Underdog changing in a phone booth

The movie starts out with Shoeshine just being a bumbling idiot of a police dog. He made a fool of himself and leaves the force. Only to be captured by the bad guys. Simon Bar Sinister (played convincingly eevily by Peter Dinklage, known amongst sci-fi fans as the midget in the short lived tv series Threshold) is experiementing on dogs. Trying to make some sort of serum to make em more human. Simon tells Cad (played by Patrick "SPOOOON!!!" Warburton) To prepare the Beagle. Well the dog was warned by another dog what Bar Sinister was doing and he escapes (but not before the serum combo falls on his fur, giving him powers. One thing leads to another and he gets a home and a name. He was named Shoeshine by Dan Unger (Jim Belushi) because the dog kept on licking his shoes. Dan's son soon learns the dog has powers and kinda becomes the sidekick.

Thruought the film the boy learns the value of friendship and family and Shoeshine learns to be a hero (albeit reluctantly at first).

All in all a good movie. Polly reminds me of Lois Lane (well her owner, Molly, IS a reporter after all) in some ways. Especially since she loves Underdog but can't stand the bumbling idiot she thinks Shoeshine is. :lol:

The special effects are good. Except for one of the ending scenes where Underdog crashes to earth after saving the city. As Jack Unger picks up the motionless dog you can SOO totally tell it was a plush dog. :roll:

a security officer at the science building Simon Bar Sinister works at in the beginning. He's a former cop and decorated hero of the city who left the force to be with his son after his wife dies (no idea what of). He's also the secondary hero of the story after Underdog (he helps to capture Simon Bar Sinister).

I'd also like to say that they use the original Underdog in the film. There's charactures of him in the newspapers and footage from the original plays as well. So they DO acknowledge the animated series. The live action one is more or less an homage.