Peter Hastings directs a sweet, silly animated film about a hybrid creature who patrols the streets and goes after a villainous cat, voiced by Pete Davidson.

Fortunately, the more traditionally kiddie-coded animated feature “Dog Man” has arrived to right the scales: While its hero is a formerly human police officer with a Very Good Boy’s head stitched on in place of his own after an explosion injures them both,

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”).

Irreverent jokes have little time to land in a graphic novel adaptation centered on a canine policeman protecting his city from his cat arch-nemesis.

A police officer and a dog get fused into one crime-fighter in this antic, enjoyable adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s comic series.

Whether or not you'll enjoy the "Dog Man" movie is sort of dependent on how much you're a fan of the graphic novels.

The playful anarchy of author-illustrator Dav Pilkey's bestselling "Dog Man" series, about a hero cop who is part-man, part-police dog, is now on screen in a new animated film, with comedian Pete Davidson playing Dog Man's arch-nemesis,

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”

If you’re not excited for Dog Man coming to streaming, what are you doing? Thankfully, we know where you can catch it at home first.

There’s something fitting about 'Dog Man' not pretending to be anything it’s not and just going all in on its bonkers shenanigans.

The 'SNL' alum voices a villainous cat in DreamWorks' animated adaptation of Dav Pilkey's best-selling series of children's graphic novels about a half-human, half-canine police officer.