The film kicks off strongly but loses focus midway, circling around the repetitive theme of Petey’s arrest. However, once Li’l Petey enters the frame, the narrative regains its rhythm and charm.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2025

Dog Man is one of those films that proves movies for kids don’t have to be dumb. They can be simple enough that everyone can have fun with them.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2025

A fun movie, but one that lives and dies by how much its animation wins you over.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 9, 2025

While catnip to the kiddies, the latest DreamWorks Animation enterprise can’t help but receive a more mixed reception from those old enough to apply for a driver’s license.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 8, 2025

Wildy energetic, warmly humane and frantically funny to boot, this adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s crimefighting canine-human cop hybrid-hero will thrill kids and delightfully distract parents.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2025

As crazy as the plotting gets the film is anchored by a cleverly devised emotional lynchpin, bonding the two warring characters via the evil cat’s clone, a cute kitten whose naivety imbues it with transformative, heart-melting powers. Lovely stuff.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 3, 2025

While the animation style is a little rough around the edges, the jokes, pacing and characters are bang on target throughout.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2025

DreamWorks has some wonderfully zany creations to its credit and the box-office receipts to back them up, but this one really strains the relationship. It’s exhausting.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2025

Peter Hastings' Dog Man features vibrant, colorful animation that has an intriguing aesthetic to it, but also a storyline that feels as though he went for the bare minimum of plot necessary to hold the film together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2025

For kids, it’s exciting and a great adaptation of the books, and for adults, it offers a space to see everything through a kid’s eyes again, and why it’s worth holding onto some of that.

| Original Score: 15/20 | Mar 23, 2025

The pre-pubescent spirit of the movie is infectious.

| Mar 6, 2025

'Dog Man' is a fetching animated comedy.

| Original Score: 3 stars | Feb 28, 2025

It's all very, very silly. That, combined with the relentless pace, should ensure that it delights its target audience of under-tens, but the adults shouldn't fear this dog's bark too much.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2025

Like Captain Underpants, it's really entertainingly anarchic fare.

| Feb 19, 2025

Compared to the Oscar-nominated likes of <I>Flow</I> and the new <I>Wallace & Gromit</I> movie, <I>Dog Man</I> is ruff.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 18, 2025

an adorably absurd animated family comedy of freewheeling hijinks and only a whiff of fart jokes.

| Feb 14, 2025

Young kids will just lap it up and come back for more.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2025

Don’t be too alarmed if you find yourself cackling in unison with your tickled offspring.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2025

This crowd-pleasing adaptation of Dav Pilkey's popular graphic novels combines goofy humor with a charming voice cast.

| Feb 12, 2025

Hastings preserves Pilkey's key ingredients: lavatorial sniggers, winking details, a kid-made aesthetic...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2025