Product Description

The Newton family is trying valiantly to manage life with the larger-than-life Beethoven, while Richard (Judge Reinhold) has become a work-at-home Dad and Beth (Julia Sweeney) heads back to the office. Richard's work and Beth's new work wardrobe are toast in the presence of the giant paws and non-stop drool of the well-meaning but destructively demonstrative Beethoven, and the kids (Joe Pichler and Michaela Gallo) desperately try to save the day with obedience training. The results are disastrous at first, but seem to miraculously take hold when a mix-up at the park switches Beethoven with his dead-ringer Michelangelo, an overly well-bred show dog from the upwardly-repressed Sedgewick family manor. Chandelier-rattling chaos at the Sedgewick's and a strangely unwelcome quiet at the Newton's create huge problems that only the big-hearted St. Bernhard can lick.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53610 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-12-04
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Amazon.com
Married couple Judge Reinhold and Julia Sweeney host the unkempt Saint Bernard in this fourth go-round of the canine comedy franchise. The pair and their two children are dog-sitting in their pleasant suburban home--made predictably less pleasant by their toilet-water-slurping, steak-stealing guest. Meanwhile, across town, a rich couple and their lonely daughter have their own problems when their identical-looking Saint Bernard, Michelangelo, is kidnapped by their double-crossing butler.

Of course, the switch is inevitable in this Prince and the Pauper with dogs, landing the meat-crazed Beethoven in the vegetarian dog's silk-sheeted bed and vice versa. Many drool jokes later, the dogs return to their rightful homes, the rich couple learns to cavort, and Reinhold and Sweeney learn to love Beethoven's uncouthness. You expected a different ending? This 90-minute sequel provides inoffensive and mildly amusing entertainment for ages 4 to about 12. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Customer Reviews

A Very Good Movie!
This movie tells a story about how a mibehaved St. Bernard named Beethoven. His masters didn't believe he was very obedient so two of the kids sent him to obedience school. In the park, he runs off to a hotdog stand. Another St. Bernard(from a very rich family) named Micheal Angelo ran from a kidnapper. Thus, the two kids got Micheal Angelo and the rich family got Beethoven.

If you're wondering what else happens, get the movie! It's a good movie. It's great for dog lovers who are looking for a funny comedy.

What were they thinking!
I bought this for my three year old son. He loved it and would beg to watch it. Shame on me for not reviewing it first! It's rated G so I figured it would be fine. WRONG!! As I am driving my son to school one day (at our church), he is talking to himself in the back seat. I thought I heard him say "What the hell?" I blew it off thinking, certainly not, he couldn't know that phrase. A couple of days later, I walk into my bedroom where he is watching Beethoven and I was shocked to hear one of the characters saying the exact phrase "what the hell". And, my son repeats it again as I am standing there in shock. Needless to say, Beethoven has never been watched again.

ugh
I liked the original Newton familt better like in 1 and 2. then at 3 there is a whole different family and they make the excuse that the old newton family needed them to watch beetoven and they would pick him up at the reunion. but they dont show up so they get to "keep" beetoven until the next runion. i wish they just kept the original family. what about all of the puppies??