{"id":4687,"date":"2026-04-07T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:02:27","slug":"movie-dog-man-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/movie-dog-man-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Dog Man (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DogDog Man
<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2025
Rating: PG
Length: 89 minutes \/ 1.48 hours<\/p>\n

While I\u2019m no stranger to movies based on kids\u2019 media, Dog Man<\/em> (2025) was definitely not designed with adults in mind. Sure, there were a few jokes here and there that the adults would chuckle at, but the mind-numbing, blistering pace at which things happened and changed in this movie was honestly surprising. I get that kids\u2019 attention spans are shrinking at an alarming rate, but when it\u2019s up there flashing on the big screen, it\u2019s hard not to notice. At the very least, I think my kids had fun, even if they were mostly indifferent about it.<\/p>\n

Despite what the intro to this review makes it sound like, I appreciated the Dog Man<\/em> movie sticking to the aesthetic from the books. It still had that \u201chigh definition\u201d veneer on everything, but the feel was very hand-drawn (similar to how The Peanuts Movie<\/em> (2015) did it). And by sticking to somewhat lesser-known voice actors, I was actually immersed in the characters without thinking to myself, \u201cHey, that\u2019s so-and-so.\u201d Ultimately, on the technical level, Dog Man<\/em> is a well-done film that continues to show how CGI doesn\u2019t need to be realistic to \u201cupgrade\u201d the original source material.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I was too tired when I watched Dog Man<\/em>, but even I had trouble keeping up with what was happening. Since I don\u2019t have any experience with the source material, I don\u2019t know if this is just part of how Dog Man<\/em> is or if the producers and executives focused grouped it down to this rapid-fire sequence of loosely connected set pieces. Sure, some of the running gags are funny, but when one of the characters is literally named \u201c80-HD,\u201d I get the sense that the whole movie is supposed to embody the concept of ADHD.<\/p>\n

An assault on low attention spans that at least looks pretty good, I give Dog Man<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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