Member review

My parents got me the series of Dog Man when I was rather young. I liked it in so far as I can remember. When I was younger, I was quite a fan of Dav Pilkey's books like the 12 Captain Underpants and Dog Man. Natuarally, I was exited to see a film like this. But the question is this: Did I like this movie? Ok, maybe that's a litttttle bit of a stupid question, but I am a scientist (well, I have the philosophy of one), so there are no stupid questions.

I like this film, but I felt that it was too fast-paced. I get that this is for kids, so I can't exactly take its time, but I want to process things while also having things be direct and focused. I liked Petty's son-clone, Li'l Petty, making his papa, Petty, confront his abandonment daddy issues. This ultimately fails because some people are cruel and never change.

I have this friend, he loves this film and he had already written a review on this film. Try and search for something called "Dog Man is PEAK 2025 (so far)" and you should be able to read it. He also comments on this theme of abandonment, adding that when Petty created his clone, he almost became his father. So, along with this theme of parental abandonment, there's also a theme of breaking a toxic cycle.

Looking at his review, the animation springs to my attention. I can't help but wonder, how they did it. The character designs in this film are pretty much accurate to the original graphic (but not that kind of graphic) novels. I especially wonder about Dog Man since his face would be very hard to animate.

This friend mentioned about how certain elements of the plot don't really go anywhere. I agree, though for different reasons, in the film it is made clear that Officer Knight's girlfriend (I'll call her Prings) left him after the accident. She's only really shown in flashbacks, I wish that in the film, we could've had a scene where Prings talks to Dog Man about how she feels.

Maybe she cannot see her old boyfriend in the new Dog Man, and so she doesn't want a romantic connection with Dog Man.

We never truly get to know Knight's girlfriend, Prings, and I think me calling her simply "Knight's girlfriend" and making up a name that sounds like a brand of crisps speaks volumes on how little she interacts with the plot. In fact, we don't get to know Knight as a character either; he is shown, but I don't feel the story gave him as much attention as it does to Dog Man.

On the point of Knight, I think they should've had some trippy whatever stuff and said that Knight is still in Dog Man's mind because of the whole half-man/half-dog thing. I'm talking about something called "cellular memory" it hasn't been scientifically proven, the premise is that when you get an organ donation, you can get pieces of that person's personality or memories. I'm thinking that, but extra ghosty.

On Dog Man himself, I feel he never really dealt with the emotional stuff he has to endure at the start of the film.

Unlike this friend I mentioned, I did NOT forget about Big Jim (short for James, short for Gabriel). Now, there's a total of 3 references I intentionally put in this review, I'll let you figure those out.