Review: Dog (2022) dir. Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin

The buddy-dog road trip movie sounds about as generic and Disneyfied as just about any genre can be. And the fact that Channing Tatum’s Dog is too mature—in comedic material if not always in theme—to completely fit into this box of expectations is probably the best thing that can be said about the defiantly mediocre film.

Briggs (Tatum) is a U.S. Army Ranger who doesn’t know when to get out of the fight. His medical record is preventing him from getting back in, but his commanding officer is willing to bend some rules if Briggs successfully delivers Lulu, a combat-tested Belgian Malinois “inspired” by Tatum’s former dog, to the funeral of her former handler and his co-soldier. Lulu, like Briggs, would benefit from some rehabilitation: she’s almost uncontrollably violent, snappy, and plain mean. When he returns from the funeral, the dog will be put down and Briggs will be ready for his next tour of duty.

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