Purely Joyful Movie!

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This is truly one of the worst movies I have ever watched. I can only think of one thats even worse: Beethoven 4th! Bad actors, bad script, everything about this movie is stupid. Too immature for my kids. They had trouble watching it!

I'm at a loss to understand the hate directed at Beethoven's 3rd. The previous editions weren't exactly Citizen Kane this one keeps to the same standard, it's not so much horribly worse. In fact I found it entertaining.A different set of Newtons have temporary custody of the ungainly St.Bernard. Judge Reinhold has taken Beethoven from his brother and he plans to attend the Newton family reunion in Southern California. What would be better than a nice trip in a motor home but of course Beethoven would have to be kenneled. Beethoven has other ideas.The film follows closely along National Lampoon's Vacation with a whole lot of the same kind of situations. Poor Reinhold figures to relive the memory of a trip he took with his parents and he really does.What the parents didn't have is a couple of hackers on their trail doing a little espionage. Michael Ciccolini and Jamie Marsh are trying to retrieve a disc they put into a case at a Blockbuster like store that contains some secret codes. A movie no one was supposed to rent, but the Newtons did rent. These two are the funniest thing in the film.With the presence of video rental stores, the film has already dated itself. Good while they lasted, I know someone who lost considerable money in a mom and pop like operation of one. He lost out to Blockbuster and now Blockbuster is pretty well gone as well. Nothing that horrible about Beethoven's 3rd as opposed to its predecessors.

To say this is not a patch on the first two Beethovens is a simplistic understatement. Whoever put up the money to make this ghastly waste of space must have been barking mad. The "best" of the puerile toilet gags that litter the film involve exploding sewage outlets (all over the bad guys, naturally); the eponymous pooch farting after an overdose of eggs; and the dog licking a gigantic ball of earwax. The plot is daft and the baddies so stupid you almost feel sorry for them. The only ray of light (for us girls, anyway) is a drop-dead gorgeous cop right near the end of the film, providing the excuse for the inevitable car chase. But even he doesn't make it worth wasting time or money on this one.

In this movie Beethoven meets a skunk that makes him stink for about five minutes of screen time. That makes him about one of the best smelling things with this movie. (small spoiler) The bad guys make the Wet Bandits from Home Alone look good. How can these idiots be smart enough to burn a DVD?