Dog Man Movie Review

When a police officer and his faithful police dog get injured in the line of duty, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together -- and Dog Man is born

Episode Transcript

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Alright fellow dog people, let's review a movie.

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With an obligatory puppy shot for the best reason ever.
Cuz.
["Dogman's the Best"]
Eleven years old and puppy's forever.
So, Dogman.
I always want to call this movie Copdog for some reason.
But Dogman's an animated film adaptation of the children's book of the same title,
children's graphic novel.

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The story of a cop and his dog and then this bomb goes off.
The dog's body is destroyed.
The cop's head is destroyed.
What to do?
We'll sew the dog's head onto the cop's body.
You have Dogman.
Does it make sense?
No, but it's a children's story, so we roll with it.
Also, Wiley Coyote doesn't start falling until he looks down.
Rules are strange in Toontown.
We all saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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And we all got traumatized at the end from Christopher Lloyd.
Gonna try to make this a quick review, cause let's face it, you're concerned with two things.
Is it gonna entertain my kids and when I'm in the auditorium with them watching the movie,
is it gonna be as enjoyable for me as chewing broken glass or not?
There's a villainous cat named Peety hatching a scheme.
Then there are other villains out there in which the story becomes a little more complex in terms of
who's a hero, who's a villain.
Important thing is this.

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Is...
Copta.
No.
Dogman.
Why do I always want to call him a...
He's a cop dog.
But the important thing is this.
Is Dogman gonna entertain your kids?
Yes.
It has an energy about it, a momentum that's very...
...tune.
Peter Hastings, the writer and director of this movie, was a writer and producer on Animaniacs,
and you do see it.
Though Dogman clearly being made for a younger audience than Animaniacs was.

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Also Animaniacs, have you revisited that lately? Incredible.
There's a madness to this movie that is going to keep your kids entertained and locked in.
Especially for the TikTok generation, in which attention spans with
But who am I to speak?
Welcome to my jump cut reviews.
But as there's a fun energy in this movie that will keep your kids entertained,
there are jokes that are clearly made for adults, not that they're raunchy.

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Just in terms of the reference, kids aren't gonna get it.
They're not gonna understand.
They're not really gonna know what it means.
The animation style as every animation these days has to have something that makes it feel like its own.
This does have an animation style that does look like the art from the books.
But as, and again, this is the big thing nowadays,
it's animated to look like it's stop-motion animation, you know?
The frame rate's cut down.

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While this is a movie that's there to entertain kids,
it seems to realize and know that, well, parents are gonna have to be there too.
So while you're spending a bill at the movie theater to go,
this is for you, my children, because I love you,
I felt this movie shockingly did a really good job at having these emotional heartfelt moments.
It deals with generational trauma and how jerks might have learned to be jerks from their father.

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So do you want to pass down how to be a jerk to your kid or do you want it to stop with you?
Good lesson for kids to learn young, also profound enough for parents to be like,
oh wow, okay, I don't regret buying my kid a ticket to see this film.
At first glance, it seems a bit surface level, you know?
It has a zaniness too, it's like, okay, plug the kids in.
It's an hour and a half long babysitter, essentially.

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But there is something deeper there and I appreciate that.
My niece is eight, apparently she loves the books.
There's no reason to think she's not gonna love this movie.
It has fun action, it's exciting, though I couldn't help but think of the movie big at a point,
because transformers that are buildings, just saying.
I thought this movie was a good time, no alcohol required.
If you're apprehensive at matinee price,
movies are expensive these days, cut your costs where you can.

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Alright, so dogman, have you seen it? What did you think about it?
Or what's a film you loved as a kid that you revisited later in life maybe recently?
And you're like, still good.
Whatever it is, whatever you think, comment below, let me know.
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