Step Dogs

This movie was incredibly hard to watch. Even my kid didn't like it, so we had to turn it off. Poorly made knock off of other movies, so many awkward scenes with poorly drawn out jokes. Not worth watching.

This is so funny and will appeal to young and old the characters were well cast and the film well directed. But the true star's of this Home Alone with dog's are the canine's who make the film so watchable.

Ok, yes, the storyline of comedic bungling burglers thwarted by kids, pets, or themselves has been done a ton of times. This one was cute and lighthearted viewing for a late evening movie before bed. Kid friendly, too, which I didn't have to think about, but FYI for those who do.

The first negative that bugged me was that the animators didn't do more eye expressions for the dogs or ear changes. They did a great job on lip movement for talking and even did a bit of eyebrow movement, but the eyes always remained wide open with no expressions through the eyelids or ears.

The second negative was the actress who played "Crystal." She gave a very flat and wooden delivery of her lines and facial expressions. The kids were great with their roles and the other actors did a very good job, too.

Take a silly, juvenile, utterly cliche script, add some really bad acting, Throw in poorly voiced dogs. Add the worst acted bad guys you could never even have imagined and you'll have a grip on this film. That being said, there is no foul language, no gratuitous sex, nudity or violence. Which is surprisingly refreshing. It is clearly a low budget film and the direction is amateurish at best. But it is family watchable and those kinds of movies are few. The kids will like the dogs.

I watched this movie this evening via the free IMDb TV app on Roku. Whilst both of my dogs loved it and barked like crazy, it reminded me of the Home Alone movies and of culture shock when you take someone out of their normal peddy buse wah environment and introduce them to something entirely different.