Review of Rock Dog

Rock Dog (2016)
5/10
Sometimes funny, but not enough to save it.
7 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Rock dog, a movie that I just watched in theaters, anyway, let's take a look on what the plot is, The plot is about a guardian dog named Bodi and he wants to be a rock star an follow he's passion, but his dad doesn't like the idea and says that he needs to be a guardian, however he lets him go, in the city he meets white cat rock super star Angus witch in the beginning he starts not liking Bodi, but in the middle he starts liking him, but Bodi's village will be attacked by the villagers greatest enemies witch are wolves (who wear suits by the way) so now Bodi has to save them. Now lets get to the positives. The positives are it's animation, I do admit, the animation is not as watchable as The Boss Baby, but it still has some decent colors, and speaking of the animation, the prologue animation is also good, and seeing how beautiful it is, I really think this animation would be a much better animation then the actual movie's CGI use, plus, some of the humor is really not that bad, I would say that it's not as funny as Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, but they sometimes tried to be funny, and another thing that I liked was Angus' mansion, now is not as cool as Vector's lair from Despicable Me, but come on who wouldn't want to have a house that has a huge bed, a studio, and an technological garden with rat robots, wouldn't that be awesome, however this movie has it's problems, the first problem is that this movie is unoriginal, now like the title in my earlier review, a show or movie can be unoriginal, but it's still great (if it's copying a few things), but this cannot be said about Rock dog, this movie copies Kung Fu Panda 1 and 3, why, well for Kung Fu Panda 1 it's using of one of the messages of Kung Fu panda, that is follow your passion, and for Kung Fu Panda 3, it's using the "character has to protect a village from the bad guy" witch is the same plot as Kung Fu Panda 3, another movie this is ripping off is SING, because you got characters singing popular songs, witch is the same as SING, another movie that's this is ripping of is Zootopia, because you got the plot of anthropomorfic animals living in a city, another movie this is ripping of is Alvin and the chimpmunks, because Angus starts using Bodi in order to give a character that doesn't appear in the movie a song, kinda like Dave using the chimpmunks to produce a song, and another movie this rips off is Kubo and the two strings (witch I haven't seen yet) why, well, there's one scene in the movie where Bodi's guitar with the mixture of his guardian powers form a guitar with powers, kinda like Kubo, another thing (witch are characters this time) are the Minions, like, the sheep completely act like the minions, especially in that scene where Bodi's dad wants to show him the consequences on not being a guardian, just that scene shows that they're completely minion ripoffs, another issue I have is Angus, first of all, him having his nails painted just feels like he does girl things, and not only that, he lies to a radio announcer that he did Bodi's music by himself, why did he did that? Because he wants to still be recognized as a rock super star, dude, is better to tell the truth than lie in public, just, this scene is a bad example to teach kids, hell they might as well be like Angus in the future after learning that "message", another issue is that goat (or something) character who's one of Bodi's friends, really that goat is literally Patrick Star in form of an animated goat, like every single line he says turns into a question in his second line, just, that goat is just unnecessary to this or every other animated feature, another issue that I got is that there's a barbershop on a village, yeah, a barbershop on a village with no electricity, does that makes sense to you? For me it doesn't, another issue is the other humor of this, just the other humor didn't entertain me at all (but this wasn't the first film that didn't have to much entertaining humor, oh trust me, we're going to go on that later), and finally the last issue is the scene where Bodi's dad puts sheep on things that are exactly like him and thinks that if he has a team, then the wolves will run away, oh come on, this "plan" is just stupid, the only people who are afraid of that are dumb and coward people who don't know how to fight against others, that's it, those are the only people that I know who are afraid of that. In the end this was a film that I wasn't really entertained with, it had unoriginal story, and characters that are easy to hate, sure, the animation was pretty good especially the prologue animation, and it had some good humor, however, it's not enough to save this film, now if like this movie, then i respect your opinion, but for me, this was just bad, now is this the worst animated film of the year? Not really, but I don't think this movie is worth your money and time.
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