BEETHOVEN (1992) ** I would think that it's not the work of Chuck Berry that makes Beethoven roll over in his grave, but being associated in any way with a Charles Grodin dog movie in which Grodin isn't cast as the dog. Nonetheless, Grodin has a marketable skill-although there's nothing humorous about him, personally, when he's irritated, there is something funny about irritating him-and here it's played to the best possible effect. Which isn't all that much, really, but there's also a very cool Saint Bernard. Dean Jones is incredible as the gutter-voiced evil veterinarian, but who was on what when they cast him as bad and Grodin as good. It must be one of those wild artistic chances that hacks are always talking about taking. In any event it pretty much works, but the artistic result isn't such that it will make you forget, you know...Beethoven. Aw, man, see, now I've fallen in and they have me doing it.
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