Starring the voice talents of Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher, Randall Park, Brett Gelman and Will Forte. Written by Dan Perrault. Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Directed by Josh Greenbaum. Budget $48 million. Running time 93 minutes.
When dog Reggie (Will Ferrell) gets abandoned in the big city by his vile human owner (Will Forte) he teams up with fellow strays Bug (Jamie Foxx), Maggie (Isla Fisher) and Hunter (Randall Park) for a cross country quest to get Reggie home so he can bite the dick off his human owner.
Oh, I know what you're thinking, 'oh boy! this sounds like a modern day remake of that wonderful Disney film Incredible Journey, I bet it's going to be really funny!' And you'd be wrong. Dead wrong.
Over the next deeply long 93 minutes much hilarity ensues. That is if your idea of hilarity is copious piss and shit jokes, and jokes about dog cocks, and people getting their dicks bitten off, and the hilarious results of overdosing on eating magic mushrooms, or ripping a warren of baby bunnies to pieces. Indeed, this film leaves no stone or turd unturned in its attempts to be as funny as fuck! So, it's sad to report that this just isn't that funny. Well, not funny in the old fashioned sense of the word. And certainly not funny in the way that old comedies used to be funny. Instead we have a typically unfunny modern comedy with just enough amusing moments to make you chortle and perhaps chuckle (all of which you've seen in the trailer). Indeed, it seems far more concerned with making sure our loveable cast of characters learn valuable life lessons about caring and working together and some such shit rather than mining any hilarity or jokes out of the situation, beyond the scatilogical and there are many lengthy and quite tedious sequences where the dogs discuss important human issues from a dog's point of view. That said there is one very funny sequence that sees the four dogs happily discussing Hunter's massive dog dick openly and without embarrassment which was rather funny.
That coupled with a totally unnecessary tacked on third act side mission just there to give one of the dodgy doggy characters closure in the closing sequence. At the end of the day, this is just one more deeply disappointing modern day so-called Hollywood comedies. So, not a comedy at all, just an utterly horrible remake of a true 1963 classic called Incredible Journey, that managed to invest its film with a heart, meaning and comedy while never once having to bite the penis off a man to get a laugh.
Although that said, it's the funniest scene in the film, well that and a great joke about a narrating Retriever.
Not a totally dog's dinner but nevertheless it sure as shit ain't the dog's bollox.
4/10
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