Dog Man”—starring the voices of Lil Rel Howery, Pete Davidson and Ricky Gervais—is new in theaters. Is there a scene during or after the end credits that suggests Dogman’s adventures will continue?

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”).

Never fear, “Dog Man” is here — to save your families from the doldrums of January moviegoing. The popular children’s books by Dav Pilkey (a spinoff of the “Captain Underpants”

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Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s new movie has made $1.36 million at the box office in Thursday previews. It’s expected to make between $25 million to $30 million, though some predictions are as high as $40 million due to the demand for family fare.

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"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.