Unleashed and Undercover.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Will Arnett, Natasha Lyonne, RuPaul, Andy Beckwirth, voices of Stanley Tucci, Alan Cumming, Shaquille O'Neal, Gabriel Iglesias, Ludacris, Jordin Sparks |
| Director |
Raja Gosnell |
| Screenplay | Max Botkin, Marc Hyman |
| Music | Heitor Pereira |
| Cinematography | David Mackie |
| Editing | David Freeman, Sabrina Plisco |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2018 |
| Produced by | Open Road Films, Riverstone Pictures |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report | CommonSenseMedia Report
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Language | Infrequent, low impact, rude rather than crude language. |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Fairly frequent, low or mild impact violence with no noticeable effect, but accompanied by a sense of threat and menace. |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Contains scenes of Imitative Acts and Techniques. |
| These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines. | |
| PG: Parental Guidance Suggested | Rated PG for suggestive and rude humor, language and some action. |
| Runtime | 92 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
Sex / Nudity |
Violence |
Blood / Gore / Gross |
| Guns / Weapons |
Profanity |
Alcohol / Drugs |
Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
| Suggested age limit 8 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
| Violence |
Sex |
Language |
| Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Michael Rechtshaffen  Talking dog movie that barks up right tree. | 5 |  |
| 24.com Ilan Preskovsky I think there's a pretty large chance that though you may hate it every bit as much as me, your kids may well love it. It zips along, it has cute animals and plenty of very childish humour – young kids dig all of these, don't they? | 5 | |
| ScreenIt Jim Judy Sure, younger kids who enjoy such talking critter films might be entertained, but have fun explaining the advice from one dog to another to escape to his mental happy place while he’s being groped by a stranger. Howlingly bad and ill-suited for kids (or anyone wanting to preserve brain cells). | 6 | |
| Metacritic.com 14 critics | 6 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 54 critics | 6 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Show Dogs may entertain very young viewers, but for anyone else, it threatens the cinematic equivalent of a rolled-up newspaper on the snout. | 3 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 5 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Sandie Angulo Chen Talking-animal buddy comedy dogged by controversy. | 5 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 14 users | 2 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 539 users | 5 | |
| IMDB 1697 Netizens | 6 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 11 |  |
Average .. 27% | 5 | |