Very well executed

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Saw this movie yesterday, and it is pretty good. I can really find the passion inside. I don't think it is fare that this movie rate so low. although the animated models are not that smooth, the back ground are simple, but i this it still told a good story. Bodi's music just like warm tides flow through my heart. those who haven't seen it, highly re command you!!

Pros: Likable characters, decent animation, the song "Glorious", great cast, good pick me up movie (even if it is predictable and cute, but so what?) Cons: the reviews saying the film mediocre and TV ads misled me to believe that it's gonna suck which didn'tWe'll be glorious and you know it's true

There have been plenty of animated movies that have borrowed elements from previous movies before. A notable example of a movie that did this well was "Sing". Despite using elements used in other movies, it still managed to be its own movie. "Rock Dog" on the other hand, is sadly not one of those movies. I can tell that this movie means well as it has a good animation studio and a talented director helming the project, but in the end, it fails to deliver which leads to a film that lacks the inspiration we have seen in many other good movies.The story, once again, focuses on a world of anthropomorphic animals. In this world, there is a village known as Snow Mountain filled with tons of sheep and are guards by dogs (who are really sheep in disguise) from a group of wolfs led by Linnux (Lewis Black). The only dog and main guard of the village, Khampa (J.K. Simmons) wants to have his son Bodi (Luke Wilson) follow in his footsteps. However, Bodi has trouble perfecting his fathers moves and is having trouble finding the flame inside of him as the film puts it. One day, Bodi discovers rock and roll after a radio falls from a biplane and instantly wants to become a musician. After some time his father decides to allow him to follow his dream and gives him a bus ticket to the city. He then heads to the city and tries to find his idol, a known rock star cat named Angus Scattergood (Eddie Izzard) so he can find his fire. Meanwhile, a group of wolves led by Linnux discover that Bodi is heading to the city and try to capture him so he can reveal the village secrets.I feel a little bad for the director of this movie. Ash Brannon has made plenty of good movies before including co-directing "Toy Story 2" and directing "Surfs Up" and somehow feels a little lost with this movie mainly because the film made me think of many elements that were used better in other movies. The Chinese elements reminded me of "Kung Fu Panda" while the anthropomorphic animal world reminded me of "Zootopia" and the music elements reminded me of "Sing". All three of these elements stand well on their own or with another, but putting all three together just made the movie a mess. As for elements like the story, I can say that is alright, but it just felt a little messy and uninspired. The animation is probably the best part of the movie. I love computer animation backgrounds as well as the traditional animation that was used in the intro. However, one element of the animation that I can't forgive is the fact that there is an unbalanced use of both Chinese and English on the city's signs. What I mean is there is an English advertisement in the background while the street names are in Chinese. As for the characters, there not really memorable. They have personalities, but don't have memorable names or are just rip offs of character's we have seen before. The one notable exception is Angus Scattergood. I thought he was a very funny character because he acted like a proper rock star and Eddie Izzard brought something I haven't seen in a character.As for the rest of the movie, it just didn't stand out. "Rock Dog" is a movie that had promise, but just didn't deliver. In all honesty though, it's a harmless movie. It's a movie that I think should have been released direct-to-DVD, because it really has no reason to be released in theaters. It's easily a movie that can be used as background noise which may or may not be a good sign.

This review of Rock Dog is spoiler free**(2/5)AT ONE POINT in Chinese-American animation Rock Dog, our protagonist meets with a scrawny English cat (Eddie Izzard) who treats him to new tricks about Rock and Roll. An obvious nod to Rock of Ages which had an insane Russell Brand teach an inspired individual about the traits of the music world. The cat is insane here but he doesn't hit the correct notes, in fact none of the characters in this outwardly unoriginal animation do. Which in a genre when directors are supposed to be their most creative - this is perhaps the least creative.We open with teenage Tibetan Mastiff Bodi (Luke Wilson) who lives under the shadow of his father, Khampa (J.K. Simmons) who has banned music around the town and wants his son to follow in his footsteps to become a guard, teaching him about his powers - Bodi thinks there is more to life than being a guard. He unlocks a magical gift with music then when a radio lands on his head and he sees a whole other world to meet with his idol - he goes to New York to perhaps perform with him. Along the way the film hits familiar notes, there's a pack of Godfather inspired wolves who want to attack his city, there's a Yak named Fleetwood Yak (Sam Elliott) who teaches Bodi that he has a gift and finally there's a point when the famous rock-star takes all the credit. It's been done.There's inspiration here it follows along the same lines as artsy animations such as Kubo and the Two Strings or perhaps Coraline, but due to the lacklustre ideas of overused techniques this quickly descends into unoriginality. This is a shame especially since this has Pixar veteran director Ash Brannon helming the ship. In addition it also has eight writers but it seems here they only wrote a couple of lines of characterization for each character perhaps making them feel 2D, and the rest is clunky dialogue. On the bright side there are couple of gags mostly from Izzard's scrawny cat who falls over himself a lot and the sheep dress up as dogs to fool the wolves. Brannon neither makes this funny nor imaginative and in an animation that's the latter, there are so many references too that it's hard to follow which you're watching. Rock Dog is a cheaply looking, inspired, list of ideas, references and uneasy clunky dialogue and unfunny gags and albeit rushed Chinese-American animation that fails to make one correct guitar lick into being a memorable and hilarious animation. VERDICT: An unpleasant and unremarkable animated comedy which ties tired visuals with a thin plot and a characterless drive. It's one guitar lick too far away from memorable too.