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Well what can you say about a movie about a wrestling dog?
First of all I checked the director and when you look at his filmography you can see he is obsessed with dogs and monkeys, so I guess this movie was the height of his carreer.
Second, I am a wrestling fan so I of course had to watch it.
This movie is about Russell (voiced by Sean Giambrone), who started off as a dog that no one wanted and ended up as the biggest wrestling star of all time. How we did this, you ask? By using highly illegal techniques that would get you disqualified on the spot.
When I watched the trailer I thought the dog was able to talk but no, he isn't. The monkey Hunk (voiced by Will Sasso) is able to talk though. To the humans and to Russell, that's how they communicate. That monkey is bananas by the way ... no sorry, that was meant to be "is talking about bananas", because he barely talks about anything else.
My biggest problem with this movie is something else though. I can't decide if it's more unbelievable that a dog can be a wrestler or that anyone thinks wrestling is real ....
What I loved about this movie is that there was a great parody of Vince McMahon called Mick Vaughn (John Ratzenberger). So the director clearly knew something about wrestling, but since he thought it was real I think not too much... whatever
To be honest it's pretty fun for kids I think, I got some laughs out of it, mostly because it's so crazy though. I give it 2.5 out of 5 stars, but there is wayyyy worse out there.
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