Check under most any post relating to the recently released trailer for Luc Besson’s “Dogman,” and you’ll find one, if not several responses riffing, to various degrees of e…
,” and you’ll find one, if not several responses riffing, to various degrees of enthusiasm, on the theme of “OMG, what if ‘Joker’ but with dogs?” That rhetorical question can now be answered, following this numbskulled nonsense movie’s inexplicable Venice Competition premiere, with a resounding “If only.
Hold up, though, Doug’s in a cage? Why yes. As the adult Doug, mysteriously bruised and bloodied and dressed in disheveled Marilyn Monroe drag tells weirdly invested detention-center psychologist Evelyn , his was indeed a difficult childhood.
Maybe “Dogman” would be salvageable if Besson didn’t feel the needs to thuddingly explain every single aspect of Doug’s quirk-laden personality, as though every last thing that a person is can be traced in a straight line back to a cause, like psychology is a long division sum that never leaves a remainder. Doug makes his family among dogs because he dad told him the dogs were his family.
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