Strays review: Will Ferrell puppy comedy can’t stop chasing its tail

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Strays review: Will Ferrell puppy comedy can’t stop chasing its tail
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Jamie Foxx and Will Forte fetch some laughs as foul-mouthed pups, but mostly this dog just rolls over and plays dead.

s that it seeks to lampoon, just with a lot more swearing and frankness about genitalia. There is one joke that hilariously mocks the convention of dogs narrating their owners’ life story, but the film never rises to that same level again, generally content to craft one-liners about how dogs sure do love to hump the strangest things, often calling back to previous gags with the subtlety of beating a dead cat.

To the film’s credit, it’s directed and performed well. Director Josh Greenbaum follows up the transcendently hilariouswith the thankless task of wrangling dog actors with computer-generated mouth movements, but for what it’s worth the comic framing and timing are great, even when the actual material is not. Each of the main voice actors is typically typecast, with Ferrell playing predictably gullible, Foxx as brashly insecure, Fisher as the competent woman, and Park as the timidly polite lug.

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