Oh! Heavenly Dog
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Movie Reviews of Oh! Heavenly Dog
Movie Review: Oh! Heavenly Dog
Summary: 5 Stars
Great buy fast shipping. I'm not a big Chevy Chase fan but this is one of the exceptions. Benji steals the movie with Jane Seymour. Fantastic picture to show with kids that are on the edge of adult hood. Having Benji in the picture was probably the greatest accomplishment.Movie Review: Old Favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie. One of my all time favorites and how can you go wrong with Chevy Chase and Benji? I watched this movie when I was a little girl and now my girls are watching it. My 6 year old also loves it and Benji is still lovable after all these years.Movie Review: heavenly good
Summary: 5 Stars
Chevy Chase is just amazing. his presence and his voice in this case are High Caliber. If you want to enjoy a nice detective story which joins Chevy chase as a detectiv, and later on Benji as Chevy Chase's reincarnation, watch this movie. heavenly goodMovie Review: Oh! Heavenly Dog
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie!
It is rather old, but definitely one of the favourite movies in our family collection!
Movie Review: "I don't like being cute. I don't like being fluffy. And I want some friggin' hands!"
Summary: 4 Stars
Case folks forgot, Chevy Chase was huge in the way back days, when he left Saturday Night Live to go do movies. A few years on top in the early '80s, yep, but then it was mostly downhill for the lazy, silly gent ever since. I can count on one hand the number of films that I really like in Chevy Chase's "oeuvre." Somewhere on that short list is OH HEAVENLY DOG, a fun mystery/fantasy picture I saw when I was a kid. It's got Chevy Chase's trademark wry one-liners and a bit of that Heaven Can Wait flavor. And it's got one of my boyhood crushes, Jane Seymour, in it, and she as ever looks stunning. And yet, despite these pluses, I can't deny that OH HEAVENLY DOG very much falls into that guilty pleasure category. I like the product, but it's a flawed product.
I dig the premise: An American private eye toiling on a case in rain-soaked London gets himself killed but is then sent back to solve his own murder. Except that he's sent back in the body of a mongrel dog. Jane Seymour plays a writer researching her first book, and she promptly gets caught up in a political scandal. A murderer lurks (it's really easy to figure out the bad guy), and this sinister bloke is quite desperate to keep the cover-up going, and this eventually places the writer in mortal jeopardy. So, cute and fluffy to the rescue. It's a hoot watching the bad guy come to a cold realization that the main threat to his deviously orchestrated schemes just may be a small, lovable mutt. Just check out his expression when he spies on the dog dialing a telephone...
There's a bit of a jarring element with OH HEAVENLY DOG in that Benji is normally featured in wholesome family flicks. This picture, while pretty inoffensive, does offer some PG-13 language and moments of sexual innuendos. So it's not quite ideal for kids, although they'll certainly wow over all the four-pawed cuteness. On the other hand, this film isn't edgy enough and the dog is onscreen too much and performs way too much to really qualify as a straight-up grown-up film. So it's somewhere in that in-between limbo, although it certainly falls closer to a kid's sensibilities. I heard this bombed in the box office, and I can't help but think that partly it's because it tried to cater too much to both the child and the adult. The mystery itself is certainly more adult-oriented.
All seven fans of Chevy Chase should know that their dude is only in the film for the first 22 minutes and then in two more scenes after that. Mostly it's Benji romping around chasing clues, befuddling the bad guy, and occasionally indulging in a bubble bath with Jane Seymour, with Chase providing voice support throughout all this. At this stage in his film career, Chase wasn't yet as vacuous or irritating as he was going to get. So what we have here is a more restrained, more enjoyable Chevy Chase. Meanwhile, Jane Seymour is simply marvelous and very beautiful - and how can a movie not take on a romantic feel once she walks in front of a camera? As a counterpoint, Omar Sharif is great at looking as if he's about to go down with angry apoplexy (but a dog effing up your evil day might have that effect).
I have to say I'm a little fed up with seeing Heaven portrayed as a bureaucracy, and while the lightsaber scene may have seemed a neat moment back in 1980, nowadays it just falls flat and even dated. And I love this movie, but I do agree that at times it does crawl along at a tedious pace.
The DVD I have has the full-screen presentation, with the wide-screen version on the flipside. Its not so special features consist of trailers for other kid-friendly films and the trailer for OH HEAVENLY DOG with someone who sounds like Rod Serling providing the voicework.
I mentioned earlier that I can count on one hand the number of Chevy Chase films that I like. These movies happen to be Foul Play, Seems Like Old Times, Fletch (The "Jane Doe" Edition), Memoirs of an Invisible Man, National Lampoon's Vacation (20th Anniversary Special Edition), and, of course, OH HEAVENLY DOG. Now just don't ask me how many fingers I have on my hand.