Wonderful character development!

The greatest movie ever made..!

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

I'm usually not the one to complain if a movie is unoriginal, but there is a limit. When a movie becomes so unoriginal, so cliched, and so dull, that I have to criticize. Sometimes it provokes anger, most of the time, it provokes bordom. Rock Dog is most certainly in the latter category. This 80 minute experience, felt 20 minutes longer than it should, and that's because Rock Dog is dull as hell. This movie is so unimpressive and so basic and bland, that even though the quality just might be mediocre, most people will dislike this movie. Even the animation feels like it was made for DVD, it's not Norm of the North bad, this movie is just boring and dull. Some positives? The music and voice acting is very good, so if you want to watch this movie for the cast, then I can't blame you, but as a movie to enjoy, it's not enjoyable and it's boring. There is one more thing I would like to talk about in this movie, that is one of the only things of note. The last 5 minutes, which is by far the worst part of the movie, and the only part that got a real reaction out of me. Where the main character, finds out he can shoot lasers out of his guitar, straight out of nowhere. He saves the day, dance party ending and done. This scene is completely out of place, and just left me confused. So overall, Rock Dog isn't terrible, it's not even bad, but it's underwhelming and boring. The Cast is good, the songs are good (and on YouTube) the ending is bad, and that's all I can remember. Recommendation Rating - Not Worth it Quality Rating - Alright Entertaining Rating - BoringFinal Rating - 5/10

Coming from a big lifelong animation fan, 'Rock Dog' may not be on par with the best films of the best major animation studios (i.e. Disney, Pixar, Studio Ghibli), nor does it ever try to be or be anything more than it is.It's also much better than especially anything from Video Brinquedo and, although to me critics do not deserve anywhere near the over-the-top bashing they get on the internet, 'Rock Dog' is another case of liking it much more than they did and going against the grain. 'Rock Dog' is less than perfect, but for the imperfections there are it has its heart in the right place, it knows who to aim it at and really tries to appeal to all ages and it doesn't try too hard or attempt to do more than it needs to.'Rock Dog' may not be ground-breaking in story, a good deal of it is derivative, and some of the plotting concerning the villain's plan is a bit strange and takes away at times from the rest of the story. The film is also too short, if it were twenty minutes longer it would have fleshed out the slightly underdeveloped lead character Boni more and done more with the disapproving parent cliché.However, the animation may not be mind-blowing or imaginative but it's colourful and detailed enough and at least the characters don't look ugly. The music is truly amazing and along with the supporting characters steals the show. In particular "Glorious", which lives up to its name.Writing is witty and heartfelt and while the story execution is less than perfect it goes at a bright and breezy pace, is fun, is inspiring, is well-meaning and has a heart of gold that comes over movingly. Although he could have been better fleshed out more, the lead character is an easy to relate to one. Stealing the show though is the hilarious character Angus Scattergood, a character so rich in personality and so much fun he is worthy of a solo outing of some kind. Fleetwood Yak (nostalgic adults will have a good chuckle at this) is fun too.Voice acting is good, with the best contribution coming from a note-perfect Eddie Izzard. JK Simmons is perfectly gruff as well and Luke Wilson is a likable lead. On paper, Lewis Black didn't seem right to me for a villain but he won me over, making Linnus a suitably formidable and somewhat cool villain. Mae Whitman is charming.Overall, didn't love it but liked it better than thought. 7/10 Bethany Cox

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.

Sure, it looked like a rip-off of animated movies came out from 2016, like Zootopia, Sing, or whatever, but it is actually worth watching it. It's a disappointing that everybody didn't like it, cause of the clichés, and it is predictable, but it's a movie that is good actually. Get the fact that this is a Chinese-American movie, and it is not made by the big companies and stuff like that. The story is a lil' bit flawed, but other than that, it's still good. And the song is great, though. (song name: Glorious)My final rating 10/10. Great movie, maybe it's predictable and clichéd, but I guarantee it's a good movie for the whole family.