Hastings and team maintain the childlike illustration style of the books, with crayon lines and shading on the somewhat simply designed characters, and the colloquial, slangy writing (the law enforcement officers are “supa cops”; various important buildings are “ova there”).

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After months of anticipation, we are just days away from the wide theatrical debut of DreamWorks Animation's Dog Man. An adaptation of the bestselling novels by Captain Underpants author Dav Pilkey, the animated feature centers around a crime-fighting hybrid of — what else?

Dog Man”—a new animated comedy starring the voices of Lil Rel Howery and Pete Davidson—is new in theaters. How soon will it be available to stream at home?

Clip for 'Dog Man' starring Pete Davidson, Poppy Liu, Lil Rel Howery, Isla Fisher, Billy Boyd

James Mangold, director of “Walk the Line,” brings the electric true story of Bob Dylan to the big screen in “A Complete Unknown.” Timothée Chalamet stars and sings in this depiction of Dylan’s transformation from an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota to the defiant icon who changed music forever.

"Dog Man," the latest from "Captain Underpants" creator Dav Pilkey, hits theaters Friday and will delight young fans.

The film aims for its Pixar moment when Petey makes a clone of himself, and winds up with an adorable kitten named L’il Petey who’s as sweet as his father is evil. While L’il Petey is the only character in this whole enterprise with a whisker’s worth of emotional depth, Dog Man the movie can’t sniff out a way to make something out of the dynamic.

CHICAGO – A Big ‘ ARF ’ of rejection for this animated mutt that fails to fetch many laughs. Source book author Dav Pilkey (“Captain Underpants”) came up with Dog Man while in the second grade, and that’s about the upper age limit of those who may still find these sort of dim-witted antics entertaining.

Creator Dav Pilkey's quirky, kinetic world has nicely made the visual leap to the big screen, but something is missing. The Hollywoodization — like a ray blasted from a typical Pilkey lumbering robot — has leveled-out the idiosyncrasy and overstuffed the narrative. Newcomers may be stunned — and not in a good way.