The live-action canine caper with characters voiced by Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx is 'unsurprising' but 'perfectly pleasant', writes Caryn James.
Pleasant might sound odd for an R-rated film that seems to have as many unprintable words as there are animals on screen, but it's a rule of dog movies that there has to be a heart-warming streak. Fortunately, Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, the voice of a Boston terrier named Bug who teaches the innocent Reggie the ways of street life, keep the sentimentality to a minimum and boost the film above a screenplay that isn't quite sharp enough.
When Doug finally drops Reggie in a mean alley, he meets the scrappy Bug, who insists that being a stray is the only way to live. You're free of pesky humans, and can have sex with anything you want, including a random couch left on the street. Foxx sounds a lot as though he's channelling Samuel L Jackson here, which isn't a bad thing. Between the crude language and the streetwise delivery, it's almost as if Quentin Tarantino had made a dog movie.
Bug goes along on the trek, and so do two other friends. Randall Park is the voice of Hunter, a gentle Great Dane who flunked out of the police academy and now works as a therapy dog at a facility for seniors. Maggie is a smart Australian shepherd with the voice and Australian accent of Isla Fisher.
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