
‘Dog Man’ review: Animation hides parental anxiety under fur
Never fear, βDog Manβ is here β to save your families from the doldrums of January moviegoing. The popular childrenβs books by Dav Pilkey (a spinoff of the βCaptain Underpantsβ series) are adapted with a silly, self-referential charm by writer-director Peter Hastings, resulting in a cutely frenetic but narratively somewhat flimsy animated feature. Hastings and…