Variety
"...[Duncan provides] genuinely amusing moments....[Bibb is] pleasant..." 02/26/2001 p.40New York Times
"...SEE SPOT RUN has some cute sight gags, and Mr. Arquette's Gordon, with his Cheshire Cat grin and cross-eyed daffiness, is a bouncing, break-dancing bubble of helium..." 03/02/2001 p.E22 Box Office
"...Entertaining....This crowd-pleaser is filled with laughs..." 05/01/2001 p.61 Sight and Sound
"...There's an intensity and derangement to Arquette's performance persona that mark him as a true heir to the mysterious legacy of Andy Kaufman..." 06/01/2001 p.52-3 PopMatters 7 of 10
See Spot Run begins just like Lethal Weapon or any one of its 1001 clones. The camera speeds over a cityscape and an intensive drumbeat fills the soundtrack...But what See Spot Run lacks in complexity, it makes up in hysterical energy, spilling out as a series of fast episodes more than scenes that build to a point. Former tv director John Whitesell (The John Laroquette Show, Roseanne) fills up most of the film's running time with broad, Farrelly brothers-style slapstick, as well as ripping off ideas from obvious precursors like Turner & Hooch and K-9...By the time the film ends, everyone -- and I mean everyone -- has been humiliated, abused, and generally reduced to Gordon's level of inanity. Which means, I guess, that they all deserve each other. - Cynthia Fuchs
FilmHead.com 5 of 10
See Spot. See Spot Run. Run Spot, Run! The words of a legendary author -- made anonymous over the years, like the many rabbis and monks who wrote the Bible. The refrains of Dick, Jane, and their canine friend, Spot, resonate through the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world. Such great literature can never be properly adapted for the screen, and we are fortunate that the makers of See Spot Run did not attempt anything so bold...The story they tell is one of flatulence and excrement, and ultimately of love and acceptance...I was shocked at the amount of violence against animals depicted in the film, with some scenes causing me and other adults in the theatre to audibly gasp. The kids, having grown up with the Home Alone series, are used to this level of violence by the age of six. A responsible parent should not continue this ritual of desensitizing, and shun this film altogether. - Matt Heffernan
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