Away from that, you have the practically nonexistent plot which loses interest with every minute. It would've, at least in my opinion, worked better if they began in the same odd way but then developed an actual plot that's worth following. Unfortunately, they chose the easy way by, I assume, relying heavily on the TV episodes. 'Teacher’s Pet' is not for me, despite the very short run time. I did appreciate the references to other Disney films, though.