Underdog - BLU-RAY Version (2007)

Average rating

(61%)

Starring:	Jason Lee (Voice) \| Peter Dinklage \| James Belushi \| Patrick Warburton \| Alex Neuberger \| Taylor Momsen \| Amy Adams (Voice)
Director:	Frederik Du Chau
Studio:	WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time:	79 mins
Genres:	Action/Adventure \| Comedy \| Family \| Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Languages:	English
Released:	June 16, 2008
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To save the day, here comes Underdog, a 1970s Saturday morning cartoon transformed to glorious, semi-CGI animated life; it's a talking animal live-action film--a la BABE--with wisecracks aplenty. Voiced by Jason Lee, Underdog is the joke of the K-9 police force after his weakness for ham disrupts a public ceremony. Dejectedly, he lets himself get abducted for an animal experiment by a mad scientist, Dr. Simon Barsinister (Peter Dinklage). He escapes, doused in experimental chemicals, to become a dog with 80 times his normal strength. Jim Belushi embodies the sad-sack security guard at the laboratory who finds Underdog and takes him home as a playmate for his alienated tweener son (Alex Neuberger). The fact that chaos follows will come as no surprise, but what may is the genial tone the film maintains throughout.

Rating of 1 stars out of 5
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