NetflixDog Man (2025)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.2
Overview
When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born. Dog Man is sworn to protect and serve—and fetch, sit and roll over. As Dog Man embraces his new identity and strives to impress his Chief, he must stop the pretty evil plots of feline supervillain Petey the Cat.
Starring Cast
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Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Christianity: Positive
Overview
When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born. Dog Man is sworn to protect and serve—and fetch, sit and roll over. As Dog Man embraces his new identity and strives to impress his Chief, he must stop the pretty evil plots of feline supervillain Petey the Cat.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's narrative champions universal humanistic values such as redemption, cooperation, and empathy, presenting a nuanced view of moral growth and justice without aligning with specific partisan ideologies.
The movie features a visibly diverse voice cast for its anthropomorphic characters, promoting universal themes of kindness, found family, and personal growth. While these themes align with core DEI values, the narrative does not explicitly engage with specific human diversity issues or critique traditional identities, maintaining a generally positive framing.
Secondary
The film's narrative strongly aligns with Christian-inspired themes such as forgiveness, redemption, love, and healing, presenting these values as central to its uplifting and moral framework without explicit religious symbolism or practices.
Dog Man is a children's animated superhero comedy that does not explicitly portray LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The story centers on universal themes of heroism, identity, and family through the characters' personal growth and relationships, rather than any LGBTQ-specific content.
Based on the available information for the 2025 movie "Dog Man," there are no specific scenes described where female characters engage in or win direct physical combat against male opponents. The main combat scenes mentioned involve male characters only.
The film's characters, including Dog Man, Petey, and Lil' Petey, maintain their established canonical genders from Dav Pilkey's graphic novel series. No characters are depicted with on-screen genders differing from their original source material.
The film adapts a graphic novel series where character ethnicities were not specified in the source material. Many characters are anthropomorphic animals or cartoon humans without clear racial markers. Therefore, casting actors of various races for these roles does not constitute a race swap according to the provided definition.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
7.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.3
7.7
Critic Ratings
8.1
6.6
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