The Old Dogs are Back.

After the luscious little gem of a movie ‘World’s Greatest Dad’, (guess the Night at the Museum 2 isn’t worth mentioning at all), Robin Williams – the World’s favorite Manic Motormouth is back doing what he does best, bitter – sweet comedy. Robin Williams’ latest movie Old Dogs, directed by Walt Becker (of Old Hogs fame) hits cinemas on November 25, 2009. Pairing up with John Travolta this time around, Old Dogs is the story of essentially that – two best friends and co-workers, sliding down the prime of their loves, suddenly find themselves spang in the middle of their parenting responsibilities just when they thought they were above all these. Both of them are Old Dogs at acting and it would be exhilarating to see them both setting the screen ablaze with their quirky sense of humor.

Robin plays Dan, a divorcee who hardly knows the travails of parenting and family values and care two hoots about it is suddenly faced by the bitter prospect of the knowledge that he is actually the father of twins : a son and a daughter, and to heap insult upon injury, h is ex-wife (Kelly Preston – Travolta’s real life partner) also gives him the responsibility of taking care of both along with her dog, when he is  just about to nail the biggest professional deal of his  life.He turns to good friend and beer buddy and brash bachelor Charlie, played by John Travolta to help him through this ordeal and the movie is about finding the real value of life and redemption at the end.

The theme is a rehash of the old theme of Three Men and a Baby (1987), but is worked around the Disney staples of ‘family values and clean fun ’ in its characterizations, and so the effectiveness of the old cliché’ working in the current sensibilities remains to be seen.
Old Dogs is also the debut movie of John Travolta’s daughter Ella Travolta, and is also sadly the last movie role of the great Bernie Mac.
It’s been a long time since Robin Williams really gave you a decent stint at comedy on screen (the last one is still Bird Cage if you are in a generous mood), and there is a little hope with this unusual screen pairing with John Travolta for the first time ever.

Speaking of the latter, Travolta is one actor who steadfastly refuses to typecast himself to any school of  acting or genre and remains blissfully independent to choose his own roles in his own sweet time, regardless of its fate at the box – office.

Written by David Diamond (The Family Man, Evolution) and David Weissman       (Dream a Little Dream 2, The Family Man, and Evolution), the movie also has Matt Dillon making an appearance as the instructor for the field camp for the bunch.

It is hoped that Robin Williams, who is back to his sold out stand – up tour since 2002, aptly titled “Weapons of Self Destruction” doesn’t end up adding Old Dogs to his growing list of attempting its zany version on screen, even with a little help from John Travolta.

Watch the trailer of Old Dogs here.