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Rock Dog

2016

Ash Brannon

Animation

5.2

216

Animation. Comedy. Adventure When a radio falls from the sky into the hands of a wide-eyed Tibetan Mastiff, he leaves home to fulfill his dream of becoming a musician, setting into motion a series of completely unexpected events.

	Author	Review
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"[It] keeps its animation simple and its story lines clear, which makes it reliable fare for the 10-and-younger set. The only disappointment, given the subject, is that it’s not a full-on musical"	NEU
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"It took nine people to write the cheap-looking animated film 'Rock Dog', and not one of them ever stopped to consider the fact that the dog of the title 'never rocks'."	NEG
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"'Rock Dog' is cluttered with incompatible subplots that never quite seem to belong in the same film."	NEG
United States	Boston Globe	"Something that’s uniquely likable, and even unique-looking at times."	POS
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"This animated musical isn’t very amped up (...) [with] some cartoon charm, but not much else"	NEG
United States	Jane Horwitz The Washington Post	"Intermittently diverting as it may be, the movie bears all the earmarks of a cobbled-together, made-by-committee product, poorly aimed at its tween-and-younger target audience in look, tone, music and story."	NEG
United Kingdom	Mike McCahill The Guardian	"Compared with the artistry of last year’s 'Kubo and the Two Strings', 'Rock Dog' is like the hastily assembled toy in a Happy Meal (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"What’s interesting about 'Rock Dog' is just how very unapologetically a kid’s movie it is (...) Silly and innocuous (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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