So yet another animated kids flick. This is Dreamworks adaption of the wildly popular Dog-man graphic novels. If you have kids in the 4-12 year old range (in the US at least), I'm assuming you are INTIMATELY familiar with these books, whether you want to be or not 
The movie is a rough adaptation of the first 3 books. It has a lot of the humor of the books but it just feels...off. Not as punchy, not as zingy, not as dynamic as you'd think a film version of this notoriously pun-ny and 4th wall breaking book series should be. It really needed 3D or some gimmick but its played too straight, not even a flip-o-rama. Some of the dad jokes and references do hit, and the core story of a father-son bond is strong, as always. It's really fast moving as they assume the kids know the books well. They do flesh out Dog-man slightly more than I remember from the books, I almost thought they were gonna do a little Robocop bit with it but they just kinda dump on Officer's Knight's wife as being a tramp and move on. I feel that someone got out a little personal grief with that one
Anyway, the theater full of kids loved the shit out of it so if you got kids its gonna be a hit. Just have a few drinks and enjoy the sly reference to Die Hard and other things
The movie is a rough adaptation of the first 3 books. It has a lot of the humor of the books but it just feels...off. Not as punchy, not as zingy, not as dynamic as you'd think a film version of this notoriously pun-ny and 4th wall breaking book series should be. It really needed 3D or some gimmick but its played too straight, not even a flip-o-rama. Some of the dad jokes and references do hit, and the core story of a father-son bond is strong, as always. It's really fast moving as they assume the kids know the books well. They do flesh out Dog-man slightly more than I remember from the books, I almost thought they were gonna do a little Robocop bit with it but they just kinda dump on Officer's Knight's wife as being a tramp and move on. I feel that someone got out a little personal grief with that one Anyway, the theater full of kids loved the shit out of it so if you got kids its gonna be a hit. Just have a few drinks and enjoy the sly reference to Die Hard and other things
