# Lost & Found (1999/I)

### reviewed by
Susan Granger

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    Susan Granger's review of "LOST & FOUND" (Warner Bros.)

David Spade is a "Saturday Night Live" alumnus who survived "Black Sheep" and is now on TV's "Just Shoot Me." In this movie, however, he's a cloying wimp who's better doing what he knows how to do - sketch comedy - than what he doesn't. Meaning - he can do a wickedly clever caricature of Neil Diamond but developing a fully-fleshed character is beyond his grasp. In this lame, derivative romantic comedy, which he co-wrote with J.B. Cook and Mark Meeks, Spade plays a snide, smug, wise-cracking restaurant owner who attempts to woo his dream-girl neighbor, a beautiful French cellist, Sophie Marceau, by stealing her cairn terrier and then pretending to find the hapless animal when she thinks he's lost. Of course, his plan is somewhat foiled when her obnoxious ex-boyfriend (Patrick Bruel) flies in from Paris to help with the search and Jon Lovitz is summoned as a "dog whisperer," who senses the pooch's pain and recommends pampering. There's a tasteless sub-plot that revolves around Spade's partner's diamond anniversary ring that's swallowed by the dog and his frantic determination to be there when it comes out the other end. As a result, there are lots of poop jokes. Directed by Jeff Pollack, Sophie Marceau shows some deft comic timing in her pink lingerie but Spade is all attitude and grin, nothing more, which leaves a lot to be desired. Estelle Harris ("Seinfeld's" Mrs. Costanza) does a cute comedy bit with some lascivious elderly poker players. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Lost & Found" is a cheesy 3. It's a geeky TV sit-com that never should have made it to the big screen.

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