Substance: A police investigator (Turner) caught up in a murder ends up with a dog (Hooch), which is not love at first sight; and a girlfriend, which sort-of is. The PG rating slides over the explicit indications that the couple has sex, although the screenplay is discrete; and the tec displays a maximum of male hunkiness and stupidity (confronting the bad guys without backup). Set in late 1990s.
Style: Straightforward adventure-romance-comedy, with some pathos passing as drama. Entertaining cinematography, especially with the dog. Sets up Turner's personality very well in the first few minutes, but has him undergo a massive revamp within a too-short time frame. Lets whole days go by without much action, despite the face that Turner is "leaving in a week" to take a new job in San Francisco.
NOTES:
I picked this one up because of the references to it in the TV-sitcom "Castle". Probably won't watch it a second time. ( )