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Underdog (2007)

Director: Frederik Du Chau

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After a lovably dopey prologue culled from the TV cartoon, this live-action adaptation gets down to the business of entertaining tweens, earnestly and nonironically. There’s a rift between a widowed father (Belushi) and son (Neuberger) that must be healed, crammed among some fairly bizarre scenes of a realistically animated dog flying around rooms. Nods to Lady and the Tramp and 1978’s Superman peg the film’s wide-eyed demographic perfectly, but a maniacally evil Peter Dinklage comes close to pushing things into a darker realm.

Author: Joshua Rothkopf 2007-08-08 15:20:22

Time Out New York Issue 619: August 9–15, 2007

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Underdog

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Director: Frederik Du Chau

Cast: Peter Dinklage, James Belushi, Alex Neuberger, Jason Lee

Rated: PG


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