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‘Dog Man’ Review: A Human-Dog Hybrid Fights Crime in an Exhausting Kiddie Cartoon
Irreverent jokes have little time to land in a graphic novel adaptation centered on a canine policeman protecting his city from his cat arch-nemesis.
His animated adaptation of author Dav Pilkey ’s illustrated series aligns with the source material’s silly spirit to a slavishly fatiguing degree as it jams too many villains, themes and gags into a brief run time. Surgeons are baffled at first, but quickly figure out the lone solution to save the pair: sew Greg’s salvageable head on Knight’s intact body, thus creating the precinct’s “supa cop,” Dog Man. While few might expect a film geared toward youngsters and named after a peculiar protagonist to contain resonance to match its wackiness, the fact that Hastings and company took a stab at doing so without properly streamlining its scattershot themes feels like a wasted opportunity.
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