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Title: Parade of cliches
Review: I was prepared to like this movie more than I did. I love animals and, well, with "Skip" in the title, I expected a lot of cute animal stuff. Well, it was there, but it wasn't nearly enough. Roger Ebert raved about this movie; it's obvious now that his love for his childhood pet grossly clouded his usual Pulitzer prize-winning judgment. This movie is a compendium of tired cliches. The voice-over narration is truly laughable. I suppose the "messages" are "meaningful" if you've never seen any other movies. But if you have, you'll cringe at the ham-handed efforts of this movie to be "deep." This is a movie with a well-intended heart, a heck of a dog as the lead pet, but short of execution. Don't buy this DVD - rent it (at most).
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