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67This digitized update, with Jason Lee as a huskier, more generic Underdog, mostly drops the doggerel, but the endearing airborne-beagle effects help to offset the formula twists.
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63Made for viewers old enough to appreciate a talking pooch but too young to read or write about it.
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63If you're expecting anything resembling the beloved cartoon, you'll enjoy the title sequence and nothing else. If, however, you set your expectations just low enough, or are an easily satisfied 8-year-old, you might have a bit of fun.
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60The movie isn't nearly as bad as you would expect when the studio holds its only press screening the night before a national opening.
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50Falls somewhere between stale retread and half-hearted parody of superhero-movie formulas.
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40Regardless, what probably made the show so tolerable and popular was the fact that each episode was under a half an hour long. This movie is about 84 minutes long and gets tiresome after the first 20 minutes or so.
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40Despite the talent on show, there's little to distinguish this from any other bland family comedy.
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40The elements of the film don't quite mesh: The villains are cartoony, but Du Chau aims for soggy family drama in his father-son story.
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40Even the promising team of Peter Dinklage's mad scientist Simon Barsinister and Patrick Warburton's henchman Cad turns out to be a bust.
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The TV show was mildly subversive, with humor that children and adults could enjoy on different levels, but the movie strives for a blander, family-oriented middle ground.
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38The bite and bark of Underdog are both pretty awful, but little kids might take this pooch for a walk.
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38Underdog! Rest assured, there is no superhero cliche left unchewed; they even manage to slide in a "Lady and the Tramp" homage while they're at it.
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38For adults -- even adults with fond memories of the TV series -- this is one bizarre mess.
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Director Frederik Du Chau's big-screen Underdog has all of the cartoons' crudeness and none of their charm. It's the celluloid equivalent of sugar cereal: cheap, empty and headache-inducing.
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30Underdog may have been originally created to sell cereal for General Mills, but this latest incarnation couldn't sell Frisbees at a dog park.
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16The result is unfit for humankind.
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4There was a couple of funny moments but the end was VERY cheesy.