The third "Beethoven" - superfluous or no? I’ll never forget watching the second installment of the franchise on TV with my grandmother and laughing throughout the film, even though my grandmother doesn’t like America. I was just as funny watching the first movie on DVD because we never got to the first movie on TV. At the same time, I had the chance to watch the triquel, it was at a time when I was not particularly versed in the quality of the picture, and was not demanding on films, and I had nowhere to find out that the first two parts of Beethoven were in theaters, and all subsequent came out immediately on video, and what it means. But even then, I noted that the third part lags behind the first two not only in the sense that we were not shown the beloved Newton family, but all the characters are different. I perfectly saw that in the triquel more stupid humor (however, I laughed more than once, but not as in the second part). And so, less than a year ago, I decided to revisit the first three parts to look at them with different eyes, because time had passed, I grew up and began to understand cinema. The first two parts did not disappoint me. The third made it clear that this is another hoax that little-known directors allow themselves to make films for small amounts for release immediately on video or for broadcasting on TV. Actually, the triquel is not quite a finished film, it seemed to me better than Home Alone 4 and 5 and Difficult Child 3, also not shot for the big screen, and this is not such an obscenity as Beethoven 4, after which the desire to watch parts 5 and 6 and a special issue called Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure disappeared, and, weighing all the pros and cons, I can express a neutral opinion: Comedy is medium, for once.
American humor, which can only be praised in the first two parts of the franchise about the world's most famous St. Bernard, here only occasionally causes laughter, and mostly only bewilderment to flat jokes - sometimes it is not funny even over the misadventures of criminals who, according to the tradition of family comedies, are much dumber than an animal. The plot seems to be interesting, but not as exciting as in the first two parts, except the scene with the abduction of a child and the pursuit of kidnappers and was exciting. The antics of the “main character” are funny, this is all that the triquel is based on. The family that Beethoven was left behind inspires confidence, especially his wife, who did not tolerate the dog’s habits and scolded him for every expense that happened through his fault. The only bad thing is the abundance of flat jokes, especially coming from the mouth of thieves, which lowers the third part three orders of magnitude below the first two. Children, I am sure, will like it, adults will understand that the spectacle is second-rate.
7 out of 10
