Rover Dangerfield (1991)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Directors:

James L. George
Bob Seeley

Writers:

Rodney Dangerfield (story) &
Harold Ramis (story) ...

Release Date:

2 August 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Comedy

Tagline:

You'll laugh! You'll sing! You'll dance! You'll sit up and beg for more!

Plot:

A Vegas show dog gets ditched in the sticks and ends up working on a farm.

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Farm | Las Vegas | Boyfriend | Gambling

Cast

Rodney Dangerfield	...	Rover Dangerfield (voice)
Ronnie Schell	...	Eddie (voice)
Ned Luke	...	Raffles (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Heidi Banks	...	Katie (voice)
Eddie Barth	...	Champ (voice)
Bob Bergen	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Gregg Berger	...	Cal (voice)
Dennis Blair	...	Lem (voice)
Mel Blanc	...	Daffy Duck / Bugs Bunny (voice) (archive footage)
Susan Boyd	...	Daisy (voice)
Owen Bush	...	Fisherman #2 (voice)
Louise Chamis	...	Farmer (voice)
Lara Cody	...	Gigi / Chorus Girl (voice)
Bernard Erhard	...	Wolf (voice)
Bill Farmer	...	Farmer (voice)
Barbara Goodson	...	Farmer (voice)
Dana Hill	...	Danny (voice)
Bert Kramer	...	Max (voice)
Sal Landi	...	Rocky (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Chicken / Turkey (voice)
Danny Mann	...	Wolf (voice)
Ralph Monaco	...	Truck Driver (voice)
Patricia Parris	...	Farmer (voice)
Robert Pine	...	Duke (voice)
Burton Sharp	...	Farmer (voice)
Michael Sheehan	...	Jose / Sheep (voice)
Shawn Southwick	...	Connie (voice)
Don Stewart	...	Clem (voice)
Ron Taylor	...	Bruno (voice)
Paxton Whitehead	...	Count (voice)

Runtime:

74 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:G | USA:G

Company:

Hyperion Pictures

Trivia:

When Rover sees the roses that he gives Connie as her birthday present, you can see directly behind him on the wall a picture of Rodney Dangerfield under the words: Appearing Now. Rodney Dangerfield is the voice of Rover and he wrote the story for the movie.

Quotes:

[about playing fetch]
Rover Dangerfield: He throws a stick, you run and get it, you bring it back and he throws it again! I don't get it! I mean, what's the point?
Raffles: Because it makes them happy and it gives them lots of exercise
Rover Dangerfield: If they want exercise, let them run and get it.
Raffles: So what should I do?
Rover Dangerfield: It's very simple. You do nothing.

Movie Connections:

Features Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953)

Soundtrack:

Merrily We Roll Along

Proves that Dangerfield is versatile

This quality children's animated flick shows how versatile Dangerfield can be. Ask most stand-up comedians known for being on the dirty side to write a G-rated screenplay and they wouldn't at all know how to go about it. But Dangerfield does, in this good (but not great) comic and somewhat chessy and predictable, but that's par for all kid flicks, film. Good songs include "It's a dog's life and I love it" and the amusing "I'll never do it on a Christmas tree". Great looking animation of Dangerfield as a dog, and the best K-9 one-liners