Roger Spottiswoode's Turner & Hooch is what happens when the book Save the Cat! writes a screenplay. You can see all of the plot threads coming and when they arrive they do so with an audible clunk. The characters all seem like screenwriting exercises in exaggeration: they all have one or two distinct personality types that dictate everything about them. The film itself is cliché and sorta blasé. Sure, the scene where Hooch dies is heart-breaking, but so is every other scene in movies where dogs die. The best scenes are the ones where Tom Hanks is allowed to be himself. The best part of the movie is this running joke where everybody in town knows him on a first-name basis. The best scene is one where Hanks apparently ad-libs a whole bunch of nonsense towards Hooch during a stake-out. The line about his drool being "industrial lubricant" was legitimately funny.
5/10
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