Gooba gaba! Gooba gaba! One of us! One of us!
It’s overwhelmingly funny. Kinda sad. But also happy. I love the art style. Just like the book. The book was amazing.
No matter who you are, you always deserve to be loved and you have to care for others, even when they are rude or mean.
10/10
Thus concludes the first movie review my daughter has written. A couple months ago she started a book club with her friends. They chose Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man as their first book. In one sitting, we sat and read the whole thing together. It was a joyous reading experience. It’s the small things in life. They are the big things.
What Ezra writes is true. Dog Man is funny. The art style reflects the book. The book is good. You deserve to be loved and you have to care for others.
The fun thing about Dog Man is that he’s part dog and part man. (Editorial note by Ezra: He’s all hero.) It’s fun because a cop and his dog best friend got in an accident and at the hospital, they remove the dog’s head and stitch it onto the man’s body. Dog Man. Perfect origin story.
What is most appealing about the book is the pacing. It’s a series of diversions. The story flips between characters, side-stories, and asides. The fast pace would be hard to capture visually in a movie. The movie uses montages as stand-in devices and they work well enough.
The outcome is fairly standard for DreamWorks. Dog Man neither stands at the upper end of their animated efforts nor near the bottom. It’s comfortably standard and suited to its purpose as family entertainment. Let’s be honest: you have the only review you need at the top of this one.