Show Dogs is a movie from the "lauded" director of the Scooby-Doo and The Smurfs 1 and 2. This movie tells of a police dog named Max and his human partner Frank, played by Will Arnett who attend a dog show in Vegas in order to go undercover to rescue a baby panda. Along the way, Frank tries to keep Max in the dog show with the help of Mattie played by Natasha Lyonne.
I went to this movie expecting it to be another bad family film with loud, obnoxious characters, "cool and hip" humor and a by the numbers plot. However, I went in with the slightest bit of optimism that it'd not be something like that. As soon as it begun though, I realized that this was exactly what I was picturing in my head.
When the movie opens with the dog staking out the crime, I knew what I was in for. The dialogue for this movie is nonstop. It's snappy, fast paced, is just annoying and hardly ever stops. There were some moments near the end that were fairly quiet and calm. Most of the movie, however consisted of rambling, nonstop dialogue, which is a problem indicating that the characters in this movie will not shut up. That's my biggest complaint with the film, plain and simple.
It's a highly unfunny movie generally speaking. Most of the jokes revolve around pop culture humor, gas humor, screaming and many other things you would find annoying. As a matter of fact, since there were only 2 other people in the theater, whenever a ridiculously bad joke was made, I laughed hysterically while frowning. This occurred notably when there was a pop culture gag like when one of the dogs dabbed, in a 2018 movie. The humor is just lowbrow and annoying.
The plot is, like I said, a by the numbers kids movie plot. It's a detective plot, you know how it will end, there's really nothing else to talk about.
The only decent aspect of the movie is that the human actors put in effort into their roles. Arnett and Lyonne put on good enough performances to make this atrocity of a movie slightly redeemable. Although I'm not sure why they hired celebrities for characters that would appear fora couple minutes like with RuPaul.
Overall, this movie is nothing. There's no reason for this to exist; we've seen plenty of kids movies with pandering humor, predictable stories and plain annoyance. It's also pretty laughable how it's out during a time when we have big releases in theaters like Infinity War, Deadpool and soon to be Solo: A Star Wars Story. Skip this movie.
2/10
I went to this movie expecting it to be another bad family film with loud, obnoxious characters, "cool and hip" humor and a by the numbers plot. However, I went in with the slightest bit of optimism that it'd not be something like that. As soon as it begun though, I realized that this was exactly what I was picturing in my head.
When the movie opens with the dog staking out the crime, I knew what I was in for. The dialogue for this movie is nonstop. It's snappy, fast paced, is just annoying and hardly ever stops. There were some moments near the end that were fairly quiet and calm. Most of the movie, however consisted of rambling, nonstop dialogue, which is a problem indicating that the characters in this movie will not shut up. That's my biggest complaint with the film, plain and simple.
It's a highly unfunny movie generally speaking. Most of the jokes revolve around pop culture humor, gas humor, screaming and many other things you would find annoying. As a matter of fact, since there were only 2 other people in the theater, whenever a ridiculously bad joke was made, I laughed hysterically while frowning. This occurred notably when there was a pop culture gag like when one of the dogs dabbed, in a 2018 movie. The humor is just lowbrow and annoying.
The plot is, like I said, a by the numbers kids movie plot. It's a detective plot, you know how it will end, there's really nothing else to talk about.
The only decent aspect of the movie is that the human actors put in effort into their roles. Arnett and Lyonne put on good enough performances to make this atrocity of a movie slightly redeemable. Although I'm not sure why they hired celebrities for characters that would appear fora couple minutes like with RuPaul.
Overall, this movie is nothing. There's no reason for this to exist; we've seen plenty of kids movies with pandering humor, predictable stories and plain annoyance. It's also pretty laughable how it's out during a time when we have big releases in theaters like Infinity War, Deadpool and soon to be Solo: A Star Wars Story. Skip this movie.
2/10