Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. My problem is they keep making movies of popular games or books right after my boys have aged out of the prime demographic for them. Police officer Knight and his trusty canine companion, Greg both voiced by Peter Hastings are terribly injured on the job while chasing their nemesis, Petey the cat Pete Davidson , an evil scientist type.
Dog Man keeps putting Petey in jail, but the overbearing Mayor Cheri Oteri repeatedly lets him escape via an incompetent brother of a warden. Pete gets the idea to create a clone of himself to make him twice as effective, but screws up the calculation and gets a little kitten instead of a full-grown version.
He wants to be friends with everyone, including Dog Man, which leads to some estrangement between big and little Peteys. Released under the DreamWorks Animation umbrella with the actual animating outsourced to Jellyfish Pictures , this is high-level visual work.
The figures almost seem like felt puppets with a 3-D feel to them. This underscores the notion of a comic book sprung to life. My kids were able to keep up, but I caught them wandering at times. Leave a comment. Share this post. Film Yap. Dog Man. Copy link. Dog Man A very tactile and energetic adaptation of the popular kids' comics, though a little hard to sit through for those who count their age in double digits and up. Christopher Lloyd. Jan 31, Discussion about this post Comments Restacks.
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