Will Ferrell

Jamie Foxx

Isla Fisher

Randall Park

Will Forte

Brett Gelman

Rob Riggle

Josh Gad

Sofía Vergara

Jamie Demetriou

Greta Lee

Jimmy Tatro

Harvey Guillén

Jack De Sanz

Phil Morris

David Herman

Jaquita Ta'le

Charity Cervantes

Jade Fernandez

Mikayla Rousseau

Mike Dolphy

Aven Lotz

Hannah Alline

Garrett Hines

Dan Perrault

Dennis Quaid

Keith Brooks

Hedy Nasser

Dexter Masland

Gabriella Garcia

Andrew Nicolas Starr

Andrea Laing

Alexandra Ficken

Ryan Dinning

Stephanie Dunnam

Deadra Moore

Alonzo Ward

AJ Bernard

Tinashe Kajese

Maxine Gervais

Lisa Rodgers

Karthikswamy Sangumani

Daniel DiPrima

J.J. George

Yvonne Chan

Stephen E. Hagen

Erin Cochran

Mike Horton

Jay Meagher

Jon Title

Dean Tyrrell

Russell Tyrrell

Jason Billington

David Cvetkovski

Katerina Kalinska

Laurence Chavez

Kurt Hockenberry

Sean Lyle

Taylor Towery

Kevin Waterman

Eric Rick Kline

Josh Quick

Greg Hayden

Sabrina Plisco

David Rennie

Josh Greenbaum

Phil Lord

Christopher Miller

Erik Feig

Louis Leterrier

Aditya Sood

Jessica Switch

Nikki Baida

Julia Hammer

Dara Taylor

Tim Orr

Rebecca Carfagna

Meagan Lewis

Aaron Osborne

Samantha LaRoe McDonald

Romy Itzigsohn

Katie Ballard

Karri Farris

Bree Tomlinson

Lisa Magee

Kara Kimmer

Brian Friedman

Britain Illingworth-Cramer

Carmen Luse

Christopher S. Aud

Beau Borders

Nancy Nugent Title

Randy Torres

Nancy St. John

Leila Nicotera

Comedy

Adventure

Strays

Universal Pictures

Lord Miller

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Rabbit Hole Productions

United States of America

English

Español

talking dog

magic mushroom

crude humor

male masturbation

duringcreditsstinger

animal liberation

self-liberation

abandonment

abandoned puppy

toxic relationship

talking animal

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"Doug" (Will Forte) has had enough of a dog ("Reggie") that he only kept to spite his ex-girfriend on whom he was cheating. Each day he takes it on a ball-hunt only to drive away and leave him. Usually he manages to find his way home so an even longer journey is needed, and that's when "Reggie" - lost and faced with some nasty hoodlum-hounds - encounters the feisty "Bug" and the two become firm friends before having a series of adventures meeting new friends and foes as they try to get him home to his owner - only this time with a much less obedient ouch-agenda. Dog lovers may love this, and the script is at times quite wittily put together using the skills of Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx to keep the pacy drama moving along quite well for ninety minutes. It's a feel-good film with just an hint of canine attitude but after a while the joke wears a bit thin and the story finds itself in a repetitive rut. It's telly fodder, and quite amusing at that, but if you're not a pet fan (I'm not) then it's appeal is limited and the ending is straight out of a slapstick movie (and not a good one).

Bloody awful movie, that final scene with Doug is focking funny though!

<em>'Strays'</em> is still a terrible film, though. Reminiscent it is of <em>'Sausage Party'</em>, in that it uses lazy sexually rude shock value to try and entertain. At least that 2016 flick is animated and is about food, so works more than it should (if still not good). This, given what it's about (dogs) and how it's portrayed (live-action), is just disturbing. Even beyond that, it's all just so stupid and uninteresting.

Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx try to salvage this with their voice work, though the rest of the cast are all quite lousy unfortunately. I dunno how they got Brett Gelman to agree to his scene, by the way!£! Off-screen, surprising to see the names of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller attached as producers... expect much more from them, heck even from Louis Leterrier too!

I really disliked this, I can't lie. That earlier mentioned scene, one or two (literally) other 'OK' bits as well as how, in fairness, good the effects are for the dogs is what stops me rating this lower - I'm probably being too generous, mind. These sorta wacky movies for adults can work, but you gotta get more creative than this; sex and poop jokes only get you so far.

Strays( 2023)

Go fetch yourself.

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Written by CinemaSerf on Fri Aug 25 2023

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