BEETHOVEN'S 5TH (2003) **1/2 .and they would have got away with it too, if it weren't for them meddling kids. By far the best of the Beethoven dog movies-and the only one not irritating to watch-this attains a splendour somewhere along the magnitude of a lesser Scooby-Doo (a far superior franchise) mystery. For dog movies, the early films have typically been ruined by idiotic adults. Here a semblance of agreeableness, if not elegance, is sustained by Dave Thomas heading a cast of familiar faces from the better television programs of earlier decades: Katherine Helmond, Faith Ford, John Larroquette, Tom Poston. Wacky locals abound. I have to admit that faced with the dilemma that someone was faced with, I would have named this segment A Fifth of Beethoven and had the protagonist setting forth from Lynchburg, Tennessee armed with small barrels around his neck in order to save cool people in distress. But this is a good story line, too, so good that it would then assume the sixth position in my Beethoven canon.
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