Product Details

• Actors: Robert Hays, Mel Harris, Betty White, Robert Wagner
• Directors: Paul Schneider
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Gaiam
• DVD Release Date: September 11, 2007
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000R7G6HM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,004 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Retrievers" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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RETRIEVERS - DVD Movie

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cute dogs but TERRIBLE movie!, July 8, 2008

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Jason Bourne "Laurie" (South Jordan, UT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Retrievers (DVD)

As a dog lover, I feel really bad being critical of a family oriented movie that is about dogs.... but unfortunately, this movie is really terrible. I give it one star for the cute dogs, and that's it. The dogs aren't really even IN the movie that much... they don't actually DO anything. I guess I could have tolerated that, if the rest of the movie were worth watching. Sadly, it isn't... even worse, there are so many poor examples set in the movie that I didn't really even like having my kids watch it! First of all, the kids are terribly bratty. They find a dog, decide to keep her, then find out she is expecting puppies. She has the puppies, and when the time comes to find homes for them, the kids are upset that they have to get rid of them (understandably, of course.... but MOST people do NOT keep an entire litter of puppies just because the kids don't want to part with them....LOL). So, various people come to look at and pick a puppy. The kids treat them terribly, acting like spoiled brats... and the parents do NOTHING. So, the puppies go to different homes... granted, at least one of them is not for the best, a couple of young guys who don't seem the least bit ready to take responsibility for two puppies (but at this point, the 'reasonable' thing to do would have been to deny them the puppies). So, kids are sad.... dog seems sad, runs away, but is found and it is decided that she is 'looking for' her puppies. For some reason, the dad decides he made a mistake, and should have let the kids keep all the puppies (huh??), and the best thing to do is to try and get the puppies back (again, huh??). So, one by one, they track down the owners, one of which is happy to give the puppy back because it is too much trouble, but the others, I can't believe they are even ASKING to have the puppies back!! (Except for one... where the family/kids are obviously very attached, and providing a good home.... and I admit, if they had gone ahead and asked for that puppy back, I would have yanked the disc out of the dvd player and taken a hammer to it!). In one case, the owner doesn't seem to be home, so the family somehow decides it is okay to break into the house and make themselves comfortable, eating snacks, while waiting for the owner to get home, so they can 'ask' for their puppy back!! I have to be honest, at this point, I stopped watching... my kids had lost interest as well, and after a while, we just turned the movie off. So, it might have had a redeeming ending, but I doubt it. (Forgot to mention, while all this is going on, the dad is torn between his new job, and his demanding family.... and makes just as many poor decisions in his career as he does with his family.)
So, to sum things up... I was surprised at how much this movie actually bothered me. It wasn't just that it was boring, or that the story line wasn't that great. It was filled with one example after another, of ridiculous behavior, by the kids and the parents. I actually found myself telling my kids (over and over) that this was ONLY a movie and the things that were happening, and the way the kids were behaving would OF COURSE be unacceptable in our home.
I've seen many kid/family movies that are just 'okay'. Movies that are very predictable, fairly cheesy, with sub-par acting.... but kid-friendly and somewhat enjoyable to watch. THIS is NOT one of them. As I said, the puppies are cute, but aren't even a big enough part of the movie to make it worth watching for the puppies. So, if you want to watch a movie with your kids that shows them poor examples of almost everything, then this is your movie!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Certainly not what I expected, July 26, 2009

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John's Mommy (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Retrievers (DVD)

The local christian book store had this on sale for $5...how could I go wrong? Well, my son didn't even want to watch the whole thing. Although the pups are cute, it is very slow moving. He loves animals, but shows no interest in finding out what happens in the end. The sibling rivalry, name calling, greedy attitudes and sexually charged scenes are not recommended for a family movie at my house. We'll stick to our Space Buddies movie!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars GIVE THE DOG A BONE, September 24, 2005

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Retrievers (DVD)

It's hard to diss a movie made for Animal Planet about a loving dog and its adorable puppies. Suffice to say, THE RETRIEVERS is a movie that even kids might find hard to sit through. Although the dogs are beautiful and the pups cute, they don't DO anything. The movie instead focuses on the humans and they aren't the most engaging of people either. Robert Hays (Airplane, Angie) plays an ad exec who tiring of the rat's race in NYC moves to a little community where he is immediately plunged back into the rat race courtesy of a billionaire client (played somnambulently by Robert Wagner). His adoring wife (Mel Harris, whatever happened to thirtysomething?) meanwhile monitors the precocious and whining children who take in a female golden retriever who happens to have six puppies. Daddy Hays decides they can't keep the pups so they are reluctantly given new homes to such people as Betty White and Leon Russom. The rest of the movie has the kids and parents trying to get the pups back and Dad trying to nail the account. Hays and Harris perform with little energy and the pacing is so slow that it will take a really attentive youngster to stay with it.