The plot follows a little girl who gets kicked out of summer camp for refusing to poop in a hole in the ground and her big dog as they are sent to stay with her weird uncle for the rest of the summer. He lives in a town once known for mercury harvesting and everyone who lives there is mildly insane from the librarian obsessed with cat taxidermy to the man who scuba dives in the lake daily to prepare for global warming's inevitable reckoning to the lady who makes moonshine in the woods for the aliens. At no point do they address the obvious correlation between mercury and the weirdness of the town. One day Beethoven finds a large $10 bill with Jackson on it that turns out to be a rare bill, likely part of a stash hidden by a famous husband and wife bank robbing couple who supposedly drown in the lake in the 1920s. The girl, her uncle, and the neighbor boy try to get Beethoven to find the stash but they somehow always get thwarted. Eventually Beethoven is kidnapped by the mayor who wants to find the stash and get out of the town because he resents not being able to get a decent latte. The mains find him, Beethoven leads them to the money, and eventually everything works out with the money going to the town. Everything in between is a lot of fluff with strange townspeople, a slight subplot about the uncle being into the sherrif whose dad was a famous wrestler he idolized, and a lot of the girl getting accused of being an outsider. In the end, she and Beethoven go home with the town having accepted them. Probably because they made them rich.
The movie had a few somewhat funny bits, but it wasn't really worth the time. You'd be better off watching dog videos on YouTube for an hour and a half. As for Adam's theory, we are going to try executing it a few more times. We have a few "fifth installment" movies on the back burner but they will have to wait until we watch Neil Breen's latest and a rewatch of "Roller Blade Seven".
Spoon Rating: 3
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