A Truly Awful Movie

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2007)

This is a truly awful movie--one of the worst I have ever seen. Unsatisfying on almost all levels. I found the camera work amateurish, especially the irritating hand-held sequences. The animation was at best marginal--in order to get shock value, most of it was almost cartoon-like and extremely unrealistic. What little of a story was present was almost content-free and completely silly. Our "hero" had few heroic qualities, and even the dog's role was lame. The best thing that could be said about the movie was that it was so forgettable. The one good part was that the movie showed a clip of the movie Shrek. Had it just continued with Shrek, it would have been a far better, albeit strange, flick!
By the way, the fault was not that of Will Smith. He did a good job. He just didn't have anything decent to work with. Though he can be fun to watch, this movie is definitely not the place to watch him.