Critic and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz laments the decline of top talents John Travolta and Robin Williams, as evidenced by their co-starring in the recent comedy Old Dogs. Mankiewicz says the film is so bad it makes you desire to watch Battlefield Earth just to escape the ineptness on screen. The larger point he makes is that the film epitomizes the by-the-numbers techniques that dominate big screen comedies today - and the once proud stars who will appear in anything in return for a paycheck. To read click here