Underdog Review by Zara (2.5 Stars)

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Starring:
Alex Neuberger, Jason Lee, Amy Adams, James Belushi, Taylor Momsen, Patrick Warburton, Peter Dinklage, John Slattery, Ezra Buzzington, Armen Garo, Jerry Quinn, Diz White, Whitney Avalon, Jason Anthony, Domenic Fuggetta, Bruce-Robert Serafin, Kal Thompson, Michael Tyler Henry, Samantha Bee, Rebekah Aramini, Susie Castillo, Jillian Swanson, Rebekah Aramini, Stephanie Stokes

Directed By:
Frederik Du Chau

Written By:
Adam Rifkin, Joe Piscatella

Underdog (2007)

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Movie Review by Zara

August 4th, 2007

I love being the first...

Ah, that middle of the road movie which is meant to appeal to everyone and offend no one. That is the curse that is UNDERDOG. Aside from Jason Lee doing a bang-up job as the voice of the superhero pup and Peter Dinklage excellently getting down the evil vibe of the dastardly Bart Sinister, there really isn't anything noteworthy to this flick.

The characters are largely undeveloped because we're all supposed to be familiar with the cartoon. But how many of us are still intimately familiar with the old television show? This was a movie essentially doomed from the start when it chose to be a family movie for kids to get into. If it had gone the route of attempting to please those of us old enough to have been around and watched this on TV, there might have been a few more laughs to be mined.

As it stands, Patrick Warburton does the same thing that he does in every movie, the father and son are like blank little blobs of Playdoh that are brown from having mixed together all of the cool colours and now represent a lump of something that we no longer care about, the girl that the boy is interested in is lame and only around to introduce Polly Purebred and then they don't really do anything with the doggy romance aside from copy the SUPERMAN flight ala the Christopher Reeve movies.

So... is it a bad movie? Not by any means. Is it a good movie? Nope, not really. Does it have any absolutely stand-out performances that you can't miss? Another no.

But when it comes out on DVD, this will be able to shut your kids up for an hour and a half like the best of them.

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