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The Shaggy D.A.
1976 NR
COMEDY 1h 31min
CAST— Dean Jones, Suzanne
Pleshette, Tim Conway, Keenan Wynn, Jo Anne Worley, Dick Van Patton
MUSIC— Buddy Baker DIRECTOR— Robert Stevenson
More shape-shifting shenanigans, shaggy
dog style. Dean Jones takes up the role of Wilby Daniels in this Disney sequel,
and he has more on his mind than Annette Funicello. This time around he has an
agenda: clean up the streets of his hometown by campaigning for the office of District
Attorney, thereby casting out the current D.A., the corrupt Keenan Wynn. But
the fur begins to fly when small time crooks pilfer the Borgia ring, the
original ring that started it all; when the inscription is read Jones
transforms into said shaggy sheepdog, with embarrassing results. Some amusing
gags are scattered among the standard dog-on-the-loose fodder, but you can’t
help but feel the padding, especially when the filmmakers result to a pie fight
for laughs. Woof.
OUR RATING— **
PRECEDED BY— The Shaggy Dog
(1959)
FOLLOWED BY— The Return of the
Shaggy Dog (1994)
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