Funnymen Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx lead the voice cast for this raunchy R-rated comedy
You know how raunchy comedies go. Hit and miss. One person’s laff riot is another person’s exercise in jaw clenching and existential wonderment: not just “why isn’t this working for me?” but all the way to “why was I born?”
Slight overstatement there, I guess. Nonetheless, the trash-talking, garden gnome-humping comedy “Strays” appears destined to crack up Moviegoer A while turning Moviegoer B into Nipper, the puzzled, presumably silent terrier on the old RCA record labels. Yes, there are laughs in director Josh Greenbaum’s new film, written by Dan Perrault . At one point, the ragtag pack of four homeless strays spies a U.S. Postal Service billboard. The ensuing round of junkyard taunts and insults directed at the image of a smiling postal worker lasts just a few seconds, but it’s perfectly judged and really funny.And you really notice it, because too much of “Strays” settles for less.
So what’s missing? The usual scarcities in modern screen comedy: visual finesse and some wit to go with the gross-out stuff. Little things start adding up against “Strays.” Why treat the eagle attack on Bug as a jump scare instead of a sight gag? The Dennis Quaid cameo: Huh? Wha? Relentless deployment of f-bombs? Theoretically amusing, coming out of the digitally assisted mouths of dogs. But when raunch doesn’t click, the strain shows.
I’ll end this Nipper of a review with sample titles of popular comedies I didn’t much like: “The Hangover”; “Ted”; “Cocaine Bear”; that’s enough for one final paragraph. Where is “Sausage Party” when you need it? However uneven, that experiment in unlikely multidirectional offense went there. Now and then “Strays” does, too. But mostly it’s neither here nor there.
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