SummaryWhen Reggie (Will Ferrell), a naïve, relentlessly optimistic Border Terrier, is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug (Will Forte), Reggie is certain that his beloved owner would never leave him on purpose. But once Reggie falls in with a fast-talking, foul-mouthed Boston Terrier named Bug (Jamie Foxx), a stray ...
SummaryWhen Reggie (Will Ferrell), a naïve, relentlessly optimistic Border Terrier, is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug (Will Forte), Reggie is certain that his beloved owner would never leave him on purpose. But once Reggie falls in with a fast-talking, foul-mouthed Boston Terrier named Bug (Jamie Foxx), a stray ...
If you’ve seen the red-band trailer for Strays, you know the dog-centric, live-action new comedy is profane and outrageous, slapstick and amusing in that distinctly stoner-friendly way.
Even with its brief 93-minute running time, Strays feels thin and repetitive; after all, there are only so many times you can laugh at, say, a dog happily eating another’s dog vomit. But the film nonetheless delivers plenty of laughs, making up for many of its clunkers through sheer volume and the talents of its starry voice cast.
The incongruity is shocking at first but wears off after a while, making Strays a good and funny bet for stumbling over while channel-surfing (or whatever the streaming version of that is), but not a lot more.
So what’s missing? The usual scarcities in modern screen comedy: visual finesse and some wit to go with the gross-out stuff. Little things start adding up against Strays.
A swearing dog voiced by Jamie Foxx is funny – once. Having set up its ribald premise, however, Strays – an R-rated riposte to such talking-pooch heart-stirrers as 2017’s A Dog’s Purpose, complete with cameos from that film’s stars – has to relentlessly and tiresomely up the ante, plastering the screen with so many peeing, pooping, and humping tail-waggers it feels more like A Dog’s Porno.
he 93-minute runtime is mostly padded out by a plethora of jokes about dicks and bodily fluids which might amuse a group of nine-year-old boys, but is unlikely to impress anyone whose prefrontal cortex has fully formed.
Fazia tempo que não ria tanto em uma sessão quanto nessa despretensiosa "porralouquice" que é "Strays", traduzido de forma até eficiente para "Ruim pra cachorro", que ironiza como, na verdade, seres humanos podem ser ruins e criar relações tóxicas e humilhantes para os doguinhos, que nada mais fazem do que revidar.
Assim, contando com um elenco de cachorros bem simpáticos com personalidades muito bem construídas, vamos acompanhando a jornada de voltar para a casa do seu dono, com todo o conflito que esta redoma pode proporcionar: o lar, afinal, pode ser tão perverso quanto a rua.
No cerne da questão, estão os nossos relacionamentos líquidos, que precisam ser funcionais mais do que afetivos. Daí, o lema inicial que era "Todos estão sozinhos", passa a ser "Todos estão juntos", mostrando pela bilhionésima vez o poder da amizade, mas dessa vez com protagonistas caninos e um amontoado de piadas escatológicas, sexuais, e irônicas.
Quanto ao humor, diria que se saiu muito bem até, muito devido ao excelente trabalho de edição e direção, mas grande parte do mérito vai para o texto mesmo, super afiado e com algumas excelentes sacadas.
Sofre um pouco com certo problema de ritmo (mas não muito) e claro por subir o tom nas piadas, mas aí talvez agrade a certos espectadores. No meu caso, grande parte das piadas funcionaram, me diverti à beça no cinema.
Contando com um final pra lá de clichê, aqui o que importa é literalmente a jornada, e todos nós sabemos que o filme resgata sentimentos humanos genuínos tendo como pano de fundo cães com personalidades interessantes: carentes, cegos quanto à toxicidade de seus donos, com baixa autoestima, complexados com sua sexualidade etc. Ou seja, é bem eficiente em fazer com que possamos atribuir aos cães sentimentos humanos, o que já vale o ingresso, por mais que suas resoluções e conflitos não passem da superficialidade algumas vezes.
Mas é divertido, sabe. E muito. Assim, o nome "Ruim pra cachorro" foi uma puta sacada irônica, e ao subverter a lógica senhor/escravo, as piadas funcionam justamente porque partem da perspectiva do oprimido (o cãozinho, no caso), cuja imagética de viverem na rua e desprotegidos é basilar para criar a empatia necessária para curtir o filme. É, portanto, bom pra cachorro!
By trailer I had high hopes for this movie but was left a bit disappointed. I enjoy dog movies and some jokes were quite funny, but some were just stupid and the plot at times got too dumb or predictable too. Of course it is a talking dog movie, so I am allowing some of those things here
Dogs say ****- know in advance that is like 50% of the jokes in this film. The other 50% are dog jokes. I won't pretend there isn't the OCCASIONAL joke that hits- I mean, you'd HOPE there would be, they're rapid fire and literally your whole cast are comedians, if there aren't at least a couple of good ones, then I wouldn't even know what to say. And to be honest, I'm not even sure if the jokes themselves are funny so much as the timing. But **** know what you're watching- and the movie doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. It's an irreverent comedy about, again...Dogs saying ****. If you watch this movie, that is what you're gonna get. If that sentence didn't make you laugh out loud, then it isn't for you.